1 hour ago DWP issues stark warning to benefit claimants after woman jailed for 20 months

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a warning to millions of benefit claimants after a woman was jailed for 20 months after a court found her guilty of benefit fraud

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2 h. ago How a marine heatwave is threatening Australia’s spectacular coral reefs

One of the longest and most intense heat stress events ever recorded is raising alarm – and a warning about the future of reefs worldwide• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to get the newsletter in fullWhen it comes to coral, the Great Barrier Reef steals the global limelight. It’s a bucket-list place for many and, when it gets hit by coral bleaching, it makes news around the world.But Australia has another group of spectacular reefs on the west of the continent. Many of them had managed to escape the worst of global heating, until the worst marine heatwave ever recorded for this region. Even a “hope spot” for coral reefs has been decimated by the most severe heatwave on record for that part of the world.WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch‘If the reef had a voice, it would sing’: could legal personhood help the Great Barrier Reef?Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom...

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2 h. ago Haunting last photos of people seconds before animals mauled them to death

Some deaths are worse than others and being mauled by an animal on camera certainly ranks as an unpleasant one and this was the case in recent weeks when a grandad encountered a crocodile

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3 h. ago Market stall holder was a friendly regular at the café, then things turned 'weird'

Jitander Mistry has been jailed

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3 h. ago He was a 'nice guy' and a café regular, then his true nature came out

Jitander Mistry has been jailed

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10 h. ago Female babysitter asked to care for disabled children because her pedophile boyfriend liked sexually abusing them

Brittney Lyon, 31, procured at least four young girls , two aged three and two aged seven, for her partner Samuel Cabrera, 31, to molest while she participated in 2016.

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12 h. ago Female prison officer faces jail after 'inappropriate' relationships with inmates and sneaking in mobile phone

Charlotte Winstanley, 27, was working at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster, when she struck up improper relationships and smuggled banned items inside.

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13 h. ago ‘This is America’: New Jersey gym teacher told Egyptian Muslim student she’d be in ‘jail’ by 16 during bullying campaign, lawsuit alleges

Kathie DeBonis allegedly told teen Jana Gadalla that fasting during Ramadan might help her lose weight and she should ‘just go drink alcohol’

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13 h. ago NY vs Zelle: State sues payment app and accuses it of being a scam haven that bilked $1B from users

An investigation found that between 2017 and 2023, scammers were able to steal over $1 billion from Zelle users.

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14 h. ago Drug gangster Jamie Rothwell jailed after ordering shootings from Barcelona flat

Salford gangster Jamie Rothwell has been sentenced to 43 years behind bars after admitting a string of drug and gun offences - which were laid bare in an encrypted messaging system

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14 h. ago Pregnant mother kidnapped and bound by gang in van outside London home tells of horrific ordeal

Victim bravely speaks out after gang who threatened to cut her fingers off in horrific London kidnap ordeal are jailed

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14 h. ago Largest ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss opens after months of delays, contract squabbles, and a workplace death

New detention facility, dubbed the ‘Lonestar Lockup’ by one Texas senator, expected to hold roughly 5,000 immigrants

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15 h. ago Florida governor says state will open ‘deportation depot’ immigration jail

Ron DeSantis announced move as judge to decide whether to close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility in EvergladesFlorida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said on Thursday that the state will open a second immigration jail, as a federal judge weighs whether to close the controversial existing facility in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz”.DeSantis painted the forthcoming detention center at the shuttered Baker correctional institution in Sanderson as supplementary to the remote tented camp. He also said the facility would hold up to 1,300 undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Football Daily | Wayne Rooney, Tom Brady and a serving of ultra

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Today’s Football Daily would like to start with the topical events of 15 February 1983. That was the day Manchester United outplayed and outviolenced Arsenal in the first leg of their Milk Cup semi-final at Highbury. United won 4-2; they were 4-0 up after 80 minutes before taking their foot off Arsenal’s throat, and shinbone, and head. “Perhaps we’ve been concentrating too much on passing and technique,” lamented Don Howe, Arsenal’s head coach and assistant to the manager, Terry Neill. “Against United we went out to strike the ball about instead of putting some meat into the game.” In 1980s English football, there was no place for veganism. Things have changed since the days when ABH was a bookable offence, and only then after the first 10 minutes, but English football still has a pretty noxious meat footprint. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘He’s 180 pounds. I’m 300 pounds’: Former college football player who spent two months in jail for a murder he did not commit says he never matched the suspect’s description

Ty’Ran Dixon — whose name was similar to the suspect later charged — was arrested in August 2024 for the murder of 21-year-old Jasmine Roach

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16 h. ago Inquiry into rogue surgeon to hold preliminary hearing next month

It will examine whether patients of Sam Eljamel were let down by failures in clinical governance, risk management, and complaints handling.

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17 h. ago Notorious gangster Jamie Rothwell jailed for 43 years after drug and gun offences

Jamie Rothwell has been jailed for 43 years.

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18 h. ago Manchester Arena bomb plotter's alleged hot oil attack on prison officers 'motivated by terrorism', prosecutors will argue

Abedi, 28, was yesterday charged with three counts of attempted murder after prison officers were attacked at his high security jail in April.

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19 h. ago Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha details ‘horrendous’ health battle ‘stealing the joy of life'

The Loose Women panelist has revealed her battle leaves her convinced on a daily basis that she’s developing serious illnesses

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19 h. ago Female prison guard who triggered 100 corruption alerts is facing jail over alleged illicit relationship with gangster behind bars

Megann Gibson, 26, exchanged 'very explicit' letters hinting the pair had sex while she was on duty at Wealstun prison, near Wetherby, a court heard today.

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