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War protests threaten city centre chaos http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstori...ntre.5809248.jp DISRUPTION: The weekend protests will be the largest in the city since the G8 summit in 2005 Published Date: 10 November 2009 By MARK McLAUGHLIN ANTI-WAR protesters are threatening to bring chaos to Edinburgh as they demonstrate at a major Nato summit later this week. Two large-scale rallies are being planned to mark the visit of the Nato Parliamentary Assembly – a five-day meeting of MPs, military commanders, academics and civil servants at the EICC. The protests will be the largest seen in the city since the G8, and it is understood police are concerned about t…

A woman has died after being stabbed in her own car outside her place of work. Officers were called to reports of a serious assault on Moat Way in Barwell, Leicestershire at about 0900 BST. The 37-year-old victim was taken to hospital. The area around Moat Way was cordoned off as investigations were carried out. Police said the woman was attacked in her car shortly after she had arrived at her workplace. She died later at Leicester Royal Infirmary. A Leicestershire Police spokesperson said: "Officers discovered that a 37-year-old woman had been seriously injured. "She was treated at the scene by paramedics but died a short time later." Det Ch Insp Mark Harrison…

THREE pensioners have escaped a jail sentence for their part in a huge money-laundering conspiracy centred on a Suffolk scrapyard. Noel Healy, 77, Bernadette McGivern, 69, and Harold McGivern, 67, admitted the charges last month and were today handed 48-week jail terms, suspended for two years. The trio, all of Bridge End Road in Red Lodge, near Newmarket, admitted conspiring to conceal, disguise, convert, transfer or remove criminal property between March 24, 2003 and September 30, 2008. It comes after Robert McGivern, the son of Bernadette and Harold, was jailed for five-and-a-half years for his part in the conspiracy last month. Robert McGivern, of New Cheveley Roa…

..Pensioners avoid jail for money-laundering Last updated: 12/11/2009 17:35:00 THREE pensioners have escaped a jail sentence for their part in a huge money-laundering conspiracy centred on a Suffolk scrapyard. Noel Healy, 77, Bernadette McGivern, 69, and Harold McGivern, 67, admitted the charges last month and were today handed 48-week jail terms, suspended for two years. The trio, all of Bridge End Road in Red Lodge, near Newmarket, admitted conspiring to conceal, disguise, convert, transfer or remove criminal property between March 24, 2003 and September 30, 2008. It comes after Robert McGivern, the son of Bernadette and Harold, was jailed for five-and-a-half years…

SUFFOLK: An eight-year-old girl suffers terrible nightmares after a 14-year-old boy forced her to perform a sex act upon him. The young victim, who cannot be named, was seven at the time of the incident, which took place in a locked room in the Ipswich area. In a witness impact statement read to Ipswich Youth Court, the victim's mother spoke of her heartache after the event, which has left a dramatic mark on her daughter's life. She said: “She now has terrible nightmares and won't sleep without her bedroom and hallway light on. “She used to be very happy and bubbly but she is now a very different little girl.” The teenage attacker, who is from the Mid Suffolk area an…

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hA suspicious wife caught her pensioner husband chatting up girls for internet sex by posing online as a teenager, a court has heard. Cheryl Roberts, 61, suspected her husband David was logging on to chatrooms to lure schoolchildren into sex. So the mother-of-two used another computer in their home in Bridgend, South Wales, to pretend she was a 14-year-old - and snared her husband in the act. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227154/Wife-snares-paedophile-husband-posing-online-schoolgirl-using-room-door.html#ixzz0Wet5H8WJ ttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.html

A suspicious wife caught her pensioner husband chatting up girls for internet sex by posing online as a teenager, a court has heard. Cheryl Roberts, 61, suspected her husband David was logging on to chatrooms to lure schoolchildren into sex. So the mother-of-two used another computer in their home in Bridgend, South Wales, to pretend she was a 14-year-old - and snared her husband in the act. husband-posing-online-schoolgirl-using-room-door. It was the amount of time her husband spent in his study which first made Mrs Roberts suspicious. The court heard Mrs Roberts, who had been married for nearly 20 years, had then seen a message pop up on their computer while he was…

Source This is actually happening in my home town, so I will be interested (and slightly worried) to watch these guys in "action"Â

A review was launched after the parents of stab victim Ben Kinsella called for sentences more in line with the 30 year tariff for murder using a gun. Jack Straw told MPs "thugs who carry knives with the intention of using them" would face longer terms. Ben, 16, died after he was stabbed fleeing a fight in Islington, north London, in June last year. His killers were jailed for life and were all ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years in prison. Mr Straw said he was writing to the Kinsella family to tell them the outcome of the review. 'Considerable concern' He told the House of Commons a statutory instrument introducing the change would be introduced in Parliamen…

More pub operators will be encouraged to confiscate ID used fraudulently to buy alcohol underage after the Home Office gave a virtual green light to seizures by doorstaff. That's the view of Essex pub manager Nick Harmston, whose MP Simon Burns asked for clarity on the law by writing to the Home Office. Harmston, of Marston's Que Pasa in Chelmsford, was advised by police not to let staff confiscate ID because it left them open to being sued. A response from Home Office minister David Hanson said: “It is the Government’s view that doorstaff are not committing a criminal offence by confiscating the ID as they lack the dishonest intent necessary to commit the offence …

This should be in the real world i believe!

Source My bold Ahh I see it makes it ok, as it was just a bit of robbery :D I hope he enjoys his sentence people like this should not be on the streets, but how much of it will he actually serve?

htTwo boys who were killed crossing the M56 in Cheshire were confused and had made a "spur of the moment" decision, an inquest has heard. Kieran Coupe, seven, and Guy Davies, six, were hit by three cars near Runcorn as they tried to get home to nearby Mudishaw on 24 October 2007. Warrington Coroner's Court was told the pair died instantly. Coroner Nicholas Rheinberg ruled their deaths were unintentional and recorded a narrative verdict. The inquest heard the friends were on scooters as they tried to make their way home to Blythe Close where they both lived. They had wandered off earlier that afternoon despite being told not to stray from their homes. 'Desperate…

:D stealing a full Poppy Appeal can from a petrol station. CCTV pictures captured the carefully-planned theft at an Esso garage in the shadow of Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow. Station manager Craig Campbell, 34, described the thieves as "the lowest of the low" adding there could have been £100 in the tin. A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said:"We are aware of this taking place and our investigations are on-going." Mr Campbell continued: "This was no random theft ­ it was clearly planned beforehand. "It makes me wonder if they have not tried this at other locations. There was possibly £100 in that tin and it was meant for war heroes." A spokeswoman for Poppyscot…