3 h. ago Teenager who plotted copycat Southport attack on dance school and Oasis concert after being exposed to 'abhorrent and violent' social media content is jailed for 14 months

McKenzie Morgan, 18, told friends of plans to target the concert in Cardiff, and had a note targeting the dance club near his home, the Old Bailey heard.

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4 h. ago Southport copycat attack teen jailed for plotting to target Oasis gig

A would-be Southport copycat killer wanted to attack a dance school and an Oasis reunion concert, a court heard - today he was locked up for 14 months

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4 h. ago Southport copycat attack teen jailed after plotting to target Oasis gig

A would-be Southport copycat killer wanted to attack a dance school and an Oasis reunion concert, a court heard - today he was locked up for 14 months

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4 h. ago Teen who plotted Southport copycat attack with plans to target Oasis concert and dance school jailed

McKenzie Morgan told friends he wanted to commit a similar terrorist-style attack and was trying to make the deadly poison ricin

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27 h. ago Cheryl Tweedy's killer stalker, who 'scared her young child', is back in prison after being secretly freed after just three months

Bannister, 51, was jailed for 12 months in September last year for breaching a restraining order that prevented him from contacting the Girls Aloud star.

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30 h. ago Lucy Connolly is warned she faces prison recall for resharing 'tongue

Former childminder Lucy Connolly from Northampton was jailed for 31 months in October 2024 for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers after the Southport murders.

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32 h. ago Cheryl Tweedy's stalker freed from prison after just three months but jailed again

Daniel Bannister was sentenced to a year behind bars last September after stalking Girls Aloud star Cheryl and breaching a restraining order by turning up at her home

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34 h. ago Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet

A social media content moderator becomes obsessed with a violent video in this restrained, unsettling workplace thriller starring Lili ReinhartHere is a workplace drama, of sorts. Like many people, Daisy (Lili Reinhart) works a desk job using a computer. Unlike most people, fainting at work is a rite of passage; she moderates videos on social media that have been reported for violating the terms of service. That means watching everything from horrible porn to horrible politics to horrible accidents and everything in between, a non-stop diet of videos with titles such as “fetus in blender” or “strangulation but she doesn’t die”.Her boss takes her to task for deleting a graphic video showing a suicide, which supposedly has news value and should have been left up. But the tipping point for Daisy is a really nasty video titled “nailed it”, which shows violence and cruelty that she believes is real and non-consensual. So begins a low-key quest to track down the perpetrator, though she is...

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52 h. ago Rapist who snatched young girl from bath could be freed from jail next month

Peter Voisey was jailed 20-years-ago for his horrific crimes, but is now up for parole

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3 d. ago Algerian migrant who stole £31,000 worth of laptops from City workers during two

EXCLUSIVE: Munir Ghilas, 28, targeted 16 separate victims at bars in central London between August 5 and September 25 last year.

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3 d. ago Drug dealer jailed after supplying ecstasy that killed teenage girlfriend at house party

Drug dealer Jay Conway cried as he was jailed for 15 months following the death of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Lennix Hughes.

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3 d. ago Will X be banned in the UK after Grok deepfake row and how would it happen?

The regulator has a range of powers to tackle illegal content on social media platforms

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4 d. ago First Minister calls X ‘woefully inadequate’ amid Grok AI misuse row

Michelle O’Neill said it was ‘disgraceful and disgusting that any social media platform allows this type of illegal content to be created’.

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4 d. ago Football fan who injured own player after throwing seat jailed for 18 months

David Gowans, 32, was also banned from attending football matches for 10 years.

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6 d. ago Victim of evil Fornethy 'House of Horrors' teacher spared jail welcomes Crown's sentence appeal

Patricia Robertson, 77, avoided jail last month after she was convicted of tomenting girls as young as six at the facility in Angus between 1969 and 1984.

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6 d. ago Deported Czech drug dealer who boasted about sneaking back into Britain by posing on streets in £1,500 Moncler jacket is jailed for 12 months

Czech drug dealer and failed asylum seeker Patrik Durac, 27, who defiantly 'sneaked' back into Britain just months after he was deported has now been jailed for 12 months.

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7 d. ago Nigerian migrant jailed for threatening Good Samaritan British mother with knife in front of her child wins right to stay in UK

Olajide Shinaba, 32, was jailed for 11 months after he pulled a knife on a woman, described as his friend, who had taken him off the street.

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8 d. ago Fine fare dodgers who jump gates on the Tube up to £2,500, ministers urged

Repeat fare dodgers on the Underground and rail network should face up to six months in jail, Parliament was told

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8 d. ago Fine people who jump gates on Tube up to £2,500, ministers urged to tackle widespread fare evasion

Repeat fare dodgers on the Underground and rail network should face up to six months in jail, Parliament was told

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8 d. ago Tube fare dodgers should be hit with £2,500 fines, ministers told

Repeat fare dodgers on the Underground and rail network should face up to six months in jail, Parliament was told

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