Newsnight award for coverage of high-profile children’s charity is probed after High Court cleared founder and trustees of wrongdoing Kids Company collapsed in 2015 just after getting a £3m grant from Government BBC Newsnight team won Royal Television Society Scoop of the Year prize in 2016 for their reports on the charity But RTS is … Read more
The daughter of a black couple who claimed they were racially profiled after officers stopped them for ‘driving a vehicle on a road’ said Suffolk Police have been ‘cleared of any wrongdoing’. Ingrid Antoine-Oniyoke, 47, and her 50-year-old husband Falil Oniyoke were stopped near their home in Ipswich in June last year because one … Read more
Mum who called trans woman ‘he’ on Twitter is CLEARED of wrongdoing after appealing against conviction Kate Scottow was arrested after allegedly sending tweets to transgender woman Stephanie Hayden had accused Mrs Scottow of causing ‘significant online abuse’ St Albans Magistrates’ Court had found Mrs Scottow guilty of persistently using a public communications network to cause annoyance … Read more
Whistleblower ‘ousted over EU fraud expose’: Briton accuses officials of ‘Kafkaesque’ behaviour after he exposed financial wrongdoing Robert McCoy, 70, pushed out of post after over three decades as an EU official The Liverpool-born economist said he uncovered ‘fraudulent expenses’ claims Mr McCoy said he was bullied and forced out of job on health grounds … Read more
Ulster veterans will NOT be covered by new law to halt witch-hunts against military veterans accuse of wrongdoing on battlefields abroad New Overseas Operations Bill will protect veterans accused of wrongdoing But the Bill will not apply to soldiers who served in Northern Ireland Dennis Hutchings, 78, accuses of government of ‘discriminatory behaviour’ Hutchings is … Read more