An Islamic State loyalist showed beheading videos to children to persuade them to join the cause while he plotted a terror attack, a court heard today (tues). Umar Haque, 25, showed the videos to pupils and later had youngsters at a mosque carry out violent role play against the police,...
An ex-university friend of BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis has been jailed for more than three years after bombarding her with sinister letters - warning her "I will not relent". Edward Vines, 47, re-started his 27-year campaign of harassment despite a restraining order banning him from contacting the journalist or her...
By Rebecca Benson You’d think she’d want to avoid courting controversy, after her abomination of an endorsement, when she partnered with Pepsi in 2017. The now infamous advert, where Kendall Jenner stopped a riot from breaking out by winking at a policeman and offering him a can of soda, quickly turned...
The director of an illegal Islamic school where pupils were taught in filthy, unhygienic and unkempt classrooms has been banned from teaching for life. Extremist terrorist literature was found at Bordesley Independent School where children were found working in "squalid" conditions. Naveed Hussain, 39, was boss of the Birmingham-based school...
By Robert Seiler Influential Bulgarian businessman Petar Hristov, who had assisted with the dismantling of a kidnapping ring and who was closely tied to senior members of Bulgaria’s ruling GERB party, was shot in broad daylight on the 8th of January in an upmarket area of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. This fatal shooting, coming six days...
A disgraced police officer caught with indecent images of children "of the worst kind" has AVOIDED jail - after a judge told him he was "impressed" with his guilty plea. James Duffield, 34, downloaded hundreds of pictures of children as young as four-years-old being abused while working for West Midlands...
By Joey Tyson It’s just finished lashing it down and a fantastic pink sunset is beginning to seep across the sky above Hampstead Heath. As I traipse soggily through the park, a series of bizarre blips and beeps suddenly erupts into the damp air. Forgetting about my wet feet for moment,...
A whopping 12,000 free-range hens destined for the slaughter house are up for grabs at just £1-EACH. Despite helping to provide a banquet across Britain's breakfast tables thousands of the healthy egg-laying birds face being killed. Every year Babthorpe Hall Farm, near Selby, North Yorks., offer up 'their ladies' to...
By Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald, Cranfield University While politics in the western world have stood relatively dormant over the Christmas and New Year period, unprecedented events have emerged in Ethiopia’s political scene. Significant decisions have been taken. There are grounds for hope and optimism, but only if views on anticipated change...