The 2020 strip-search of 15-year-old Child Q in a London school has ignited a nationwide debate on police practices, safeguarding protocols, and racial discrimination. The incident, which involved the Metropolitan Police searching a menstruating Black schoolgirl without an appropriate adult present, has been widely condemned as a gross violation of[Read More…]

Hospitality workers across Northern Ireland are speaking out about the “horrendous” levels of harassment they face on the job, calling for immediate changes to protect staff, particularly in late-night venues. Unite the Union is demanding a zero-tolerance approach to workplace harassment, alongside free transport for night-time economy workers, as part[Read More…]

In a dramatic rescue operation, up to 50 residents were safely evacuated from a five-storey block of flats in Warrington after a fire broke out on Monday evening. The blaze started around 5:20 PM GMT at Rynet Court on Marsh House Lane. Firefighters from across Cheshire were called to the[Read More…]

Human remains have been discovered in Derby as part of a murder inquiry into the disappearance of Izabela Helena Zablocka, who was last seen 15 years ago. Derbyshire Police launched an investigation into her disappearance after receiving a missing person’s report in May. The remains were found in the garden[Read More…]

Nearly two decades after Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal, a renewed search effort this week has once again drawn global attention to one of the world’s most haunting missing person cases. Portuguese and German police launched the operation in the municipality of Lagos, located next to[Read More…]

In a poignant and harrowing tale of domestic abuse and justice, David Challen recounts the tragic events that led to his mother, Sally Challen, killing his father, Richard, with a hammer in 2010. For years, Sally endured psychological manipulation and coercive control, a form of abuse that was not legally[Read More…]

In a somber turn of events in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, a 40-year-old woman named Rachael Vaughan tragically lost her life on Friday morning. Emergency services responded promptly to a distress call on Sherwood Avenue around 6:30 BST, where paramedics attempted to revive Vaughan but were unable to save her. She was[Read More…]

Anne Puckridge, a 99-year-old former wartime intelligence officer, is determined to rectify what she describes as a “robbery” of her pension. Despite dedicating her life to serving her country, Puckridge’s UK state pension has been frozen at the 2001 rate of £72.50 per week since she moved to Canada over[Read More…]

Following a series of violent incidents in UK prisons, including a recent attack at HMP Frankland where convicted terrorist Hashem Abedi injured three guards using hot oil and makeshift weapons, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) is urgently calling for enhanced protective measures. The POA is advocating for the issuance of[Read More…]

A body has been discovered in Baitings Reservoir, West Yorkshire, during a search for a teenage girl reported to have fallen into the water. Emergency services were called to the scene at around 13:15 BST on Wednesday, and an underwater search team recovered the body on Thursday afternoon. While formal[Read More…]