5 d. ago Court problems ‘real danger’ to Britain’s reputation if not tackled – top judge

In criminal courts, the backlog for crown court cases hit a new record high by the end of last year at 74,651.

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6 d. ago Britain's most dangerous inmate plotted to use guard's severed fingers to escape jail

Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the UK to be serving a whole-life order after going on a 10-day killing spree, during which she murdered three men and attacked two others

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8 d. ago Life inside one of Britain's most dangerous neighbourhoods: How locals in Hull suburb are fighting drugs crime crisis

Today, Hessle Road stands as a microcosm of decay, despair, and lawlessness in modern Britain.

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1 week ago Inside Rose West's lonely prison wife as serial struggles to walk

Rose remains an inmate at women’s only HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire and has since changed her name to Jennifer Jones

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1 week ago Inside the lonely prison life of Rose West as she struggles to walk and is shunned by everyone... except the serial killer's twisted fans who send her letters

Rose and her husband Fred remain among Britain's most prolific serial killers, after they carried out a campaign of abuse so vicious that they were branded 'the epitome of evil.'

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1 week ago 'My Quasimodo boobs were so big I couldn't eat – now my life is transformed'

One woman said her life was completely changed after she reduced her breasts by almost five cup sizes – as before she struggled to work, walk and even eat a normal meal

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2 w. ago Chagos outrage! Extraordinary pledge that could help our enemies is buried in smallprint of £30billion surrender deal

MPs and ex-military chiefs lined up to warn that the 'grotesque' and 'dangerous' clause, buried in the treaty's small print, risked aiding Britain's enemies.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’ | Editorial

Three decades on from Robert Putnam’s account of fraying social ties in the US, new research in Britain identifies similar dangersThirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert Putnam has a right to feel vindicated. In a lecture this spring, Prof Putnam, now 84, warned his audience that, amid levels of polarisation and distrust higher than at any time since the civil war, the US was “in danger of going to hell in a handcart”.Britain is still, thankfully, a long way from the poisonous toxicity of Trump-era America, notwithstanding the ominous rise of Reform and Nigel Farage. But research published this week by the More in Common polling group paints a worrying portrait of communities in which there is a widespread sense of social disconnection, high levels of distrust among the young and a felt loss of shared spaces and rituals.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...

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3 w. ago Britain's most dangerous spider strikes in Hertfordshire: Man is left in 'unbearable' pain and struggling to walk after bite from noble false widow

Keith Robinson, 65, says he developed a large, angry inflammation on his leg shortly after clearing out cobwebs at home.

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3 w. ago Man 'struggling to walk' after horror bite from 'Britain’s most dangerous spider' false widow

Keith Robinson, 65, has been left barely able to walk after he was bitten by a false widow, Britain's most venomous spider, while clearing away old cobwebs at home

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