Teenager filmed performing 1990s dance hit at traffic lights held for ‘improper public behaviour’ in JeddahSaudi police said on Tuesday they had detained a 14-year-old boy who was filmed dancing to the 1990s hit song Macarena at a street crossing in the coastal city of Jeddah, in a clip that Read more…
Downpours sweep in from Atlantic causing at least 60 incidents of flooding in the northern half of the islandThe north of Ireland has been battered by heavy rain as violent storms caused flooding. Related: Why does the BBC still broadcast the shipping forecast? Continue reading… Via: North of Ireland sees Read more…
'Comparing yourself to others is a very easy trap for girls and young women to fall into' Via: Pressure to be 'perfect' online damaging more than a third of young girls, study finds
Report comparing global education standards suggests English system needs 'significant improvement' if it is to match the best Via: Tough new GCSE grades will cause success rates to 'plunge', says thinktank
'Our grandmother deliberately removed the newspapers and things like that, so there was nothing in the house at all, so we didn't know what was going on' Via: Princes William and Harry speak about 'complete numbness and disbelief' at Princess Diana's death
Internet crimes rise while the number of frauds being attempted on bank accounts and credit or debit cards falls Via: Identity fraud in the UK at 'epidemic' levels, experts warn
Hundreds of children have contact with fathers reduced to just two hours a month Via: Prisons using 'cruel' punishment that restricts inmates from seeing children
Fraud prevention service Cifas says there were a record 89,000 cases of identity theft in the first half of this yearIdentity theft has reached epidemic levels in the UK, with incidents of this type of fraud running at almost 500 a day, according to the latest figures.During the first six Read more…
Nicky Morgan, Treasury select committee chair, to quiz HMRC boss after technical difficulties leave parents unable to access new schemesThousands are still unable to apply to claim free childcare because of technical difficulties with HMRC’s website, a letter to the Treasury select committee chair, Nicky Morgan, has revealed.Morgan said she Read more…
La primera declaración en la Audiencia Nacional ha servido para dejar claras las intenciones de la célula yihadista que atacó Barcelona y Cambrils: el grupo preparaba un atentado mayor con explosivos y el imán, Abdelbaki Es Satty, se iba a inmolar. Así lo ha afirmado este martes Mohamed Houli Chemlal, Read more…