Cameron Weldon BBC News, South West BBC James Johnson wants CCTV, clear signage and regular visits from a traffic enforcement officer to address the problem A man has called on a council to take action against cars parked “illegally” on a pavement in a Devon town. James Johnson wants better enforcement in Ivybridge after he...
Law enforcement is struggling to stop the growing sale of illegal tobacco in mini marts across British high streets, a BBC investigation has revealed. Trading Standards teams say they don’t have the resources to tackle the organised crime gangs suspected of supplying some of the shops and said the profits being made are on a...
BBC It’s pitch black and we’re crawling along a secret underground tunnel beneath a high street in Hull. We pass rotting beams propped up precariously by stacked breeze blocks. A rusty car jack is helping prevent the shop floor above from falling in. Through the rubble, we follow a Trading Standards Officer, his torch swinging...
Border Czar Tom Homan made the announcement yesterday on X. The number of border encounters for the month of June was 6,070. That works out to just over 200 a day, a fraction of what the numbers were a year ago. Homan called it the Trump Effect: THE TRUMP EFFECT – Total Border Patrol encounters...
With the passage of the BBB by the Senate today, one of the issues I was interested in was what happened to plans to eliminate Medicaid funding for illegal immigrants. And it’s actually a bit difficult to figure out what is going to happen now. So the backstory here is that the feds haven’t agreed...
Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat have agree to “strengthen” security checks following reports some asylum seekers are working illegally as couriers. The food delivery companies agreed to increase facial verification and fraud checks in a bid to stop people with no right to work in the UK from using someone else’s account to earn...
Tech platforms could be forced to prevent illegal content from going viral and limit the ability for people to send virtual gifts to or record a child’s livestream, under more online safety measures proposed by Ofcom. The UK regulator published a consultation on Monday seeking views on further protections to keep citizens, particularly children, safer...
PREFACE From the fires of recent events, the palpability of brown anarchy burns brighter than ever. Years in the making, this text aims to provide an accessible introduction to the topic of anarchy, and its relevance to brown people in search of justice and freedom. In it, readers are offered concepts that can enable other...
This is one of those stories you sort of hear about a couple of weeks before, and maybe forget about unless some little nugget of information comes along that makes you want to dig a little deeper into it. Which is exactly what happened to me this morning. I do recall maybe even commenting on...
Guy Lambert Society reporter Francesca Gillett BBC News PA Media The government will meet food delivery companies for talks next week after reports that some asylum seekers are working illegally as couriers within hours of arriving in the UK. The Sun newspaper reported that Channel migrants were able to rent out other people’s Deliveroo and...
This was a twist on the knives that have been plaguing Europe lately, but it sure is a ghastly development and still involves stabbing – random syringe attacks. There was a nationwide music festival, the Festival of Music 2025 (Fête de la Musique), throughout France this past Saturday. For 44 years, the organizers have hosted concerts...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. As Donald Trump threatens to further enmesh the U.S. in Israel’s war against Iran with direct strikes, legal...
One of the secrets to not having a heart attack around Donald Trump at least once a week is to realize that he just throws things ‘out there‘ not so much to see what sticks, but to see what blows up. Much of what is perceived as him stepping on himself – or his ‘message’...
Democrats must feel cursed. Harry Enten of CNN did a deep dive into how legal immigrants view Democrats, Republicans, and illegal immigrants, and the news is very bad for the Democrats. When asked, legal immigrant voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on the issue of immigration–by a wide margin. More than that, in just...
Minnesota Democrats are trying to lay the blame on Republicans, and with some reason, but when push came to shove, they caved and are cutting illegal immigrants off from state-subsidized healthcare. The reason? Shockingly enough, there isn’t enough money to spread around to all their favored constituencies after having blown an enormous budget surplus in...