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The catch-up: Your daily 5pm round-up of today's top stories

Corbyn claims ‘ludicrous’ PM won’t talk to him about Brexit deadlock

Theresa May is refusing to speak to Jeremy Corbyn to try and break the Brexit deadlock.

The PM suffered a crushing blow last night as MPs voted overwhelmingly against her deal and, tonight, she faces a vote of no confidence tabled by Labour.

In the aftermath of the vote last night, Mrs May said she would talk to ‘senior parliamentarians’ to find a way through the logjam.

However Shadow Chancellor John McDonnnell said there had been no approach from Downing Street to Mr Corbyn and that Mrs May had ‘never picked up the phone in the past two years”.

Hitman found guilty of murdering gangland figures

A gangland hitman is facing life behind bars after being convicted of the double murder of a mob enforcer and an underworld Mr Big.

Mark Fellows, 38, nicknamed The Iceman, murdered Salford mobster Paul Massey with an Uzi machine gun outside his home in the city in July 2015, as well as John Kinsella, 53, a martial arts expert and mob enforcer from Liverpool in a second ‘cold-blooded’ execution.

Fellows smiled and nodded as he was found guilty of both murders.

Shoreham air disaster ‘purely’ down to ‘pilot error’

A vintage fighter jet crashed killing 11 men when it hit a road and burst into a fireball during a failed airshow stunt “purely” because of “pilot error”, a court heard.

Andrew Hill was flying the Hawker Hunter too low when he lost control over the A27 during the Shoreham Airshow in 2015, jurors were told on Tuesday.

The 1950s fighter jet plummeted onto the West Sussex dual carriageway while it was performing a loop stunt at 1.22pm on August 22.

The 54-year-old, of Sandon, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, is standing trial after denying 11 charges of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Fisherman from Indonesia claims he knows where missing flight MH370 crashed

A fisherman from Indonesia claims he knows the location of missing flight MH370.

The Malaysia Airways plane carrying 239 people disappeared on March 8, 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur airport to Beijing, China.

Its crew last communicated with air traffic control 38 minutes after takeoff when the flight was over the South China Sea.

Fisherman Rusli Khusmin, 42, claims he witnessed the plane go down in the Strait of Malacca, a shipping lane west of Kuala Lumpur.