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KFC falls fowl in Britain with chicken run
Hundreds of KFC outlets remained shut in the the UK due to a supply crisis after the company changed delivery partners
CCTV use ‘a fiasco’, says senior UK officer
Britain’s network of security cameras has been ”an utter fiasco”, failing to cut crime despite billions of pounds being spent on it, a senior detective was quoted as saying on…
Winehouse spends night in custody
Singer Amy Winehouse spent the night in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assault, police said on Saturday. The 24-year-old handed herself in at a police station in…
ICC quizzes Akhtar over match-fixing claims
An International Cricket Council (ICC) investigator has questioned banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar over his claims that he was offered money to throw matches, Pakistani sources…
UK cops battle protesters on Olympic torch procession
British police battled to keep pro-Tibet protesters away from the Beijing Olympics flame, making 30 arrests as the torch went on a high security tour of London on Sunday. Police…
British police arrest ‘dead’ canoeist
British detectives said on Wednesday they had arrested a man who reappeared more than five years after he was presumed drowned in a canoeing accident. John Darwin was held on…
Missing man turns up after five years, wife disappears
The wife of a British man who disappeared more than five years ago but then turned up alive at the weekend has herself gone missing, media reports said on Tuesday. John Darwin…
Redknapp protests innocence
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp insisted on Thursday a police probe into corruption in football had nothing to do with him. In a statement at the English Premier League club’s…
London police forced to create diverse mascots
London’s metropolitan police have been forced to spend £15 000 creating ”ethnically diverse” mascots after complaints about a model deemed too white and too male, reports said on…
London police guilty over Brazilian’s shooting
London’s police force was found guilty on Thursday of putting the public at risk over the killing of an innocent Brazilian that police mistook for a suicide bomber in 2005.…