20 h. ago Police response to grooming gangs faces ‘significant challenges’, watchdog says

Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley said force had a ‘steady flow’ of ongoing investigations

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24 h. ago Grooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people | Gaby Hinsliff

The chaos surrounding the inquiry stands as a warning: this is what happens when collapsing trust in public institutions, combined with point scoring, leads to paralysisIn the early hours of the morning, the cars would pull up outside the Bradford children’s home where Fiona Goddard lived as a teenager.Staff were worried about the men coming to collect her – records show she was felt to be “at high level of risk from unknown males” – but the policy was not to go to the police unless a child’s behaviour became concerning or she was seen being actively “dragged into a car”.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Jack Smith proposes public testimony to combat ‘mischaracterizations’ of Trump investigation

Republicans in Congress are investigating Smith and have accused him of leading ‘politically motivated’ prosecutions into Donald Trump

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35 h. ago Police watchdog to investigate force's actions in relation to Amen Teklay death

Teenager Amen was killed in an attack on Clarendon Street in St George's Cross in Glasgow on 5 March.

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36 h. ago Police investigated over claims they knew tragic teen Amen Teklay’s life was in danger prior to brutal death

COPS are being investigated over their actions before a 15-year-old boy was killed. Amen Teklay died in an attack in the St George’s Cross area of Glasgow on March 5 this year with two teenage boys facing a trial next June over allegations of murder. Watchdog, the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) said it has...

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4 d. ago Brother of Virginia Giuffre calls on UK police watchdog to review Andrew claims

There have been calls for the Met Police to reopen its investigation.

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8 d. ago ‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump

A legitimately epic story is unfolding, involving the antichrist, savage depictions of a billionaire and loads of scenes about The Donald’s penisEven outside its notoriously tight weekly production schedule, South Park has always run on an unpredictable calendar, sometimes taking years between seasons. This time around, it’s jumping from one season to the next after only five episodes (which, granted, have come in bi-monthly instalments, not counting the abrupt season finale that was pushed back a week due to a blown deadline).Tonight’s episode, titled Twisted Christian, kicks off season 28. At South Park Elementary, PC Principal – the PC standing for Power Christian ever since his politically motivated conversion at the start of last season – attempts to put a stop to his students’ obsession with the “6-7” TikTok meme, not because it is insufferable or disruptive, but because he considers it “some satanic numerology shit”. Rather than seeking help from the school’s new guidance cou...

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1 week ago Nursery closed down amid police probe after 'incident' involving member of staff

The nursery was closed with immediate effect on Monday following an incident.

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1 week ago European watchdog warns over trans rights and policing of protests

Michael O’Flaherty warned of a tendency to see human rights of different groups as a ‘zero-sum game’.

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2 w. ago Nottingham attack victim will be posthumously awarded the George Medal for trying to protect her friend before monster killed them both

The teenager, who was violently stabbed to death in Nottingham city centre in June 2023, will receive the honour, a civilian award for bravery, after being recommended by King Charles .

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2 w. ago London council slammed by watchdog after 500 police reports 'left unread by social workers'

Vulnerable residents left without help after 1,100 emails ignored by ‘utterly negligent’ social workers

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3 w. ago Two victims of Manchester synagogue terror attack were shot by police as they hid from killer

A watchdog has launched an investigation into the police shooting as it emerged terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, was on bail for rape

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3 w. ago Police watchdog launches investigation into Manchester synagogue attack after victim killed in crossfire

One member of the public was killed and another was injured after being hit by bullets fired by police

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3 w. ago Eleven Charing Cross police station staff investigated in gross misconduct probe

The IOPC launched an investigation into allegations including excessive use of force, making discriminatory and misogynistic comments.

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3 w. ago Karoline Leavitt claims Michigan church shooter ‘hated people of the Mormon faith’ as Trump decries ‘attack on Christians’

The suspected gunman, Thomas Jacob Sanford, was a former U.S. Marine

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4 w. ago Prison staff 'could face criminal charges for accessing Nottingham stabbings case files'

Prison staff could be facing criminal charges after they allegedly illegally accessed records involving the Nottingham Killings in 2023 that struck two teenagers.

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4 w. ago Police watchdog staff comments on Nottingham stabbings inquiry ‘inhumane’

Emma Webber, Barnaby Webber’s mother, said ‘I don’t trust anyone, I don’t trust the IOPC’.

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4 w. ago Nottingham stabbings police watchdog staff probed over 'politically motivated' comments about inquiry

Police watchdog staff are being investigated over allegations they told officers being probed over failures around the 2023 Nottingham stabbings that the inquiry was 'politically motivated'.

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4 w. ago Police watchdog staff face probe over comments on Nottingham stabbings inquiry

A judge-led public inquiry into the decisions made prior to the attacks was announced in February.

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4 w. ago George Soros foundation hits back at Trump after report that DoJ plans to target group

NYT reports that justice department is pushing attorneys to investigate organization as Trump ramps up attack on rivalsThe Open Society Foundations (OSF), the major philanthropic group funded by George Soros, criticized the Trump administration on Thursday for “politically motivated attacks on civil society” after a report that the justice department had instructed federal prosecutors to come up with plans to investigate the charity.The New York Times reported Thursday that a lawyer in the office of Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, sent a memo to several federal prosecutors in attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and Detroit, offering a range of charges to consider against OSF. Those charges included racketeering, arson, wire fraud and material support for terrorism, the Times reported. Continue reading...

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