1 hour ago Reform UK councillor in hot water as calls to suspend him over 'Hitler' post ramp up

Joel Tetlow said he didn't mean 'any disrespect' when he compared small boat crossings in the Channel to Adolf Hitler invading European countries, but there are calls for him to be suspended

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2 h. ago 'I got a £100 haul from charity shop for just £33 using this little

A charity shop lover has shared the haul she got from a charity shop using a hack many may not know about - and she managed to bag over £100 worth of clothes for just £33

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2 h. ago Texas jail guard accused of helping and laughing as four inmates killed another prisoner over $40 debt

Bexar County jail detention officer Clemente Lopez Jr., 20, is accused of allowing four other inmates beat 46-year-old Francisco Bazan to death on April 28.

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2 h. ago Paedophile teacher banned from profession after more than 120,000 child abuse images found on laptop

Matthew Smith, former deputy headteacher at Thomas’s Battersea Primary School, was jailed for 12 years

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2 h. ago Bulgarian spy ring ‘chief minion’ was world away from a classic spy, Old Bailey told

Katrin Ivanova’s barrister says her sentence should reflect her admin duties and not equate her with ‘classic spy cases’ A woman said to be “chief minion” in a ring of Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia in Britain should not be treated like George Blake, the double agent sentenced to four decades in jail in the 1960s, the Old Bailey has heard.Katrin Ivanova was said by her barrister, Rupert Bowers KC, to have been manipulated by her partner, Biser Dzhambazov, and to then have endured the discovery of his affair with a fellow member of the spy ring while in prison. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Bulgarian woman in Russian spy ring is no George Blake, Old Bailey told

Katrin Ivanova’s barrister says her sentence should reflect her admin duties and not equate her with ‘classic spy cases’ A woman said to be “chief minion” in a ring of Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia in Britain should not be treated like George Blake, the double agent sentenced to four decades in jail in the 1960s, the Old Bailey has heard.Katrin Ivanova was said by her barrister, Rupert Bowers KC, to have been manipulated by her partner, Biser Dzhambazov, and to then have endured the discovery of his affair with a fellow member of the spy ring while in prison. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Special Constable jailed for storing photos of dying punch victim on Snapchat, sending grim details about fatal car crash to friend and taking photos of police computer records

William Heggs, 23, formerly a volunteer officer with Leicestershire Police, used his mobile phone to take photographs of body-cam footage showing William Harty, who was killed by his brother-in-law.

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3 h. ago Woman shares her trick for bagging huge haul from charity shop for just £33

Hope shared her incredible haul of fashionable clothing from the British Heart Foundation in Manchester, which she said was 'the best charity shop' - but how did she get it so cheap?

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3 h. ago Police officer jailed after sharing graphic images of dying man

William Heggs even showed the distressing images to his mother.

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3 h. ago Girl, 14, was hit and killed as she crossed road by speeding driver who had taken cocaine and cannabis, inquest hears

Olivia Kolek was crossing Station Road in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, when she was struck by a silver Mercedes near the railway station on New Year's Eve in 2021.

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3 h. ago Smugglers caught with £100m of cocaine in fishing boat at seaside coast jailed for 90 years

The British men were onboard a fishing boat called the Lily Lola that was intercepted by a Border Force vessel off the coast of Cornwall last September.

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3 h. ago Scots prisoner cut inmate's throat during football game at Edinburgh jail

John Etchells, 31, slashed his victim in the neck when he was playing football at an exercise yard at Edinburgh's Saughton jail before telling prison officers: "I'll not be threatened by any rodent."

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3 h. ago Men charged in 'plot to smuggle laundered cash out of UK in washing powder boxes'

The National Crime Agency says millions of pounds was being smuggled out of the UK

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3 h. ago Buckie crime: Man who raped boy jailed for 'appalling' crimes against children in Moray

Jamie Chapman was found guilty of raping a 15-year-old boy on multiple occasions between 2021 and 2022.

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4 h. ago Jail for special constable who accessed video of dying man and took photos of it

William Heggs, 23, took photos of a crime victim and accessed other sensitive material on his personal phone, Leicester Crown Court heard.

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4 h. ago ‘Major Mick’ launches one more year of fundraising in homemade Tintanic boat

Michael Stanley, 84, was seen off by the Duke of Richmond as he set off on the first leg of his sixth year of rowing the tin boat.

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4 h. ago 'My dad abused me when I was 8 – my mum died just hours before I got justice'

Kay Pitt was just nine when she was abused by her sick dad Alan Vinten, now 78. He was jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of eight charges, 50 years after hurting his own daughter

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5 h. ago Imran Khan’s party appeals for his immediate release fearing drone attack by India

Tehreek-e-Insaf says Khan’s safety is priority as India-Pakistan tensions escalate

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6 h. ago Australian cricket great Stuart MacGill spared jail time over supplying cocaine

MacGill was convicted of supplying drugs for a deal between his regular supplier and his brother-in-law in April 2021

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7 h. ago Eminem stalker reconvicted after third home invasion in six years

Matthew David Hughes found guilty after breaking into rapper’s Detroit home, following 2020 incident in which he allegedly threatened to kill him and 2019 break-inA stalker who broke into Eminem’s home in Michigan for a second time has been convicted of first-degree home invasion and aggravated stalking.Matthew David Hughes was arrested in August 2024 after being seen at the rapper’s home in Clinton Township, a suburb in north-eastern Detroit. He didn’t meet bail conditions and has been jailed since his arrest. Continue reading...

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