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Tory police and crime commissioner is told to apologise and act more professionally on social media after wrongly accusing a man of misusing public funds

A police and crime commissioner has been ordered to apologise to an individual over ‘disrespectful’ and inaccurate comments he made on social media. Festus Akinbusoye, the Conservative PCC for Bedfordshire, was reprimanded after suggesting the unnamed man had misused public funds. The

April 25, 2024

Ammanford school ‘stabbing’: Person is arrested and three people including ‘teacher’ injured after ‘knife attack involving two girls’ – as classrooms remain in ‘lockdown’

A person has been arrested and three people are injured, with one thought to be a teacher, after a ‘horrifying incident’ at a school in Carmarthenshire, as classrooms remain in ‘lockdown’. Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, also known as Amman Valley School, in Ammanford

April 24, 2024

Netflix fans are in for a treat as gritty crime series hailed as ‘the best Irish drama in years’ is set to debut on platform

Gritty Irish crime drama Kin is set to hit UK Netflix screens in May 2024. And fans cannot get enough of the series as the multi-award winning show has been hailed ‘the best Irish drama series in years’. The show, which won

April 10, 2024

The brutal BBC bloodbath: Major dramas, an award-winning comedy and fan favourite quiz shows have all been axed – so which of your favourites have fallen victim to the cutthroat corporation?

With the BBC setting a target to slash 100 hours of TV shows this year, the bloodbath’s body count is comparable with a Line Of Duty-style murder spree. Not one genre has been spared, with the axe wielded over everything from drama,

April 7, 2024

Inside the double lives of Britain’s secret paedophiles: How perverts get married to hide in plain sight and live ‘respectable’ lives to ‘shield’ themselves from police

Stooped over a walking stick with his reading glasses tucked into his jumper beneath a head of white hair, he may not look like one of Britain’s most wanted fugitives. The successful repatriation of suspected paedophile Richard Burrows after nearly 30 years

April 6, 2024

Scottish hate crime law sparks chaos as SNP minister admits ‘vexatious’ claims are being made to police: 4,000 reports are made – with more complaining about Humza Yousaf than JK Rowling

Scotland’s justice minister has been forced to admit time-wasting complaints are being made to police under the country’s controversial hate crime laws – including a false complaint made under her name. Siobhian Brown says ‘misinformation and hysteria’ have led to wrongful assumptions

April 4, 2024

Lawyers warn ENTIRE football stadium of fans could need to be arrested to enforce SNP’s new hate crime law – with football chiefs ‘completely in the dark’ about how it’ll be enforced just days before Rangers play Celtic

An entire football stadium of fans would need to be arrested to enforce the SNP’s new hate crime law, a lawyer has suggested – with football chiefs left ‘completely in the dark’ about how it will be enforced at this weekend’s Old

April 4, 2024

Telling a private joke to a friend, insults about age, football chants, putting on a Shakespeare play and performing at Edinburgh fringe: Lawyers reveal actions that could breach Scotland’s new hate crime law

Risque jokes around the dinner table, insulting an elderly colleague, offensive football chants and even staging a Shakespeare play could all now be counted as hate crimes in Scotland, a lawyer said today. Under the SNP’s deeply controversial Hate Crime and Public

April 3, 2024

Beware the charity conmen: Warning after bogus Children In Need collector dressed as Pudsey Bear led gang that stole at least £500,000 from charities

Charities have been warned to ensure fundraisers are ‘legal’ after a fake Children In Need collector dressed as Pudsey Bear led a gang which stole from charities. David Levi led a group of bogus collectors who fleeced generous members of the public

April 3, 2024

Fury of women’s rights campaigners’ as Scotland’s new law ‘gives more protection to men dressing up in stockings for a laugh than to women’ – as author warns: ‘If you come for JK Rowling you can come for all of us’

Women’s rights campaigners have hit out at Scotland’s new hate crime law claiming that it will give ‘more protection to men wearing fishnets on a night out for a laugh’ than to women and girls. The storm surrounding the SNP’s controversial legislation intensified last

April 2, 2024

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: J.K. Rowling fiasco proves Britain is now one big April Fool’s joke

Days like this it’s difficult to know where to start. What’s an April Fool’s joke and what isn’t? Search me. Is J.K. Rowling going to be arrested and charged with ‘hate crime’ for insisting that women don’t have willies? This time last

April 2, 2024

The best (and worst!) April Fools’ Day pranks of all time: From Big Ben going digital to a bountiful Swiss spaghetti harvest – so did you fall for any?

Marmite massage oil In an unlikely collaboration, Marmite and Ann Summers teamed up in 2024 to release a ‘kissable massage oil’. One comment on the social media announcement asked: ‘Why are all the April 1st products things we ACTUALLY WANT?’ Marmite and

April 1, 2024

Inside the cast of Kin: From a Irish movie legend and a TV star from two of the most popular dramas ever to an actor famous for one appearance in a cult sitcom… but do YOU recognise them in previous roles?

Set around a Dublin family embroiled in a bloody gangland war, the BBC’s Irish drama Kin has swept the nation, leaving viewers hooked since first airing in November last year. When Michael Kinsella, scion of a Dublin crime clan, gets out of

March 30, 2024

Where is missing Claudia Lawrence? 15 years since she vanished, her mother reveals to KATHRYN KNIGHT how she feels the investigation was botched – and her rage over what the detective in charge said about the chef’s love life

The moment she wakes up, and just before she goes to bed, Joan Lawrence says a little prayer. ‘Sometimes during the day too, if I’m struggling,’ she admits. That prayer has never changed. It is a heartfelt plea for an answer to

March 29, 2024

Who will be the next Death in Paradise detective? From a stand up comedian to a potential female DI, all the stars in the running after Ralf Little quit – so who do YOU want to replace him?

A host of stars have been tipped to star in Death In Paradise after Ralf Little’s surprise exit from the show. His character DI Neville Parker said farewell to the island of Saint Marie in Sunday night’s episode – leaving viewers in tears.

March 25, 2024

Death in Paradise’s Danny John-Jules teases mystery reason for return to the show and says slipping back into role of Dwayne Myers was like putting on ‘a pair of your old favourite trainers’

Danny John-Jules has opened up about his return to Death in Paradise, teasing a mystery around his character Dwayne Myers’ reasons for coming back. The Red Dwarf star, 63, played Dwayne from series one of the BBC series in 2011, until his exit in

March 24, 2024

Mother who died from heroin addiction after being wrongly jailed for triple arson murder ‘couldn’t live with herself’ after she was ‘treated like a dog’, her devastated daughter tells BBC podcast

The daughter of a woman wrongly accused of causing the deaths of a mother and her two young children in an arson attack says the miscarriage of justice saw her mother spiral into drug addiction and a mental health decline that caused

March 21, 2024

Doctor warns numbers of UK deaths linked to Chinese-made ‘nitazenes’ are ‘the tip of the iceberg’ as 14 types of the ‘Frankenstein’ opioid are made Class A drugs

A doctor has warned the number of UK deaths linked to Chinese-made ‘nitazenes’ are ‘the tip of the iceberg’ as 14 types of the ‘Frankenstein’ opioid were categorised as Class A drugs. Nitazenes are smuggled into the UK to be mixed into

March 20, 2024

What happened to Charles Sobhraj’s girlfriend Monique and The Serpent’s accomplice Ajay Chowdhury?

It’s been five decades since the chilling murders committed by French serial killer Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andree Leclerc gripped the globe – and now, they’ve become the focus of a new Channel 4 docuseries. The new three-part series, The Real Serpent:

March 19, 2024

Aaron Taylor-Johnson hits back at Bond rumours as he slams ‘pop culture studio films’ and insists ‘I don’t want my brand to be one action movie after another’

Aaron Taylor-Johnson has delved into his career ambitions, and he doesn’t aspire to be the next James Bond. Amid rumours the British actor, 33, has all but signed a deal to follow in Daniel Craig’s footsteps as 007, he has spoken out

March 19, 2024