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Universities and colleges will be fined for suffocating free speech on campuses, ministers have warned. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will this week unveil a ‘free speech champion’ who will have the power to defend students and academics. Institutions which try to cancel people due to their views will be penalised as part of the government’s … Read more
Traffic warden in Leicester issued £180,000 in fines over 18 months – an average of £10,000 every four weeks – figures show Leicester traffic warden handed out an average of £10,000 in fines every month Over 18 months from April 2019 he dished out more than £180,000 in tickets Figures from Leicester City Council show … Read more
A schizophrenic mother who beat a church warden to death and attacked three others in a frenzy in a Co-op is given indefinite hospital order. Mother -of- one Zara Radcliffe, 30, who is being held at Rampton secure hospital has been given indefinite hospital orders after her stabbing spree in Co-op in Peygraig in Rhondda, South … Read more
Mother, 30, admits killing church warden, 88, in Co-op during stabbing spree after she was released from mental health treatment at start of lockdown By Jemma Carr For Mailonline Published: 14:38 BST, 19 October 2020 | Updated: 15:06 BST, 19 October 2020 A 30-year-old mother has pleaded guilty to killing an 88-year-old church warden and stabbing three other shoppers … Read more
Parking warden ignores handwritten plea from car owner to spare them a ticket while they are in isolation awaiting the results of their coronavirus test A car owner left a handwritten plea on their windscreen asking not to be ticketed The note explained the driver was isolating while waiting for Covid test results But the … Read more
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Johnson? Just after 4pm on Wednesday, Boris’s carefully cultivated reputation as a Churchillian champion of British liberty crumbled like stale Stilton cheese. ‘We will boost the local enforcement capacity of local authorities by introducing Covid-secure marshals to help ensure social distancing in town and city centres, and … Read more
A man who forced a traffic warden to eat a parking ticket has been jailed. In a bizarre set of crimes that took place over two months, Alex Owers, 40, of Kingston Road in Willerby, also drove to a petrol station, licked a protective screen separating him from cashiers, downed a miniature bottle of wine … Read more
A church warden was stabbed to death in a Co-op yesterday as his dementia-suffering wife waited in the car, it has been revealed. Church warden John Rees, 88, left his wife Eunice, 87, in their Honda car while he queued up at a convenience store in Pen-y-Graig, south Wales on Tuesday for their weekly shop. … Read more
Son, 42, ‘tried to murder his church warden mother, 60s, with a screwdriver and also kill her church treasurer husband at their home’ James Wells has been accused of trying to murder his mother Linda, who is a church warden in her 60s, and her husband, who is in his 70s, at their home The … Read more
Parking warden is chastised by angry bystander for dancing while issuing a ticket to an elderly man’s car who was ‘collecting medication for his wife’ Footage shows the moment parking warden dances joyfully while issuing ticket Outraged Ben Toovey, 40, began to film the warden calling him ‘happy as Larry’ Mr Toovey claims the car … Read more