8 h. ago Court date set for MSP charged with possession of indecent images of children

Colin Smyth, who has been an MSP for nine years, was charged last month.

Events

4 d. ago Five MSPs 'filmed by spy cam hidden in parliament toilet' contacted by police

Police are trying to identify those caught by a hidden camera in the wake of Colin Smyth MSP being arrested and charged with possession of indecent images.

Politics

6 d. ago Donald Trump could stop Gaza’s famine. Instead he’s following Biden’s lead | Mohamad Bazzi

A hunger-monitoring group has confirmed what we already knew about Palestinians’ suffering. The US has the power to end itA global hunger-monitoring group declared last week that Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area were suffering from an “entirely man-made” famine, mostly caused by Israel’s deliberate starvation strategy and continued siege of the territory. This news won’t surprise anyone who has paid even scant attention to the images and videos of emaciated children and desperate parents that have been coming out of Gaza for months.But the first confirmation of famine by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which includes the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and other aid agencies, is an important institutional marker. Years from now, it will serve as a reminder of how Israel used starvation as a weapon of war while western powers did nothing. And it will be a source of shame for all those who will inevitably claim that they didn’t ...

Politics

7 d. ago Labour MSP Colin Smyth "put secret camera in parliament toilet"

The Daily Record can reveal that Smyth, who has been suspended from the party after being charged in connection with possession of indecent images, also faces charges of placing a camera in a toilet at the Scottish Parliament building.

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8 d. ago From Catholic student to lunatic transgender assassin: As praying children are slaughtered, America is left looking for clues

It's difficult to imagine a more horrific crime than killing children as they pray in church, so it will be a particular challenge trying to understand the sort of person prepared to do it.

Society

1 week ago Woman goes straight to police after finding phone in garden with 'horror' images

Cameron Dyke, 29, of Cleethorpes, has been jailed for 44 months and given a 20 year Sexual Harm Prevention order after collecting hundreds of sickening images of children

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2 w. ago MSP charged with possession of indecent images urged to stand down from Holyrood committee

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Smyth, who was this week suspended by Labour, has been urged to stand aside from a key Holyrood role.

Politics

2 w. ago Labour MSP arrested and charged in connection with possession of indecent images

Smyth, a South Scotland MSP, has served in a variety of frontbench roles for Labour at Holyrood.

Events

2 w. ago Horrifying look at Gaza as city left in ruins with terrified children fleeing

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Harrowing images from inside Gaza show children fleeing the sites of Israeli airstrikes, toddlers huddling with their families in makeshift shelters, and relatives mourning over the bodies of loved ones

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3 w. ago Doctor caught with 'paedophile manual' and 90,000 sickening images

A doctor has been jailed after police found more than 90,000 images and videos of children on devices he owned - Dr Matthew Isles also owned a 'paedophile manual'

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4 w. ago Police discover extreme pictures involving children and animals on dad's phone

There were more than 200 images of extreme porn including a woman performing oral sex on a male horse whilether images included dogs and children

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4 w. ago Paedophile, 80, found in possession of more than 1,000 images of child abuse

Alfred Bale had images of children as young as three years old being abused after police searched his home in Newport

Events

4 w. ago We published a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza. It made an impact globally – and created controversy | Elisabeth Ribbans

Initially, we did not know that Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq had cerebral palsy. But his medical details do not diminish his suffering, or that of other children in GazaBetween April and mid-July this year, more than 20,000 children in Gaza were admitted to hospital for treatment for acute malnutrition, 3,000 of whom were severely malnourished, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global initiative whose members include UN agencies such as the World Health Organization, World Food Programme and Unicef, as well as NGOs and research institutes.Over this period, and in the weeks since, the Guardian has published many images of hungry children, among them at least 20 shown in an emaciated condition. (It does so working to an editorial code that gives special protection to children, publishing on matters that may intrude into their welfare only when there is a strong public interest to do so.) But one photograph, which appeared on the homepage of ...

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