Greenpeace activists have boarded a 24,000-tonne ship carrying Volkswagen diesel cars to the UK – and say they won’t leave until the vehicles are returned to Germany. The campaigners used kayaks and boats to approach the boat in the Thames Estuary, before climbing on-board at 8.30am this morning. Greenpeace volunteers ...
A four-year enquiry has revealed that the practice of torture “habitual, widespread and deliberate” in Egypt. The conclusions were presented by members of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) after an investigation, triggered by Alkarama, unearthed a wide range of cases of violations in the North African nation. The inquiries are to be kept ...
To bug your phone the state at the very least needs the permission of a judge or Home Secretary. But as the bereaved family of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence found out, to send an undercover police officer to spy on you and your family, all that is needed is ...
NHS Professionals is an NHS-owned solution to combating NHS staff shortages, supplying temporary staff to over 65 NHS Trusts across England. It plugs professional gaps while allowing 90,000 staff such as doctors, midwives, healthcare scientists, nurses to work flexible hours that suits them. And it works so well it even ...
Vince Cable today accused Theresa May of suppressing evidence proving that immigration has little effect on employment and wages, and hiding the benefits to the economy as Home Secretary. In a blistering attack on Theresa May in her first PMQs before the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill starts being debated in ...
A man who claimed he was beaten up by Mobo award winning grime star Kano 'deliberately misled' the court to go on a climbing holiday causing the case to collapse today (wed). And the second victim also failed to appear as police admitted they had not heard from her for ...
Union protests at £29 million public contract award to blacklisting firm Sir Robert McApline GMB, the union for construction workers, has voiced opposition to the awarding of a contract to refurbish Big Ben, to Sir Robert McAlpine Limited, the company at the heart of blacklisting scandal in the construction industry. ...
One of Britain’s longest legal disputes - a row over a tiny rural footpath which has rumbled on so long that the original claimants died - has finally been resolved. Nearly 60 years after a footpath was wrongly included on a local authority map and the family who were besieged ...
A perverted loner who smuggled a grotesque sex doll of a CHILD into the country has narrowly avoided a jail sentence. Paedophile Brian Hopkins, 40, had a vast collection of sickening images and wanted to add the 3ft 9in mannequin to his sordid inventory. But he was caught out when ...