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New immigration data raises serious concerns over racial profiling in London
By Sophia Akram New data from The Bristol Cable and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) shows that almost a fifth of all people stopped and asked to prove their immigration status have been British. It follows a previous investigation covering a five year period between 2012 and 2017 that suggested Home Office Immigration Officers were conducting spot checks based on racial profiling rather than intelligence. The Home Office records, collected through Freedom of Information requests that cover a 21-month...
Brexit uncertainty takes its toll on London building activity
Political uncertainty and financial constraints have seen a halt to growth in London’s construction sector as sentiment turns negative in the capital, according to the RICS UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey, Q1 2019. Growth in workloads has slowed or declined across almost all sectors of construction this quarter in London. At the headline level, 2% of respondents in London reported a fall (rather than rise) in workloads, the lowest net balance since November 2010. Workloads in public housing and...
Boy with severe dairy allergy died after another pupil “threw cheese” at him at school
Karanbir Cheema, known as Karan, became ill at his school in Greenford, west London, was severely allergic to wheat, gluten, dairy products, eggs and nuts
Detectives searching addresses in London after bodies of two women found stuffed in freezer
The two were found piled on top of each other in a chest freezer and they were so frozen it will take ‘a week’ before they can be identified
£50m cost to taxpayer after Grayling’s Brexit ferry fiasco
The public purse will take a £50m hit after the DoT (Department of Transport) ended its no-deal Brexit ferry contracts. Chris Grayling’s department had agreed £108m contracts with three ferry organisations, to assist with moving goods in the event of a no-deal Brexit. He has decided to terminate the agreements after the UK's departure date was moved to the end of October. Even though the deals were cancelled it is likely to cost around £50m to honour part of the...
Rough sleeping in London increases by almost a third
The number of people found sleeping rough in London has increased by 31 per cent on the same period last year, according to the latest figures. GLA’s Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) quarterly report has revealed a total of 3,217 people were spotted between January and March 2019. Of these, 1,558 people were sleeping rough for the first time – 55 per cent higher than the 1,008 found a year earlier. But more than eight in 10 of the...
County cricketer who raped woman has been jailed for five years
Alex Hepburn, 23, attacked the woman after she had consensual sex with cricketer and ex-England Lions player Joe Clarke
“Evasive” Theresa May dodged almost 75% of questions during 2017 General Election campaign
Theresa May dodged almost 75 per cent of questions in broadcast interviews during the 2017 General Election campaign, researchers have claimed. May scooped the mantle for the most evasive Tory leader in decades after a team from the University of York found she answered just 27 per cent of questions in four broadcast interviews. This was similar to the figure from two interviews Mrs May conducted just after she became prime minister in 2016. By contrast, her predecessor David Cameron...
Drunk woman who had sex with 14-year-old at party is cleared of abuse
Kimberley Abell, 33, told jurors she believed the schoolboy was 18 when she seduced him