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THE girlfriend who helped her gangster boyfriend with a £300,000 a year county lines racket was spared prison after a judge said she was "a caring mum who puts her children first." https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11717444/gangsters-moll-spared-jail-caring-mum/ 😠
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https://news.sky.com/story/british-army-needs-its-metoo-moment-says-former-top-female-officer-11994384
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21 May 2020 Related TopicsHong Kong anti-government protests Image copyright AFP Image caption Tanya Chan (C) said this was "the saddest day in Hong Kong history" Pro-democracy activists say they fear "the end of Hong Kong", after China annou…
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Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect arrested in France 16 May 2020 Related TopicsRwandan genocide Image copyright US state department Image caption The United States offered a $5m reward for…
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A key worker, who helped saved a policeman's life during the coronavirus lockdown, is celebrating a £1 million EuroMillions lottery win. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/euromillions-lottery-win-key-worker-policeman-coronavirus-lockdown-a4440371.html good luck on your win.
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Iranian navy ship Konarak 'sunk by friendly fire' from frigate 11 May 2020 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The incident took place near the Strait of Hormuz …
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VE Day: UK to mark 75th anniversary of end of WWII in Europe 8 May 2020 Related TopicsWorld War Two Image copyright Getty Images The UK is to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, with the Royal Family leading tributes as the country remains in lockdown …
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A man and a woman tricked their way into a 100-year-old woman’s home and stole more than £100 in what police branded a “despicable” crime. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/100yearold-woman-thieves-steal-darlington-police-a4433246.html Right scum people who rob any OAP hope the police find them.😠
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PATRIOTIC residents have been advised to stop joining the weekly clap for carers because they are a “noise nuisance”. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11548059/killjoy-council-nhs-clap-ban/ Bit OTT in my opinion by that council wont stop me clapping on Thursday for the NHS 👏
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5 May 2020 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virgin Atlantic has seen passenger numbers slump as countries close borders and enact travel bans Virgin Atlantic has announced it is to cut more than 3,000 jobs in the UK and end its opera…
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A woman has jailed after she stole a doctor's identity card while he was in a pharmacy. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/sabrina-moustaki-jailed-nhs-doctor-id-card-coventry-a4428706.html
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A BEAUTY boss was clocked speeding twenty times in two months and still managed to keep her licence despite racking up SIXTY SIX points. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11171299/beauty-boss-speeding-twenty-times-in-two-months/ I find this wrong to let this woman to still drive with 66 points on her licence.😠
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National Crime Agency officers have today arrested a 23-year-old woman from east London as part of an investigation into the smuggling of Albanian migrants into the UK. The Romanian national was detained near her home address in Walthamstow this morning by NCA officers working as part of Project Invigor, the UK’s organised immigration crime taskforce. She was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration and is now being questioned by officers. The arrest relates to an incident in June last year in which four Albanians were detained at Maidstone Services off the M20 in Kent, having been brought to the UK on a lorry. All four had entered the U…
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Violence has risen again at London’s troubled Pentonville prison and is going unpunished too often because of management failures, a watchdog warned today. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pentonville-violence-rise-behaviour-a4385411.html
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11 March 2020 Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein was found guilty in a trial in New York last month, finalising a dramatic fall from grace for one of Hollywood's most powerful figures. The 67-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday in a wheelchair. Weinstein's lawyers had appealed for leniency, insisting that even th…
