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Paedophiles could be spared jail and  given counseling instead due to the massive volume of online child abuse images and scant resources, according to Britain’s National Crime Agency NCA chief Lynne Owens said the scale […]

Choppers who was the last of the original PG Tips chimpanzees has died at Twycross Zoo. She was 48 years old and famous for her role as Ada in adverts for a popular tea brand […]

A court in Truro, Cornwall has sentenced a fake student to jail for defrauding her parents out of £250,000 for a pretend degree course at an elite UK university. Nicola Boardman spent the money her […]

A UK teenager managed to pass his driving test and get a full license despite killing a deer during the exam.  The Independent reports: Tom Lo, 17, was driving around 40mph when the deer ran […]

The tax affairs of British Prime Minister David Cameron will not be investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog, after it emerged he had profited from an offshore trust. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Hudson, […]

Thousands converged on Hyde park throughout Wednesday to celebrate World Weed Day. Police made 23 arrests for cannabis related offences. The day went by peacefully as protesters against the criminalization of marijuana enjoyed a day […]

The BBC’s coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday is “out of touch with reality,” according to the anti-monarchy group Republic. The group accuses the publicly funded broadcaster of ignoring corruption in its ‘gushing’ celebration […]

Britain is sleep-walking into an Orwellian surveillance state according to a new survey which suggests most people are either unaware of or not interested in the far-reaching implications of the government’s Investigatory Powers (IP) Bill […]

Wrexham council in Wales has introduced a tough new regime on pooing in public. For the first time in the UK anyone caught doing a number-two in a public place could face a penalty of […]