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Police Scotland failed to investigate alleged grooming gangs in Glasgow that targeted vulnerable girls in care, GB News can reveal.One of the gang’s alleged victims has spoken to the People’s Channel about her ordeal. She is speaking out for the first time amid a nationwide debate about grooming gangs in Scotland.Taylor, not her real name, described years of abuse at the hands of Pakistani men.“We would go there and we would be intoxicated. And sometimes you wouldn’t even really be aware of what was going on around about you, and yes, some instances of [being] sexually abused.”The Glasgow woman, who…

A British grandmother who spent 12 years on death row in Indonesia after being convicted of drug trafficking flew home on Friday, as part of a deal between the UK and Indonesian governments.Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was sentenced to death on the island of Bali in 2013, after she was found with nearly 5kg of cocaine worth £1.6m ($2.1m) when she arrived on a flight from Thailand in 2012.Indonesia has some of the world’s most stringent drug laws, but it has freed several high-profile detainees, including the infamous “Bali Nine” drug ring, in the past year.Sandiford was repatriated along with another…

Lockyer is keen to reiterate that if it was not safe for him, he would not be back playing. He now has a small defibrillator implanted in his chest and has had his heart monitored via an ECG (electrocardiogram) test for the past two years every time he exercises.”I’ve said before, I don’t want to be a hero that dies on a football pitch,” he said.”If there was any risk at all that I felt or my family felt or they weren’t comfortable with anything, I wouldn’t be doing it.”He is also not thinking much beyond playing for the Gas…

Newcastle United have ended their “Stasi” ban on a gender-critical fan who was barred from attending games due to her social media posts. Lifelong Magpies fan Linzi Smith was banned in November 2023 for three years after the club received complaints that transgender people would not feel “safe” sitting next to her. Ms Smith is gay and champions lesbian, gay and bisexual rights.Last year, she joined Nigel Farage on the People’s Channel to discuss a four-month police probe by a specialist unit to which she was subjected.However, the investigation did not result in any action being taken – and Ms…

ReutersMeghan Markle and Prince Harry look on in the third inning between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers during Game 4 of the 2025 MLB World Series at Dodger Stadium. The Duke of Sussex has apologised to Canada for wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers hat while attending a World Series game against the Toronto Blue Jays.Prince Harry joked that he was “under duress” when he wore the bright blue cap during the epic Game 4 of the World Series in Los Angeles. He thought it was “the polite thing to do” after being invited to the game…

Parties with “significant financial means” are interested in buying Sheffield Wednesday and could “revolutionise the club”, says joint administrator Kris Wigfield.The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters’ Trust, meanwhile, has revealed it is to raise funds to sign players while the club is in administration.The Championship club and the company which owns Hillsborough were placed into administration on 24 October, with HMRC preparing to serve a winding-up order over a debt of around £1.7m. It brought to an end Dejphon Chansiri’s 10-year ownership of the Owls, with Begbies Traynor appointed as administrators.Wigfield revealed that the club had been run on such a shoestring…

A benefits fraudster has been spared jail despite fraudulently pocketing £65,000 in Universal Credit payments. Kelly Smyth, 38, of Portlec Place, Lurgan in Northern Ireland, was convicted at Craigavon Crown Court for the offences. She was found to have been claiming the benefits, totalling £65,079, while failing to declare joint living arrangements. The fraud was uncovered following an investigation by the Department for Communities.Ms Smyth was handed a sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment, which was suspended for two years. This means she will not spend time behind bars. However, the fraudster will also be required to repay in full the…

The Heritage Foundation’s Nile Gardiner has called for Prince Harry to testify before Congress over whether the royal disclosed his alleged drug use on his US visa. Speaking on The Late Show Live, Mr Gardiner said that Andrew was being used as a “political weapon” by the Democrats, who have demanded he testifies before Congress over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Responding to Ben Leo’s suggestion that Andrew could be being used as a scapegoat for other Epstein-linked figures, Mr Gardiner said: “I do think that Andrew’s being used as a political weapon here by the Democrats.”I do think actually,…

Dan KennedyBroadcaster Emma Barnett has said finding out she was going through perimenopause at the age of 38 felt like she had been “mugged, robbed”. Barnett, now 40, said it was the “first time in my life I haven’t really wanted to be a woman – it’s the first time I’ve thought, ‘I’d really quite like to be a bloke'”.She was speaking on her new podcast, Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett, the first episode of which was released on Friday.Perimenopause, which commonly occurs around the age of 46, is when you have symptoms of menopause but your periods haven’t…

Norris has gained 35 points on Piastri since the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of August, which Piastri won while Norris retired with a fuel-line failure.That result made Piastri a strong title favourite, especially in the context of his consistency through the season up to that point. Norris is still one victory short of Piastri’s tally of six this season so far.But Norris rejected the idea that he had started taking more risks since that race because he felt he had nothing to lose.”Maybe in qualifying you think: ‘Well, may as well just go for it.’ But it’s not…