Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A school staff member who called the police over a black pupil she wrongly suspected of possessing cannabis did not expect an intimate search to be performed, a gross misconduct panel has been told. The deputy...
A woman who worked as an NHS psychiatrist for more than 20 years after she got the job with a fake qualification has been ordered to pay back more than £400,000 or face more jail time. Zholia Alemi, of Burnley, worked across the UK after forging a degree certificate from the University of Auckland in...
The man accused of stabbing a 14-year-boy to death in east London had “a clear intention to kill,” a jury has heard. Marcus Monzo, 37, denies murdering Daniel Anjorin as the schoolboy left his home and walked to school in Hainault at 07:00 BST on 30 April last year. The defendant is also accused of hurting five...
Navtej Johal BBC News, Midlands correspondent CCTV shows the moments before Bhim Kohli was fatally attacked An elderly man who was racially abused before being fatally attacked had told police he witnessed an assault on another Asian man yards from his home two weeks earlier, the BBC has found. Bhim Kohli had been walking his...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police in her school in 2020 A schoolgirl was “demeaned” and “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police while on her period. She was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis, a misconduct hearing for the three Metropolitan Police officers involved has heard....
A village primary school in east London has ordered pupils to stay inside due to a dive-bombing buzzard taking up residence in its playground. There are concerns the bird is guarding its nest and may attack children at Dame Tipping Primary School in Havering-atte-Bower after there were reports it had swooped on residents in the...
Mark Gordon was convicted of a series of sexual offences, including rape, which took place in Florida in 1989 when he was aged 14, a jury heard on Thursday. The details of his previous convictions were read to the jury at a retrial of separate charges at the Old Bailey in London. Gordon and his...
Chelsea were close to doing a deal with the 20-year-old in January but in the end it failed to materialise. New Serie A champions Napoli were also keen on the forward, who was born in Spain and joined United’s academy from Atletico Madrid in October 2020. Asked about Garnacho on Saturday, before Sunday’s final Premier...
It was back in October that word first broke of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s intention to turn over the Chagos Island chain to the country of Mauritius. This impacts United States security directly, as our great ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, sits in the middle of the Chagos Islands....
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation How many Palestinian children, in the midst of displacement, have looked up at their fathers and asked, “Are we going somewhere safe?” — believing that safety means being with the people they love. They do not realize that safety may be an illusion. Among...
If only there were SOME institution whose job it was to root out the truths the public has a right to know, skeptical of what interested parties tell them about issues important to our country. We need that, because “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” If only there were a profession called “journalism.” Journalists could use high...
Businesses in Exeter are being urged to be on guard against a scam after an off-licence was conned out of money. The off-licence was telephoned by an individual claiming to be from Exeter City Council. Unfortunately the individual making the call was a scammer. The business was told that their premises licence for selling alcohol...
Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly used a hammer to try to break into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment after the now-infamous assault at an Intercontinental Hotel in 2016, a New York court has heard. Security video of Mr Combs’ assault on his then-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura has been shown to the jury several times in his sex-trafficking trial....
Developers have been ordered to stop work at a site in Devon where 1,200 homes are set to be built. Teignbridge District Council issued a temporary stop notice to Vistry Homes relating to the development at Wolborough, on the edge of Newton Abbot. Residents said they were concerned that groundworks being carried out at the...
Paul Seddon Political reporter Universal Images Group via Getty Images The committee heard Thursday is now the most popular night for pubs in central London Home working appears to have led to a bigger decline in after-work drinking in city centres outside London, a Lords committee has heard. Urban economist Paul Swinney told peers that...