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[Link] Normal Island: UK Loses It Over ‘Illegal’ Christmas Party at Boris Johnson’s House
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Work Christmas parties are usually just a bit of fun – a chance to drink on the company buck and catch your married colleague kissing the office manager.
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[Link] ‘Head of propaganda’ for UK neo-Nazi group faces jail after conviction
Read: 1/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
A man has been convicted of acting as “head of propaganda” for a banned neo-Nazi terror group set up to wage a race war in Britain.
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[Link] UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Cabinet Office has been accused of “delay and deception” over its blocking of the release of files dating back more than three decades that reveal the inside story of the intelligence agent Peter Wright and the Spycatcher affair.
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[Link] Taxi Explosion Outside UK Hospital Declared Terrorist Incident
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
An explosion that took place outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday has been declared a terrorist incident, UK police have said. The male passenger died in the explosion while the driver managed to escape the car and was treated in hospital before being released today.
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[Link] Arrest After Man Returns Home To Find Entire House Had Been Stolen
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
Reverend Mike Hall was alerted to suspicious activity after his neighbours rang him in August to inform him people had been entering his house in Luton, Bedfordshire while he was away. The man was a builder who had allegedly been instructed by the “new owner” to carry out works.
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[Link] Police attacked in Belfast at protest over Northern Ireland protocol
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police in Belfast have been attacked with missiles and fireworks following a demonstration against the Brexit protocol in the north of the city. The disorder on Wednesday night took place on Lanark Way in the loyalist Shankill Road area close to the peace wall.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] Cops Admit Sharing Images of Murdered Sisters on WhatsApp
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two Metropolitan police officers have admitted to taking, altering and sharing images of two sisters who were found dead in a London park this year.
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[Link] Motorist fined after CCTV confuses his number plate with woman’s T-shirt
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
David Knight was baffled when he received a fine for driving in a bus lane in Bath – about 120 miles away from his home.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] Tributes Paid After Stabbing of ‘Kind and Good’ UK MP David Amess
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Politicians and public figures have paid tribute to a “hugely kind and good” MP, Sir David Amess, who has died after being stabbed in a church while meeting local constituents. “I am so deeply, deeply saddened by the tragic news that Sir David has passed away,” Khan wrote on Twitter.
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[Link] Afghan refugee stabbed to death in London in front of schoolchildren
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A teenage Afghan refugee was stabbed to death on a sports field in south-west London in front of schoolchildren playing rugby.The victim, named by the Evening Standard as 18-year-old Hazrat Wali, was attacked at about 4.
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[Link] Vigil held in London park for murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Large crowds lit candles and laid flowers at a vigil to remember murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman on Tuesday evening on what would have been Nicole’s 29th birthday.
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