Q&A: Managing UK sex offenders BBC News Paedophile Gary Glitter has been deported from Vietnam. His release follows warnings by child protection charities that the British government is turning a blind eye to the actions of child sex tourists. | Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has responded to those criticisms by announcing plans to toughen u...
Face scanner trial at UK airports The Australian | HI-TECH face scanners are being used at a British airport to help stop terrorists and criminals from entering the country. Manchester Airport is trialling the new facial recognition scanners, which aim to improve security and reduce long queues at immigration checkpoints. | The device works by com...
Chinese appeal over double murder BBC News | Detectives investigating the murder of a couple in Newcastle are to appeal through the Chinese media for help in finding their killers. | Zhen Xing Yang and girlfriend Xi Zhou, both 25, were found dead at the flat they shared on 9 August. | Mr Zhen...
Criminals' cash funds basketball BBC News | Young people in five cities across Scotland will receive extra basketball coaching, paid for using money seized from criminals. | Almost £1.8m will be invested in the sport in Dundee, Stirling, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Inverness. | Sessions will be ...
Two jailed for blind man attack BBC News | Two men who robbed a blind man of his wallet and mobile phone while kicking and punching him have each been jailed for five years. | Jason Cummings and John Davies were drunk at the time they mugged 63-year-old James Lowe in Newtown, Powys. | Judge...
Britain has stumbled and dithered over Russia The Times | Sir, President Saakashvili's foolishness in attempting to suppress militarily the rebels in South Ossetia has been a disaster for his country and for the West. Russia has moved s...
Britain's terror laws have left me and my family shattered The Guardian I am innocent yet was detained without charge in solitary confinement for days on end. It was a devastating experience | The UN's committee on human rights has just published a rep...
Somerset selectmen now looking at sun power The Providence Journal | SOMERSET - Plans for a town wind turbine are on hold, stalled by a lawsuit that is blocking the erection of a small test tower to see if a turbine might be practical. | But now t...
U.S. judge approves suit against Bristol-Myers The Boston Globe | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled in favor of shareholders suing <BMY.N> about its disclosures while settling patent litigation with Canadian generic drug maker Apotex Inc over the blood-thinner Plavix. | Manhattan federal court Judge P...
Khawaja duped by British terror cell members, defence argues Canada Dot Com | OTTAWA - Members of a British terror cell deliberately withheld information from Momin Khawaja regarding their true intentions for the explosives detonating device he is accused of designing, according to the defence. | Defence lawyer Lawrence Gree...
2 officers cleared by Bristol DA's office The Boston Globe | NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—The Bristol County District Attorney's office says that the officers who shot and killed a man who allegedly threatened them with knives were justified in their actions. | Gerard Tierney was killed on May 14 after New Bedfo...
The £200m racket of gangs who stage road accidents and claim insurance London Evening Standard | Thousands of motorists are falling victim to a potentially lethal 'cash for crash' insurance scam. | It involves criminals deliberately staging road accidents, usually by slamming on their brakes so an innocent driver behind has no chance of avoiding a collision. | The fraudster then claims against the other driver's insurance company for damage ...
Sean Connery on being a Scot and Scotland's influence on Hollywood The Times | Scotland provided the subject for America's first feature film, The Execution of Mary Stuart, with Mary played by a man, at least up until the final cut. This created a far greater shock on its first screening in 1895 than LumiÈre's train achieved that same year when it puffed into a French seaside station in front of a sophisticated Paris audien...
