Police raid firepit party at student house and stop an illegal rave in quarry

Police shut down a firepit party being held by students in Nottinghamshire this weekend as officers across the country continued to crack down on people breaching coronavirus restrictions. The firepit party was just one incident to be shut down over the weekend, which also saw a children’s football match being thwarted in Lincolnshire and six … Read more

Police bust illegal lockdown party where 30 revellers pelted officers with drinks

Police bust illegal lockdown party where 30 revellers pelted officers with drinks and other missiles injuring eight and knocking one unconscious Met Police officer knocked unconcious and another suffered suspected fracture  Six other officers were left injured in the raid and police issued 30 £800 fines  Two men, aged 17 and 18, and two women, … Read more

Police bust illegal lockdown party where 30 revellers pelted officers with drinks

Police bust illegal lockdown party where 30 revellers pelted officers with drinks and other missiles injuring eight and knocking one unconscious Met Police officer knocked unconcious and another suffered suspected fracture  Six other officers were left injured in the raid and police issued 30 £800 fines  Two men, aged 17 and 18, and two women, … Read more

Ex-British soldier ‘caught with £50,000 worth of illegal alcohol’ in Afghanistan

Ex-British soldier, 55, could face 20 years in prison in Afghanistan after ‘being caught with £50,000 worth of illegal alcohol’ Ian Cameron, 55, from Liphook, Hampshire, was arrested at his home in Kabul  Officers claimed to have seized 1160 bottles of beer and 730 bottles of spirits  Police claim the former soldier was Kabul’s main … Read more

Woman reveals she was told waving to her father, 80, through his care home window is ‘illegal’

A woman has revealed she was left devastated after she was told waving to her 80-year-old father through his care home window was ‘illegal’ by staff.  Oriana Criscuolo, 46, from Stockport, wanted to drop off some treats for her father Attilio, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and dementia, at Bamford Grange care home earlier this month. … Read more

Woman reveals she was told waving to her father, 80, through his care home window is ‘illegal’

A woman has revealed she was left devastated after she was told waving to her 80-year-old father through his care home window was ‘illegal’ by staff.  Oriana Criscuolo, 46, from Stockport, wanted to drop off some treats for her father Attilio, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and dementia, at Bamford Grange care home earlier this month. … Read more

Rooster kills its own owner as he prepares it for an illegal cockfight in India 

Rooster slashes its owner to death with the blades attached to its claws at illegal cockfight in India The rooster was being readied for an illegal cockfight when it fluttered in panic Thangulla Satish, 45, tried to grab it but was accidentally impaled by the blade Roosters are armed with the blades ahead of cockfights, … Read more

Rooster fitted with knife for illegal cockfight kills its owner as it tried to escape

Rooster fitted with knife for illegal cockfight kills its owner as it tried to escape after it slashed his groin Bird had a blade strapped to his leg ready to take on opponent in vicious battle  But he made a bid to escape, slashing open his owner’s groin in the process Man rushed to hospital … Read more

Rooster fitted with knife for illegal cockfight kills its owner as it tried to escape

Rooster fitted with knife for illegal cockfight kills its owner as it tried to escape after it slashed his groin Bird had a blade strapped to his leg ready to take on opponent in vicious battle  But he made a bid to escape, slashing open his owner’s groin in the process Man rushed to hospital … Read more

In an age when being gay was illegal, four literary men set up house in Dorset

History  The Crichel Boys by Simon Fenwick (Constable £25, 368 pp)  Holed up in a freezing Army camp in the far north of Scotland in 1941, the shivering and lonely young music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor dreamed up the idea of living down South with like-minded friends after the war. He envisaged a pretty house with … Read more