3 h. ago Prison riot sees three guards held hostage as police swarm in to stop jail break

Around 100 police officers descended upon a correction facility to prevent a potential prison break after a riot sparked chaos in the jail. Three prison guards were taken hostage by inmates

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3 d. ago BREAKING: Sheffield Wednesday placed under embargo as Championship crisis club suffer fresh blow

Sheffield Wednesday have been placed under a transfer embargo by the English Football League after failing to pay their players and staff in the latest crisis to hit the Yorkshire side

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3 d. ago Sheffield Wednesday placed under embargo as Championship crisis club suffer fresh blow

Sheffield Wednesday have been placed under a transfer embargo by the English Football League after failing to pay their players and staff in the latest crisis to hit the Yorkshire side

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4 d. ago Biden dismisses Trump inquiry into his cognitive decline as a ‘distraction’

Former president says investigation of decision-making in office is designed to take focus off ‘disastrous legislation’Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of “distraction” after he launched an investigation into the former Democratic president’s time in office, claiming Biden’s top aides had covered up his cognitive decline and taken decisions on his behalf.Biden said in a statement widely emailed to US media that the move announced late on Wednesday came at a time when Trump was pushing a major piece of legislation that critics had said included massive tax cuts and huge slashes to social spending. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Armed police descend on city suburb following 'aggravated burglary'

Officers made two arrests as part of an ongoing investigation in Newport

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5 d. ago Man seen 'suspiciously' filming near primary school as police launch investigation

Officers are investigating the incident involving a man near a primary school.

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6 d. ago Madeleine McCann: Latest search sees teams drain well and clear dense vegetation

German investigators are working with Portuguese police officers and firefighters to search countryside around 3.5 miles from Praia da Luz.

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6 d. ago Serious Fraud Office investigates solar firm paid £400 million by council after its owner blew £150m of company cash on luxury lifestyle including £14m yacht, and £9m private jet

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a probe into an alleged £400 million fraud against Thurrock Council by a Dubai-based solar tycoon who spent almost half of it funding his luxury lifestyle.

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6 d. ago Britain's most dangerous inmate plotted to use guard's severed fingers to escape jail

Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the UK to be serving a whole-life order after going on a 10-day killing spree, during which she murdered three men and attacked two others

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6 d. ago Madeleine McCann suspect suffered broken rib in prison assault by inmate: Jail beating revealed as Christian Brueckner gives first interview... while new police dig for clues begins in Portugal

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner , 48, is the man German investigators believe abducted Madeleine from her family's rented holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.

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6 d. ago Trump admin opens bombshell investigation into aging Biden's final days in office and prolific use of autopen

Donald Trump's administration ordered an investigation into Joe Biden's final days in office - and the results could result in family members paying the ultimate price for their crimes.

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6 d. ago Jailed thug with Satanic 666 tattoo used razor to slice fellow inmate's neck

John Lizanec escaped with a superficial cut to his cheek and neck and was treated with a number of paper stitches after Alan Brown created the improvised weapon.

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7 d. ago Female prison guard, 26, who had phone sex with inmate and flooded his mother with more than 900 messages faces jail

Megann Gibson, 26, engaged in sexual communications with the prisoner while working at Wealstun prison near Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

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7 d. ago Cops probing Scots mansion firebombing after Lyons gangsters gunned down in Spain

Officers are investigating whether the incidents are linked.

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9 d. ago Family and friends of escaped New Orleans inmates arrested for aiding in jail breakout

The escaped inmates have been provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documents

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9 d. ago Prison guard is stabbed at maximum security jail holding notorious inmates in latest act of violence in Britain's prison system

EXCLUSIVE: A source with knowledge of the prison told MailOnline that the attacker used a flick-knife brought in to HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire using a drone.

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1 week ago Prisoner who fatally kicked and stamped on fellow inmate is jailed for life

Ashirie Smith was given a minimum of 17 and a half years for the ‘serious, sustained’ attack on Mahir Abdulrahman at HMP Fosse Way.

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1 week ago PE teacher who had sex with a pupil and sent flirtatious texts and selfies to another is pictured after being banned from the classroom

Married Cheyne Phillips, 34, was Deputy Head of PE at Healing Science Academy, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, when he started the inappropriate relationships.

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1 week ago The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan review – Timothy Leary’s right hand woman

A key a protagonist of the psychedelic counterculture, Rosemary Woodruff lived a life every bit as fascinating as her husband’sOf Timothy Leary, we know plenty. How, in the early 1960s, he gave LSD to his psychology students at Harvard, to the inmates of a maximum-security jail to see whether it would stop them reoffending, to artists such as Charlie Mingus and Allen Ginsberg to map how it expanded their creativity.The Beatles’ song Tomorrow Never Knows was based on his writings. Mick Jagger flew to Altamont in a helicopter with him. He had perma-smile good looks, evangelical patter and likened himself to Socrates and Galileo. He even had a Pied Piper invitation: “Turn on, tune in, drop out”. No wonder Richard Nixon believed he was “the most dangerous man in America”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago New Orleans jail, site of a brazen inmate escape, faces flooding and plumbing failures

The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing “significant flooding” from what a sheriff called “ongoing and severe plumbing failures."

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