TV historian Lucy Worsley leads ‘review’ of royal palaces’ links to slavery including Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Kensington Palace home Historic Royal Palaces review follows similar exercise by the National Trust Review being led by Lucy Worsley, 46, known for BBC history documentaries The historian also described National Trust as ‘ahead of the game’ … Read more
Ex-MI6 agent, 73, ‘spied for China’: Former British diplomat and European Commission official is probed over claims he gave information to Beijing Fraser Cameron, 73, has said that the allegations against him were ‘ridiculous’ It is alleged that he was paid by China to supply information on EU institutions An investigation into this by federal … Read more
A Channel 4 TV show fronted by A-Lister James McAvoy is being investigated by police over claims rare birds were disturbed by noisy filming. Two adult ospreys and their chick have fled their nest during filming of reality series The Bridge at a remote Welsh lake. In the show 12 strangers try to build a … Read more
A corrupt detective turned supergrass whose claims against Scotland Yard led to the second Stephen Lawrence inquiry is being probed for perjury. Neil Putnam is being investigated by the National Crime Agency, which is believed to be preparing evidence for prosecutors. But friends of the whistleblower, who revealed the first look into the 1993 murder … Read more
NMC Health probed for issuing ‘fake’ invoices: Hospitals provider ‘used sham documents to borrow money’ By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 10 August 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 10 August 2020 Scandal-hit NMC Health is being investigated for allegedly using fake invoices for medical supplies to borrow money. The hospitals provider, … Read more
Ladbrokes owner GVC plunges nearly 12% after it reveals it is being probed by the taxman By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:44 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 23:14 BST, 21 July 2020 Shares in Ladbrokes owner GVC plunged nearly 12 per cent after it said it was being probed by the … Read more
The police officers involved in the shooting of a Sudanese asylum seeker who knifed six people are being investigated after they failed to subdue him with tasers. Police tasered the attacker, Badreddin Abadlla Adam, a Sudanese asylum seeker, at the Park Inn hotel, Glasgow, on Friday lunchtime. Moments before they killed him he had seriously … Read more
Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings was investigated by police for flouting the government’s own lockdown rules, it was revealed tonight. The Downing Street aide is claimed to have travelled from London to his parents’ Durham farm in March – after the coronavirus travel ban came into force. Offers did not fine him for making the … Read more
A police officer who was suspended for allegedly assaulting two suspects including a 15-year-old boy is being investigated for Tasering a third by using ‘excessive force’. The unnamed officer from West Midlands Police (WMP) was suspended after shocking footage emerged of him kicking and hitting the boy on April 21. The same officer was also filmed beating … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more