Passengers are being told to cancel or postpone their trips, following two track deaths and the theft of copper cables. Read full article at source...
Kelly Foran & Rumeana Jahangir BBC News, Manchester BBC Danielle Horan said “persistence” helped her clear the allegation A woman who was wrongly accused of shoplifting toilet roll due to an apparent mix-up with a facial recognition system was left “fuming” after being ejected from two Home Bargains stores. Danielle Horan was escorted from the...
Jessica Thomas Jessica (left) and Gemma Thomas say they wouldn’t have been able to get through the past 10 years without each other Two sisters whose mother went from being their best friend to stealing their £50,000 inheritance say they have been left feeling anxious and unable to trust anyone. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen...
Zambia’s foreign minister has warned diplomats against interfering in the country’s affairs, days after the US ambassador raised concerns about the “systematic theft” of drugs donated to the southern African state. Mulambo Haimbe said there was an “increasing tendency” by envoys to ignore diplomatic channels, and this could undermine the “spirit of mutual respect”. He...
The US has announced that it is cutting $50m (£37m) in aid to Zambia’s health sector, due to the country’s failure to address the “systematic theft” of donated drugs and medical supplies. This “difficult” decision was taken after repeated warnings to the Zambian government to safeguard vital drugs meant for the country’s most vulnerable patients,...
Authorities arrested two men in connection with the theft of a designer handbag belonging to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem’s bag was stolen on Easter Sunday while she was dining in a popular Washington DC restaurant. On Saturday, police arrested 49-year-old Mario Bustamante Leiva. And on Sunday the US Secret Service said it...
A golf club in Devon said it had been left devastated after the loss of trophies during a break-in. Devon and Cornwall Police were called at about 10:30 BST on Wednesday after a report of a burglary at Teignmouth Golf Club. The golf club said officers arrived within 10 minutes of the alarms being triggered...
An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft of an original oil sketch, by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, from a stately home in Northamptonshire. The Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. It was...