Thousands of online grooming crimes have been recorded while waiting for updated online safety laws. Campaigners are urging tech companies and MPs to back the Online Safety Bill and are calling for no more hold-ups. The bill aims to crack down on illegal content and has faced repeated delays and amendments. Children’s charity the NPSCC […]
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Harben House Hotel in Newport Pagnell is due to receive 270 asylum seekers paid for by the home office. However, it has come to light that the hotel’s owner, Siddharth Mahajan, 42, from Ilford in east London, was convicted of offences linked to the operation of houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs). Milton Keynes Council leader
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MP Mhairi Black has slammed Westminster ‘full of a***holes’ in a crass rant. The SNP deputy leader in Westminster commented on-stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, blasting the Government and saying her time spent there made her “stomach turn.” Black announced last month that she would be stepping down at the next election after holding
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Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa.” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced the referendum question in a video published on social media at the weekend. The video contains images of burning cars and violence on the streets of
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Six people have been confirmed dead, and over 50 have been rescued after a migrant boat capsized in the Channel this morning. The small boat is believed to have had difficulty at around 5 am on Saturday due to severe adverse weather conditions before being rescued around 5 miles from Calais. Five French ships, two
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Welsh Secretary David TC Davies had been accused of creating a ‘hostile environment for Gypsies and travellers’ after he sent out leaflets to his constituents asking if they wanted a traveller/gypsy campsite next to them. However, after a short investigation, the Police will take no further action against Davis. The MP had been defended by
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On Monday 7 August the first migrants were moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge amid concerns about the barges’ suitability and safety. Up to 500 men aged 18-65 will be housed on the barge while they await the outcome of their asylum application. The floating accommodation block was docked off the Dorset coast nearly three
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Eddie Izzard has announced he is aiming to stand as the Labour candidate in Brighton at the next general election. The 61-year-old said: ‘Labour needs a candidate that can inspire many thousands to become our friends and allies in the fight for a fairer-greener-cleaner planet’. Izzard, originally from nearby Bexhill-on-sea, said of Brighton: ‘Support this
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Robin Harper has resigned his life membership of the Scottish Green party as he believes it has ‘lost the plot’. Mr Harper, who was the UK’s first Green parliamentarian, quit in a letter to co-leader Patrick Harvie. The 82-year-old served as a Lothians MSP between 1999 and 2011 and was co-convener of the party from
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Teachers, governors and pupils are leaving a ‘toxic’ primary school in droves over allegations of ‘commonplace’ racism, bullying and serious failings. St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, has lost around a third of its pupils as parents pull their children out amid a plethora of concerns. At the centre of all the controversy
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