A Croydon man orchestrated a million pound fraud using forged passports, 130 false identities and hundreds of illegal credit cards and bank accounts.
Kanagaratnam Ganan, 33, from Lodge Road, defrauded many of the UK’s biggest clearing banks in an incredible five-year streak of plundering which netted £1.1million.
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Even though most people today are not staunch religious Christians, it is still important to recognise that Britain was built on Christian foundations. To be a good Christian, you do not need to be a regular church goer because our culture acknowledges our religion, through various Christian cultural events, like Christmas and Easter.

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A MAN was beaten and mugged by a gang of up to 15 men in a late-night attack in Park Mead, Harrow last Monday, October 3.
The 38-year-old victim was walking home near the junction with Park Lane at 2am when he was approached by one man who asked for a cigarette. He was then surrounded [...]

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A Sutton man whose house was littered with evidence of a million pound fraud, including thousands of pages of accounts in a ledger, has been jailed for two years.
Jeyaseelan Rajaratnam, 32, from Collingwood Road pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud some of the UK’s biggest banks of £1.1million between 2000 and 2004 and was sent [...]

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POLICE have charged seven men in connection with an investigation into a Europe-wide people smuggling operation.
The men – all thought to be of Turkish origin – were arrested during dawn raids across the capital on Tuesday.
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The UK’s first state-funded Hindu school will be opened in London, the government has announced.
The Department for Education and Skills said it would give £9.8m to Harrow Council in north-west London, for the single faith school.
The borough, which has the highest percentage of Hindus in the UK, hopes the school will be open by [...]

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A BRITISH Muslim man was being held yesterday after a suspicious powder was found in his luggage before he boarded a flight to London.
The 26-year-old, whose name has not been released, was arrested late on Thursday at Tobago’s Crown Point International Airport.
Police, British intelligence and the FBI are investigating his possible connection to terror networks.
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BBC bosses sparked anger yesterday by demanding inflation-busting annual increases that could see the licence fee soar to £180.
The channel’s chiefs want to hike the fee, currently £126.50, by 2.3 per cent above the inflation rate each year between 2007 and 2013.
But MPs attacked the proposed rises as a “poll tax” on the poor.
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Two journalists – one from the US and the other British – have been kidnapped in the Gaza Strip, sources say.
Gunmen kidnapped the two near the volatile southern town of Khan Younis, a spokesman for the Palestinian interior ministry said.
Several foreigners recently abducted in Gaza have been released unharmed.
Palestinian security forces have been [...]

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A teenager who is facing deportation from her North Yorkshire home to South Africa is petitioning the prime minister to allow her to stay.
Candice Chesher, 18, has been refused permission to stay in Ripon with her family, who were given leave to remain in the UK in 2003.
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Bosses of an outreach organisation in Great Yarmouth are hoping a new grant will help forge better links between locals and foreign settlers in the town.
Over the past few years there has been a surge in the number of migrants and asylum seekers to the resort town which has at times heightened racial tensions between [...]

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The UK Government is willing to pay compensation for the casualties and damage caused in Iraq when two British undercover soldiers were freed.
During clashes on 19 September, the Army stormed a Basra police station.
Several Iraqis were killed or wounded when the walls were [...]

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A reveller was shot after being slashed across the face during a frenzied gang attack outside a south London nightclub.
Police say the 25-year-old was leaving The Fridge in Brixton with family and friends when he was violently set upon by a gang of black men in the early hours of Saturday.
During the fracas the man [...]

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A north Staffordshire doctor has been banned from working for 18 months by his professional body after police charged him with sexually assaulting a woman.
Meir GP Dr Nizarali Abdulla Merali was suspended from practice by the General Medical Council (GMC) until March 2007. The ruling – made behind closed doors – was published by the [...]

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A FRAUDSTER used 130 different identities to con his way to a £1million fortune, a court heard today.
Kanagaratnam Ganan opened almost 500 bank accounts over five years – each with credit facilities worth thousands of pounds.
He was sentenced to five and a half years for the conspiracy alongside
his co-defendants Jeyaseelan Rajaratnam, 32, of Sutton, Surrey [...]

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An Asian gang kicked and stamped a computer worker to death on a university campus before declaring “we killed a white man”, a court heard today.
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THE Liberal Democrats have been criticised by the elections watchdog for failing to enforce a rigorous checking process on its biggest ever donation of £2.4 million earlier this year.
However, the party will be allowed to keep the donation after promising to tighten up its procedures.
The Electoral Commission investigated the £2.4million given by Michael Brown, [...]

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Nature lovers fear squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts’ hidden stashes. The creatures are thought to be behind a new drugs turf war in Brixton, south London, stealing crack rocks hidden in suburban front gardens.
Tough police action to rid the town centre of dealers and addicts has seen crackheads abandon [...]

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Police are continuing to question ten suspects arrested in a series of anti-terrorism raids yesterday.
Officers seized three men in Croydon, south London, four in Wolverhampton and three in Derby.
The co-ordinated raids at 4am were led by officers from the Met’s Anti-Terrorist Branch supported by armed cops and local officers.
Forensics officers are conducting fingertip searches at [...]

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Biologists at the University of Liverpool in the UK have published new research suggesting that the reason why ten per cent of Europeans are immune to HIV infection is because of the plagues that swept the continent in ancient times.
Scientists have known for some time that these individuals carry a genetic mutation (of the [...]

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