Katie Price banned from driving
September 2nd, 2012 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 2 (IANS) Glamour model Katie Price has been banned from driving for a year after she ignored two speeding tickets.The notices were sent to her Horsham address ... Read more...
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Three Jordan Paralympics athletes charged with sex offences
August 22nd, 2012 - 7:44 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 22 (IANS) Three members of the Paralympics squad from Jordan have been charged with committing sexual offences against a child and a woman, The Sun reported Wednesday.The men ... Read more...
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Man jailed for beating dog to death
August 17th, 2012 - 6:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 17 (IANS) A 27-year-old Briton has been jailed for over four months after he hanged his six-month-old puppy by its collar and then beat it to death with ... Read more...
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Anni Dewani’s South African killer gets 25 years jail
August 8th, 2012 - 11:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS) A South African man accused of killing Indian-origin honeymooning bride Anni Dewani in that country has been jailed for 25 years.Mziwamadoda Qwabe pleaded guilty to murder, ... Read more...
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Rebekah Brooks to appear in court in September
August 3rd, 2012 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 3 (IANS) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International group, has been formally charged with phone hacking and will appear in court next ... Read more...
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British judge criticises police over leniency for French miscreants
July 29th, 2012 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
London, July 28 (IANS) A British judge has criticised the police for their laziness as they preferred handing out on-the-spot fines to French youth following a violent assault because none ... Read more...
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Ronnie Barker’s son Adam Barker arrested after years of being on the run
July 24th, 2012 - 9:37 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, July 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Ronnie Barker’s son Adam Barker arrested after being on the run for a number of years. It may be recalled that he was arrested in 2003 on ... Read more...
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‘Buxom Bandit’ Tonee Walker turns herself in to the police
July 10th, 2012 - 8:10 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sydney, July 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) ‘Buxom Bandit’ Tonee Walker has turned herself in to the police. She was on the run since she tried to rob a gas station on the 2nd ... Read more...
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News of the World’s former editor charged
May 15th, 2012 - 11:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 15 (IANS) Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World (Now), and her husband Charlie were Tuesday formally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course ... Read more...
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Pakistanis plotted to bomb British army base using toy car
May 1st, 2012 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 1 (IANS) Four Pakistani-Britons have been charged with taking inspiration from Al Qaeda magazine Inspire, and plotting to use a toy car to attack a base of the ... Read more...
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Burglar to get his 83,000 pounds from police
April 6th, 2012 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 6 (IANS) A burglar in Britain has been allowed to keep 83,000 pounds (about $132,000) found at his home after he convinced the judge that it was the ... Read more...
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Britons held for cramming 69 animals in one house
March 31st, 2012 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 31 (IANS) A British couple has been charged with animal cruelty after they crammed 56 large dogs and 13 other animals in a dirty four-room house.Inspectors from the ... Read more...
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British navy officer accused of leaking secrets
March 10th, 2012 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 10 (IANS) A 29-year-old officer of the Royal Navy has been charged with communicating information that could be useful to an enemy of the state, a media report ... 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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British Royal Navy submariner charged with ‘leaking secrets’
March 8th, 2012 - 11:21 pm ICT by BNO News
LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- A British Royal Navy submariner was arrested in southwestern England earlier this week and is being accused of leaking classified information, police said on Thursday. He has been ... Read more...
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British energy minister resigns
February 4th, 2012 - 12:27 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 3 (IANS) British Energy Minister Chris Huhne resigned Friday, Xinhua reported.Police said they would prosecute him for allegedly perverting the course of justice in relation to driving ... Read more...
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QPR’s Ferdinand gets a bullet by post
January 28th, 2012 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 28 (IANS) English football club Queens Park Rangers received a "malicious package", reportedly a bullet, addressed to defender Anton Ferdinand ahead of the fourth-round FA Cup clash against ... Read more...
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Briton faces extradition over pirated movie website
January 14th, 2012 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 14 (IANS) A 23-year-old British student, accused of running a pirate movies website faces 10 years in jail after a judge said he could be sent to the ... Read more...
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She made 800 hoax calls to cops, now faces jail
December 30th, 2011 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 30 (IANS) A teenaged girl in Britain has been taken to court for making around 800 hoax calls to police emergency number 999 on Christmas and the following ... Read more...
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Man jailed for stealing ambulance in Britain
December 17th, 2011 - 1:53 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 17 (IANS) A football fan has been jailed in Britain for stealing an on-call ambulance from outside a heart attack patient's house.After attending the England international against Spain ... Read more...
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Woman microwaves kitten to death
November 25th, 2011 - 5:09 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 25 (IANS) A woman microwaved a 10-week-old kitten to death in revenge after its owner reported her abusive partner to the police, a media report said.Mum-of-two Gina Robins, ... 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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Indian jailed for tampering with British court records
November 19th, 2011 - 5:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 19 (IANS) A 22-year-old Indian-origin man, who worked as a court clerk in Britain, has been jailed for taking bribes and tampering with records at the office where ... Read more...
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NRI doctors demands removal of ‘tainted’ medical council members
November 4th, 2011 - 1:28 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 3 (IANS) A US based Indian doctor who has filed a case against several members of the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) for criminal conspiracy Thursday demanded ... Read more...
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Man facing 99 child sex charges gets bail
October 25th, 2011 - 2:42 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 25 (IANS) An elderly Australian, charged with 99 child sex offences including obtaining under-age prostitution, has been granted bail.
Richard Paul Baxter,63, of the Brisbane riverside suburb of ... Read more...
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UK charges man for possessing al-Qaeda magazine
October 19th, 2011 - 8:29 pm ICT by BNO News
LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- A British man who was arrested earlier this year was charged on Wednesday for possessing al-Qaeda's English-language online magazine, Scotland Yard said.The 21-year-old man, who has been identified ... Read more...
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Taxi driver sews lips to protest sacking
September 30th, 2011 - 10:39 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 30 (IANS) A cab driver in Britain has sewn his lips as a mark of protest after being fired from job following his conviction for assaulting a woman ... Read more...
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T&T; footballer Edwards faces jail time
September 28th, 2011 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 28 (IANS/CMC) Discarded Trinidad and Tobago footballer Carlos Edwards could spend time in jail after he was allegedly caught driving illegally.Edwards was charged on Monday for driving while disqualified ... Read more...
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Comedian who attacked Murdoch jailed for six weeks
August 3rd, 2011 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
New York, Aug 2 (IANS) A comedian, held for throwing a foam pie at media mogul Rupert Murdoch during a parliamentary select committee hearing in the phone-hacking scandal, has been ... Read more...
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Burqa painted on ads showing scantily-clad women
August 1st, 2011 - 4:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 1 (IANS) Two Muslim teenagers in London painted burqas over advertisements that showed scantily-clad women, saying it was sin for women to be exposed, a court has heard.Mohammed ... Read more...
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UK: Rupert Murdoch attacker charges, released on bail
July 20th, 2011 - 4:02 pm ICT by BNO News
LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- A protester who attempted to throw a paper plate of shaving foam into the face of News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch has been released on bail, Scotland Yard ... Read more...
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Assange challenges extradition
July 12th, 2011 - 10:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 12 (IANS) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Tuesday challenged in the London high court his extradition to Sweden in a sexual assault case. He termed the allegations as "legally ... Read more...
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Briton stabs NRI neighbour’s dog to death
July 7th, 2011 - 7:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 7 (IANS) A Briton stabbed his NRI neighbour's dog to death with a knife after it attacked his labrador, a court heard Wednesday.Mark Deeley, 50, claimed he was ... Read more...
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Guard shoots off finger with shotgun to remove wart
June 15th, 2011 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 15 (IANS) A security guard in Britain shot off his own finger with a shotgun to remove a wart, a media report said Wednesday.Sean Murphy, 38, from Doncaster, ... Read more...
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Jilted beau in court for sending 17,000 SMSs to ex-lover
June 10th, 2011 - 1:03 am ICT by IANS
London, June 9 (IANS) A jilted lover in Britain faces the possibility of a prison term for bombarding his ex-girlfriend with 17,000 SMSs and phone calls - including 180 ... Read more...
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