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A group of yobs have mocked a rough sleeper before leaving his clothes and skin burnt by putting a firework in his pocket.

Police are searching the home of a father and son arrested after a vile video of revellers laughing at a Grenfell Tower effigy going up in flames. They were identified as Bobbi Connell, 19, and Clifford Smith, 49, who live in a terraced residential home in South Norwood, south London. They hosted a bonfire night party on Saturday night attended by a family and more than ten people where they filmed themselves taunting victims of the fire last June. A...

Britain’s deportation process has been secretly militarised as part of Theresa May’s Hostile Environment policy, new reports have revealed. According to a freedom of information request submitted by JOE the Home Office has started to use a Royal Air Force base to deport hundreds of people on specially chartered planes. The move was made to avoid protesters at civilian airports such as London Stansted. Brize Norton was used to deport hundreds of people last year, although that figure could have...

Steven Bishop, 40, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court for a brief five-minute hearing during which his case was sent to the Old Bailey.

Kees Van der Pijl, who holds the honorary title of professor emeritus at Sussex University, shared the tweet with a link to the widely criticised "WikiSpooks" website.

Sharife Elouahabi, 38, was handed cash for accommodation and financial support before investigators discovered he never lived in the tower, which was destroyed by fire on June 14, 2017.

The men aged from 19 to 55 are being held on suspicion of a public order offence after handing themselves into a south London police station last night (Mon).

The Midterms are expected to return marginal gains that could have huge implications on US politics according to early indicators. Spread betting data shows electoral shocks across key states could be in the offing, with the Republican’s slim majority likely to be upset by marginal swings. But political experts predict the Republicans will win out in November’s elections, despite the Democrats putting up a challenge in both Arizona and Nevada. This will be thanks to further consolidation in traditional strongholds...

The Trussell Trust says it has handed out a record number of emergency supplies between April and September this year as the government’s disastrous roll-out of Universal Credit continues to wreak havoc on the most vulnerable people in the country. More than 650,000 emergency supplies were handed out to people in crisis in the six months up to October, a 13 per cent increase on same period in 2017. The charity says if the five week minimum wait for a...