Broken Britain

A florist refused to deliver a bouquet to a grieving mother - because they were scared of venturing onto a traveller's site. Online retailer eFlorist told Lindsey Roberts, 36, that her £50 order to a close friend had been refused because because staff "did not feel comfortable" visiting the address. The mum of five believes that the act is discriminatory against people from travelling backgrounds. She said: “I asked why and they said they feared for their personal safety, which...

A mother of ten said she was devastated when she came home to find her landlord had tossed all of her belongings out of her second floor flat into the rain. Five TVs and a sofa bed were hurled 30ft out the window of the flat where Donna Newby and her family have lived for the last nine years. The 41-year-old found her children's toys and a memory box of things from her baby daughter, who died at just five-weeks-old,...

A parent on the school run has sparked fury by refusing to move their car - despite being parked in front of a fire station. The motorist said they wouldn't shift their vehicle from outside Cricklade Fire Station in Wiltshire despite being asked to by firefighters. The incident took place on Friday afternoon outside the fire station opposite St Sampson's Church of England Primary School at school picking up time. The white Mercedes A180 was parked on the yellow hatchings...

Police have released defiant mugshots of the Britain First leaders - because of the impact the vile pair had on the community. Paul Golding and deputy Jayda Fransen launched a 'campaign of abuse' against Muslims during a court case where a teen had been raped. The pair, from Penge, south east London, were jailed at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for religiously-aggravated harassment. Fransen, 32, was sentenced to nine months in prison and Golding, 36, was jailed for four-and-a-half months....

More than 137,700 girls have missed school in the last year because they couldn’t afford sanitary products, a shocking new report into period poverty in Britain has revealed. The findings emerged in a report of 500 girls aged 10 to 18, which shows seven per cent have been forced to skip school during their ‘time of the month.’ Of these girls, the average has missed five days of school during the last year – which made them feel embarrassed and...

A drugged-up teenage arsonist who firebombed a speed camera in a revenge attack after it caught his friend speeding has been fined. Michael Duncan, 19, was spotted by police in the early hours spraying petrol onto an already ablaze traffic enforcement camera on December 27 last year. Officers approached the yob to find he "smelt heavily of petrol" and when searched they found a plastic bottle containing the fluid and a lighter. A court heard Duncan had taken "ten rocks"...

A disgraced former detective who used the dating app Grindr to groom a 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of gross misconduct. Detective Constable Jonathan Davies-Brewin, 50, set up a profile with the display name 'Older4Youngerx' to contact the teenager online. He arranged to meet the boy in a Tesco car park, not knowing he had been snared by a paedophile hunter who was posing as a child. But when he arrived, Davies-Brewin was confronted by his own colleagues who...

An award-winning detective has been found guilty of drink-drinking after downing vodka while travelling to the station where he worked - for a MISCONDUCT meeting. Detective Constable Robert Hunt, 48, says he sank an almost half full plastic bottle of vodka in "two to three gulps" to give him some "Dutch courage" when he arrived at the station. The detective had been summoned for a meeting with Detective Chief Inspector Jade Brice to discuss misconduct proceedings being brought against him...

Business owner Jack Whiteley, 69, captured perfect CCTV of thieves making off with garden furniture - even noting down the licence plate of the van they were taken in