Newcastle Crown Court heard that Juric shared an image of two schoolgirls in uniform, aged around 15, with the undercover officer. He went on to share an indecent image of a girl aged around 14 posing in a sexual manner with her breasts partially exposed, the prosecution said. Omar Ahmad, prosecuting, said that in November 2024, Juric messaged the decoy again. The defendant asked the decoy if they were horny and what were they into, the court heard.
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after another boy died following a crash involving the e-scooter they were riding and a car last March, Greater Manchester Police said. Jacob Calland, also 14, a passenger on the e-scooter, was injured when it collided with a car in Wythenshawe at 4pm on 19 March, 2025. Police previously said the e-scooter came to a rest on a third vehicle in Southmoor Road.
Valve's policies on Steam violate UK laws on "anti-competitive prices" and "unfair trading conditions that prevent or hinder others from competing with them." The argument concerns Valve's demand that games sold on Steam not be made available at a permanently lower price on rival stores, and that once you buy a game on Steam, the only way you can buy further content for that game-be it DLC, expansion packs or cosmetics-is also via Steam.
"They are still relatively small numbers. But the thing I would say is, this was a pilot. It was designed to try to prove that this new model of working with the French could work. "And there are practical issues around how quickly you can detain people and then get them on a plane and move them out to France."
Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old British pro-Palestine activist, has ended a hunger and thirst strike in prison after his health deteriorated rapidly, with fears he was at high risk of a heart attack. Khalid, who is being held on pre-trial remand at the Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London, ended his protest on Sunday, the day he was treated in intensive care as his heart rate slowed to a dangerous level.
New rules making it much harder to close noisy pubs and clubs could be introduced under a radical plan to protect London's night-time economy. It wants councils to only investigate noise complaints if a minimum of 10 unrelated households complain, to prevent only a handful of vexatious neighbours being able to effectively force pubs and clubs to close early. The taskforce's report said London needs a more modern approach to managing sound in the city and changes to noise enforcement rules.
Electrical retailer AO has upgraded its networks to accelerate its business with informed decision-making, securely connecting a diverse range of devices and streamlining IT operations across all 26 of its offices and logistics centres across the UK. AO describes itself as the UK's most trusted electrical retailer, and is known for its home appliances, consumer electronics and mobile phones. The firm started life in 2000 as part of a £1 bet by founder John Roberts on his mission to sell electrical appliances online.
The UK's poorest families are getting poorer, with record numbers of people classed as in very deep poverty meaning their annual household incomes fail to cover the cost of food, energy bills and clothing, according to analysis. Although overall relative poverty levels have flatlined in recent years at about 21% of the population, life for those below the breadline has got materially worse as they try to subsist on incomes many thousands of pounds beneath the poverty threshold.
A portion of the land dubbed the UK's worst illegal waste dump is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster, the King's extensive private portfolio of properties and estates. The waste site in Bickershaw, Wigan, is part of the UK's mounting crisis of illegal dumping. But the Duchy has said due to an ancient feudal legal framework from more than 700 years ago, it is in effect exempt from cleaning up the site, according to an investigation by Channel 4 News.
Bork!Bork!Bork! London's Elizabeth Line is the latest thing in urban development (at least as far as the UK is concerned). So it seems appropriate that its borks should be similarly up to date, and its emoticons rotated so the intent cannot be mistaken. Sent in by an eagle-eyed Register reader, today's entry in the pantheon of bork was snapped at London's Paddington station,
It didn't look like anything had been missing initially until we noticed the retractable parcel shelf had been removed. We had to wait weeks for the new window because it's such a common problem in north London that the demand for the windows was just exceeding their ability to supply them. We were told, if we replaced it, to take the parcel shelf out at night.
PA Award-winning actor and DJ Sir Idris Elba has been fined after he was caught breaking a 20mph (32km/h) speed limit while riding his scooter along Chelsea Embankment in London. Sir Idris, known for starring in Luther and The Wire, was recorded travelling at 28mph last June. He was given a 147 fine at Westminster Magistrates' Court, as well as three penalty points on his licence, and ordered to pay 110 in costs and a 59 victim surcharge.
After a stream of policy announcements over several months, Shabana Mahmood has unveiled a white paper outlining reforms that will affect every police force across England and Wales and could well abolish most of them. The home secretary's department has described it as the biggest overhaul of policing since the service was founded two centuries ago. The white paper, entitled From Local to National: a New Model for Policing, outlines policies that will include:
If you have searched for UKGC casinos not affected by GamStop, you're not alone. Many UK players do this after joining GamStop and later realising it blocks access to every UK licensed casino. That frustration often leads to confusion and plenty of misleading claims online. To be clear, GamStop is a UK wide self exclusion scheme and all UKGC licensed casinos must enforce it. None can opt out, pause it, or bypass it in any way.
Saini said there was a compelling basis for concluding that the claimant's iPhones were hacked by Pegasus spyware, which resulted in the exfiltration of data from those mobile phones, and that this conduct was directed or authorised by the KSA [kingdom of Saudi Arabia] or agents acting on its behalf. The judge also found, on the balance of probabilities, that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the 2018 physical attack on al-Masarir,
Situated on Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury, the museum welcomes more than six million visitors each year and houses over eight million items, making it the UK's most visited museum. Popular restaurant chain, The Ivy, which has branches in Kensington, Clapham, Covent Garden and Liverpool Street, was named the most requested destination for restaurants. Meanwhile, Harrods, in Knightsbridge, topped the shopping category.
The number of people who have contacted us highlights the seriousness of the abuse being reported, my team and I are committed to engaging with each survivor and witness. We would like to speak to anyone who may have information which can inform our investigation. We recognise how difficult it can be to come forward with experiences like these, particularly when they occurred many years ago.
There was an early public acknowledgment that a serious error had occurred, yet Mr Morton was forced to pursue proceedings to the brink of trial to achieve any finality. Prolonged denial and delay can itself become a source of real harm.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has confirmed on January 23rd the operators that will deliver the first phase of its new bus franchising system, bringing buses back under public control for the first time since deregulation in the 1980s. The move places Liverpool among a small group of English regions outside London to adopt a franchised public transport model, fundamentally changing how local bus services are planned, funded and delivered.
Roy Morton, then 80, who lives alone and has a pacemaker, was confronted by armed officers and Tasered as he emerged from his kitchen in his pyjamas holding a wooden doorstop on the morning of December 28, 2021. Despite police records indicating the suspect was a 26-year-old man, Mr Morton was arrested for affray and detained for almost 11 hours, including a transfer to hospital. The Metropolitan Police has now agreed to settle claims with Mr Morton just weeks before a fiveday trial was listed to begin in February.
Whitehall's Banqueting House, one of the few survivors of the vast Palace of Whitehall, is due to reopen this summer, but is having a few preview days before fully reopening. Inside the highlight is the painted ceiling by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, commissioned by King Charles I and installed in 1636. That painted ceiling would also have been one of the last things the King saw when he was led out onto the scaffolding to be executed.
