Britain’s cardboard cop cuts shoplifting by 75 percent
August 11th, 2012 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) The life-size cut-out of a police officer guarding a supermarket in Britain has been so effective that shoplifting has been slashed by 75 percent.The cardboard cop, ... Read more...
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Woman wrongly accused of watching porn gets compensation
August 2nd, 2012 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 2 (IANS) A 50-year-old British woman who was wrongly accused of watching internet pornography at her office has been awarded 20,000 pounds in compensation.An employment tribunal found that ... Read more...
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Anuj Bidve’s killer jailed for life
July 27th, 2012 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 27 (IANS) The man who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve in a "motiveless" murder in Greater Manchester has been jailed for life, the BBC reported Friday.Kiaran Stapleton, ... Read more...
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‘Psycho’ guilty of murdering Indian student Bidve
July 27th, 2012 - 12:16 am ICT by IANS
London, July 26 (IANS) A killer who called himself "Psycho" has been found guilty of murdering Indian student Anuj Bidve at random on a British street, The Independent reported Thursday.Kiaran ... Read more...
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British boy, 12, jailed for raping two girls
July 14th, 2012 - 9:14 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 14 (IANS) A 12-year-boy in Britain has been sentenced to four years in prison for raping two girls a year ago. He is one of the youngest people ... Read more...
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Victim asks court to jail Pakistani rapist for life
June 23rd, 2012 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 23 (IANS) A 59-year-old Pakistani-origin cab driver in Britain, who was the ringleader of an Asian sex gang that preyed on white schoolgirls, should be jailed for life, ... Read more...
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British juror caught smoking cannabis, fined
May 19th, 2012 - 11:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 19 (IANS) A British juror on a rape trial was fined 450 pounds (over $700) after being caught smoking cannabis cigarette during lunch break.Shezad Hussain, 26, was puffing ... Read more...
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Squeals of delight, ‘n’ screams of protests
May 19th, 2012 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 19 (IANS) A man in Britain is fearful of a neighbourhood couple's revenge afer recording their noise while making love at night, as he felt it was disturbing ... Read more...
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Pakistani gang jailed for raping 50 white British girls
May 9th, 2012 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 9 (IANS) Nine members of a gang - eight Pakistanis and one Afghan - have been sentenced to jail for a combined 77 years by a British court ... Read more...
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Pregnant Asian Muslim stabbed to death in Britain
May 9th, 2012 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 9 (IANS) A 26-year-old Asian Muslim woman, who was pregnant with her second child, has been found stabbed to death in Britain.Saiba Khatoon was stabbed at her family ... Read more...
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Muslim driver dumps passengers for carrying wine bottle
April 14th, 2012 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 14 (IANS) A Muslim taxi driver in Britain has been fired after he threw out a family carrying an unopened bottle of wine saying "it's against my ... Read more...
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Man teaches neighbours ‘parking sense’ with fake summons
March 9th, 2012 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 9 (IANS) A man in Britain, irritated with his neighbours' habit of parking their cars on the pavement meant for the general public to walk, acted as a ... Read more...
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108-year-old vacuum cleaner retrieved from scrap yard
March 3rd, 2012 - 12:14 am ICT by IANS
London, March 2 (IANS) An aluminum vacuum cleaner made in 1904 was retrieved from a scrap yard and is still working, the Daily Mail reported Friday.The American Sturtevant vacuum cleaner ... Read more...
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11 Asian men face sexual abuse charges in Britain
February 22nd, 2012 - 12:43 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 21 (IANS) A group of 11 Asian men plied five girls, as young as 13, with drink and drugs and had sex with them several times a day, ... Read more...
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Britain’s rich painted themselves in uncharitable way
February 20th, 2012 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 20 (IANS) A charity shop in Britain faced a strange situation when it witnessed rich families, looking for a bargain, thronging in response to its offer of tins ... Read more...
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Indian MBA student was stabbed in neck,chest, abdomen
February 12th, 2012 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 12 (IANS) The Indian MBA student was stabbed in the neck, chest and abdomen several times and thrown out of the apartment where he lived in Britain's Hampshire ... Read more...
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Mountain rescuer killed in Californian expedition
January 22nd, 2012 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 22 (IANS) A British mountaineer plunged 150-feet to his death after slipping over a frozen waterfall in California.Michael Machell, 23, lost his footing as he prepared to descend ... Read more...
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Anuj Bidve’s body brought back to India
January 7th, 2012 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 7 (IANS) Slain Indian student Anuj Bidve's body was brought back to India Saturday by his family members for performing his last rites, a family source said.The distraught ... Read more...
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Anuj’s parents plead for justice, to return with body Saturday
January 6th, 2012 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 6 (IANS) The distraught parents of murdered Indian student Anuj Bidve have met with the authorities here and pleaded for justice for their son who was shot dead ... Read more...
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British cops meet slain Indian student’s kin (Lead)
January 2nd, 2012 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Jan 2 (IANS) British police officers Monday evening visited the grief-stricken family of 23-year-old Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in Manchester a day after Christmas. The ... Read more...
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British cops meet slain Indian student’s kin
January 2nd, 2012 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Jan 2 (IANS) British police officers Monday evening visited the grief-stricken family of 23-year-old Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in Manchester a day after Christmas, his ... Read more...
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‘Honour’ crimes rising rapidly in Britain
December 4th, 2011 - 4:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 4 (IANS) The number of crimes against girls and women carried out by their families or communities in Britain rose by 47 percent in just a year, police ... Read more...
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Rose Devlin & Denise Egan’s theft attempt goes wrong
November 23rd, 2011 - 7:52 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Manchester, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Dummy’s guide to rob a supermarket: fuel your getaway car before the attempt! The police arrested a pair who stole £400 worth of alcohol and realized later ... Read more...
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Man jailed in Britain for raping drunk women
September 24th, 2011 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 24 (IANS) A 21-year-old man of Asian origin has been jailed for raping drunk women students, a media report said Saturday.Dubbed the "Night Rapist", Asim Javed preyed on ... Read more...
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She underwent breast cancer surgery at 99!
August 31st, 2011 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 31 (IANS) A great-great-grandmother in Britain is today the oldest person in the country to have undergone surgery for breast cancer, just ahead of celebrating her 100th birthday.Dorothy ... Read more...
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Kid who lost all limbs named bravest in Britain
August 27th, 2011 - 7:17 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 27 (IANS) A six-year-old boy who lost all his limbs to meningitis - an infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord - has been named ... Read more...
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British police pay one mn pounds for customer surveys
May 15th, 2011 - 8:59 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 15 (IANS) County police departments in Britain are reportedly paying marketing companies nearly one million pounds every year to carry out "customer satisfaction" surveys, a daily has revealed.Data ... Read more...
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UK govt. urged to review cyber-stalking laws
May 1st, 2011 - 6:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 1 (ANI): A senior British police officer has urged the government to review cyber-stalking laws, and empower police to seize computers used to harass victims online.It is hard to prove ... Read more...
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Meet the UK mum who welcomed her 3 kids at the same time - 7.43
April 8th, 2011 - 6:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 08 (ANI): It looks like pregnancy has always gone like clockwork for a mother in UK as all her three children were born exactly at the same time - 7.43.Experts ... Read more...
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Teacher in Britain films sex with students, faces jail
April 5th, 2011 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 5 (IANS) A 29-year-old schoolteacher in Britain, who filmed himself having sex with three underage girls, will face imprisonment, a media report said.Christopher Drake, a physical education teacher, ... Read more...
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Cops break up cricket match after ball hitting shutter mistaken for gunshots
March 17th, 2011 - 5:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.17 (ANI): Armed police in Greater Manchester were forced to break up a cricket match after the sound of the ball hitting a shutter was mistaken for gunshots by a passer- ... Read more...
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Police dog bites cost thousands of pounds for UK taxpayers
March 14th, 2011 - 9:59 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Mar 14 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Police dog bites have costed thousands of pounds for tax-payers in UK. According to a report by BBC, police officials have so far paid around 770,000 pounds ... Read more...
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Man in ‘love’ jailed for stalking woman over blog
March 10th, 2011 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 10 (IANS) A man, who compiled up to 35 blogs to publicly insult his girl-friend after their month-long affair was ended by her, has been jailed by ... Read more...
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300m-1 odds: All 3 children of Brit couple born at 7.43
January 24th, 2011 - 6:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 24 (ANI): A British couple is over the moon after the birth of their third child who entered the world exactly at 7.43.Matt Rigby, 31, and partner Lowry Dairsley defied ... Read more...
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Nine Asian men held in child sex grooming case
January 11th, 2011 - 6:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 11 (IANS) Nine Asian men have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of being involved in grooming white teenage girls for sex, Sky News reported Tuesday.The suspects - aged between ... Read more...
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