UK media alarmed by govt bill allowing seizure of journalists’ notes, files

Published time: February 01, 2014 10:01

UK media organizations have warned that if a government bill authorizing police to seize journalists' notebooks, photos and digital files is passed Monday, it could seriously endanger press freedom in the country.

Currently, requests for reporters’ notebooks and…

Student, 19, sliced off his own penis after stabbing his mother while high on meow meow and was found hanging out of a window with blood gushing from his groin

• Teenager was believed to have taken mephedrone before the attack
• Mother, 46, called emergency services to the family home in West Sussex
• Both parent and son, 19,…

'His skin is shedding like a snake's - he's in agony': Boy, 7, suffers horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication

• Oakley Orange was diagnosed with epilepsy and given medication
• But 12 days later he got a headache, cold and developed a rash
• His entire body burst into blisters before his hair and finger…

Fight breaks out over cut-price fruit and veg: Tesco forced to lay on extra security staff to deal with bargain hunters

• Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart said the scenes were 'shocking' 
  
  
• Reports of shoppers knocking each other to the ground over bargains 
  
  
• Some have also been seen pinching items from other…

Muslim protestors demand restaurants and shops stop selling 'evil' alcohol warning them they face 40 lashes if they carry on 

• Dozens of men and women gathered on Brick Lane, East London
  
  
• Delayed as English Defence League members staged counter-protest
• Among protestors was Anjem Choudhary, former leader of…

Kinnock's son, gay rumours and a flirty blonde Prime Minister: Meet the very unusual Danish leader who dragged David Cameron and Barack Obama into that embarrassing 'selfie' row

• Helle Thorning-Schmidt, 46, is an unconventional head of state
• The Danish PM has been nicknamed 'Gucci Helle' for her wardrobe…

Teenager 'stabbed his grandmother to death and seriously injured his grandfather as they lay in bed after taking legal high'

• Hull Crown Court heard Lewis Dale, 17, killed Irene dale, 78, with knife
• He also seriously injured her husband Allan, 80, while he slept, it was said
• Dale was a user of the drug mephedrone - known as 'meow meow or M-Cat'

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Twitter fury over Dave's selfie with Obama and a flirty Dane: Backlash over leaders' picture at Mandela memorial service that left Michelle VERY unamused

• Hundreds of world leaders gather in Johannesburg's FNB Stadium for Nelson Mandela's memorial service
• Barack Obama paid tribute to anti-apartheid icon, saying 'We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again'
• Shook hands with Cuba's Raul…

Twenty-nine convicted sex offenders are serving in armed forces: Offences include 'indecent assault and downloading child porn'

• All are on sex offenders' register, with at least 10 convicted in civilian court
• One is a category one, level two offender, described as a risk to the public
• Soldiers convicted of sexual…

Pregnant woman has unborn baby girl forcibly removed by caesarean after social workers obtain court order because she had suffered a mental breakdown

• Italian woman claims she was not warned she would be given a ceasarean
• Essex council obtained order allowing them to sedate her against her will
• The case has now escalated into an international legal row
  
  

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Britain's personal debt mountain hits record high of £1,429,624,000,000 as mortgage approvals soar to pre-crash levels

• Mortgage and credit card debts smash though 2008 record high
• Rise could signal growing confidence as the economy recovers
• Mortgage approvals rise to highest level in over five and-a-half years

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Female fans warned for nearly four years that Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was obsessed with child porn... so why didn't the police act sooner?

• Ian Watkins, 36, admitted his guilt after last minute plea-change today
• Star says he couldn't recall 'depraved acts' because he took crystal meth…

Walk 11 miles a shift and pick up an order every 33 seconds: Revealed, how Amazon works staff 'to the bone'

• Adam Littler, 23, told of the 'unbelievable' pressure of working for the retailer
• Staff are tracked around huge Amazon warehouses via GPS
• Previous workers have told how even their…

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Steven Swinford

Telegraph.co.uk

Oct. 18, 2013

The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.

Child protection charities warned that the case was unlikely to be an isolated incident as traffickers were…

The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull

By Alison Feeney-Hart

BBC News Magazine

At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. This little-discussed…

HMS Westminster arrives in Gibraltar a day after Spanish fishermen’s stand-off with Royal Navy after going into British waters 

• Warship seen approaching port of Gibraltar at around 7.15am GMT
• Day after fishermen protested over artificial reef at British outpost
• They say the concrete blocks ruin traditional fishing…

Scotland Yard examines new information on death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into new claims that Diana, Princess of Wales was murdered by a member of the British military.

Killing of grandfather near mosque 'was act of terrorism': Police question Ukrainian man held over mosque bomb attacks on suspicion of his fatal stabbing

• Police granted extra time to question Ukrainian men in connection with mosque explosions
• One of two men arrested in connection with murder of Mohammed Saleem
• Mr Saleem, 75, stabbed and stamped on as he walked back from…

Doctor’s son, 19, dies with 62 injuries after becoming violent and suffering a severe reaction to the ‘biggest ever dose’ of party drug Dr Death

• Promising teenager tragically found dead in the family home by his mother
• Victim Travis Barber had highest ever dose seen of the lethal drug in his bloodstream
• His mother has warned about the dangers of playing Russian Roulette with…