All news by author James Smith

News

12 May 2024 828

Britain’s FBI spends £14 million on temporary workers amidst challenge to fill key vacancies

The National Crime Agency has asked the Government for pay increases to match the salary rises at the police

News

12 May 2024 691

Vintage train derails with passengers aboard at summer festival

A vintage locomotive derailed while carrying more than a hundred passengers during a summer festival in Dorset yesterday.

Investigation

12 May 2024 810

Kremlin botnet launches wave of disinformation claiming Havana Syndrome doesn’t exist

The Doppelgänger bot network has begun spreading Moscow’s response to The Insider’s joint investigation with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel into Havana Syndrome.

News

11 May 2024 685

Despicable funeral scammers prey on family of British tourist who died jumping from party boat

Joop Sparkes, 29, from Galashiels, about 35 miles southeast of Edinburgh, dove into the Vltava River on Sunday, April 27. His body was recovered a week later following an agonising search by Czech authorities

News

11 May 2024 813

Just Stop Oil priest and her friend charged with criminal damage after Magna Carta attack with glass damaged

Video showed the pair allegedly using a hammer and chisel to attack the casing

News

11 May 2024 861

"Kate’s doing well," Prince William comments during visit to Cornwall

Prince William said his wife Catherine is "doing well" following her cancer diagnosis.

World

10 May 2024 712

At least 50 fatalities reported following flash flooding in northern Afghanistan

Death toll may rise as search continues for victims under mud and rubble and as more rain approaches

Investigation

10 May 2024 823

Huyton Firm: Brutal organised crime group brought down by its own text messages

More than 30 serious criminals have been jailed after police cracked their encrypted text messages and uncovered a violent feud over stolen drugs.

World

10 May 2024 691

Ramón Fonseca: Panama Papers law firm founder dies

Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has died

News

10 May 2024 788

Judge declines to reconvene jury following disputed verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case

The judge who oversaw a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center won’t reconvene the jury but says he will consider other options to address the disputed $38 million verdict.

Crime

10 May 2024 722

Woman fatally stabbed near bus stop on busy London street; police arrest man on suspicion of murder

The victim sadly died at the scene after being treated for stab wounds

Finance

09 May 2024 772

Brussels accuses Britain of being overly environmentally conscious in Brexit eel dispute

Snakey fish fight is center stage as U.K.’s new environmental measures rub the EU the wrong way.

World

09 May 2024 837

Boeing 737 plane skids off runway at Senegal’s main airport with 10 people injured

The Boeing 737 was carrying 85 people and was heading for Bamako

News

09 May 2024 756

Dozens instructed to evacuate immediately following large fire near retail park

A huge fire has broken at a warehouse in Staffordshire today with nearby residents ordered to immediately evacuate. Footage shows plumes of smoke rising into the sky close to Kingswood Lakeside in Cannock, near Orbital Islands retail park. Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the fire started at a distribution warehouse called Super smart Services, which ‘contains a variety of different materials for delivery’. In a post uploaded to X: ‘We have a very large scale incident close to the orbital islands in Cannock.

Politics

09 May 2024 546

Labour strategizes additional Tory defections as recent recruit Natalie Elphicke criticizes Sunak’s leadership failures

Keir Starmer’s team has already started speaking with other MPs who could make the jump to Labour after former Tory MP Natalie Elphicke switched sides during Prime Minister’s Questions

News

08 May 2024 642

Harry attends lavish Invictus event just 3 miles from dad Charles’ garden party after reported snub

Harry revealed the reason why he and Charles won’t meet

Politics

08 May 2024 698

Kate Forbes appointed Scotland’s deputy first minister

Kate Forbes has returned to the Scottish government as deputy first minister.

Politics

08 May 2024 839

Another Conservative MP defects to Labour, criticizing Rishi’s ’unfulfilled promises’

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has become the latest Conservative to defect to Labour, hitting out at the ‘broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government’.

News

08 May 2024 768

Serial dine-and-dash couple admit guilt to skipping restaurant bills across Wales

Bernard and Ann McDonagh have pleaded guilty to skipping out on paying bills cumulatively worth hundreds of pounds at multiple restaurants across Wales - police charged them last month

News

07 May 2024 707

Chaos at major UK airports after Border Force ‘suffers nationwide IT glitch’

Travel chaos has been reported at airports across the country after Border Control was apparently hit by a nationwide IT outage.

News

07 May 2024 902

Alarming map depicts regions of Britain at risk of devastation in a hypothetical Russian nuclear strike

A shocking map has shown the devastating impact a nuclear attack could have across the UK - with millions dead, third-degree burns and cities completely destroyed

News

07 May 2024 947

Driver facing jail for killing two people while high

A woman will be jailed after she admitted to killing two people in a car crash.

Investigation

06 May 2024 883

Questions arise as Solomon Islands PM’s property holdings reveal millions in wealth

The prime minister of the Pacific Island nation has recently gone on a home-building spree, constructing eight valuable new houses in and around the capital city of Honiara.

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