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Drug gangs have turned Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool into ‘no-go’ areas as terrifying as the ghettos of Brazil and Mexico, warned the UN narcotics chief. Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board, in a disturbing report said the inner-cities of the UK are now run by heavily-armed gangs as seen in most dangerous parts of Brazil and Mexico. Professor Hamid claimed there was “a vicious cycle of…

To voice their protest against the government’s policies, public sector employees may strike as a weapon to disrupt the upcoming Olympic Games, the chief of Britain’s largest union warns The Guardian in an interview. The leader of Unite, Len McCluskey, threatened that unless a disputed pay deal over the Olympics is resolved quickly, the union might go for strike during the Olympics. Another issue the union is pressing hard involves…

British singer Charlotte Church, the phone-hacking victim of News Group Newspapers (NGN), settled for a fee £600,000 in an out-of-court legal battle. Speaking on why she decided to drop courtroom battle against the News of the World’s publishers, Welsh singer-songwriter said she apprehended that the ordeal would make her recall all the excruciating things the publication wrote about her and her family. On an interview with The Independent she explains,…

Just a day after the launch of the Sunday edition of The Sun, the Leveson Inquiry produces hard evidence of massive corruption at the tabloid, suggesting that its scribes routinely indulged in unlawful practices and bribe public officials. According to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sue Akers, the corruption is deeply-rooted into British public life and involves virtually all arms of the government and the civic authorities….