Outrage as dozens of poppy wreaths honouring fallen British and Commonwealth soldiers are dumped in a BIN after storm blew them down At least 10 wreaths were removed from a monument outside Cardiff’s City Hall Tributes to ethnic minority veterans of world wars were found in a nearby bin South Wales Police investigated the attack … Read more
Outrage as poppy wreaths honouring black and Asian soldiers killed in First and Second World Wars are removed from memorial and dumped in the BIN At least 10 wreaths were taken from a monument outside Cardiff’s City Hall The wreaths honouring veterans of the world wars were left in or on a nearby bin South … Read more
Smart motorways are ‘inherently unsafe’ and ‘should be abandoned’, a police and crime commissioner says. Dr Alan Billings, PCC for South Yorkshire, has written to the Government saying the abolition of the hard shoulder should be ‘abandoned’ before more people die. In a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Dr Billings accused Highways England of … Read more
Smart motorways are ‘inherently unsafe’ and ‘should be abandoned’, a police and crime commissioner says. Dr Alan Billings, PCC for South Yorkshire, has written to the Government saying the abolition of the hard shoulder should be ‘abandoned’ before more people die. In a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Dr Billings accused Highways England of … Read more
It began serving beer on its current site in the 1600s and survived the Great Plague but the Lamb and Flag in Oxford is set to close for good after being hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The Grade II-listed pub where JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Thomas Hardy once visited has shut its doors after … Read more
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is found guilty of corruption in Switzerland, sentenced to five years in jail and fined $56million Beny Steinmetz, a diamond and minerals tycoon, found guilty of corruption 64-year-old was accused of paying $10million in bribes to officials in Guinea In return, his company was granted exploration rites to an area believed … Read more
CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 21 January 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 21 January 2021 GIRL A by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins £14.99, 336 pp) GIRL A by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins £14.99, 336 pp) This story of a family held hostage and terrorised by their parents — and the daughter … Read more
Sister privately prosecutes her brother, 61, saying he swindled their mother out of more than £1m while she was suffering from dementia Hannah Feld claims Jonathan Feld, 61, took money while mother had dementia Mr Feld faces criminal charges for taking £155,853, but sister says sum is bigger Ms Feld plans on taking civil action … Read more
A City insurance executive has avoided jail after he grabbed his ‘petrified’ girlfriend by her throat and lifted her onto her tiptoes in a row outside his £1.6million west London flat. Howard James Burnell, 62, was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend Mary Phillips in the doorway of his flat in Richmond, where they both lived, after … Read more
In December 2019 an operation targeted the ‘Ndrangheta families based in the southern Italian city of Locri in the Calabria region – the rural, mountainous and under-developed ‘toe’ of Italy’s boot and the heartland of the worldwide crime group. As a result of the swoop, Italian police arrested 334 people, including a police colonel and a … Read more