Tracey Higgins BBC Midlands Today Aida Fofana BBC News, West Midlands BBC Keeley Knowles works alongside the Offending to Recovery programme and does outreach work with drug users For nearly three decades Keeley Knowles’ life consisted of shoplifting thousands of pounds worth of goods to fuel her heroin addiction. Previously known as “Birmingham’s most prolific...
Tom Gerken Technology reporter The Met Police seized more than 1,000 handsets in a crackdown in February Senior figures at Apple and Google have clashed with the police over its recommendations for how best to deal with phone theft in the UK. The Met’s James Conway told the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee –...
Thousands of people were left trapped on trains or stranded overnight after the theft of copper cables halted high-speed services between Madrid and southern Spain’s Andalusia region. Authorities opened an investigation on Monday after Sunday’s theft, which Transport Minister Óscar Puente called a “serious act of sabotage”. He added that the cable theft took place...