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UK police withheld details of sex abuse at orphanage from Albanian authorities

British police helped cover up a horrific sex abuse scandal at a Christian missionary orphanage in Albania, a Guardian investigation has found. Senior officers agreed to keep details of abuse secret from their counterparts in Albania after the British director of the orphanage, David Brown, persuaded...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
Cocaine users are destroying the rainforest - at 4m squared a gram

Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday. Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
British tycoon held in Florida over caretaker murder

A multimillionaire British developer who lives among the West Palm Beach elite has been arrested in Florida on an extradition warrant accusing him of murdering a caretaker who was tortured and strangled in London eight years ago. Thanos Papalexis, 36, who regularly features in the society pages of the...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
Civil servant fined £2,500 for leaving secret al-Qaida files on train

A senior civil servant today pleaded guilty to breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaving top-secret documents on a train . Richard Jackson, 37, of Yateley, Hampshire, was fined £2,500 at City of Westminster magistrates' court after entering his guilty plea. His case followed an investigation...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-28-2008
Government condemned for failure to tackle bribery

International watchdog calls for swift measure to introduce foreign bribery legislation in Britain

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-17-2008
Identity fraud website shut down in global police sting

Sixty people arrested after closure of Darkmarket forum where people traded in stolen personal data

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-17-2008
Writers pen protests at terror bill

42 writers will publish work attacking government's plan to hold terrorist suspects without charge for 42 days

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-11-2008
Alleged Holocaust denier fights extradition to Germany

An Australian revisionist historian wanted in Germany for alleged Holocaust denial was greeted in court with a Nazi salute from the public gallery

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-10-2008
Yard probes Egyptian billionaire spy's death

Elite detectives investigate fatal fall of businessman linked to MI6, CIA, KGB and Mossad

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-04-2008
Family says train robber Ronnie Biggs could be freed soon

Ronnie Biggs, who has been in poor health following a stroke, plans to move to a nursing home in north London

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-01-2008

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