Stephen Lawrence suspect is on the run from police
Jamie Acourt’s accused of being part of a gang which was earning millions from supplying class B drugs.
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London is like ‘a different country’, according to a report into opportunities for those from a deprived background in England. But forget the cliché of the North South divide – the Social Mobility Commission says pockets all over the country are failing, particularly in rural, coastal and former industrial areas outside the capital. Opportunities for…
A woman who procured victims for a grooming gang in Newcastle has been jailed for six years after admitting trafficking for sexual exploitation. The court heard how Carolann Gallon took a 13 year old girl who’d run away from foster care to a flat in Tyneside, knowing she was likely to be sexually abused. Gallon’s…
FactCheck looks at what we know about the ethnicity of sexual abuse gangs.
The Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, has resigned from the shadow cabinet as women and equalities spokesperson after what she called an “extremely poor choice of words” in a Sun newspaper article last week. She’d written an article about the grooming of girls by Asian men after the conviction of 18 people for child sexual exploitation in…
Northumbria police have defended using a convicted child rapist in an investigation into child sexual abuse in Newcastle. Over the course of 4 trials, 17 men and one woman were convicted of offences including rape, supplying drugs and inciting prostitution. Today the police insisted that the information supplied by their informant prevented other girls from…
Newcastle now joins a growing roll call of English towns and cities where teenage girls were preyed on and abused by gangs of men. They include Rochdale, Oxford, Aylesbury, Bristol, Peterborough, and Rotherham. One of the girls who was abused there is Sammy Woodhouse who has now waived her anonymity.
The football clubs Newcastle United and West Ham United’s grounds have been raided in a fraud investigation, resulting in several arrests.
Mike Ashley says he is “disgusted” by an MP’s “deliberately antagonistic” stance towards his company Sports Direct.
Jamie Acourt’s accused of being part of a gang which was earning millions from supplying class B drugs.
The Premier League returns this weekend after a short break. Will supporters in the top flight of English football mirror their German counterparts and embrace refugees with supportive banners?
Labour may be the victim of entrism – infiltration by members and supporters of other parties – but it’s only a very small explanation of Jeremy Corbyn’s extraordinary success.
Football clubs across the UK are banning reporters from their stadiums because they don’t like what’s being reported. Nowhere else in British public life is this tolerated.
There are football clubs in England and Scotland who feel it is perfectly normal to ban any journalist guilty of perpetrating journalism they disapprove of.
A young neo-Nazi extremist who was radicalised online is found guilty of attempted murder at a court in North Wales. Zack Davies tried to decapitate a man because he was Asian.
Chancellor George Osborne has promised “radical devolution” for cities to allow them to grow their local economies – but what does devolution mean? And what powers will be devolved?