A teenager who stabbed a motorcyclist to death while making a music video has been sentenced to life in prison. Brandon McNeil was given a minimum of 24 years to carry out the brutal attack on Shane Jerome, 23, who was riding his motorbike in Brixton, south London, on July 21 last year. Old Bailey …
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The Scottish government is facing a tough choice between “repaying, taxing and waiting” for more money and powers in London, a major economic think tank has warned. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said expensive spending policies, disappointing tax revenues and inflationary pressures had left the Nicola Sturgeon administration in a financial position. The SNP-Green …
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At the height of the anti-GM movement in 1999, then-Greenpeace UK chief Peter Melchett was charged with theft and criminal damage after cutting a genetically modified cornfield. In a decisive victory for the anti-GM movement, Lord Melchett and 27 fellow activists were acquitted by a jury in what many saw as a measure of the …
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A former police officer who kept drugs hidden in Pringles tubes and Lynx deodorant has been jailed for drug trafficking. Nabeel Khan, 25, served in South Yorkshire police and was sent to Grimsby Crown Court to be sentenced after admitting to supplying cannabis and being concerned about its supply. He was caught in possession of …
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Two people in Exeter are being vaccinated against monkeypox after possible exposure to the virus. It comes when the total number of recent confirmed cases in England reaches 101. The medical director of Bristol and Weston University Hospitals, Stuart Walker, confirmed that three people from the South West had been potentially exposed to the monkey’s …
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A side street in Stockton has been closed by police while emergency services deal with an incident in which a car crashed into a wall. Cleveland police, the Northeast Ambulance Service and Great North Air Ambulance crews were dispatched to the scene around 7:30 p.m. tonight, Friday, May 27th. The black Volkswagen car crashed into …
The southbound M6 closed tonight after a serious vehicle accident. The highway is expected to be closed for several hours. The southbound road is closed between J4a (Coleshill) and J3 for Coventry. The road linking the M42 to the M6 is also closed. National Highways West Midlands confirmed that the highway had been closed at …
A A 26-year-old graduate has died from a rare complication of the AstraZenecaCovid vaccine after receiving out-of-date information about the risk of blood clots, according to an investigation. Jack Hurn, originally from Devon but living in Redditch, Worcestershire, died in June last year, less than two weeks after being hit in the West Midlands. A …
Death is now treated like a murder West Mercia police have opened a murder investigation into the discovery of the woman’s body in Wast Hills Lane, Hopwood. The body was discovered by a member of the public shortly after 6 this morning. Detective Chief Gerry Smith said: The woman had no identification and we made …
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