Violent crime recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by 19%. The number of homicides including murder and manslaughter has risen from 649 to 739 an increase of 14%, it is the highest total since 2007. Robbery went up by 17% as did the recorded sexual offences according to the Home Office data…
Supermarket, Iceland, has continued to sell own-brand products containing palm oil despite saying they were removing it from their own brand products by the end of 2018. The retailer made a promise last April saying the demand for the oil was devastating rainforests in Asia. They also had their Christmas advert around stopping palm oil…
Drug-resistant superbugs are as big as a threat as climate change, a new twenty-year plan will be done to tackle the problem. The overuse of antibiotics is making infections harder to treat and leading to thousands of deaths a year through drug-resistant superbugs. The government plans to change the way it funds drug companies to…
A man who is convicted of killing his date on a speed boat that crashed has handed himself in after months on the run. Jack Shepherd was sentenced to six years in July for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown. However, the trial was held in his absence as he left the country before the trial….
A teenage girl feared she would be sexually assaulted when an attacker got into her bedroom shortly after he murdered a man, a court has heard. Ben Harvey, 22, is accused of killing William Rudiak,26, before going on to the girl’s home. In a video interview played to the Winchester Crown Court, the teenager describes…
A national freephone helpline for people who are in stressed-out families who feel they have no one to talk to be is to be unveiled by the Duchess of Cambridge. The helpline is aimed at people who are struggling with issues including family arguments, money worries, parenthood and relationship difficulties. Family Line is to launch…
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