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Suicides, drugs and violence with impunity, vulnerable prisoners locked up 23 hours a day and corridors littered with cockroaches, blood and vomit all featured in a shocking prisons inspectorate report that had HMP Birmingham taken off private security firm G4S within hours. With prison assaults, drugs taking and self-harm at record levels nationally, the government will have lots of questions to answer about the unprecedented crisis and how contracts are awarded to the private sector are properly managed. “HMP Birmingham...

Torrential rain caused landslides across south India - leaving four dead and dozens of homes destroyed

Scientists have long tried to understand why forests emit the gasses that give off that distinctive pine smell

The collapse of their culture has shocking implications for unsustainable logging today, say scientists

In comes amid a renewed row over anti semitism after Scottish Labour suspended Cllr Jim Sheridan over a tweet

MPs are calling for a rise in their allowances because Brexit has increased their workload, The New European has reported. Expenses watchdog Ipsa (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) has said it has received representations from MPs to raise their staffing budget because the work on their plate has gone up since the referendum. Under current rules, MPs can claim £150,900 a year for staffing costs, rising to £161,550 in London, although they can apply for an increase. In its report on...

The woman - named locally as 30-year-old office worker Anna Gos - was savagely attacked near her home in Eltham, south east London, along with her 64-year-old mother

HMP Birmingham has been taken back into government control after G4S debacle

Sudanese-born Salih Khater, 29, in court