9 h. ago Explosive leaked letter gives damning verdict on how Post Office victims are treated

In a letter to Post Office Minister Blair McDougall, Victims Commissioner Baroness Newlove warned wronged postmasters feel compensation schemes are 'worse than the original injustice'

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40 h. ago Jess Phillips faces demands to QUIT as Labour is accused of 'watering down' grooming gang inquiry after four victims quit panel

Furious victims have been calling for the Home Office minister to go claiming she had accused them of 'lying' about efforts to water down the probe.

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41 h. ago Jess Phillips faces demands to QUIT as Labour's grooming gangs inquiry descends into shambles

Furious victims have been calling for the Home Office minister to go claiming she had accused them of 'lying' about efforts to water down the probe.

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63 h. ago British tourist, 45, 'is raped on Greek holiday island' as cops arrest Nigerian hotel worker

The 45-year-old victim told Kos police officers that she had been sexually assaulted by the 42-year-old man in her room at around 7pm on Monday.

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63 h. ago Victims can have confidence in grooming inquiry, minister says after two quit

Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds resigned from the inquiry’s victims and survivors liaison panel on Monday and criticised the Home Office.

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3 d. ago Strange Harvest review – lurid horror expertly disguised as true crime

Stuart Ortiz’s convincingly faked crime documentary details the hunt for a Los Angeles serial killer dubbed Mr ShinyFor its first few minutes, this comes on like a standard true crime documentary: establishing shots of the Greater Los Angeles area, talking heads introduce themselves as police officers and friends of the victims, and we zoom in on a handwritten list of names until one particular name fills the screen. All the tricks of the trade are here, and director Stuart Ortiz plays things more or less straight. In fact it’s a mockumentary: not a parody but instead a horror movie that happens to be told using the format of a true crime documentary.The story, about a masked killer called Mr Shiny (if you think this name strains credibility, don’t forget there are real serial killers nicknamed the Happy Face Killer, the Dating Game Killer and the Doodler), is functional enough. There are lurid details of the killings, and police officers talking about how the crimes were beyond bel...

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4 d. ago Met Police launch probe into claims Prince Andrew asked personal protection officers to dig up dirt on Jeffrey Epstein abuse victim

A bombshell email obtained by this newspaper exposes how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded Met bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre.

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1 week ago 16 killed in ‘devastating’ blast that destroyed a Tennessee military explosives plant, police say

The families of the 16 victims have been notified, officials said on Saturday evening

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1 week ago Post Office scandal victim, 92, 'disgusted' by treatment as she fumes 'they killed us'

Betty Brown, from County Durham, ran a Post Office with her late husband and was affected by the scandal

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer says ‘Bollywood blockbusters’ will be made in the UK under new trade deal with India – UK politics live

Three Bollywood movies will be made in the UK, says British PM, and two more British universities will be setting up a campus in IndiaCompensation schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal will be improved, with a new appeals process and funded legal advice for post office operators, the government has announced.Responding to the first part of the findings from a two-year public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, regarded as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in UK legal history, the business secretary, Peter Kyle, said there would be a new appeals process for people who have accepted fixed-sum offers under the Horizon Shortfall Scheme, one of several compensation schemes. Funded legal advice will also be offered. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Post Office scandal victims to get funded legal advice for appeals

Ministers are accepting all but one of the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal’s recommendations.

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2 w. ago Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victimsAs of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day.In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'I don't resent police for shooting me': Manchester synagogue attack victim says he doesn't blame firearms officers for horrific bullet injuries

Yoni Finlay, 39, was among several worshippers who barricaded the doors of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in Manchester.

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2 w. ago The synagogue heroes shot by police: Armed officers left one terror victim dead and one injured as they barricaded doors

One of the victims killed in a terrorist attack at a synagogue in Manchester yesterday was shot by police, GMP has confirmed.

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2 w. ago Manchester attack latest: Police say one of synagogue victims was shot by armed officers

Suspect Jihad Al-Shamie’s family have condemned the ‘heinous act’ and have expressed ‘deep shock and sorrow’ over the attack

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2 w. ago Police shot dead Manchester terror attack victim and left another seriously injured, admit officers

One of the victims killed in a terrorist attack at a synagogue in Manchester yesterday was shot by police, GMP has confirmed.

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3 w. ago 'Cultural change' needed to stamp out epidemic of violence against women and girls

Home Office Minister Alex Davies-Jones said the courage of victims drives her work and said the safety of women and girls must be at the heart of the Government's work

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3 w. ago Son of Post Office manager who 'drank herself to death' after being wrongly convicted in Horizon scandal wins inheritance battle against uncle over £578K compensation payout

Matthew O'Connell, 38, won his bitter inheritance war against his uncle, Mark O'Connell, 61, over his late mother, Dawn O'Connell's estate.

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3 w. ago British Transport Police hunt woman accused of 'sexually assaulting' teenage boy at London Paddington

Officers said the alleged victim was sitting on a bench in the station concourse when he was approached by the female suspect just before 11pm on Sunday August 31

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3 w. ago Russian nuclear submarine surfaces near UK territory in 'explosive hazard'

A Russian nuclear-powered submarine has been forced to surface in the Strait of Gibraltar after suffering a serious leak in its fuel system, with the vessel becoming an explosive hazard

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