[ad_1] Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Mims Davies MP, has recently highlighted that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has managed to cut down the waiting times for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals to just 39 days. The improvement, according to Ms Davies, is due to enhanced “processes and increasing decision-making capacity”….
[ad_1] A Gloucestershire teenager obtained pills for an illegal abortion while six months pregnant, a court has heard. Sophie Harvey is accused of taking the drug to terminate her pregnancy after discovering she was 28 weeks and five days gestation, making it too late for a legal abortion in England. Prosecutors claim that Harvey, from…
[ad_1] A taxi driver and former postman whose son was a promising Everton Academy footballer was secretly part of a major heroin and cocaine ring. Kevin Rimmer acted as a courier for the conspiracy led by Vincent and Francis Coggins, which involved the trafficking of hundreds of kilograms of class A drugs worth millions of…
[ad_1] The grandmother of a Scottish baby who was battered by an evil brute has slammed his four years prison sentence and says it ‘doesn’t feel like justice’. Violent Mark Tannahill left the infant with broken ribs and a fractured skull after her mum died of cancer eight weeks after giving birth. The 38-year-old was…
[ad_1] Police have released images of an e-scooter riding man from Nottingham who stabbed five total strangers in the street. Junior Dietlin, a paranoid schizophrenic, crept up behind each of his victims – four in Mansfield and one in Mapperley – stabbed them once in the upper arm and then ran away. He was given…
[ad_1] The WASPI campaign verdict is set to be announced within weeks, it has been claimed. The Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) could be hit with the report result within just a matter of weeks as millions of women affected are told to prepare. The campaign Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign…
[ad_1] Pervert Kieran Slater has been jailed after police found indecent images on his phone – just weeks after being handed a suspended prison sentence. The 26-year-old had walked out of Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on August 30 after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children. But he has breached his Sexual Harm Prevention Order…
[ad_1] Postie Christopher McKechnie crashed his works van into a stationary car while over the drink-drive limit. The 34-year-old drove the Royal Mail van into a Range Rover in Bucknall New Road, Hanley, at 10.40pm on August 11. Police found McKechnie sat in the driver’s seat when they arrived and could smell alcohol on his…
[ad_1] A Bridlington subpostmaster was left bankrupt after an auditor wrongly accused him of being “sloppy and slapdash”. A long-running inquiry is taking place into the Horizon scandal which resulted in more than 700 branch managers falsely accused by the Post Office of crimes, such as fraud and theft, due to faulty accounting software. The…
[ad_1] A postman ‘genuinely thought he might die’ as he was dragged to the ground during a vicious dog attack. The dog’s owner then begged postman Steven McKay not to call the police after he was chased and bitten by the Belgian shepherd, a court heard. Liverpool Crown Court heard that owner Joseph Blaney, 37,…