Second home-owners flouting the coronavirus lockdown are posting their luggage through couriers in an attempt to avoid police. Rural crime teams have reported investigating delivery vans carrying suitcases filled with clothes through police checkpoints, so that if families are stopped enroute they will not be found with them. It comes as furious villagers have demanded second … Read more
Until I started travelling in the Communist world, my main experience of living under tyranny was my time at a boarding school on the edge of Dartmoor, 60 years ago. The headmaster, an enormous, booming man, had many fine qualities. But he was given to dreadful rages, which tended to strike late on Saturday afternoons. … Read more
Many of us (now more than ever) hope to find a glorious tropical island — somewhere small, perfectly formed, filled with wildlife, an exotic bolthole to escape from the trials of the world. Sao Tome and Principe, with only 200,000 inhabitants, is a good place to start. Especially as it has more rare birds per … Read more
Many of us (now more than ever) hope to find a glorious tropical island — somewhere small, perfectly formed, filled with wildlife, an exotic bolthole to escape from the trials of the world. Sao Tome and Principe, with only 200,000 inhabitants, is a good place to start. Especially as it has more rare birds per … Read more
Notorious mobster Salvatore ‘Sammy The Bull’ Gravano has joined the ranks of reality TV stars. The former Gambino crime family underboss, who became a government witness and brought down the Teflon Don John Gotti, appears in MTV’s new series Families Of The Mafia that premieres Thursday night. In a teaser for the show shared via … Read more
The likelihood of determining whether someone is sharing a real or false memory of a crime that has been implanted in a person’s recollection is ‘no better than tossing a coin’, a new study reveals. People listening to recounted events of a criminal act were only able to determine between the two with 53 percent … Read more
Police chief’s U-turn on shopping trolley search as Priti Patel slaps down calls for officers to check what goods people are buying from stores during lockdown Chief Constable Nick Adderley warned that police could soon increase powers National Police Chiefs Council has since released a statement dismissing claims Controversial remarks were met with slapdown from … Read more
– When did the laws come into force? The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations 2020 were introduced in England on Thursday at 1pm. Similar versions of the laws were enacted in Wales at 4pm and in Scotland at 7.15pm on the same day, as well as at 11pm on Saturday in Northern Ireland. – Why … Read more
Lousiana cops use siren from The Purge to warn that the curfew has begun – to the outrage of terrified locals Siren from the 2013 thriller was blasted out of police cars in Crowley, Louisiana In the film the alarm signals start of ‘the purge’, a night where all crime is legal Crowley Police said they … Read more
John Gotti Jr is reportedly under the FBI’s spotlight after forging close ties with the Latin Kings. John Gotti Jr is reportedly under the FBI’s spotlight after forging close ties with the Latin Kings. The mobster allegedly met with bigwigs Michael ‘King Merlin’ Cecchetelli and the latter man’s uncle David ‘Fat Chicky’ Cecchetelli’ at a … Read more