LONDON (AP) — A masked attacker on a motorcycle stabbed and seriously injured a British army officer in daylight near a barracks in southeast England, witnesses and police said Wednesday. A 24-year-old man was arrested soon after on suspicion of attempted murder, Kent police said. Police said the assailant acted alone and the stabbing was...
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Man sentenced to life over plot to kidnap, rape and murder UK TV personality Holly Willoughby
LONDON — A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities. At the sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court, around 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of London, Judge Edward Murray told Gavin Plumb, 37, that he would have to...
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Is James Timpson the most dangerous man in Britain?
It has long been unfashionable to say this too loudly in Westminster, but prisons are vital to public safety and cutting crime. We need more of them. Unsurprisingly, Labour’s newly appointed Prisons Minister James Timpson doesn’t agree. A key-cutting CEO turned prison reformer, he has a history of employing former inmates. He was until recently...
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ANALYSIS | Britain veers left, but Labour’s honeymoon may be short-lived | CBC News
The Labour Party has stormed back into power in the United Kingdom after 14 years in opposition, promising to replace the “chaos of the Conservatives” with a bland, utilitarian agenda to fix the things in the country that are broken. “The change begins right here,” said Leader Keir Starmer after leading his party to a resounding 412...
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Inside world’s biggest mega-jail with 1004 prisoners – and £12bn extension plan
Chinatown in New York is a vibrant area crammed with restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. Its sidewalks are full of people, many of them tourists, picking their way through souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy...
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What we know and don’t know about a Wisconsin woman linked to a botched hit job in U.K.
The British press is reporting that a former Wisconsin woman has been tied to a botched contract killing in 2019. The woman was named in the court files for a case that saw a father and son convicted of conspiracy to murder a business rival, Birmingham Crown Court said. According to reports from British media,...
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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared in $11bn US fraud trial
Autonomy, founded in Cambridge in 1996, was a member of the FTSE 100 and one of Britain’s most valuable software companies before its sale. Mr Lynch made £500m from the deal, using the funds to set up companies including the British cybersecurity company Darktrace. HP wrote down almost all of the deal’s value a year...
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British tech magnate Mike Lynch acquitted of fraud charges in $11 billion deal with Hewlett Packard
SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s king of technology, has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an $11 billion deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard. The not-guilty verdicts reached Thursday by a federal court jury in San...
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE – BOMBSHELL LUCAN DOSSIER: The explosive case file that reveals the truth about Lord Lucan and the nanny he bludgeoned to death – PLUS a world-first podcast event on Britain’s most notorious murder
The Mail has obtained a sensational, never-before-seen Scotland Yard report from almost 50 years ago that finally reveals the definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery. The newly discovered, previously confidential 60-page document chronicles in astonishing detail the Crown’s case against the missing peer, suspected of bludgeoning his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett to death with...
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Britain has become the welfare state for the world
New properties were being built. Designer clothes were suddenly evident everywhere. And the whole place was flush with cash. When Inspector Vassil Panayotov, a determined copper who could have stepped straight out of an old-fashioned detective mystery, noticed how much money was swilling around the Bulgarian village of Sliven, in the foothills of the Balkan...
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China accuses Britain of ‘wanton stigmatisation’ after spy found dead
China has accused Britain of false accusation, “wanton stigmatisation” and arbitrary arrests after the unexplained death of a man charged with illegally assisting Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service. China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong said in a statement on its website that it strongly condemned Britain for what it said were false accusations against...
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Lawless Britain: Shopping centre cleaners given STAB-PROOF VESTS after surge in violence
Cleaners at a shopping centre in Kent have been given stab-proof vests following a surge in violence against workers. “Front-of-house” staff at County Square in Ashford have been issued hi-vis protective gear – which costs up to £600 – after other employees had been assaulted. Security guards at the centre have been wearing protective clothing...
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