Category: UK News

An 18-year-old named Umar Mahmood has passed away alongside a 16-year-old boy after a car accident in Preston on Tuesday night. Mahmood was famously featured in a BBC show with Freddie Flintoff called Field of Dreams, where he was chosen to join an underprivileged group of individuals to create a new cricket team. The crash… Continue reading Teen who appeared in Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams show dies

A recent review by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has raised concerns that the number of transgender people in the UK may have been overestimated in the 2021 census. According to reports, roughly one in 200 people in England and Wales over the age of 16 identified as a different gender to their sex… Continue reading Number of trans people may have been overestimated in census, ONS says

The Ministry of Justice has released figures showing the prison population in England and Wales has dropped by 2,188 in the space of a week, following the mass early release of offenders to combat overcrowding. As of 6 September, there were 88,521 prisoners, a record high, with only 1.2% capacity left in the system. However,… Continue reading Prison population falls by more than 2,000 after early release scheme

The Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) has announced that its CEO, Mridul Wadhwa, has resigned following a report by Rape Crisis Scotland. The investigation discovered that Wadhwa, a trans woman, failed to maintain her professionalism in her position as the head of the ERCC. The report also revealed that she “did not understand the limits… Continue reading Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre CEO stands down after report into failings

Russia has revoked diplomatic accreditation for six British diplomats over allegations of spying. According to a statement from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), evidence had been received of the UK’s involvement in inflicting “a strategic defeat” on Russia. The diplomats have been named and pictured on Russian state TV, though the UK Foreign Office declined… Continue reading Russia revokes six British diplomats' accreditation

Two suspects have been charged in connection with the theft of a Banksy piece from a central London art gallery. Grove Gallery was reportedly burgled on the evening of Sunday, October 3rd, with only the artwork Girl with Balloon taken. The piece has since been recovered and Larry Fraser, 47, and James Love, 53, appeared… Continue reading Banksy theft: Two charged over stolen Girl with Balloon artwork

Ruarcc, a student in year 10 at St. Malachy’s College in north Belfast, has developed a Lego robot capable of solving a Rubik’s cube using 5,000 lines of Python coding. The school’s creative digital technology hub (CDTH) enabled Ruarcc, who began working on puzzle-solving robots in his second year aged 12, to prototype the creation.… Continue reading Belfast student invents robot to solve Rubik's Cube

The Jesus Fellowship Church, a defunct religious cult, has identified 539 alleged perpetrators of abuse and revealed that approximately one in six children suffered sexual abuse. The cult disbanded in 2019 after allegations of widespread child abuse were revealed by the BBC. The Jesus Fellowship Community Trust (JFCT), which has been winding up the group’s… Continue reading Jesus Army cult: Report finds one in six children was abused

The FBI has initiated an international hunt for victims of the Lockerbie bombing, including individuals who suffered “emotional injuries”, ahead of a Libyan suspect’s trial in the United States. Abu Agila Masud, responsible for making the device that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish Borders town on December 21, 1988, has denied… Continue reading FBI search for 'all Lockerbie victims' ahead of suspect's US trial

Hannah and Mathew Parfitt, a couple from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, got married on Friday the 13th, which is considered the unluckiest day of the year. The couple tied the knot in a Victorian cemetery, Arnos Vale, Bristol, where one of the rooms was formerly used to lower coffins before cremation. The wedding venue is… Continue reading Friday 13th: 'We got married in a cemetery on unluckiest day'