97 m. ago Homeland security officials defend immigration court arrests after being sued

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is defending its policy of having Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrest people at their immigration court hearings after a group of immigrants and advocates filed a class-action lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice

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1 hour ago Coach carrying dozens of school children crashes in Somerset

Police said the A396 remains closed after the crash and officers asked for people to avoid the area

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2 h. ago Constance Marten only discovered Mark Gordon was imprisoned twenty years for rape after he assaulted two police officers at the birth of their first child, unseen family court documents reveal

Veteran crime correspondent Rebecca Camber has broken down previously withheld family court documents that refute many of the narratives Marten spun during the trial.

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2 h. ago Boys aged 15 and 16 are charged after attack on 11 Met police officers as they tackled gang of shoplifters

When officers arrived in Wood Green, north London , just before 5pm on Tuesday, a number of people attacked them, the Metropolitan Police said.

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2 h. ago I didn't realise I was fighting police officers and I feared they'd beat me to death, Manchester Airport 'attacker' tells court

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was filmed hitting two policewomen and a male officer who were trying to detain him for headbutting a passenger at a Starbucks café minutes earlier.

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3 h. ago Student feared he would be ‘battered’ to death by police officer, court told

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz is on trial accused of assaulting three police officers at Manchester Airport.

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4 h. ago Stockwell Six final member has name cleared over infamous robbery

Ronald De Souza finally has his conviction quashed after being fitted up more than 50 Years ago aged just 17 by the now notorious corrupt and racist police officer Derek Ridgewell

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5 h. ago Final member of the Stockwell Six cleared after false accusation from corrupt police officer

Ronald De Souza had been accused of trying to rob British Transport Police officer Derek Ridgewell

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7 h. ago Errol Campbell: Man cleared posthumously over south London theft conviction by corrupt officer

He was previously found guilty in April 1977 and sentenced to a total of 18 months’ imprisonment

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8 h. ago Jim Legxacy: Black British Music review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(XL Recordings)The rapper and producer doubles down on his vaulting style, lurching from alt-rock to distortion and chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent and melodic third recordOn Father, the first single to be taken from Jim Legxacy’s third mixtape, the listener is offered a vivid image from the author’s past. The teenage James Olaloye, as he was then, is on the streets of Lewisham, the south-east London borough where he grew up. He is “rolling up a blunt, scheming for the funds trying to come up off the roads on my own two / I never had a father”. Inevitably, this means he’s up to no good: “Making money off a phone a key’s what they want.”It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. But in the case of Father, it comes with a small, but striking detail. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Four arrested and one charged after quadruple stabbing in south east London

Four arrested and one charged after quadruple stabbing in south east London  News Shopper

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10 h. ago Fire breaks out at West Lothian nursery as police called in to investigate

The incident was reported to officers at around 7.20am on Monday, July 16. Police carried out enquiries at Jigsaw Childcare in Broxburn.

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10 h. ago South London takeaway was forced to shut down after cockroach infestation and smell of urine

The Ghanaian takeaway had a ‘significant’ cockroach infestation and a strong smell of urine coming from a cupboard beneath a television

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12 h. ago ‘I did not bring my daughters to die’: Russian mother defends decision to live in cave in India

Indian police officials patrolling the slippery trails of Ramteertha Hills in Karnataka, find Russian woman who had made a home deep in the woods with her daughters, aged five and six, Shweta Sharma reports

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18 h. ago Murderer of Tory MP Sir David Amess was described as a 'great person' by police counter

The murderer of Tory MP Sir David Amess was described as a 'great person' by a police counter-terrorism official during a botched risk assessment before the killing.

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20 h. ago Harrowing warning about police racism as 'lack of leadership courage' fears raised

A new report by the Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board (ISOB) says the Home Office must clarify how the Government's Police Race Action Plan (PRAP) will continue beyond next year and said the Home Office must be 'hands on'

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20 h. ago Value of 1m UK homes ‘has increased by at least half since pandemic’

Northern England and Wales are home to many of the house price hotspots since the pandemic, Zoopla said.

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22 h. ago French police 'launch probe into Kylian Mbappe over £156,000 payments to officers'... with Real Madrid star 'ready to answer questions'

The payments are believed to be linked to Mbappe's promise to donate his 2022 World Cup prize money to the personnel who guarded the team throughout the tournament.

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23 h. ago Drunk man punched girlfriend and assaulted police officer during arrest

Ethan Jones, 22, was under the influence of alcohol and drugs when he punched his girlfriend and broke her glasses, before smashing up items in his mother's home.

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26 h. ago Police face ban from marching in Pride parades after court rules it breaches impartiality

The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police acted unlawfully when she allowed uniformed officers to march under a transgender flag at a Pride event last year, a judge ruled today.

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