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When Valdo Calocane was sent to a high-security hospital for the 2023 Nottingham attacks, the public expected a sentence behind locked doors. What few realized was that he remained eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits. Because the court detained him under the Mental Health Act rather than sending …

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Violent youth clashes have rocked Europe, with curfews imposed across France following widespread arrests, and Italy approving emergency anti-riot measures after unrest in Bologna and Milan. The disorder began with students protesting over school conditions, but have since escalated to take in a br…
Petrie picks up the final threads from the story of a man jumping into a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park and asks you if holding animals like this in captivity is asking for trouble? It's also been announced that the tiger will not be euthanised, but do you agree with that decision? For…
Addicts claiming disability benefits are paid lump sums worth thousands of pounds that they immediately spend on alcohol and drugs, experts say. Almost 18,000 people are claiming Pip with substance or alcohol abuse as their main disabling condition, meaning it is the most debilitating of potentiall…
The U.S. Army has scheduled the execution by firing squad of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan for the 3rd of December. US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, announced that the first public execution in the U.S. since 1936 will be live-streamed, although President Donald Trump told reporters he had per…
In a case that has shocked the world, death row inmate Christa Pike is now conscious and speaking at a hospital after surviving Tennessee's failed execution attempt. Pike’s is the only person in modern U.S. history known to have survived a complete execution attempt after receiving two full doses o…
Britain’s political landscape has seen sharp drama as the Conservative Party Conference convened in Birmingham, while the Green Party was plunged into crisis. At the Tory conference, leaders pitched "The Right Way" platform, with Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith pledging broad tax cuts a…
Andy Burnham has said it’s “possible” Labour’s next election manifesto could include an in-out referendum on re-joining the EU in his strongest signal yet of his intentions to repair the damage of Brexit. The prime minister also said that securing closer ties to the EU “isn’t about leaping to a ref…
Addressing the Labour Party Conference, PM Andy Burnham pledged a decisive break with "politics as usual," warning that standard political approaches have left the country trailing. In a wide-ranging speech focused on systemic reform, Burnham framed housing as a basic necessity rather tha…
With Labour conference underway, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a key foreign policy reset, banning imports from illegal settlements, while Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled legal refugee routes for Afghan women, girls, and displaced Palestinians. Have you lost your compassion over i…
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