“The international cocaine market is ‘in retreat’ after a year of successful operations around the world, the Serious Organised Crime Agency claims. It says its undercover work has helped send wholesale prices soaring.Prices per kilo have risen from £39,000 in 2008 to over £45,000 (50,000 euros), but street prices have remained stable. Prices per kilo [...]
“Dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the man who died at last week’s G20 protests in London was attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton-wielding police officer in riot gear. Moments after the assault on Ian Tomlinson was captured on video, he suffered a heart attack abdominal haemorrhaging and [...]
The big internet story over the last few days has been how the Internet Watch Foundation has effectively restricted UK access to Wikipedia by putting it on its blacklist of alleged child pornography hosts, which most UK ISPs subscribe to, on account of it showing a 30-year-old album cover which has been available in shops [...]
“When the police arrived, the things they saw and the things they took photos of all point (to) the very obvious truth that Cuddles was a brothel” – so said the counsel for the prosecution in the trial of the Mister Big behind the notorious Bearwood ‘sauna’. What astounds me is that it apparently took [...]