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  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Insider trading
    Signs of UK insider trading fell to five-year low in 2023, FCA says

    Financial regulator finds suspicious stock market moves took place before 30% of takeover announcements

    Stock price information displayed in the London Stock Exchange Group’s office atrium in the City of London
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    England’s chief prosecutor warns lawyers’ pay may be adding to court delays

    Head of Crown Prosecution Service Stephen Parkinson calls for review

    Stephen Parkinson
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Sainsbury’s shoppers warned to watch out for Nectar points scam

    Fraudsters target customers who have built up a high points balance ahead of Christmas

    A Sainsbury’s customer uses a self checkout till
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    MP Mike Amesbury charged with assault

    Politician summoned to appear in court after incident in Cheshire town last month

    Mike Amesbury campaigning in Frodsham, Cheshire, England in 2017
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    UK society
    UK teenager accused of Southport stabbings charged with terrorism offence

    Al-Qaeda manual and deadly poison ricin allegedly found at Axel Rudakubana’s home

    Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy providing an update into the investigation into the murders of six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, and the attempted murders of eight children and two adults in Southport
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why the UK is failing to catch up with fraudsters

    The UK must equip law enforcement to tackle increasingly sophisticated criminals and give victims confidence to report

    A person enters credit card details on their laptop
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Religious hate crimes hit record high in England and Wales, data shows

    Offences against Jewish people more than double in year to March while number of incidents against Muslims also rises

    A billboard poster raising awareness about hate crime on a street in Glasgow
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Sanjeev Gupta
    Steel magnate Gupta prosecuted over failure to file accounts

    Industrialist faces multiple charges of failing to deliver accounts’ copies to Companies House

    Sanjeev Gupta
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK police and crime minister’s purse stolen at police conference

    Diana Johnson’s belongings stolen from hotel where she gave speech to members of Police Superintendents’ Association

    Dame Diana Johnson, the minister for policing, fire and crime prevention
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Statistics are still misunderstood in the courtroom

    As the inquiry into the Lucy Letby case begins, experts are querying the use of scientific evidence

    Andy Carter illustration of a courtroom scene mixed with a bar chart, showing the statistics having a large presence in the courtroom.
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK regulator charges man with unlawfully running crypto ATMs

    Move by Financial Conduct Authority marks first criminal prosecution for activity widely used for money laundering

    The Financial Conduct Authority offices
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Suicides and drug use surge in England’s crowded jails, says watchdog

    ‘Decisive action’ needed to improve safety and cut reoffending says chief inspector of prisons as early release scheme begins

    An inmate looks out of a window of a young offenders institution
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Lucy Letby: The battle for the truth

    Doctors and scientists raise concerns over evidence used to convict neonatal nurse of infant murders ahead of inquiry next week

    Montage shows a photograph of Lucy Letby and a post-it note found inside her diary and used in evidence
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    UK riots
    Nine-year jail term for man involved in asylum hotel fire during UK riots

    Sentence is one of the longest in connection with far-right violence over the summer

    Thomas Birley holding a police baton during the riot in Rotherham
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Senior ex-judges call for reduced jail terms in England and Wales

    Forty years of sentence inflation has left prisons ‘unfit for purpose’, say former Lord Chief Justices

    A view along wing A of Wandsworth prison
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    ‘The beef is settled’: the club taking grudge fights off the street

    Members of the Spartan Bare Knuckle Fight Club arrive battling their demons. In an eight-foot by eight-foot pit, they find a different way

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    There’s a reason online fraud elicits such a visceral response

    It exploits fellow feeling and gnaws away at the foundations of a civilised society

    Ewan White illustration of an old lady sticking needles in a voodoo doll
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    UK riots
    UK to hold offenders in police cells amid justice system ‘crisis’

    Operation Early Dawn activated following violent unrest across country in recent weeks

    Police on horses patrol as anti-racism counter-protesters gather in Preston, UK
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    UK needs no lessons from apologists for rioters

    The historic mission of mainstream politics is to listen to the real communities, not their malign mouthpieces

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a Banksy-style graffiti of a rioter about to throw a brick but who has a surveillance camera in his face and a hand reaching out to him with handcuffs.
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    News in-depthUK riots
    False information cases in wake of riots test UK’s online safety law

    Authorities have moved swiftly to punish people alleged to have been involved in the worst unrest England has experienced since 2011

    Montage of two smartphones showing TikTok and X against a background showing a youth in a hooded top about to throw an object
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    UK politics
    Tom Tugendhat hits out at Starmer’s response to far-right violence

    Tory leadership hopeful accuses PM of ‘falling short’ in ‘first test’ since taking office

    Tom Tugendhat
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Two 12-year-olds plead guilty over UK riots

    Prosecutions for violent disorder are youngest to date over far-right violence

    Riots in Southport on July 30
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Ministers warn UK riots will set back efforts to fix justice system

    Labour government inherited Crown Court backlog of 68,000 cases and prison overcrowding crisis

    A police officer looking at a car that is on fire
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    Luke Tryl
    Rioting has left Britain deeply shaken

    Fear and dismay are widely shared but new research reveals more profound, and differing, sources of unease

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    ExplainerUK riots
    How are judges dealing with England’s rioters?

    Fast-track hearings have led to more than 30 individuals appearing in Crown Court so far as prosecutors bring range of charges

    Montage of photos issued by police forces and the CPS of some of the defendants who have appeared in court following serious disorder during anti-immigration protests in the UK
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