UK

Police have arrested up to 40 people in the course of weeklong Occupy Democracy protests outside the UK Parliament. Activists had originally set out to resist government austerity, poverty and inequality. Hundreds of police officers […]

Internet users who ‘threaten’ national security, by causing economic or environmental damage, could face a life sentence under new government plans to crack down on internet crime. Campaigners say the move will target whistleblowers. The […]

A Royal Protection officer has been arrested after ammunition was found in personnel lockers on the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The express reports:- ‘The ammunition is believed to be from the Metropolitan Police’s own supplies […]

‘The BBC is using laws designed to catch terrorists and organised crime networks to track down people who dodge the licence fee, it emerged yesterday. The publicly-funded corporation uses the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act […]

Police should carry firearms routinely because of the targeting of officers by terrorists, a leading US Congressman has said. Mike Rogers, who chairs the House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is seen […]

This is the picture which last night intensified pressure on the head of the Government’s child abuse inquiry to resign. It shows Fiona Woolf with Lady Brittan, the wife of former Home Secretary Lord Brittan, […]

Plans to build new ‘super child jails’ for kids as young as 12 will be run by private companies.  Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has decided that prison staff should be able to use force on […]

The Lawyer who replaced Butler-Sloss in the CSA inquiry into alleged paedophile politicians says ‘no close association’ with Tory peer Leon Brittan and also stressed that she was “not a member of the establishment” But […]