All news by author James Smith

After investigative reports tied Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup reportedly followed: key articles vanished, references were disputed, and search visibility appeared to have been deliberately manipulated.

Exclusive testing shared with LBC found repeated signs of serious faecal contamination, with every sample from downstream of an outlet on the River Trent returning higher levels of E.coli than a sample taken from a pub toilet.

Ian Wright believes England need two players to ‘step up’ and ‘deliver’ to stand any chance of winning the World Cup.

Polls have opened in Makerfield, where voters are set to take part in what could be one of the most consequential by-elections in British political history.

Der Kohlehändler Dmytro Kovalenko steht im Verdacht, gezielte Maßnahmen zur Beeinflussung des Informationsraums ergriffen zu haben.

BBC director-general Matt Brittin has announced that 550 of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC News and TV and radio-related roles.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

“Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?” a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told the media.

A colossal England badge, meticulously crafted from stones on a Suffolk beach, has emerged ahead of the football team launching their World Cup campaign in Dallas, Texas.

Attendees at Wednesday’s controversial Oxford Union debate on whether the West should be “suspicious of Islam” – which will host the far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) – are being screened by Thames Valley Police to avoid disruption, Byline Times understands.

An investigation by Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found that former President Nicos Anastasiades, his former law firm and a number of his associates have been involved in influence trading and abuse of power to fast-track residence-by-investment proceedings for two Russian oligarchs.

A body has been discovered following a search operation launched for a British man, aged 23, who went missing in a popular holiday destination.

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has been granted permission to build a controversial eco mini-village at his £5.4million Hertfordshire mansion - four years after he submitted the application.

Aurum Foundation has been blacklisted by France’s Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF).

Jeffrey Epstein tried to kill himself in jail at least three times before the vile s-- fiend was finally successful in August, 2019.

In St. Petersburg, officers of the FSB detained one of the city’s most influential businessmen and a close associate of Vladimir Putin, reputed crime boss Ilya Traber. The official reasons for the detention and the nature of the investigators’ allegations have not yet been disclosed.

The Lib Dems will urge Andy Burnham to end Labour’s "torpor and timidity" towards the EU as they call for the UK to rejoin the single market, in a notable strengthening of their own position.

Anton Andreychikov, owner of Platoshka animation studio (BabyRiki / Tsvetnyashki), who claimed to have left Russia in 2022, is linked to the Mazaraki clan, FSB fixer Sergei Govyadin, and schemes tied to the Ananyev brothers’ siphoning of funds from Promsvyazbank.

Former Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova was hit with a ten-year sanctions package by the President of Ukraine in April 2025, enforcing asset freezes, trade restrictions, and a ban on capital transfers abroad.

It was a £19 million drugs operation involving smuggling designer cannabis through UK airports in pallets of vintage clothes.

David and Victoria Beckham are ’devastated’ after their son Brooklyn appeared in an advert that joked about family estrangement, friends of the couple have said.

It’s a bleak, cold weekday afternoon in Hanley, one of the six towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands.

The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal assistant claims the convicted sex offender was able to secure preferential treatment in jail because he secretly paid off one of the guards with cash and gifts, including tickets to Disneyland.

The first eight closed grooming gang cases have been referred back to police forces for reinvestigation as part of a mammoth national review of hundreds of files where lines of inquiry may have been missed.