3 d. ago ‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion

From raids on marijuana farms to illegal bitcoin miners, suppliers are finding new ways to tackle the rise in gas and electricity theftMore British households struggling with bills will resort to energy theft, campaigners sayBy the time a team of police officers and engineers stormed a disused office block in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on a November morning last year, the building had been abandoned.Left behind were rooms filled with thousands of cannabis plants: a nursery on the first floor, the growing crop on the second, and leaves drying out on the third. The criminal gang behind the marijuana farm is thought to have fled after the grid operator cut off the stolen electricity used to power scores of LED lamps. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Feral gang used Snapchat to 'hunt' schoolgirl before brutal beating

WARNING: DISTRESSING VIDEO. Sofia Todd's mum Eleonora Paluzzi said the horror attack in Paisley earlier this month left her daughter traumatised, with a video capturing her brutal beating

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4 d. ago Inside billionaire's £3m abandoned mansion with £50k dead tiger and rotting Rolls Royce

The properties, known as the Tiger Mansions, were left abandoned by Genshiro Kawamoto who died in February last year... Now an urban explorer has taken a little look

Economics

8 d. ago Probe launched after passenger falls from platform and dies at Ickenham Tube station

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch have launched an investigation into the death

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9 d. ago Sick video shows pensioner brutally beaten for bumping into 'hooligan' passenger on Russian tube

The brutal attack was caught on CCTV showing a younger man repeatedly kicking, punching and dragging an older gentleman along the platform at the tube station in Moscow

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9 d. ago Elizabeth line boss urges Government to give staff greater protection from passenger assaults

Petition launched after fatal attack on Jorge Ortega at Ilford station

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1 week ago Tube journeys disrupted as East London station platform to be closed from May to August

Tube journeys disrupted as East London station platform to be closed from May to August  Yahoo News UK

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1 week ago ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

Amid the ruins and with fuel scarce, the animals provide vital transport for the injured as well as goods and belongingsIt felt like an “earthquake from the sky” when an Israeli airstrike hit the clinic Dr Saif Alden had left just minutes earlier. Alden had been treating animals hurt and abandoned amid Gaza’s destruction. They survived but the equipment and medication the mobile clinic needed to function was destroyed.Still, the team saw it as a setback, not a defeat. Alden has spent the month since the airstrike traversing Gaza to scavenge the tools needed to resume operations. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Prison officers are 'traumatised and angry' after Hashem Abedi attack, boss says

Three staff at HMP Frankland have been left with life-changing injuries

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2 w. ago 'Give my baby a good home,' says note left with abandoned newborn

'Give my baby a good home,' says note left with abandoned newborn  CBC

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2 w. ago Teen girl kicked in head and 'traumatised for life' after sickening train attack

Ruby, aged 13, has been left "traumatised" after being attacked on a train by thugs, leaving her with a broken wrist and clumps of hair missing.

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2 w. ago Girl, 13, kicked in face and left with 'chunks of hair missing' after horrific train attack

Ruby was left with a broken wrist and clumps of hair missing after the 15-minute attack on the train and her aunt says she will be 'traumatised for life'

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3 w. ago Millionaire businesswoman 'abandoned' on Tube platform for 30 minutes after 'traumatising' attack on train by stranger

Sally Wynter was travelling on home from work on the Victoria line when she 'felt a punch' and man 'knocked her sideways' into the train's glass window.

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3 w. ago Millionaire businesswoman left abandoned on Tube platform by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

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3 w. ago Millionaire businesswoman abandoned on Tube platform for 30 minutes by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

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3 w. ago Millionaire businesswoman abandoned on Tube after 'violent' attack

Millionaire businesswoman abandoned on Tube after 'violent' attack  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago Grandmother, 59, who was left with shattered plastic shunts in her head says she feels 'abandoned by NHS'

EXCLUSIVE: 59-year-old Sarah Amrbose's struggles began in2007, when a surgery for a slipped disc in her spine went awry in Spain and her dura was mistakenly slice

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3 w. ago Inside abandoned funeral home with mortician's chemicals and white hearse parked outside

The funeral home operated as a family-run business for 40 years before suddenly closing - fascinating new photographs show the abandoned site left almost entirely untouched

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4 w. ago Man visits abandoned bank – and is left gobsmacked by what he finds there

Social media star, The Bearded Explorer - real name Colin Smith - was given permission to access the abandoned premises and couldn't believe what had been left behind inside an open cabinet

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4 w. ago Mother arrested after leaving toddler in freezing cold car while she went on 'romantic rendezvous'

Lillian Johnson, 38, was charged with first-degree child endangerment after she allegedly left her 20-month-old child 'abandoned in a car' parked car outside a bar and hotel in Healy, Alaska.

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