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Top cop slams sentence handed to his own officer who avoided jail despite being found with indecent images of children
Lee Bartram, 44, made his sick catalogue of images and videos and admitted he "may have tried to touch a child” if his offending went undetected
Father of one of three British girls who joined ISIS in 2015 has pleaded for girls’ relatives to get in touch
Hussen Abase, 52, said he had no means of contacting the family of Shamima Begum, 19, for news of his daughter, Amina Abase.
Used plastic bags may soon be powering our smartphones, here’s how
Scientists have managed to convert them into the carbon chips found in the batteries of almost every device
Paramedics hit with ‘fine for saving lives’ by HCPC while boss gets pay rise to £194,000
HCPC slap ambulance workers with rate hike while chief executive enjoys pay rise to £194,000. GMB, the largest union for the ambulance service, is appalled by a decision to hit hard up paramedics with a whopping 18% hike for their professional registration. The Health Care Professionals Council – the body which all paramedics have to be registered with before they can operate - has increased their fees from £90 to £106. Paramedics, along with all NHS staff, have been hit...
Bank warns Brexit threatens £44bn daily cross-border payments
RBS has warned of the harm of Brexit on the UK economy, even after posting some huge profit figures. Brexit threatens RBS’s ability to clear more than £44.08 billion pounds per day in cross-border payments, if they are not granted licences to clear fees via its Frankfurt operations. The bank reported profits of £1.62bn for 2018, more than double the £752m it achieved the previous year. RBS was bailed out by the government in 2008 as the financial crisis hit...
Man 24, charged with killing dad whose throat was slashed in South East London
Dennis Anderson, 39, pronounced dead at the scene in East Dulwich, was the fifth person to be murdered in London in just a fortnight
First UK conviction over Holocaust denial on social media is upheld
"White nationalist" Alison Chabloz, 54, was convicted of three charges relating to songs mocking the Holocaust posted online and given a suspended jail sentence by magistrates which she appealed against. But the UK’s first conviction over Holocaust denial posted on social media was upheld this week. Chabloz from Glossop, Derbyshire, who described herself as a “white nationalist” in her blog appealed the conviction and argued her songs were satire. But this week a judge at Southwark Crown Court upheld her...
Shamima Begum should ‘still be considered a potential combatant’
Security expert Will Geddes warned the 19-year-old could be an 'extreme challenge' to deradicalise as she is yet to show any remorse for joining 'enemies of the UK'
May gets a bullet for her Valentines
Theresa May received a dose of her own medicine last night after suffering yet another defeat at the hands of a hostile parliament. With a threatening Home Office tweet sent out on her watch making the rounds on Twitter the former Home Secretary went into hiding as her motion urging MPs to back attempts to strike a new withdrawal agreement with the EU was beaten by 303 votes to 258. Many hard-line Brexiteers abstained from the vote, which highlighted the...