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Internet explodes after Premier League footballer is arrested in north London following rape accusation July 5, 2022 Social media is exploding this morning as thousands of Brits are trying to find out who the Premier League footballer is who has reportedly been arrested in north London on suspicion of rape. The man, who is in his 20s but cannot be named for legal reasons, was being questioned by police over an alleged [...]
Prince Charles gave honour to peer who spent £1.7m on his eco-village July 3, 2022 Prince Charles gave an honour to Lord David Brownlow, after the Tory peer spent £1.7m to bail out the royal’s eco-village project in Scotland. The Prince of Wales also opened up his 18th-century country house, Dumfries House, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday and awarded his company a £1.2m construction contract. The Sunday Times reports that the [...]
Letters: Time for special measures June 30, 2022 [Re: Watchdog puts Met Police under special measures, June 29] This is a regrettable but necessary measure. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary is to be commended. This is about weak leadership over a sustained timescale , a failure to manage out poor or criminal behaviour by a small minority of police. Most Met officers do an [...]
Top West Midlands police boss questions mayor’s role with Metropolitan Police June 29, 2022 One of West Midlands’ top police bosses has questioned whether the mayor of London should retain control over the Metropolitan Police, after the force was put into special measures. It comes as Sadiq Khan and the government reignited a long-running row today, with both sides pointing the finger at each other for Scotland Yard’s failures, [...]
Metropolitan Police placed in special measures after litany of scandals June 28, 2022 The Metropolitan Police has been to be placed into special measures by a police watchdog in the wake of a series of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services has sent a letter to Met bosses to say there have been “substantial [...]
UAE fund turns on top City lawyer in bid to exit Iranian-American airline tycoon’s hacked emails case June 23, 2022 Embattled City lawyer Neil Gerrard suffered another blow this week, after his former client, an Emirati sovereign fund, turned on the ex-Dechert partner, after offering to pay $1m to settle a case brought against it by a powerful Iranian-American business tycoon. The fund’s efforts to distance itself from Dechert’s former head of white-collar crime comes [...]
Home Office signs order to extradite WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange on US espionage charges June 17, 2022 WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will be face espionage charges in the United States, after the Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an extradition order this morning. This comes after a UK judge ordered the extradition in April following a long legal battle, after a UK judge ordered him stateside to face a 175-year sentence. WikiLeaks published [...]
TEN campaigners arrested after daubing Treasury with red paint in fossil fuel protest June 14, 2022 The front of HM Treasury’s building was daubed with red paint as 10 Just Stop Oil campaigners were arrested accused of crimes including criminal damage and causing a public nuisance. Environmental protestors were pictured on the grass in front of the building on Monday with red paint on the pavement, before police arrived to detain [...]
Partygate: Downing Street staff threw boozy bash while Boris Johnson was fighting Covid in hospital June 6, 2022 DOWNING Street staff threw a booze-fuelled party while the Prime Minister was in hospital undergoing lifesaving Covid-treatment, a whistleblower claimed today. The Number 10 insider said a culture of “invincibility” led to civil-servants repeatedly thinking they were above the rules. The insider explained how staff held a party in the garden of Number 10 in [...]
Questions and outrage grow after man who was tasered by police jumps off Chelsea Bridge and dies June 6, 2022 Questions and outage are growing across London after a man who ended up in London’s River Thames following police firing a Taser in a bid to detain him died yesterday. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed the man, in his early 40s, had passed away in hospital. On Saturday morning, police were called [...]