Controversial French MP praises 'courage' of migrants illegally headed for Britain The Daily Mail | Controversial: Jack Lang has demanded urgent humanitarian aid for migrants in Calais | The French MP for Calais has praised the 'courage' of migrants who trek thousands of miles across Europe to sneak illegally into Britain. | Former culture minister Jack Lang also called for urgent humanitarian a...
Tackling gang crime 'has cost Birmingham £38m' BBC News | The battle to keep Birmingam's inner-city crime gangs in check has cost almost £38m in 40 years, according to a regional strategy report. | The figure calculated by Be Birmingham is based on the cost of murder probes, benefits and criminal ju...
Ali Dizaei most senior Scotland Yard officer to be convicted of serious crime since 1977 The Independent | Ali Dizaei is the most senior Scotland Yard officer to be convicted of a serious crime since 1977, when two Met Commanders were found guilty of accepting bribes from Soho pornographers - a saga which was played out in the pages of several red-top S...
Vandal attack at Bristol magistrates' court building BBC News | An investigation has been launched after obscenities were daubed and 35 windows shattered at Bristol Magistrates' Court. | A police spokesman said the damage, which is being treated as one incident, happened at some time during Sunday night. | He s...
Top policeman Commander Ali Dizaei guilty of perverting justice The Times | A senior Scotland Yard officer was found guilty today of threatening and falsely arresting a man in a petty row over money. | Commander Ali Dizaei, a leading anti-racism activist and former president of the National Black Police Association, was co...
Controversial French MP praises 'courage' of migrants illegally headed for Britain The Daily Mail | Controversial: Jack Lang has demanded urgent humanitarian aid for migrants in Calais | The French MP for Calais has praised the 'courage' of migrants who trek thousands of miles across Europe to sneak illegally into Britain. | Former culture minist...
Ali Dizaei 'was investigated as though he was an enemy of state' The Guardian | How Scotland Yard pursued one of its own officers, involved in a race row, after MI5 said it suspected him of being an Iranian spy | Ali Dizaei: MI5 suspected him of being an Iranian spy. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP | Today's guilty verdict will do lit...
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British drop Madoff investigation Syracuse | (AP) - LONDON - Britain's Serious Fraud Office says it will not take action against Madoff Securities Ltd., the British arm of jailed former Wall Street trader Bernard Madoff's i...
Judge lifts injunction on Terry reports USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | LONDON (AP) — A judge lifted a court order Friday which had stopped newspapers from reporting allegations about Englan...
Man in court over 'night stalker' rapes The Independent | A man will appear in court today charged with a series of rapes and indecent assaults on elderly people over the last 17 years. | Delroy Grant, 52, was arrested by detectives hunting a sex attacker known as the "night stalker" who preyed on victims...
Accused MPs must face justice says Cameron The Independent | David Cameron will pledge today to change the law to prevent the "disgusting sight" of MPs using parliamentary privilege in a bid to avoid prosecution for expenses abuses. | The Tory leader will also challenge Gordon Brown to withdraw the Labour wh...
Let Sikh pupils wear ceremonial daggers, judge says The Guardian | Britain's first Asian judge Sir Mota Singh says Sikhs should not be banned from wearing kirpans to school or work | The comments by Sir Mota Singh (c) follow several cases of Sikhs being banned from wearing the daggers and other religious artefacts...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia requires some digital forensic skills – and a...
Fury as MPs charged over expenses The Independent | Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that he was "very angry" over the alleged abuse of parliamentary expenses which led to three Labour MPs being charged with theft by false accounting. | The MPs - Elliot Morley of Scunthorpe, David Chaytor of Bury North and Livingston's Jim Devine - all denied the accusations, as did Conservative peer Lord Ha...
