“I walked in thinking this person was on my side,” he says. “I walked out understanding that nobody in that room was on my side except me. And I didn't even know what questions to ask.”
Garda Conor McDonagh told the court that the defendant was detected travelling at a speed of 147km/h. The weather conditions were dry and there was moderate traffic on the road. Garda McDonagh handed in proof of postage of the FCPN to the court. Judge Cunningham found the facts proven. She fined Sherlock €320.
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Bright Banda, of Meadow Lane, Roscommon Road, Athlone, Roscommon, is charged with 12 counts of deception at various addresses in Dublin, Westmeath, Longford and Roscommon between February 2023 and January 2026.
The parents of babies abused by a nursery worker in west London say the decision to deport her after serving less than 15% of her prison sentence is "horrendous". Polish national Roksana Lecka abused 21 babies at two London nurseries between October 2023 and June 2024 and offences included punching, kicking and smacking the children. She may face no further consequences in Poland. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said she "is banned for life from returning to the UK". The Polish government has been asked to comment.
On Saturday, May 16, gardaí conducted a search at a residential premises in Athy, Co Kildare, resulting in the seizure of approximately €60,000 of cannabis and €20,000 worth of cocaine. Approximately €8,500 euro was also seized, along with drug paraphernalia consistent with the sale and supply of controlled drugs, and a hydraulic compressor.
Official figures showed the unemployment rate rose unexpectedly to 5pc in the three months to March, while vacancies slumped to their lowest level in five years as businesses in the struggling retail and hospitality sectors pulled back from recruitment.
Border Force seized Konkel's truck carrying 28 pallets of SKIMS clothing on the ferry from the Netherlands into the Port of Harwich in Essex. After Border Force x-rayed the truck, they discovered 90 packages of cocaine, almost 200 pounds (that's American pounds), reportedly valued at around 7 million pounds (that's British pounds) or US$9.4 million. Konkel denied knowledge of the drugs, but eventually fessed up to being paid 4,500 euros to mule.
The Metropolitan Police will ask the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consider charging up to 57 individuals and 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire disaster. In an update at New Scotland Yard, the force said it would submit evidence files to the CPS by the end of September this year. A final decision on whether to bring charges could take until June 2027 - 10 years after the fire, which killed 72 people.
The Gambling Commission operates a publicly searchable register of licensed operators. Any business offering real-money gambling to UK consumers without a current UKGC licence is doing so illegally. That fact has a direct implication for casino review platforms: a site that lists unlicensed operators alongside licensed ones cannot be making a meaningful distinction between regulated and unregulated products.
“This was not a random assault, or a form of robbery. Rather it was a planned and targeted attack.” “A planned attack preceded by reconnaissance, and which was ordered by a third party acting on behalf of the Iranian state,” he said.
Robert says his driving instructor encouraged him to use a reseller to secure an earlier test date, reassuring him it was legitimate. The reseller logged in with Robert's details, booked the test, and the DVSA sent him a confirmation. “Once I got the booking confirmation, that's when I felt a bit of relief,” Robert tells the BBC after contacting BBC Your Voice. “The expense though was crazy.”
More than two months into the US-Israeli war on Iran, leading surveys of UK employers showed companies were increasingly prioritising cost management over growth as rising costs and global uncertainty weigh on confidence. According to a survey by the accountancy firm BDO, more than half of medium-sized businesses said higher energy and fuel costs, combined with supply chain pressures, were the biggest challenges they face as the Middle East conflict continues.
The “Great British People” Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing “the overwhelming scale of mass immigration” and asking viewers if they miss “the Britain we used to know”. But it is not clear whether the creator of the videos knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka.
X has pledged to review UK reports of suspected illegal hate and terrorist content within 24 hours on average, under commitments accepted by Ofcom. The Elon Musk-owned company said this would apply to content flagged through its illegal content reporting tool. The BBC has contacted X for comment. The announcement follows the launch of an Ofcom compliance programme in December, assessing whether the biggest social media companies have adequate systems and processes for dealing with reports of illegal hate and terror material.
Residents in west London have called for the removal of a newly installed safety net on a Transport for London (TfL) depot in Northfields, after it trapped and killed wild birds. One man told the BBC that gulls have become trapped and were "dying slow and painful deaths." "One has been dying loudly for four days." A spokesperson for the Swan Sanctuary in Shepperton, which carried out the rescue, said the net was "not a deterrent for birds, it's an expensive death trap".
Driving under the influence of nitrous oxide is an emerging threat to the safety of motorists on our roads. Its use can cause unconsciousness and even neurological damage or death from suffocation of the oxygen supply to the brain. Tragically, our officers have already seen deaths connected to drivers who were under the influence of NOS. The innovative device is being tested by our officers to see if it can be used to detect if a driver is under the influence of this harmful drug. If successful, this could lead these motorists to be prosecuted for drug driving offences.
