Layton Davies failed to pay back £600,000 made from selling treasure found in Herefordshire in 2015 A metal detectorist convicted of stealing a £3m Viking treasure hoard has had his jail sentence extended after he failed to pay back more than £600,000. Layton Davies and George Powell were jailed in 2019 for failing to declare the collecti
Moscow accuses British diplomats of spying after Putin says using western weapons in Russia would mean war with Nato
Russia revokes accreditation of six British diplomats it accuses of spying Russia’s FSB security service has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow whose actions it said showed signs of spying and sabotage work. The FSB said on Friday it had documents showing that a British Foreign Office department in London was coordinating
Arctic air could bring patchy frost to UK this week, says Met Office
Low pressure to give rise to blustery showers and risk of thunder before temperatures increase again at weekend The UK could be hit with patchy frost over the next few days as Arctic air sweeps in, bringing with it blustery showers and a small risk of thunder and hail, the Met Office has said. There […]
North Sea oil firm Neo slows investment amid windfall tax concerns
Battle ahead for Labour as it introduces higher taxes and tougher environmental rules on producers. An oil and gas company has slowed down work on a large North Sea oilfield, citing uncertainty over the Labour government’s approach to fossil fuels. The Norwegian-owned Neo Energy said it had decided “to materially slow down inves
Some probation officers given a week’s notice of serious offenders’ release, union says
Exclusive: Napo says officers do not feel protected as 2,000 offenders to be let out early to try to ease prison crisis Probation officers have been given as little as a week’s notice to prepare for serious offenders to be freed in England and Wales under the government’s early-release scheme, the Guardian has been told. About 2,000 [&hel
UK ‘needs £1tn investment over 10 years to hit economic targets’
To achieve 3% annual growth, £100bn a year must be found for key sectors like housing and energy, City taskforce finds The UK needs £1tn of fresh investment over the next decade if the government is to hit its economic growth targets, a City taskforce has said. The Capital Markets of Tomorrow report, led by […]
Prisons crisis needs ‘radical solutions’ in England and Wales, say former top judges
Five of the most senior former judges in England and Wales have warned that “radical solutions” such as the earlier release of killers and rapists on licence should be considered to ease the prison overcrowding crisis. The four surviving former lord chief justices – Lord Woolf, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, an
Police launch murder inquiry after woman’s body found following Derry flat fire
Officers appeal for information after woman was pronounced dead at scene early on Saturday morning A murder investigation is under way after a woman was found dead following a “horrific” attack and a flat fire in Northern Ireland. Firefighters attended after reports of a blaze at a property in Harvey Street in Derry at 4.15am on […]
Dorian Petoku arrested: escaped Albanian narcos found in Dubai. He was a friend of ‘Diabolik’
He was convicted of international drug trafficking in the ‘Grand Criminal Junction’ trial. In December 2023, he had escaped from the rehabilitation community where he had been transferred against the advice of the judges. Dorian Petoku, Albanian narcos and friend of Fabrizio Piscitelli, better known as ‘Diabolik’, the ultras leader killed in 2019,
London workers slower to return to office than New York or Paris, study says
Office attendance in UK capital similar to levels in Toronto and Sydney, thinktank finds Workers in London have been slower to return to the office than those in other global cities such as Paris and New York, a report has found. London was near the bottom of the pack, with office attendance similar to levels in Toronto […]