8 h. ago Four men jailed over 'highly corrupt' £6m NHS bribery scandal

"The courts regards corruption as a cancer in public and commercial life. You should expect nothing less than the imposition of significant custodial sentences."

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8 h. ago Four men found guilty of 'highly corrupt' £6m NHS bribery scandal

"The courts regards corruption as a cancer in public and commercial life. You should expect nothing less than the imposition of significant custodial sentences."

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34 h. ago Female prison officer, 23, charged with having sexual relationships with two inmates at same time and smuggling drugs into high

A female prison officer has been charged with having sexual relationships with two convicts. Isabelle Dale, 23, is also accused of conspiring to smuggle drugs into a high security jail.

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5 d. ago Attacks on prison staff rise to new high as tensions in overcrowded jails reach breaking point

Number of assaults on prison staff last year up 15 per cent on the year before

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6 d. ago An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

Holy balls of wool! From pointless paintings to emotionless snapshots, the once-controversial award tiptoes too earnestly across the minefield of today’s culture warsRemember when controversy was fun? If not, that’s because you’re too young. But back in the 1990s, my child, Britain got itself in hilarious knots about conceptual art, the readymade and whether a pickled shark or elephant dung can be art, with the Turner prize as battleground. It was a culture war but with laughs, because no one’s identity was at stake and it wasn’t like Brian Sewell was going to become prime minister and have Rachel Whiteread jailed.It is by embracing the earnestness of today’s high-stakes culture wars that the Turner prize has lost its edge, the art getting more careful as the ideologies loom larger. This year’s shortlist is the soppiest yet. Two of the artists nominated are painters. Painters, I ask you! This makes some sense of the shortlist announcement taking place on JMW Turner’s 250th birthday....

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1 week ago Vile brute who abused three women in decade long campaign of violence jailed

Denis Johnstone was jailed for 13 years at the High Court in Edinburgh.

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1 week ago Manchester bomb plotter ‘moved to Belmarsh prison’ after guards attacked

Hashem Abedi has been transferred to the high security jail in south-east London, it is understood.

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1 week ago Tommy Robinson LOSES appeal against jail term after saying prison is 'making him ill'

Tommy Robinson was jailed last year after admitting multiple breaches of a High Court order

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2 w. ago Tommy Robinson to discover outcome of prison sentence appeal on Wednesday

The 42-year-old was jailed in October last year after admitting multiple breaches of a High Court injunction.

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2 w. ago Killer who stabbed neighbour 'murdered' by fellow prisoner at high security jail

A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a convicted killer, who was serving a life sentence after stabbing his elderly female neighbour to death in 2006.

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2 w. ago Convicted killer John Mansfield 'murdered' by fellow prisoner at high security jail

A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of John Mansfield, who was serving a life sentence for murder at HMP Whitemoor after stabbing his neighbour to death in 2006

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2 w. ago Tommy Robinson’s appeal against contempt of court sentence to be heard on Friday

Robinson is appealing against an 18-month jail term after admitting several breaches of a High Court order.

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2 w. ago US ballerina Ksenia Karelina is freed from Russian jail hell in prisoner swap months after she was sentenced to 12 years in penal colony for high treason

Russia has today released American ballerina Ksenia Karelina from her jail hell in an early morning prisoner swap between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's respective intelligence agencies

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3 w. ago Rapist brother of slain gangster Marc Webley jailed over sickening sex attack

Don Webley was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh.

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3 w. ago Pc spared jail for leaking details of mass shooting and high

Pc Sam Hill shared information concerning the Keysham shootings in which five people were shot dead by gunman Jake Davison, 22

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4 w. ago 'Dangerous' predator raped sleeping man and attacked three others

Mantas Vanagas, a predatory abuser from Milton Keynes, has been jailed for 10 years at Edinburgh High Court.

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4 w. ago Cheryl Tweedy 'on high alert' amid fears killer stalker could be released in 'weeks'

Cheryl Tweedy is believed to be on high alert after her stalker Daniel Bannister was jailed earlier this month but the singer now reportedly fears that he could be released earlier

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