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1. Update in case of 85-year-old widow detained for 16 days by ICE

   One of her stepsons has been accused of using his position to prompt her detention

2. Britain First march – live: Manchester police brace for clashes during far-right St George’s Day rally

   Extra police powers are in place across Manchester city centre as protesters and counter-protesters are expected

3. Counter terror police launch investigation after business targeted in arson attack in north-west London

   A man was seen trying to set a bag on fire in Hendon, London

4. Police uncover secret ‘trap door’ crammed full of illegal cigarettes in Kent shop raid

   Thousands of pounds’ worth of illegal tobacco products were seized after officers uncovered a concealed stash beneath a trap door in a shop in Dover.

5. Meghan Trainor teases new album after scrapping entire tour

6. Counter-terror probe after alleged attack on Jewish charity

7. Richard Gadd explains unsettling sex scene in new drama Half Man

   Gadd said people who had seen the moment in the series had ‘very different takes’

8. The Latest: Iran says it has closed Hormuz again over US blockade

   Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it would continue to block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect

9. With a handshake, Spain and Mexico put diplomatic tussle over their colonial past behind them

   Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has laid to rest a diplomatic spat between her government and Spain over the Spanish colonial past

10. Iran-US war latest: Tehran gunboats ‘fire at tanker’ after Strait of Hormuz closed again as supreme leader mocks Trump

    Iran had warned the strait ‘will not remain open’ if the US blockade continued and has now moved to restrict it