UK planning broad online domestic spying regime

Published: 06 February, 2013, 08:03

Edited: 06 February, 2013, 22:26

UK officials plan to monitor Britons' online activities by placing surveillance devices on the country's telecom networks, a Parliamentary report says. The program would keep tabs on which websites were…

Police spies stole the identities of 80 dead babies: Birth certificates were used for fake identities

• Details were taken so officers could infiltrate protest groups
  
  
• They modeled the process on the film, The Day of the Jackal
• Scotland Yard says practice no longer employed but launches investigation

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Cameron to visit Algeria after offering more than 330 British troops to take on Islamist terror groups in neighbouring in Mali

• Up to 40 UK personnel to train Malian army and another 200 to prepare combat troops from neighbouring countries
  
  
• At least 90 more personnel providing crews for Sentinel spy plane and C17 transport…

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'Supercop' who tackled New York and LA crimewaves could be heading for Scotland Yard after ban is lifted on foreign police chiefs

• David Cameron wanted Bill Bratton for London  in 2011 but was stopped
• Downing Street is changing rule that blocks  foreigners running UK forces
• Now the U.S. citizen says he wants to take  over the…

How Savile even abused his own sister's grandchild: His great niece reveals  the scandal's most sickening twist yet - and how he bribed his sister to cover  it up

  By Frances Hardy

PUBLISHED:23:45 GMT, 19  October 2012|…

So we have a new term: BRIXIT.

Japan's biggest bank Nomura has issued an 11-page study evaluating the likelihood that the UK will leave the European Union entirely or partly.

Events could accelerate as soon as this autumn if eurozone woes force the Government to commit to a firm date for a BRIXIT referendum.

"The effect a looser relationship with the EU would have on the UK economy in general and on the financial services sector in the UK in particular is not clear at…

Desperate Second World War veteran killed himself with family heirloom shotgun because he 'didn't want to lose his independence and go into a care home'

• Widower George Duckmanton, 88, was losing his eyesight but wanted to stay living in his own home

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Banned in the UK! BBC fights for right to air riot docudrama

Published: 18 July, 2012, 13:21

The BBC is considering making an appeal against a court order which stopped it from broadcasting a dramatized film on last year’s riots in London.

The film, which features actors portraying anonymous rioters sharing…

What a dope! Hunt for fly tipper who dumped £15,000 worth of cannabis at the side of the road

By Sara Malm

PUBLISHED: 17:42 GMT, 18 July 2012 | UPDATED: 18:56 GMT, 18 July 2012

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Kenyans WERE tortured under our rule, says UK: Lawyer's admission as three Mau Mau survivors tell of horror

• Thought to be first public declaration by Government that brutality occurred
• Admission comes as three elderly Kenyans seeks damages in the High Court…

HSBC let drug gangs launder millions: First Barclays, now Britain's biggest bank is shamed - and faces a £640million fine

• HSBC moved huge sum from Mexico into the U.S. between 2007 and 2008
• Provided services for Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank linked to financing terrorism
• Senate…

Britain blanketed: Roads turn to rivers and flood warnings across the country as month's worth of rain set to fall in a day

• Environment Agency extends flood alerts to 98 and issues five full warnings
• Yorkshire, the North East, the Midlands and East Anglia are worst-hit
• Experts say risk of…

Pilotless fighter will fly over UK from 2013 - and robot plane could lead to passenger aircraft with no one at the controls

• Robot fighter is bigger than drone
  
  
• Can stay airborne for 24 hours with no human on board
• Technology could be used for pilotless passenger aircraft…

Know your ‘troll’: UK considers law disclosing users` identities

Published: 12 June, 2012, 20:03

British internet users may soon have an opportunity of meeting those who ‘troll’ them face to face. The parliament is considering a legislation making website operators to identify users posting defamatory comments.

­The…

Invasion of the migrant squatters: Eviction orders for London mansions DOUBLE as economic crisis drives influx from overseas

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 15:09 GMT, 9 June 2012 | UPDATED: 15:09 GMT, 9 June…

You're a war criminal! Security probe after protester bursts into courtroom as Tony Blair gives evidence at Leveson Inquiry

• Intruder was filmmaker and veteran Iraq War protester David Lawley-Wakelin
• He burst in through from behind Lord Justice Leveson through security-coded entrance reserved for the judge…

Police block hundreds of protesters during demo at site growing experimental GM wheat crop

• Up to 400 people demonstrate at Rothamsted Institute in Hertfordshire
• Protest group Take The Flour Back want to rip up experimental crops
• Scientists say they threaten to destroy years of painstaking research…

UFO sighting by RAF pilot captured on radar left government's chief scientist 'convinced' by evidence

By Chris Hanlon

PUBLISHED: 18:12 GMT, 27 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:38 GMT, 27 May…

Firearms officer in 'suicide riddle' after he is found with gunshot wounds at police station

By Rebecca Camber

PUBLISHED: 00:58 GMT, 15 May 2012 | UPDATED: 00:58 GMT, 15 May…