Stephen Waterson, 26, was jailed for inflicting irreversible brain injuries on Alfie Lamb, his girlfriend’s son, in 2018. Waterson initially denied manslaughter but changed his plea to guilty before a retrial in September. Alfie had been sat at his mother Adrian Hoare’s feet in the rear footwell of the car at the time. She was…
Websites that load slowly because they are coded poorly are set to be flagged up by Google’s Chrome browser. Google said it was working on several “speed badging” systems that let visitors know why a page is taking a long time to show up. The variations include simple text warnings and more subtle signs that…
Juul announced that it will stop sales of its mint flavoured pods after recently released studies found the flavor was especially popular among young vape users. Juul said it would immediately stop taking orders from retailers or selling the pods through Juul.com, and the company previously halted the sale of fruit flavors. It now offers…
A Belfast doctor has received a life sentence for the murder of his mother. He has been told he will serve at least eight years in prison before he can be considered for release on licence. The Belfast Doctor, Declan O’Neill, murdered his mother Anne at her parents’ house in October 2017. In September, he…
Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic head of state. In the immediate aftermath of the 5 November arrest of Guy Fawkes, caught guarding a cache of…
The trial of a US lawyer accused of money laundering related to the OneCoin cryptocurrency “scam”, has begun in New York. Mark Scott is accused of sending around £310m out of the US while trying to conceal the true ownership and source of the funds. Some of the money has ended up in Bank of…