Firefighters tackle huge Bradford blaze at go-kart track once probed for ‘illegally’ storing tyres

Chaos in Bradford as hundreds of firefighters tackle huge blaze at go-kart track that had been probed for ‘illegally’ storing 50,000 tyres with schools forced to close and rail services cancelled  Huge fire started around 3am this morning in East Bowling area of Bradford  The site of the blaze is confirmed to be a former … Read more

Over £1BILLION worth of refunds are being illegally withheld by package holiday firms, says Which?

Package holiday firms have been accused of illegally withholding £1billion in refunds to families whose holidays were cancelled due to the pandemic. Around 9.4million people have lost a trip since coronavirus hit the UK – and the figure will rise again with a new lockdown and government ban on foreign holidays. However, many of the … Read more

Charity boss jailed for using her organisation as a front to illegally traffic migrants into UK

A charity boss has been jailed for using the asylum organisation she founded as a front to try and bring illegal immigrants into the UK and force them to work on cannabis farms. Mother-of-three Pranvera Smith, 47, who set up Freedom to Stay in 2014, previously landed a £10,000 lottery grant for her ‘work’, Birmingham … Read more

Katie Price ‘duped’ after dog breeders advised her to illegally give her puppy Rolo cannabis oil

Katie Price has revealed her shock after she was illegally advised to give her puppy Rolo cannabis oil before suffocated to death in an armchair. The former glamour model, 42, could reportedly face a probe for giving the dog CDB oil after she was gifted the substance in a ‘puppy hamper’ from the dog’s breeders. … Read more

Nazanin is being illegally held ‘hostage’ by Iran and is an emotional wreck, husband says

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held ‘hostage’ illegally by Iran and is an emotional wreck, her husband has said after new charged were announced by in Tehran. The 42-year-old mother-of-one has been detained in Iran since 2016, when she was sentenced to five years in prison on spurious spying charges. Having been moved to house arrest … Read more

Taxidermist jailed for second time for illegally trading endangered species

A self-proclaimed taxidermist who was put behind bars after pictures of him posing next to his wild animal collection sparked a police investigation has been jailed for a second time. Aaron Halstead, from Burnley, Lancashire was jailed for 24 weeks in 2015 after a probe discovered he had illegally bought three sperm whale teeth, a … Read more

Taxidermist facing jail for second time for illegally trading endangered species

Taxidermist who was jailed after photos of him stood next to animal trophy collection sparked probe is facing being put behind bars AGAIN for illegally trading black rhino horns Aaron Halstead was jailed in 2015  for 24 weeks for trading with animals illegally He had illegally bought three sperm whale teeth, a cheetah’s skull and … Read more

Failed asylum seeker used two FAKE identities to live in UK illegally for 20 years, court hears

Failed asylum seeker used two FAKE identities so he could live in UK illegally for 20 years, court hears Ali Hussain Karim, 47, should have been sent back to Iraq after arriving in 1999 Instead, he set up two false identities with passports and driving licences in UK Police caught up with him in June this … Read more

Lawsuit accuses Instagram of illegally harvesting biometric data

Instagram is hit with $500BILLION class action lawsuit accusing the Facebook-owned platform of illegally harvesting up to 100 million users’ biometric data Class-action suit was filed on Monday in Redwood City, California Accuses Facebook-owned Instagram of illegally harvesting biometric data Claims the app stores facial data through a photo-tagging tool Facebook blasts the suit as … Read more

‘Magaluf’ revellers drinking, camping illegally and dumping litter in the Lake District

Rowdy ‘Magaluf-style’ revellers are causing ‘total bedlam’ at one the country’s top beauty spots by drinking, illegally camping and dumping litter – as a mass clean-up begins across the UK following a weekend of illegal parties.  Residents in the Lake District say groups of young people sit around drinking, smash up fences for fire wood … Read more