Knife crime is rising at a much steeper rate in home countries and rural regions than in London, Police figures show. Statistics shows a 45.7% average increase in knife-related crimes in 34 English and Welsh countries since 2010, compared with an 11% rise in the capital. In the home countries, knife crime has risen by…
An Ethiopian Airlines has crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, it has killed everyone on board, on Sunday. The airline was carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members on flight ET302 from the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi in Kenya. It is said 32 were Kenyans, 18 Canadians, 8 Americans and 7 British nationals were…
Georgina Gharsallah, 31, was last seen leaving a shop near her home in Worthing, Sussex, on 7 March 2018. Police described that she was holding “a number of mobile phones”. Georgina’s two sons, aged eight and nine, have started to wave to photographs of her and say “hello mummy” – it is the closest they…
Facebook have taken down a network of more than 100 accounts and pages for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on its social network; this is the first time it has done this for UK-based operations seeking to influence British citizens. The operation was spread over Facebook and Instagram, it used a network of face accounts to pose…
New guidelines on diagnosing high blood pressure could mean thousands more people benefit from treatment in England and Wales. Health bosses say offering blood-pressure-lowering drugs to more people with stage-1 hypertension would help to cut heart attacks and strokes. In total, around 450,000 men and 270,000 women could now qualify for the drugs. However, some GPs…
Sadiq Khan has urged Theresa May to take a tougher stance on knife crime. The London mayor is urging the prime minister to intervene earlier to help “vulnerable children”, adding he is also focusing resources on addressing the problem. Mr Khan said that the practice of “off-rolling” (schools ask a child to leave without officially…
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