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Nine Thousand Child Exploitation Cases Reopened as Khan Faces Backlash

Nine Thousand Child Exploitation Cases Reopened as Khan Faces Backlash

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Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of showing disrespect to rape victims after previously suggesting he was unaware of grooming gangs operating in London. Scotland Yard is now reviewing nine thousand historic cases of child sexual exploitation that were reported and closed between January 1, 2010 and March 31 this year. The reassessment forms part […]

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Fraudster Behind £400 Million Property Scam Accused of Hiding Millions in Overseas Assets

Fraudster Behind £400 Million Property Scam Accused of Hiding Millions in Overseas Assets

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Convicted fraudster David Ames, who conned thousands of British investors in a vast international property scheme, is alleged to be hiding millions of pounds in foreign assets despite claiming to be bankrupt, a court has heard. Ames, 73, was jailed in 2022 after defrauding more than 8,000 victims in a £400 million resort development scam

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Viking Siblings Claim Fifteen Medals Across Two North Norfolk Galas

Viking Siblings Claim Fifteen Medals Across Two North Norfolk Galas

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Two young swimmers from the North Norfolk Vikings Swimming Club have collected an impressive fifteen medals across two consecutive Sundays. Siblings Layla and Finn Callaby competed at the Diss Open Meeting at the University of East Anglia and at the Halloween Gala in Dereham, returning from both events with multiple podium finishes. At the UEA

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Scotland Needs One Million Immigrants to Fix Worker Crisis - Green MSP

Scotland Needs One Million Immigrants to Fix Worker Crisis – Green MSP

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Scotland needs at least one million immigrants, including people from poorer and conflict affected countries, to address an escalating shortage of workers, according to Scottish Green MSP Ariane Burgess. Speaking at a land reform conference in Perth, the Highland and Islands MSP and Green rural affairs spokeswoman argued that Scotland requires a significant population boost

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Jo Farrell Signals Major Policy Change on Gender, Rape Offences

Jo Farrell Signals Major Policy Change on Gender, Rape Offences

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Police Scotland has announced that rapists will no longer be allowed to self-identify as women, in a significant policy change following years of debate. Chief Constable Jo Farrell said the national force will now ensure that the biological sex of anyone accused of rape is accurately recorded, rather than relying on self-declared gender. Under Scottish

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Demolition Begins at Anglia Square as £350 Million Norwich Regeneration Project Launches

Demolition Begins at Anglia Square as £350 Million Norwich Regeneration Project Launches

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Demolition has begun at Anglia Square in Norwich, marking what local leaders have described as a “historic day” for the city’s regeneration. The once bustling shopping centre, built between the late 1960s and early 1970s, is being cleared to make way for a new £350 million mixed use development. The ambitious plan will see the

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Mother, Baby Die After “Victorian Age Nightmare” Home Birth Failures

Mother, Baby Die After “Victorian Age Nightmare” Home Birth Failures

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A mother and her newborn daughter have died after suffering what a senior coroner described as “horrors that should be consigned to a Victorian age nightmare” during a home birth gone tragically wrong. Mistakes made by community midwives were partly responsible for the deaths of 34 year old Jennifer Cahill and her baby, Agnes, an

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InstaDeep Founder Karim Beguir Leaves UK for Switzerland

InstaDeep Founder Karim Beguir Leaves UK for Switzerland

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One of Britain’s leading artificial intelligence entrepreneurs has moved his residency to Switzerland, according to new company filings, amid growing concern over the departure of high net worth individuals from the UK. Karim Beguir, the cofounder and chief executive of InstaDeep, the London registered AI firm acquired by BioNTech for up to £562 million two

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Mastermind Behind £5 Billion Bitcoin Fraud Jailed in UK’s Biggest Crypto Case

Mastermind Behind £5 Billion Bitcoin Fraud Jailed in UK’s Biggest Crypto Case

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A woman behind one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency scams has been jailed after defrauding more than 128,000 victims and triggering the UK’s biggest-ever Bitcoin seizure worth over £5 billion. Zhimin Qian, 47, also known as Yadi Zhang, was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday after

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