3 h. ago New Premier League referee SNUBBED for game next weekend after Pep Guardiola slammed him over bold VAR decision

THE Premier League has announced that Farai Hallam will NOT manage a game next weekend. Hallam made his top flight debut last week during Manchester City's 2-0 win over Wolves. He sparked plenty of conversation after boldly going against VAR when he was asked to review an alleged handball against Wolves defender Yerson Mosquera. But...

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6 h. ago Solicitor who specialised in defending alleged criminals jailed for grooming and sexually abusing two 13

Suleman Baig, who was branded 'calculated' and 'predatory' by prosecutors, first began asking the girls to send him naked photos of themselves over social media app Snapchat.

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6 d. ago School principal defends suspending 19 boys over alleged 'toxic masculinity'

A school which suspended scores of boys for allegedly 'intimidating' female staff members has defended its position.

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9 d. ago Masked man who caused 'distress and alarm' to Metrolink users and 'duped' criminal among those jailed this week

The Manchester Evening News looks back on the cases before the courts this week

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1 week ago ‘Questionable parenting’ is not a crime: Lawyers defend woman for allegedly letting 5

Jasmine Moss allegedly bragged that her daughter had raised over $700 by waxing dozens of clients

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1 week ago Tory ‘arsonists’ still in charge of party, says Jenrick as he hits back at Badenoch

Former Conservative minister who has joined Reform responds to allegations of lying from his former leaderUK politics live – latest updatesThe “arsonists” who tanked the reputation of the Conservatives are still in charge of the party, Robert Jenrick has said as he and the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, trade blows a day after his dramatic defection to Reform UK.Giving his first interview since his announcement on Thursday, the former shadow justice secretary said the Conservatives had not changed since the election, while defending himself against allegations of lying from his former party leader. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Iran's gruesome execution methods from hanged on a crane to stoning as shop

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Erfan Soltani, 26, will be hanged today after being given just 10 minutes to say goodbye to his family as he was jailed under 'arbitrary criminal charges' amid anti-government protests

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2 w. ago Nearly 630 drivers dodge jail in last five years despite being found criminally responsible for death crashes

An average of ten a month are given community service orders, suspended sentences or fines instead of being sent to prison for triggering killer car crashes.

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2 w. ago What became of the £40million of NHS cash funnelled through this suburban home in woke scheme to give 700 Pakistani doctors work experience in the UK? GUY ADAMS investigates...

Since 2001 the property has been the home of Helen Bradin, 65, a former solicitor who specialised in divorce and personal injury cases and is now a prominent figure in the local Rotary Club.

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2 w. ago Crossbow killer and school shooting plotter among criminals jailed for longest terms in 2025

Two people were handed whole-life jail terms, meaning they will never be released from jail

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3 w. ago Maduro indictment attempts to link Venezuelan leader to Tren de Aragua

Co-defendants include alleged gang founder Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, indicted two weeks agoThe superseding federal indictment unsealed against Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday immediately after his capture closely resembles 2020 charges against him but has several important new twists: the new indictment appears to embrace controversial claims made by the Trump administration about a Venezuelan street gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA).Maduro was captured by US forces early Saturday and ferreted out of the country after a series of explosions in the Venezuelan capital. The operation has drawn widespread international criticism and outrage from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Locked Up: The criminals justice caught up with in December and what happened to them

These are the faces of the criminals who have been jailed for the most serious crimes in Wales in the past month

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3 w. ago Will Smith accused of ‘predatory behaviour’ and ‘grooming’ by tour violinist

Brian King Joseph claims the rapper and actor was ‘priming’ him for ‘sexual exploitation’. Smith’s lawyer has called the allegations ‘false, baseless and reckless’Will Smith is being sued by a violinist from his 2025 tour, who claims the rapper and actor exhibited “predatory behaviour” and was “deliberately grooming and priming” him for “further sexual exploitation”. Brian King Joseph is also pursuing the performer and his company Treyball Studios Management for wrongful termination and retaliation in a suit filed in the superior court of California.Joseph alleges that he was hired for the tour in support of Smith’s new album, Based on a True Story, after first appearing on stage with Smith in December 2024. The suit claims that Smith once told Joseph, “You and I have such a special connection that I don’t have with anyone else.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump

Ex-special counsel testified in front of judiciary committee about aborted federal prosecution of Donald TrumpJack Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump, told a congressional committee that he never spoke to Joe Biden about his cases, according to the transcript of a deposition released on Wednesday.In his behind-closed-doors testimony to the House judiciary committee earlier this month, Smith defended the charges he brought against Trump for allegedly possessing classified documents and attempting to overturn the 2020 election, while warning of the consequences of allowing election meddling to go unpunished. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Police are facing ruin from Labour's 'soft justice crimewave': Forces set for £800million bill from plan to jail fewer criminals

Labour's soft justice reforms will unleash a crimewave, pushing some forces to the brink of bankruptcy, warn police chiefs.

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3 w. ago Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story review – shall we all vow not to watch true

This terrifying documentary about the Utah life coach convicted of extreme child abuse feels supremely grubby. How about a new year’s resolution not to watch – or make – anything this grim ever again?We are always aware, I think, of man’s inhumanity to man. The latest true-crime documentary from Netflix is here to remind you that this is an umbrella term. It is undoubtedly rarer, though precisely why is unclear, but women can inflict the most awful suffering too – and here, a pair of them do so on children.Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story is the latest offering from Skye Borgman, who is the undisputed queen of the genre, specialising in high-end takes on the most extreme, the most only-in-America stories of depravity you could (not) hope to find. She made her name with 2017’s Abducted in Plain Sight, about the case of Jan Broberg, who was kidnapped not once but twice by Robert Berchtold, a close friend of the Brobergs and a sexual predator who effectively groomed the whol...

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