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• 01.08.10
  Harriet Harman pleads guilty to careless driving The Times | (4)

  Originally published on Times Online Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman today became the first serving Cabinet minister in memory to plead guilty to a criminal charge after admitting driving without due care and attention. Ms Harman was fined £350 and ordered to pay a further £70 costs and a £15 victim surcharge after her lawyer entered the guilty plea at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Three points were also put on her licence, bringing her to a total of nine after two previous offences. A driving licence would normally be revoked on reaching 12 points. A second charge of driving while using a ...
• 01.08.10
  Fake police officer and scammer Stuart Howatson jailed for 20 months The Times | (2)

  Originally published on Times Online A parcel deliveryman who convinced his friends, families and even his wife that he was a Metropolitan Police officer was jailed for 20 months today. Stuart Howatson, 31, was so confident of his impersonation that he gave a talk to schoolchildren about the work of the police while wearing a uniform partly bought on eBay and carrying a baton. Continue Reading...
• 01.08.10
  Amorous couple cause terror alert that shuts Newark airport for six hours The Times | (2)

  Originally published on Times Online After waving goodbye to his beloved at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey he wanted just one more clinch. So he slipped past security, planted a kiss ... and caused a security alert that closed the terminal for six hours. Continue Reading...
• 01.04.10
  Remains of historic British monoplane discovered in Antarctica The Times | (0)

  Originally published in The Times For nearly a century one of Britain’s earliest aircraft had lain abandoned in the Antarctic ice-scape. The monoplane — the first aircraft off the Vickers factory production line in 1911, eight years after the first flight by the Wright brothers — was ditched by the Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson in 1914 and last seen in 1975 almost completely buried in ice. On New Year’s Day record low tides caused by a blue moon led to its rediscovery. Continue Reading...
• 07.23.09
  Bomb expert Captain Daniel Shepherd killed despite Taleban warning The Times | (12)

  Originally published in The Times by David Brown and Raf Sanchez A third British bomb disposal expert has been killed in Afghanistan weeks after warning that the Taleban were trying to catch them out. Captain Daniel Shepherd, 28, was killed while attempting to defuse a roadside bomb in in Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand province on Monday. He had personally neutralised 50 Taleban devices in the past three months. A soldier from 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards became the 19th British victim this month when he was killed by an explosion while on patrol in the same district yesterday. Continue Reading...
• 07.22.09
  Silvio Berlusconi and the mystery of Putin’s bed The Times | (1)

  Originally published in The Times One of the most mysterious elements of the emerging Silvio Berlusconi affair is his reference to Putin’s bed. When The Times contacted Vladimir Putin’s office, a spokesman said that the Russian Prime Minister had never given the gift of a bed to Mr Berlusconi. In the recorded conversation, the voice alleged to be Mr Berlusconi’s asks Patrizia D’Addario to meet him in the big bed, which she describes as the one with the curtains. Continue Reading...
• 05.19.09
  Body of Evidence The Times | (1)

  Originally published in The Times The Sri Lankan Army will come under pressure to display the body of Velupillai Prabhakaran (Raf Sanchez writes). In 2006, US forces swiftly released images of the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. His badly damaged remains were identified by fingerprints, scars and tattoos. Continue Reading...
• 04.09.09
  Qing vase goes for $6.1m The Times | (0)

  Originally published in the Times Hong Kong - The Chinese art market has shown its resilience in the face of global recession after Sotheby's sold $89 million (£60 million) worth of artworks at an auction in Hong Kong (Raf Sanchez writes). The sale, including a Qing dynasty vase, right, which made a record $6.1 million, beat estimates by 11 per cent. A collection of imperial porcelain, previously held by European collectors, was all sold.
• 03.11.09
  A very public telling off The Times | (0)

  Times Columnist Alice Miles has responded to my Thunderer column on the European Court of Justice's decision to uphold Britain's compulsory retirement age. And she hasn't minced her words. While it's a little embarassing to be told off quite so publicly (although in fairness, I'm inclined to think that Miles is right about our generation paying an enormous pension burden) I can't help but be pleased that an article has appeared in a national newspaper with a first sentence that reads: "I almost feel sorry for Raf Sanchez." In the wake of this dressing down I've received these two nuggets of encouragement ...
• 03.06.09
  Good news for the young. Oldies must retire at 65 The Times | (1)

  Originally published in the Thunderer column of the Times Most final-year students will never have heard of the ECJ. If you pressed us we might hazard a guess. Extreme Celebrity Jade? Extremely Callous Joke? Not quite. Tonight, as the precipice of graduation draws near, we should raise what will be among the last of our government-subsidised pints to the European Court of Justice, a most unlikely saviour. For yesterday the court shot down a legal challenge against Britain's compulsory retirement age of 65. European judges ruled that the policy of forcing older employees to step down could be “justified by legitimate aims, ...

recent posts

• Harriet Harman pleads guilty to careless driving
• Fake police officer and scammer Stuart Howatson jailed for 20 months
• Amorous couple cause terror alert that shuts Newark airport for six hours
• Remains of historic British monoplane discovered in Antarctica
• North East is named crime capital for wildlife cruelty
• Bomb expert Captain Daniel Shepherd killed despite Taleban warning
• Silvio Berlusconi and the mystery of Putin’s bed