Woman, 21, jailed after after repeated calls to emergency services and threats to jump from bridge

An ‘attention seeking’ timewaster who blighted emergency services with calls and repeatedly threatened to jump off a bridge causing road closures has been jailed. Bethany De Cogan, 21, threatened to jump from a bridge on the A19 near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, on February 8, September 28 and October 4, last year. Her actions caused … Read more

Woman, 21, jailed after after repeated calls to emergency services and threats to jump from bridge

An ‘attention seeking’ timewaster who blighted emergency services with calls and repeatedly threatened to jump off a bridge causing road closures has been jailed. Bethany De Cogan, 21, threatened to jump from a bridge on the A19 near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, on February 8, September 28 and October 4, last year. Her actions caused … Read more

Commuter is targeted in fraud probe after receiving £1,100 payout for repeated train delays

Miscarriage of justice: Commuter is targeted in fraud probe after receiving £1,100 payout for repeated train delays Greater Anglia accepted Karen Ward’s claims were genuine and paid out £1,100 But volume of claims raised eyebrows at train company and ‘inconsistencies’ Company may ask her to ‘repay any claims proved to have been fraudulent’  By Richard … Read more

Commuter is targeted in fraud probe after receiving £1,100 payout for repeated train delays

Miscarriage of justice: Commuter is targeted in fraud probe after receiving £1,100 payout for repeated train delays Greater Anglia accepted Karen Ward’s claims were genuine and paid out £1,100 But volume of claims raised eyebrows at train company and ‘inconsistencies’ Company may ask her to ‘repay any claims proved to have been fraudulent’  By Richard … Read more

Newly-released SAGE files reveal ministers were told Britain needs REPEATED circuit breakers

Ministers were told more than one circuit breaker would be needed in Britain to control the coronavirus, according to SAGE papers published today. Scientific advisers claimed a single two-week lockdown, which they first pleaded with ministers to implement in September, would not be enough to stem infections for the whole of winter.  It would probably need … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: A national lockdown cannot be repeated

Boris Johnson has not looked as cheerful for a long time as he did in the Commons yesterday.  His is a sunny nature and he does not like to be cast in the part of Charles Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind — a sober man obsessed with numbers. That is a role he cedes happily to Sir … Read more

Boris Johnson vows to ensure the Grenfell Tower fire will ‘never be repeated’

Boris Johnson has today vowed to ensure that the Grenfell Tower fire will ‘never be repeated’. The message came as he marked the third anniversary of the tragedy that killed 72 people with a virtual service.  Today marks three years since the small kitchen fire in the west London high-rise turned into the most deadly … Read more

Boris Johnson vows to ensure the Grenfell Tower fire will ‘never be repeated’

Boris Johnson has today vowed to ensure that the Grenfell Tower fire will ‘never be repeated’. The message came as he marked the third anniversary of the tragedy that killed 72 people with a virtual service.  Today marks three years since the small kitchen fire in the west London high-rise turned into the most deadly … Read more