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Home Office accused of putting criminality before dignity with rule seeking intelligence on people-smugglers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2025

You Want A Used Tesla With These Batteries

Data shows that Tesla Model 3s with LFP batteries retain more range over time than similar models with other chemistries.

InsideEVs · Nov 22, 2025

Teenagers deny carrying out London cyber attack that 'cost TfL £39million'

Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, were arrested in September as part of an investigation by the National Crime Agency and City of London Police

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2025

Forensic linguistics: how dark web criminals give themselves away with their language

Shannon McCoole ran one of the world’s largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a secure online space in which those interested in abusing children could exchange images, advice and support. It had around 45,000 users and was fortified with…

The Conversation · Nov 14, 2025

Surgical patients left in agony amid staffing crisis at one of the UK’s biggest NHS trusts

Exclusive: Surgical staff at a major hospital have reported feeling burnt out and overwhelmed, while others have claimed that staffing levels are unsafe

The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2025

‘Success is shutting them down’: Met police in fight against illegal vape and phone shops

Products that fail fire safety checks, are counterfeit and breach laws protecting children targeted in raids in London

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2025

Barbers and vape stores among 2,700 high street shops raided in money-laundering crackdown

These extensive raids – the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering – form the second stage of Operation Machinize

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2025

UK Grooming Crisis Deepens: TikTok Predator Gets 9 Years for Assaulting Schoolgirl While National Inquiry Hits Roadblocks

The offences began when Shields, posing as a 19-year-old online, started communicating with the girl, complimenting her and assuring her they could 'make it work' despite her age.

International Business Times UK · Nov 7, 2025

UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12m from Chinese money-laundering suspect

Dinosaur skeletons were bought last year at Christie’s Jurassic Icons auction for £12.4m

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2025

'Human errors' led to grooming gang cases being dropped, review finds amid huge NCA investigation

Thousands of cases of rape and sexual assault are being reviewed as part of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Beaconport

Evening Standard · Nov 5, 2025