Six Just Stop Oil activists given suspended sentences after causing ‘risk of serious harm’ in Silverstone F1 track invasion

Six climate change protesters have been spared jail after a track invasion which risked “serious harm” to Formula One drivers and marshals at last year’s British Grand Prix.

Louis McKechnie, Emily Brocklebank and Bethany Mogie, who were among five Just Stop Oil campaigners who were dragged off the circuit at Silverstone as two Formula One cars passed close by, were given suspended jail sentences at Northampton crown court on Friday.

Julie Mecoli, 68, Stefania Morosi, 45, Nicholas Till, 67, and Louise Lancaster, 57, took part in London street blockade in 2021

Four climate protesters who stopped traffic on a central London road during rush hour have been convicted of causing a public nuisance.

Julie Mecoli, 68, Stefania Morosi, 45, Nicholas Till, 67, and Louise Lancaster, 57, were among a group of Insulate Britain supporters who walked into Upper Thames Street on 25 October 2021 while a separate group also blocked nearby roads on Bishopsgate, in the City of London financial district. All four denied the charges.

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have both pledged to crack down on antisocial behaviour. But policing social problems won’t make them go away

Politicians have been calling for a return to neighbourhood policing ever since Theresa May decimated the service. This week, Rishi Sunak put forward plans for “hotspot” patrols as part of a draconian crackdown on fly-tipping and laughing gas (nitrous oxide). Days earlier, Keir Starmer called for “ more visible neighbourhood policing ” to fight the “virus” of antisocial behaviour. In 2021, Boris Johnson proposed that every neighbourhood in England and Wales have a named police officer whom residents could contact.

This recognition that police have become inaccessible to the communities they serve is an indictment of Conservative policies. Neighbourhood policing, introduced by New Labour, assigned one sergeant, two constables and two police community support officers to each council ward. In cutting police funding , Mrs May destroyed this model. The Met lost two-thirds of its special constables and half of its support officers after 2010. It closed 126 police stations and merged 32 command units into just 12. Places where people could report crimes in person have been lost, together with the local knowledge of experienced officers. Across England and Wales, over 22,000 officers left the force after 2010.

Margaret Barnes, 71, entered home of David Redfern and got into his bed while staying in Barmouth, Gwynedd

A “cowardly bully” has been jailed for life with a minimum of 14 years in prison for murdering a 71-year-old woman who mistook his home for a B&B and got into his bed.

Margaret Barnes had been visiting Barmouth in Wales from her home in Birmingham when she mistook her accommodation for the home of David Redfern, a few doors away, Caernarfon crown court heard.

Court hears that Kashif Anwar, accused of murdering pregnant wife Fawziyah Javed, had told her it would be ‘OK’ if she died in childbirth

A man accused of murdering his wife by pushing her from Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh was overheard in hospital telling her that if she died in childbirth it “would be OK” because he “would be free”, a court has heard.

Kashif Anwar, 29, is accused of killing Fawziyah Javed, 31, in September 2021 by pushing her from the peak in Holyrood Park, causing her multiple blunt force injuries which led to her death and that of her unborn child.

MPs and experts question government’s commitment to tackling ‘dirty money’

The government’s three-year economic crime plan will amount to “smoke and mirrors” if it does not receive adequate funding, according to MPs and experts who have accused ministers of failing to give it adequate funding.

The new strategy – launched by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, on Thursday after a nine-month delay – sets out what the public and private sectors should do to crack down on kleptocrats, money laundering, sanctions busting and fraud.

Wildlife presenter fears ‘extreme violence’, and has previously been the victim of arson, as well as having dead crows left outside his home

Chris Packham has raised more than £80,000 in donations for a legal fight against a publisher he accuses of a campaign of online abuse against him. The wildlife presenter claims that Fieldsports Channel – which specialises in hunting-related content – has created articles alleging that he faked a death threat to himself, and has generated such hatred towards him that he fears for his family’s safety.

“I sometimes leave or return to my home wondering if someone will be there waiting – someone who is so excited by these accusations that they feel motivated to extreme violence,” said Packham in an online video to launch the crowdfunding site.

Police say man, 27, and woman, 33, arrested in Cambridge and 66-year-old man arrested in Worcester area

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder after two men were shot dead in two “linked” incidents in separate villages about six miles apart.

Cambridgeshire police said officers were first called to reports of gunshots at a property in Meridian Close, Bluntisham, at just after 9pm on Wednesday. Officers arrived to find the body of a 32-year-old man inside a property with a gunshot wound and are treating his death as murder.

Humza Yousaf has become new leader of the SNP. But with Scotland’s path to independence looking further away than ever, can Nicola Sturgeon’s replacement reignite the party and the debate? The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by Scotland correspondent Libby Brooks, columnist Gaby Hinsliff and former Downing Street chief of staff Gavin Barwell

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