52 h. ago Nearly 40,000 prisoners have been let out of jail under Government’s early release scheme

Some 38,042 inmates had been freed as of the end of June this year, according to the Ministry of Justice. The scheme was launched as an emergency measure on September 10 last year, just days after the prison population reached a record high of 88,521.

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58 h. ago Labour frees 38,000 criminals early under controversial soft justice scheme

New figures from the Ministry of Justice show 38,042 offenders were let out of prison under the scheme between its launch in September 2024 and the end of June.

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4 d. ago North Lanarkshire crime: Appeal after robbers forced way into house and stole £15k worth of gold jewellery

The criminals stole gold jewellery with a value of around £12,000 to £15,000 as well as a four-figure sum of cash

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6 d. ago Euan McColm: 'Righteous' left has allowed the right to take the high ground on free speech

Where are the defenders of the past political consensus on free speech in Labour or the SNP?

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9 d. ago Glamorous influencer Melissa Said, 23, goes ON THE RUN after being accused of running major drug trafficking ring

AN influencer has gone on the run after being accused of running a drug trafficking ring. Melissa Said, who has 341,000 followers on Instagram, is accused of heading a criminal gang involved in cannabis distribution and money laundering. The 23-year-old was targeted by the police as the main suspect. During raids at five properties linked...

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1 week ago Louis Theroux has 'lost the plot in a very dangerous way' according to former BBC boss after conducting a 'soft' interview with Bob Vylan in wake of antisemitic Glastonbury chants

Louis Theroux has 'lost the plot in a very dangerous way', according to his former BBC boss after he conducted a 'soft' interview with Bob Vylan following their controversial Glastonbury performance.

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1 week ago ‘Money runs out quickly’: Nearly 300,000 disadvantaged young children set to miss out on free meals

Exclusive: Experts warns Labour’s free school meal expansion will skip over a key cohort of disadvantaged children

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1 week ago Labour 'tears up Islamophobia definition' amid free speech concerns

Ministers formed a working group aimed at defining Islamophobia or anti-Muslim hatred in February, in a bid to stem rising numbers of hate crimes against Muslims.

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2 w. ago Criminology student, 24, who brought £200,000 of cannabis into Britain in exchange for free holiday to Thailand walks free from court

Kertania Odususi, 24, traveled to Edinburgh Airport from Thailand with huge amounts of of the drug stuffed into two suitcases in March last year.

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2 w. ago 'Global phone scam kingpin' has £100million London mansion seized along with 18 other properties as he is charged with founding £10.5billion bitcoin racket

A British man has had more than £10.5 billion in bitcoin seized after he was charged with allegedly engaging in a massive crypto scam which saw the businessman use forced labour camps.

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2 w. ago 'Neighbour claims I ruined kid's birthday after refusing demand for free labour'

A woman has taken to social media to share the 'entitled' demand her neighbour made of her, which left her fuming - and people are baffled by the audacity of the request

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3 w. ago Revealed: Andy Burnham accepted £12,000 tickets and hospitality in two years as PM's rival is dragged into Labour freebies row

The Tories said the £118,267-a-year Greater Manchester mayor should answer 'serious questions about his integrity' instead of eying up a move to Number 10.

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3 w. ago Tories would abolish stamp duty, Badenoch tells party conference – UK politics live

Party leader says measure is a ‘bad tax’ and scrapping it would free up the housing market and improve social mobilityVoting in the Labour deputy leadership election opens today. Lucy Powell, the former Commons leader, is seen as the favourite and, as Jessica Elgot reports, Powell told supporters yesterday that, if she is elected, she will use the post to argue for changes in the way the government is operating. “We can’t sugarcoat the fact that things aren’t going well,” she said.Powell is no longer a government minister and, if she is elected deputy leader, she will do the job from the backbenches. In an interview on Newsnight last night, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary standing against Powell, said a Powell victory would be “destabilising” for the party. She said:[Electing Powell] risks destabilising the party we best achieve what we need to do together when we have those fierce conversations, including disagreements, behind closed doors.Members need to understand tha...

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3 w. ago Met police disrupt suspected international smuggling ring in UK’s ‘largest’ phone theft crackdown

The criminal organisation is believed to have smuggled up to 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China over the past 12 monthsPolice have disrupted an international network suspected of smuggling tens of thousands of stolen phones from the UK in its largest operation to tackle phone theft in London, the Metropolitan police said.The criminal organisation is believed to have smuggled up to 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China over the past 12 months – up to 40% of all phones stolen in the capital, the Met said on Monday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

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