Category: United Kingdom

A Calne boy killed by a reversing van was ‘playing in the street’ Three-year-old Millie-Ann Rae McKellar, known as Millie during the investigation proceedings, died in the early afternoon of March 3, 2021. when she was struck by a reversing Hermes van at Campion Close, Calne. The area coroner, Ian Singleton, concluded that Millie died...

A senior Conservative MP has said he swam in sewage when visiting South Wales as a child. Ashford MP Damian Green, 67, said attitudes towards sewage spills had changed in recent years. England’s water companies recently pledged £10bn after apologizing for “not acting fast enough”. “I’m not denying it’s a big problem, but it always...

Criminals seize the homes of hundreds of vulnerable Londoners Hundreds of vulnerable Londoners have seen their homes taken over by criminal gangs using them to store drugs and weapons, a shocking report warned today. Cuckoo cases in the capital have quadrupled from 79 in 2018 to 316 last year and continue to rise, the City...

Harrison attacked his son before driving to a country park four hours later, where he made a call to 999 saying the boy had fallen out of a tree. A man who brutally beat his 11-year-old son and then waited four hours to call an ambulance has been jailed for life after admitting to his...

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and related events cost the government an estimated £162m, the Treasury said. The state funeral, held on September 19, 2022, followed a period of national mourning. During that time, hundreds of thousands of people visited Westminster, where the monarch lay in state. The largest costs were covered by the Home Office...

Karina Gasparova: IT worker sues boss Aleksander Goulandris over wrong ‘AJG’ acronym An IT worker sued her “rich and powerful” boss for sexual harassment after mistaking “xx” in her email for the code for wanting kisses and her initials for ‘A Jumbo Genital’. Project director Karina Gasparova also interpreted Aleksander Goulandris’s use of “yy” as...

Sewage spills: Water bills to rise to pay for £10bn upgrade Bills could rise after water providers in England said they were willing to spend £10bn to tackle sewage spills. Private companies have apologized for the amount of polluted water being dumped into rivers and seas, amid growing public anger over the practice. Some activists...

IT Worker Sues Boss Believing ‘xx’ In Email Was Kissing An IT worker sued her boss for sexual harassment after she believed he used “xx”, “yy” and “????” in an email asking for more information was a coded way of asking for sex. Karina Gasparova also claimed that when Alexander Goulandris renamed a work file...

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and mourning period cost the UK government a total of £162 million, according to the Treasury. His death on September 8, 2022 triggered 10 days of national mourning that was later followed by a state funeral on September 19. During this period, hundreds of thousands of people made their way to...

New York truck attacker gets 10 life sentences plus 260 years An Islamic State supporter behind the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11 has been told he will die in prison serving multiple life sentences. Sayfullo Saipov killed eight when he drove a truck into pedestrians and cyclists on a Manhattan street in...