‘Judges are not there to be people’s best friends’: Former police chief slams ‘ridiculous’ new guidelines telling judges to think about how their ‘words and behaviour’ could affect criminal suspects in court Courts and Tribunals Judiciary have stressed judges to ‘be mindful’ of behaviour Advice urged that ‘shouting and snapping’ should be avoided to prevent offence A former police chief […]
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Bookmark Don’t miss a thing! Sign up to the Daily Star’s newsletter We have more newsletters Teachers at a UK school are said to have left children as young as four outside in the freezing cold in just their t-shirts as a sick "punishment". Fuming parents had complained that their children at Francis Askew Primary School had been left outdoors […]
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Picture a mass shooter and an angry, racist, young and disturbed White male might come to mind. The aging Asian men accused of this week’s mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay don’t fit that profile. COMPLETE COVERAGE: Monterey Park Mass Shooting “The typical profile is a younger, Anglo, male born in the U.S.,” Ben Newman, an associate […]
Read moreGENEVA (AP) — The IOC made clear Wednesday it wants Russians to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics as neutral athletes, in defiance of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call to exclude them entirely. Citing a “unifying mission” during a time of war, the International Olympic Committee said no athlete should face discrimination based only on the passport they held. “A […]
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Britain’s so-called fastest cop has been filmed in another impressive chase – this time catching up to a van of thieves to make a bust. PC Luke Watson has apparently never let a crook get away from him in his six years with the police – including his time as an acting sergeant for Waltham Abbey Town Team. In a […]
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Yardbirds guitarist Anthony ‘Top’ Topham dies aged 75 just two weeks after death of Jeff Beck who succeeded him in the pioneering blues band Anthony ‘Top’ Topham helped form rhythm and blues band The Yardbirds in 1963 The guitarist died on Monday after battling dementia for the last years of his life Topham adopted the name Sanderson Rasjid after joining […]
Read moreNEW YORK (AP) — First there were four, then they became three and finally just one. Now it's time to say a final farewell to art pop-rock Panic! at the Disco. Brendon Urie, the only musician left from the original group, announced on the band's Instagram page Tuesday that Panic! at the Disco “will be no more.” Urie, 35, shared […]
Read moreMOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Wednesday ruled to shut down Russia's oldest human rights organization, in the latest move amid a months-long, relentless crackdown on independent media, rights groups and opposition activists. The Moscow City Court sustained the petition of Russia's Justice Ministry to close the Moscow Helsinki Group. The ministry has accused the organization of violating […]
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Mother-of-three, 31, told she was ‘too young’ for cancer is given 12 months to live after being diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer Emma Louise Clark, 31, says she was told that she was ‘too young’ for cancer But then she received the diagnosis she had stage three cervical cancer A mother-of-three who says she was told she was ‘too […]
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