27 h. ago Park Lane homeless camp to be cleared after court order granted

Almost two dozen tents have been erected opposite the luxury Park Lane Hilton hotel

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46 h. ago Police chief assaulted wife in bid to stop her reading WhatsApp messages revealing affair with junior colleague, misconduct panel finds

Chief Superintendent Karl Wilson, 51, was cleared of the assault at court last week. But a disciplinary panel has now found him guilty of gross misconduct.

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3 d. ago TfL seeks court order to clear new Park Lane homeless camp just months after it was last dismantled

People have again set up a makeshift campsite opposite the luxury Park Lane Hilton hotel, bringing furniture and cooking equipment

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3 d. ago Labour postpones women’s conference over Supreme Court transgender ruling

A Labour Party spokesperson said the party must make sure all its procedures ‘comply with the Supreme Court’s clear ruling’.

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3 d. ago TfL again seeking court order to clear Park Lane homeless camp as new tents emerge

People have again set up a makeshift campsite opposite the luxury Park Lane Hilton hotel, bringing furniture and cooking equipment

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3 d. ago Erasure’s Andy Bell says Blondie’s Debbie Harry helped him come out

Bell is best known for being half of the synth‑pop duo Erasure who were behind the top five hit songs A Little Respect, Sometimes and Always.

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4 d. ago Scissor killer cleared over trans prison row after court hears of murderers' jail shower sex

Killer hairdresser Jayney Sutherley was cleared of a four-year transphobic abuse campaign.

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7 d. ago Paramedic secretly gave woman abortion drug after she fell pregnant with his baby

Stephen Doohan, 33, admitted to his guilt after he gave the woman the pills after she made it clear she was intending to keep the baby, the High Court in Glasgow heard

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8 d. ago Migrant camp fury on Park Lane as travellers drink vodka at 6am and poo in road

Migrant camp fury on Park Lane as travellers drink vodka at 6am and poo in road  Daily Express

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1 week ago Blue Badge driver left fuming after being fined £110 for parking in a disabled bay

Philip Davey was fined after parking in a disabled bay in Billet Lane car park, Hornchurch, during a visit to Queen's Theatre with his mother-in-law, who is seriously ill with cancer

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2 w. ago Nicola Packer, 45, wipes her eyes in court as she's cleared of illegal abortion

Nicola Packer took the abortion pills at home in November 2020 after she had been prescribed mifepristone and misoprostol following a remote consultation, Isleworth Crown Court heard

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent contestant cleared of rape gives 'rebuilding' statement

Andrew Johnston was cleared in court on Thursday

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent's Andrew Johnston speaks out after being cleared of raping two women

Former Britain's Got Talent finalist Andrew Johnston admits he's now hoping to rebuild his life after Southwark Crown Court cleared him of raping two women

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2 w. ago Moment 'Karen' screams at fellow Brit tourists for 'stealing her sunbeds' in Lanzarote

Footage shows the irate woman accusing a couple of being in the poolside sunbed spot she had been using “all week” at the Hyde Park Lane apartments in Lanzarote

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2 w. ago Britain’s Got Talent finalist says he has ‘lost everything’ after rape trial

Andrew Johnston, 30, who competed as a singer on the television programme, was cleared of raping two women after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.

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2 w. ago Former Britain’s Got Talent finalist acquitted of raping two women

Andrew Johnston, 30, was cleared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent finalist Andrew Johnston cleared of raping two women

Britain's Got Talent finalist Andrew Johnston has been cleared of raping two women following a trial at Southwark Crown Court

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2 w. ago Let the sunbed wars begin! Moment two furious British women row over poolside lounger with one screaming 'you picked on the wrong person' at three

A fuming woman is seen telling a sunbather that she is going to complain about her to the manager at the three-star Hyde Park Lane apartments in Lanzarote.

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2 w. ago US reportedly planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘clear’ violation of court order

Judge confirms move would breach order as Libya’s rival governments say both would refuse any US deporteesThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to deport a group of immigrants to Libya, despite a judge’s efforts on Wednesday to block any such flights and the state department’s previous condemnation of the “life-threatening” prison conditions in the country.Reuters cited three unnamed US officials as saying the deportations could happen this week. Two of the officials said the immigrants, whose nationalities are not known, could be flown to the north African country as soon as Wednesday, but they added the plans could still change. The New York Times also cited a US official confirming the deportation plans. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protest | Akiko Hart

The appeal court verdict makes clear these anti-protest laws should never have existed. Labour must now reflect on what sort of democracy it wants us to beAkiko Hart is the director of the human rights organisation LibertyWhen we beat the Conservative government over its anti-democratic protest laws in court last year, we thought that would be the end of the story. Judges in the high court had made it very clear that laws that gave the police almost unlimited powers to crack down on any protest that caused “more than minor” disruption were unlawful. It ordered that the laws should be scrapped. We celebrated. Given that the incoming Labour government had voted down these very same laws a year earlier, we believed that protest would be taken out of the culture wars arena and put back into the sacred space of fundamental rights.Yet Labour dragged us back to court, in a misguided attempt to be seen to look tough on public order. And now today, on a day of much Labour soul-searching, we’...

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