Simon Israel

Police in Scotland have imposed more than 500 fines on those flouting lockdown rules.

Police forces across the country have threatened fines and even criminal records for people who refuse to abide by lockdown rules.

Today, one family listened from their living room as their son’s killers were jailed at the Old Bailey. Fifteen-year-old Tashaun Aird was one of 149 victims of knife crime last year in London. He had warned his parents months earlier and his murder has led to a safeguarding review.

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A £60 pound fine, which may double for each further offence. That’s the penalty in England for not adhering to government advice on avoiding non-essential travel.

They thought they were British citizens but ended up being treated as illegal immigrants because of “institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness” by the Home Office.

This programme has learned that the Department of Work and Pensions has had to pay close to a million pounds of unpaid benefits to Windrush victims of the Government’s ‘hostile’ immigration environment. 

Horrific details of how police constable Andrew Harper was killed last August have been outlined to an Old Bailey jury today

The cases of eight people due to be deported on a flight to Jamaica are now being reviewed by the Home Office after new legal representations were made. 

The Government has defended plans to deport fifty people to Jamaica tomorrow morning, despite calls from 170 MPs for the flight to be called off.

Companies who refurbished Grenfell Tower are responsible for the deaths of 72 people “as sure as if they had taken careful aim with a gun and pulled the trigger”, the inquiry has been told.

The Grenfell inquiry has been thrown into confusion after an eleventh hour request from some companies for protection against self incrimination.

Firms that revamped Grenfell Tower predicted that the new cladding system would fail –  more than two years before the fire which killed 72 people.

The second phase of the Grenfell inquiry got underway today with its chief lawyer saying that none of the companies involved in the tower’s refurbishment will accept any responsibility for the 2017 fire.