Drugs and guns are being sold in Scotland using a Russian messaging service, similar to WhatsApp. Crooks and extremist groups have been drawn to use Telegram because end-to-end encryption guarantees no one else can see what’s being said. The site has become an essential communication tool for soldiers and civilians …
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A Royal Mail scam could see you seriously out of pocket as fraudsters turn to using online chat boxes to get your details – here’s how to avoid being caught out. The new delivery scam sees fraudsters creating fake chatbots that sign victims up for expensive monthly subscriptions. C onsumer …
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The girl is now self harms and is in therapy The Metropolitan Police have apologised for strip-searching a black schoolgirl after wrongly being suspected of carrying marijuana. Police were called to a school in Hackney at the end of 2020 by teachers who believed the girl, referred to as Q, …
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Queensland police have charged a 15-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man after they allegedly attacked a homeless man with box cutters while he was searching for a place to sleep on the Sunshine Coast. Key points: A teenage boy and a man have each been charged after a homeless man was …
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Tory MP Caroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee in Parliament, says the government needs to crack on and criminalise public sexual harassment Tory MP Caroline Nokes writes for the Mirror ( Image: PA) If ever there seemed an appropriate time to make misogyny a hate crime then …
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A drug dealer was caught after Royal Mail staff smelt a package at their depot and tipped off police. The parcel was addressed to Daniel Lloyd Taylor and passed through the Llangefni sorting office on its way to his home. But when postal workers raised the alarm officers raided his …
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Since 2005, members of the public have been able to apply to public bodies for information, documents, photos and videos they hold. In the intervening years, the number of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted to North Wales Police (NWP) has soared, placing additional demands on the force. In 2005, …
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Post Office management who were involved in the wrongful conviction of more than 700 sub-postmaters should be named as a public inquiry gets underway, according to one of the victims of the scandal. Tom Hedges, 68, worked as a postmaster in Skegness and was fired from his job as sub-postmaster …
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It’s been nearly 59 years since one of the most famous heists in history took place in Bucks. The Great Train Robbery saw the theft of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. That’s the equivalent to £53.5 million today. A …
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The widow of a Post Office manager who died fighting for his reputation told how she locked herself in the bathroom and cut off all her hair after being hit with a confiscation order. Karen Wilson gave evidence at a public inquiry into the Post Office IT scandal, the most …
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