A cash-strapped police force has been blasted for splashing out £12,000 of taxpayers' money on a GOLD artwork – that will only be seen by cops and criminals. Northamptonshire Police forked out on the flashy installation that features dozens of gold leaves covering the wall of the lobby of its ...
A teenage boy who raped a young woman at gunpoint after breaking into her home has been jailed for 15 years. Aquib Ahmed, 19, knocked at a window of his victim's home in the early hours of April 1 last year, a court heard. When she opened the window Ahmed, ...
Amber (Sibylla Deen) is torn between her older lover Demi (Harvey Keitel) and her devout Muslim family in Bradford. When Demi dies, his driver Donald (Gabriel Bryne) is instructed to kick Amber out the flat she was living in for the adulterous getaways. Against his better judgement, a sympathy for ...
@BenGelblum With Britain's police budgets set to lose £700m a year, amid rising crime, and yet more cuts planned for border forces, parliament today heard of the tragic consequences of less money to fight a growing drug-fuelled gang crime epidemic. Knife crime is not being driven by minors and teenagers. ...
A disabled man was Tasered by police and charged with assaulting an officer in a case that collapsed when his mother discovered CCTV of the incident. The autistic man, Paul, who has a mental age of seven, could have been jailed had the trial gone ahead, his mother Margaret says. ...
New official figures include loss of sight, brain damage, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, amputation and even death The number of serious injuries suffered by education workers after violent assaults has shot up by 24% in the past five years, new figures obtained by the GMB show. In 2016/16, 477 assaults ...
The sister of a teacher murdered in her own classroom by a knife-wielding student says metal detectors in schools would "send out wrong message". Ann Maguire's younger sister Denise Courtney believes 'education is the answer' to knife crime and airport-type scanners would not stop baseball bats and acid being found. ...
Simon Dudley the council chief who found himself in a media storm for hoping homeless people would be moved off the streets of Windsor in time for the royal wedding has survived a vote of no confidence. In his letter to police, he complained about "aggressive begging and intimidation", and ...
Thirteen Polish people have been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences as part of a major probe into the exploitation of eastern European workers. Police swooped at a series of residential properties in Handsworth, Birmingham, during a series of early morning raids on Thursday (25/1). Officers were acting on ...