A former paramedic from Derbyshire has been jailed after stealing bank cards and a Pin number from a dead patient.
David Wright, 50, stole the items from the body of David Denbow, 66, when he was called to treat him in June 2005.
Within two hours the 50-year-old of Dale Street, Ilkeston, had withdrawn £500 [...]

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HARINGEY Council will be left £3million short if the Government doesn’t increase its grants to cover the cost of asylum seekers coming to the borough this year.
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A MOTHER has withdrawn her six-year-old daughter from a Hornsey school after taking offence at children’s poems about the colour black.
Recruitment consultant Tanya Smith, 25, who is black, removed her daughter from Campsbourne Junior School, last Friday after becoming upset by the display of poems on a corridor wall.
Miss Smith, of Trulock Court, Tottenham, [...]

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[These racist teachers are at it again-ed]
Teachers are demanding to be equipped with stab and bullet-proof vests to protect them from being attacked as they frisk pupils for knives and guns.
Laws coming into effect next week allow staff to conduct forcible searches of students suspected of carrying weapons.
But teachers are saying they should not [...]

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A cancer-stricken RAF hero who suffers from TEN debilitating ailments has been denied NHS nursing care and told to pay the £600-a-week bill himself - because he isn’t sick enough.
World War Two navigator Eric Friar, 90, can barely walk, is almost blind, has bowel cancer, dementia, shingles and non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
He has also caught [...]

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Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the Government.
A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet - a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish.
The change would need to be done “gently” [...]

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A DENTIST who scammed thousands of pounds from the NHS has been kicked out of the profession. Claude Kelfkens, 47, and his boss Mogjan Azari defrauded £40,700 from the NHS and split the haul between them.
Kelfkens, who worked at a Catford practice, used Azari’s details to claim from the NHS for precious metal fillings for [...]

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A FEUD between two girl gangs involving children as young as 12 escalated into a street fight on Monday evening.
The brawl between 30 girls from Peckham and Brixton took place outside Archbishop Michael Ramsey School in Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, at 6pm on Monday.
One teenage witness, who did not want to be named, said the [...]

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THREE teenage boys accused of a gang rape attack on a pair of schoolgirls in a park are facing a retrial.
The boys were all 13 at the time they allegedly forced the 16-year-old victims to perform a string of sex acts on them in a violent 40-minute attack filmed on a mobile phone.
Barrister Sheilagh Davies, [...]

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[There is no room for any more immigrants-ed]
A growing number of migrants coming to Britain from Eastern Europe may be intending to stay, a survey suggests.
More than a third of women and a quarter of men said they wanted to stay, many of whom had changed their minds since arriving in the UK.
The [...]

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Five Britons are reported to have been kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad.
They included four bodyguards and a finance expert.
Earlier reports said the expert was German.
Witnesses and sources told the BBC that the kidnappers wore police uniforms and arrived in up to 40 police vehicles.
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Perhaps you’ve heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.
Such beliefs usually originate in [...]

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[Is this the first step to forced bussing? Can anyone see white parents choosing to send their kids to all black inner city schools? Or can we see black parents sending their children to white flight schools in the countryside?-ed]

Some schools would be able to select pupils by race in order to improve [...]

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An Albanian international footballer was cautioned by police for groping a teenage hotel chambermaid.
Andi Lila assaulted the 18-year-old at a hotel his team were staying at, ahead of their clash with England’s B team at Burnley’s Turf Moor ground.
Officers were called to the Dunkenhalgh Hotel in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire, on Wednesday afternoon.
Lila, 21, [...]

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A young Muslim convert stabbed a man to death for talking about religion, the Old Bailey has heard.
Painter and decorator Michael McKenzie, 40, was attacked in Peckham, south London, in April last year.
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The British Government will consider opting out of human rights legislation to crack down on terrorist suspects, the Home Secretary has said.
In the wake of three men going on the run after breaching control orders, John Reid said ministers may choose to suspend parts of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) so it [...]

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Girls of 12 were questioned about their sexual preferences by lottery-funded researchers, it has emerged.
Participants were encouraged to discuss their favourite sex acts and positions as part of a £242,000 study.
The initiative, financed by the Big Lottery Fund, was aimed at exploring young women’s attitudes to safe sex.
But the project has come [...]

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Poland is facing a growing shortage of builders, electricians and other skilled tradesmen to work on prestige national projects including football stadiums and a World Expo site.
The country’s deputy culture minister has appealed to tens of thousands of Poles who have flocked to Britain over the past three years to return home to help [...]

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[I am sure Saddam would have been able to stamp out this drug situation-ed]
Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan.
Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to the west of the [...]

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A schoolgirl was murdered by a fast food shop owner who joked that she had been “chopped up” and had gone into the kebabs, a court heard today.
Charlene Downes, 14, was killed by Iyad Albattikhi, 29, owner of Funny Boyz fast food shop in Blackpool, who it is alleged had sex with the youngster he [...]

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