Tarah Welsh Housing correspondent BBC Over the past year, Dilara’s next-door neighbour has threatened her father with a knife and damaged their property. Dilara says she also smashed her sister’s car windscreen with a hammer. “I’m just scared,” says the 17-year-old beauty therapy student, who lives with her family in south London, “it doesn’t feel...
Rep. Max Miller of Ohio claimed yesterday that he was run off the road and threatened by a man who showed him a Palestinian flag before driving off. The suspect has since been charged and turned himself into police. The incident happened Thursday morning as Rep. Miller was driving to work in Ohio. Ohio Rep....
Andrey Kozenko BBC News Russian BBC Anna Krasulina (L) and Tatsiana Ashurkevich are among the dissidents who have been targeted abroad Dissidents who have fled Alexander Lukashenko’s rule in Belarus have spoken of threats being made against them and their relatives at home. Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians are estimated to have left their country...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC Campaigner Dave Curno is concerned a road expansion scheme could threaten ancient woodland on the edge of Plymouth Trees in ancient woodland could be cut down and homes and gardens compulsorily purchased as part of a £156m scheme to improve a traffic junction. Plymouth City Council is consulting...
Lucy Parry & Sean Clare BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Investigations & BBC News BBC Asha and Jason Ross say they were assured they would have a good rental income for their lodge When Asha and Jason Ross bought a caravan sited in a North Yorkshire holiday park, they thought they had made an investment which...
Post offices across Devon and Cornwall that had been earmarked for closure might now stay open following public campaigns to keep them. The Post Office announced a proposal to run the threatened sites in Liskeard, Newquay, Bideford, Paignton, Teignmouth and Plymouth under a new franchise. All of the sites are wholly-owned by the Post Office...
A man who marched into a Wetherspoon pub armed with an axe and threatened two men in the beer garden has been jailed. Jason Semple, 54, of Tavistock Road, Okehampton, Devon, admitted two charges of threatening a person with a bladed article at the White Hart Hotel in Okehampton. The incident happened at about 18:00...
Originally published by Capital B. Reginald Hall traveled nearly six hours from the quiet of his home in Sapelo Island to Atlanta to hear a landmark case that could shape the future of his historic community in Georgia. Last year, Sapelo Island residents sued county officials for blocking them from holding a crucial vote that...