4 h. ago Senior police officer 'threw away' original notes that contained 'intelligence' from meeting that led to Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban

Mick Wilkinson, a chief inspector at West Midlands Police (WMP), was the single representative for the force during a virtual meeting with Dutch officials on October 1, 2025.

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18 h. ago 'Our current policing model was built for the 1960s': Two of the UK's most senior police chiefs say having 43 separate forces is 'inefficient' and 'outdated'

Our ability to tackle the crime threats to communities, whether local or global, is undermined by this outdated system.

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2 d. ago ‘Grey area between ages of 10 and 14’ in terms of criminal responsibility

MLAs questioned senior police officers at the Stormont Justice Committee on Thursday as it considered the Justice Bill.

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2 d. ago Former senior police officer aiming for meteoric rise to UUP leader

Jon Burrows served as a police officer for 22 years before leaving the PSNI in 2023.

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2 d. ago Jon Burrows moves a step closer to become next Ulster Unionist leader

The UUP confirmed the former senior police officer is the only contender to replace Mike Nesbitt later this month.

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3 d. ago My refusal to join the Freemasons cost me dearly. This is the sinister truth about how they've infiltrated the police

More than 300 officers and staff in the Metropolitan Police have owned up to membership of the Freemasons or 'other hierarchical associations' in the past month.

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5 d. ago The Traitors star says show 'saved life' after health change she 'wouldn't have noticed'

The former senior Metropolitan Police detective was banished following a tense roundtable in the hit BBC One gameshow

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8 d. ago 'We've been very clear with officers': Police issue statement over senior GMP detective who took steroids

James Faulkner failed a drugs test

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1 week ago Former senior police officer Jon Burrows confirms UUP leadership bid

Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Diana Armstrong said she will run to become the next deputy leader of the party.

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1 week ago Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far

US tech bosses are exerting leverage on EU regulators via Trump and Vance. But Europe isn’t powerless, and it isn’t aloneThe US is advancing a new global order. Over the past eight decades Washington pursued – when it suited American interests – an order based on international law, liberalism, multilateralism and democratic values. The new one is based on autocracy and the use of force, and is underpinned by xenophobic nationalism.For the transatlantic relationship this is transformative: it means that coercive action now drives policy change. Europe’s security dependency on the US is leverage to be ruthlessly exploited. Silicon Valley tech firms’ business interests converge with those of the White House, and the US instrumentalises far-right politicians in Europe to achieve its foreign policy objectives.Armida van Rij is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform Continue reading...

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2 w. ago From bon appetit to Uber Eats: why France’s beloved restaurants are in crisis | Paul Taylor

When I started as a reporter in Paris in the 1970s, long, boozy lunches were the norm. Now only fast food and fine dining are thrivingSpare a thought for the poor French restaurateur. Once the iconic image of a sybaritic nation that loved nothing more than a boozy meal out with friends or colleagues, the French restaurant is in deep crisis. Traditional restaurants are closing faster than you can shout “garçon!”, as eating habits change and the cost of living pinches.“It’s a catastrophe for our profession,” Franck Chaumès, president of the restaurant branch of the Union of Hospitality Trades and Industries (UMIH) said in a television interview recently. “Some 25 restaurants are going out of business every day.” The UMIH has demanded – so far in vain – that the government ration the opening of new restaurants, in proportion to the local population, and license only professionals who are qualified in cooking and accounting.Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy ...

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2 w. ago UK's Queen Camilla recalls assault in 1960s as she campaigns against domestic violence

Britain’s Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about her personal experience of indecent assault

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2 w. ago As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit

We enter 2026 with radical uncertainty about the fate of the US – but also with the clarity that people have the power to determine what it will beWhen we talk about opposition in politics, sometimes it’s just a policy disagreement – but in the current political crisis in the US, the opposition has become the opposite of the Trump administration in meaningful ways. It had to because this is not only a policy conflict.Between the administration and the opposition are actual opposites of principle: among those committed to inclusion and those to exclusion; truth and lies; kindness and cruelty; the protection and destruction of systems that in turn protect the climate or public health. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Judges warned impact of Irish in courts could undermine confidence in justice

Declassified files also show senior police officer Judith Gillespie raising concerns.

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2 w. ago Scotland’s top police officer ‘honoured and grateful’ at honour

Two other current and former senior officers in Scotland will receive the King’s Police Medal.

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3 w. ago King Charles has abandoned us and Prince William doesn't want to know: Poundbury residents say drugs, red tape and brawling pensioners have ruined monarch's model town

Residents living in Poundbury, which is being built on Duchy of Cornwall land in Dorset, claim the model town is no longer living up to its paradisal image.

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3 w. ago Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco

Previously vessels would be sunk once they had completed their cargo runs from South America to EuropeThe plummeting price of cocaine is forcing drug-traffickers to reuse the “narco-submarines” they would previously have scuttled once the custom-built vessels had completed their cargo runs from South America to Europe, according to a senior Spanish police officer.While semi-submersible vehicles have been used regularly in Colombia and other parts of South and Central America since the 1980s, they were not detected in European waters until 2006, when an abandoned sub was found in an estuary in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago South Ayrshire councillor wants more done to support staff with young families

Labour Councillor Ian Cavana said that current policies 'don't go far enough'.

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3 w. ago Gibraltar’s chief minister made ‘sinister’ interventions to protect friend from police

Inquiry finds Fabian Picardo was ‘grossly improper’ to protect James Levy from a search warrantThe chief minister of Gibraltar made a series of “grossly improper” and “sinister” interventions to interfere in a live criminal investigation in order to protect his friend, mentor and business partner from the consequences of a search warrant, a public inquiry has found.The retired England and Wales high court judge and inquiry chair, Sir Peter Openshaw, concluded that Fabian Picardo acted to protect James Levy KC when police were at Hassans law firm, where Levy was a senior partner, on 12 May 2020 with a search warrant from “a legitimate police investigation and operation”. Continue reading...

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