2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (287+ words) Dozens of people have been prosecuted for breaching gas safety laws by working on appliances in the past several years A sharp increase in prosecutions over illegal gas fitting has prompted warnings against employing unregistered tradespeople. The Health and Safety…...

4+ hour, 39+ min ago   (13+ words) The Independent...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago   (417+ words) US officials secretly flew an American diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children out of the UK without telling British police, it has been reported. According to The Sun, US authorities raided the diplomat’s London flat last month, seizing…...

14+ hour, 52+ min ago   (579+ words) Sulaiman Tajzai bought the weapon from a shop near his home in Leeds and travelled to the victim’s address in London that same day An 18-year-old has admitted murder after purchasing a knife and travelling more than 150 miles to fatally…...

15+ hour, 26+ min ago   (445+ words) Following police warnings that powers to arrest demonstrators wearing face coverings would be used, a 76-year-old man has been charged with concealing his identity at a Portsmouth anti-immigration protest. Timothy Miller, of Southampton, will appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (313+ words) A Hong Kong court sentenced ​two pro-democracy activists to seven years in prison on Friday, after they were convicted for inciting subversion, with judges highlighting their use of the phrase "end one-party dictatorship" in their political activities. "By severely punishing…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (800+ words) A Hong Kong court sentenced ​two pro-democracy activists to seven years in prison on Friday, after they were convicted for inciting subversion, with judges highlighting their use of the phrase "end one-party dictatorship" in their political activities. Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (763+ words) Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho are three prominent Hong Kong activists who led the group behind the city’s massive annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (314+ words) A son of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch has appeared at Dublin District Court following extradition from Lanzarote. Jason Murphy, also known as Jason Hutch, 37, of The Paddocks, Clontarf, Dublin, was extradited on an Irish Government plane on Thursday. He faces…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (445+ words) The 10-year-old Sara Sharif was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey in August 2023 Surrey County Council has been directed by a coroner to disclose more than 24,000 documents for the inquest into the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif. Sara…...