Your morning briefing: What you should know for Friday, August 31

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Jason Collie31 August 2018

Arrest in double murder case

Khaola Saleem and her daughter Raneem Oudeh were stabbed on death on Bank Holiday Monday.

Police had offered a reward to find Ms Oudeh’s former partner Janbaz Tarin but they have not revealed the name of the man arrested last night.

Frank Field set for showdown talks after resigning Labour whip

Labour veteran Frank Field will hold showdown talks with the party's chief whip today after resigning over the party’s growing anti-semitism row.

The Birkenhead MP wants to sit as an independent while remaining a member of the Labour party but sources said that would be impossible.

Mr Field said in his resignation letter that the party was now governed by, quote, "a culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation".

A Labour spokesman said Jermy Corbyn thanked the former welfare reform minister for his service.

Astronaut 'uses finger to block leak' at International Space Station

The micro-fracture was detected on the Russian Soyuz capsule, which had brought three crewmen to the station in June.

Nasa and Russian space officials said makeshift repairs had stabilised the situation and the six astronauts on board are not in danger.

72-hour rail strike begins

RMT union members have started their three-day strike on South Western Railway.

It is the latest strike in the long-running dispute over the role of guards on trains.

Abuse of politicians soars

Online abuse of MPs rocketed between 2015 and 2017, fresh analysis of more than one million tweets shows.

Twitter insults aimed at politicians rose from about 10,000 during the 2015 general election to just under 25,000 during the snap 2017 general election, although the number of total tweets also rose in the same period.

The abuse seemed unaffected by party or gender, according to project leader Professor Kalina Bontcheva from the University of Sheffield department of computer science.

She said: "The increase in abuse towards public figures is a shocking development and one that the UK Government is right to take seriously.

"If people are dissuaded from standing for election, then our representation on a democratic level is under threat."

Windrush trio deported to Jamaica die

Three members of the Windrush generation who were wrongly deported to the Caribbean have died, the Jamaican foreign minister has said.

Authorities said the three had passed away before officials were able to contact them to help them to return to the UK.

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the revelation should shame the Government and called on the Prime Minister to personally apologise to the affected families.

Surprise from Eminem

Eminem has unexpectedly released an album this morning.

It is called Kamikaze and, telling fans on Twitter to enjoy it, the rapper said he had tried not to overthink while making the album.

Kamikaze features 13 tracks including a song titled Venom, which is from the upcoming superhero movie starring Tom Hardy.

On this day…

1888: Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, first victim of Jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in Buck's Row in the East End.

1900: Coca-Cola first went on sale in Britain.

1908: At the age of 60, and after a career spanning 43 years, the legendary WG Grace retired from first-class cricket. He scored 54,896 runs (126 centuries), took 2,879 wickets and held 871 catches.

1936: Elizabeth Cowell, Britain's first woman TV announcer, made her debut at Alexandra Palace.

1968: Gary Sobers (now Sir Garfield) of Nottinghamshire became the first cricketer to score six sixes off an over, at Swansea against Glamorgan. The hapless bowler was Malcolm Nash.

1997: Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in central Paris along with Dodi Fayed.

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