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Business leaders have blasted a cash-strapped police force that wants to stop investigating shoplifting - saying it will give thieves "a licence to steal." Nottinghamshire Police plans to stop sending officers to investigate incidents of thefts from shops in order to prioritise more serious crimes like sex attacks. The controversial proposals come despite 8,786 shoplifting offences being reported to the force between June 2016 and June this year. Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping said the move comes as the...

An addiction counselllor who invested half his life savings in Bitcoin after taking the advice of one his patients made so much cash - he can now retire. Savvy John Coats has been able to pay for his retirement plus holidays to Africa after putting £16,000 into the digital currency in 2013. The 66-year-old knew almost nothing about the cryptocurrency - which was at that time used mainly by criminals on the 'dark web'. But after a tip off from...

A former senior Royal Navy officer accused of sexually assaulting several young men has denied he is gay and told his trial he was horrified by the allegations. Charles Howeson, 68, is alleged to have sexually assaulted victims during a distinguished career including groping a junior rating in a man overboard drill. Despite complaints to Navy officials more than 30 years ago Howeson was given a warning and went on to have a lengthy and decorated service. He became a...

Prehistoric women had even stronger arms than today's elite rowing crews, reveals new research. The study comparing the bones of women that lived during the first 6,000 years of farming with those of modern athletes shows that the average prehistoric agricultural woman had stronger upper arms than today's female rowing champions. Researchers from Cambridge University's Department of Archaeology say this physical prowess was likely obtained through tilling soil and harvesting crops by hand, as well as the grinding of grain...

A cash-strapped NHS Trust has banned doctors and nurses from using free tea and coffee machines – telling staff to drink HOT WATER instead. Health chiefs say it is too expensive to provide beverages to staff and from now on they will restrict free hot drinks to just patients and visitors. Instead, medical staff – as well as police officers who come into the hospital - have been told to either drink hot water or bring in their own tea...

The world's deepest living fish has been discovered living in the darkness more than eight kilometres below the surface. Named the Mariana snailfish, the translucent, scaleless fish exist at such depths that the water pressure is the equivalent of an elephant standing on your thumb. They are the top predator in their dark world, living off tiny crustaceans and shrimp at depths nearly as far down as Mount Everest is high. Researchers recover a trap after it landed on the...

A homeless charity has branded a business responsible for a security system that barks at people in a doorway and threatens to call the cops as 'sad'. The bizarre alarm system is triggered when passersby step into the sheltered doorway of an office block in Glasgow. When set-off, a loud voice blares through the speakers, saying: "You have been detected in an unauthorised area, please leave the area or the police will be called - CCTV is recording". A pressure...

Litter on Britain's beaches is up 10 per cent in just one year to its worst ever levels, prompting calls for a tax on waste. More than 700 bits or rubbish were found, on average, on every 100 metres cleaned as conservationists accused many people of treating our shores as a "big dustbin." A shock report shows that litter levels recorded in an annual survey were at record levels, with food and drink waste accounting for one in five pieces...

Britain First's deluded leader reckons Trump retweeting anti-Muslim videos is because the US President is championing the far right group. Leader Paul Golding said Donald Trump was making a strong statement of support by retweeting three videos posted by the far-right group's deputy Jayda Fransen. Golding, 35, also reckons that Theresa May should be "worried" about the President's support for the group. Although Trump had never reached out to them before, controversial Golding believes the news of Frasen's latest arrest...