A Fatal Collision in Broad Daylight A 36-year-old woman is dead and a manhunt is under way in Leeds after a car being pursued by police struck her on a busy city centre street on Thursday morning. The sequence of…
The Metropolitan Police has admitted that it failed to pass a letter containing serious allegations about Thomas Markle, the Duchess of Sussex’s father, to relevant law enforcement agencies overseas, despite receiving the document in 2019. The force confirmed it had…
The probation service has run out of housing. That is not a metaphor. Reports emerging this week reveal that at least one probation office distributed roughly 100 tents to homeless ex-prisoners over the past year, only to exhaust its supply…
An Act of Desecration and Its Consequences A man in his thirties has been arrested by Essex Police after a video circulated on TikTok appearing to show him spitting repeatedly on a statue of Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP…
The UK government has approved drilling plans for the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, a move framed by Prime Minister Andy Burnham as essential to energy security and the protection of domestic jobs, while the decision has immediately…
Bereaved families affected by severe delays in civil service pension payments risk incurring an unexpected tax charge through no fault of their own, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has warned the government. Under HMRC rules, lump sum pension death benefits paid…
The Government’s draft legislation on the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles is shaping up to be a serious test of Labour’s credibility on veterans’ affairs — and some of its own former ministers are not convinced it passes. Al…
In the summer of 2023, as Nottingham reeled from one of the most shocking acts of violence in recent British memory, the families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates began the impossible work of grief. What they could…
A social media post by Sarah Helm, wife of national security adviser Jonathan Powell, is now under formal police assessment after she expressed solidarity with Palestine Action — a group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the Home Office earlier…
A government scheme to ease dangerous overcrowding in England’s prisons is accelerating — and the early signs are not encouraging. Approximately 650 prisoners were released across England on Tuesday as part of the second phase of an early-release programme that…