32 h. ago Brit gran facing firing squad for smuggling drugs tells executioners 'get on with it'

Lindsey Sandiford, 69, was arrested in Bali in 2012 for smuggling £1.6 million worth of cocaine and has been in prison ever since. She is now facing the death penalty

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37 h. ago Border Force chief who ‘suggested game of Naked Attraction’ with colleagues was able to leave civil service with unblemished record

Exclusive: Review of Home Office procedures ordered after ‘shambolic’ disciplinary process relating to Steve DannA Home Office investigation has found one of its most senior officials harassed and behaved inappropriately towards a female colleague, before being able to leave the civil service with an unblemished record after a “shambolic” disciplinary process.The case has caused such alarm in the department that the new permanent secretary, Antonia Romeo, has ordered an immediate review of complaints, conduct and disciplinary procedures to “ensure confidence in the integrity of the system”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Drug dealer caught with £6,000 worth of cocaine in Paisley "given a chance"

Cops snared Charles Caldwell using ‘counter surveillance’ moves while officers followed his car.

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5 d. ago British mum facing death penalty in Bali weeps in court as she bids to dodge firing squad

The 39-year-old is alleged to have trafficked cocaine worth more than £300,000

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5 d. ago Met Office warns of huge rain blast after 29C heatwave as country battles hosepipe ban

It was hot, now it's not, and this latest bout of cold weather is set to last a while and is being accompanied by rather a lot of rain, the Met Office's top expert has claimed

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5 d. ago Brit drug smuggling mum facing death by firing squad horrifying final wish

Lindsay Sandiford is the second Briton to face the death penalty in Indonesia after being caught with £1.6million worth of cocaine - she has spent the last 12 years on death row

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6 d. ago Le Spectre de Boko Haram review – how terror works its way into the minds of children

Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary absorbs the horror of the terrorist group’s impact on Cameroon by following the mischief of a pair of truant brothersShot matter-of-factly, there is however a fairytale or fabular quality to this Cameroonian documentary, in how it portrays the impact of the terrorist group Boko Haram through the lives of children, and how displacement and violence surface in their idle chatter and not-so-innocent drawings. When young truant brothers Mohamed and Ibrahim finally do a runner into the countryside to which they seem inextricably drawn, it almost has the air of some misadventure out of an early Terrence Malick film transplanted to the Sahel.The locale is the village of Kolofata near the Nigerian border, under constant surveillance from military forces because of insurgents in the nearby mountains. It’s never 100% clear what has become of Mohamed and Ibrahim’s parents; either they’ve taken up with Boko Haram, or been kidnapped by them. Not that these two inco...

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9 d. ago UK politics live: Cooper refuses to criticise Macron’s Brexit swipe after more migrants arrive in Dover

Several migrants, wearing life jackets, were brought ashore by Border Force to Dover, Kent, on Friday

Politics

9 d. ago More migrant small boats head to UK hours after Starmer and Macron agree one

One Border Force vessel arrived in Dover before 9am, having picked up a group of people after a ‘small boat’ incident in the Channel

Politics

1 week ago Nigel Farage takes to the Channel to witness the French Navy hand over an overcrowded dinghy of migrants to be ferried to Britain in a Border Force vessel

200 yards away a grossly overcrowded dinghy is pulled up alongside the Border Force cutter, about to unload its contingent of 78 migrants who left from a French beach a few hours earlier.

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1 week ago Channel crossings continue amid crunch talks with France over migrant returns deal

More than 21,000 people have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel so far this year

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1 week ago Channel crossings continue amid crunch talks over migrant deal

Border Force vessels have been sent as part of the response to multiple boats on Thursday morning, according to HM coastguard.

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1 week ago 'I don't know what it is', man tells Border Force officers following suitcase discovery at Manchester Airport

Wembadive Onokoko claimed he had 'only brought clothes'

Society

1 week ago Fresh flooding hell as Oklahoma boys and girls club race to escape biblical torrent a week after Texas storm

The Boys & Girls Club in Sallisaw, Oklahoma - near the Arkansas border - was forced to evacuate as heavy rain fell and flooded the River Valley.

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1 week ago Man accused of assisting Russia ‘planned to pass on Grant Shapps information’

Howard Phillips is on trial over allegedly intending to assist the RIS by helping people he believed were agents working for Moscow.

Politics

1 week ago Man passed details on minister to police posing as Russian spies, UK court told

Howard Phillips gave information on then defence secretary Grant Shapps for ‘easy money’, prosecutor saysA retired man passed on the personal details of the then defence secretary, Grant Shapps, to two undercover police officers, believing them to be Russian intelligence operatives, for “easy money”, a court has heard.Howard Phillips, 65, was struggling financially and in the process of applying for a job at UK Border Force when he was approached by the undercover officers, who were posing as Russian agents called Dima and Sasha, Winchester crown court heard. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Drug dealer and girlfriend found with £20,000 worth of heroin and crack cocaine

James Thompson, 36, said he had run up a drug debt and had been forced to let his premises be used for the storage and cutting of class A drugs

Economics

1 week ago Police order Channel ferry to return to port before boarding ship to make 'murder arrest'

The huge operation saw officers force the DFDS ship to return to shore yesterday morning shortly after departing for Calais.

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1 week ago Huge police response as officers swoop on busy road in Edinburgh

Six police vehicles and around 12 officers were spotted at the scene.

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1 week ago Gunman opens fire near major international airport as border control forced to shoot back

Graphic images of the aftermath of the scene have since flooded social media, with the US custom's office main door riddled with bullet holes, while a gun and blood stains can be seen on the walls

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