3 hrs ago | Bournemouth Echo
a Senior education official has appeared in court charged with making indecent images of children.
Robert Ian Finlay, 53, of Barnes Crescent, Bournemouth, faces 17 charges relating to making indecent photographs / pseudo-photographs of a child between January 1 2009 and April 4 this year.
7 hrs ago | 13WHAM
Jamaica eyes expatriates as source of investment
In a bid to kick start Jamaica's chronically stagnant economy, the Caribbean country is wooing its citizens living abroad to invest in the island of their birth.
11 hrs ago | Bellingham Herald
NYC to offer free phone-charging stations in parks
Now that could be a thing of the past. New York City has teamed up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations for public use, available for free in parks and beaches across the five boroughs over the summer.
14 hrs ago | SanLuisObispo.com
14 hrs ago | Channel3000
Nigella Lawson incident scrutinized
Charles Saatchi told a London newspaper Tuesday that he went to police voluntarily over an incident in which he grabbed his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, by the throat to avoid it "hanging over all of us for months."
15 hrs ago | Romsey Advertiser
Tributes for rail death teenagers
A headmaster has paid tribute to two of his teenage pupils who died after being struck by a passenger train.
16 hrs ago | EDGE
Accused Mark Carson Killer to Appear in Court Today
CBS News, New York reports that Elliot Morales, suspect in the May 18th shooting death of 32 year old Mark Carson in Greenwich Village is scheduled to be arraigned in a Manhattan court room today.
18 hrs ago | EDGE
Transgender Candidate Could Become a First in NYC
Mel Wymore is a typical city council candidate in many ways, campaigning as a community board appointee, ex-PTA chair and founder of a roster of local organizations.
20 hrs ago | Seattle Times
Trader charged in manipulation of Libor rate
Britain's Serious Fraud Office has charged a former trader with conspiracy to defraud in the rigging of a benchmark interest rate.
20 hrs ago | Mirror.co.uk
Moors murderer Ian Brady 'denied pen for fear he will use it as...
The 75-year-old, who is appealing for the right to starve himself to death, shuns contact with others believing them beneath him - but also fears them Moors murderer Ian Brady carried a pen between his knuckles as a weapon for fear of others and only comes out of his room at night, a mental health tribunal heard today.
20 hrs ago | Banburycake.co.uk
Police acted unlawfully at demo
A legal observer "kettled" during a demonstration against Government cuts has won a High Court declaration that police acted unlawfully when they filmed her and required the handover of personal information before letting her go.
23 hrs ago | East Anglian Daily Times
Trimley St Mary: Publican fled to safety after blaze engulfed barn at The Three Mariners
A pub landlord and his family fled to safety in the early hours of today after a blaze threatened to engulf their home The fire, at the rear of The Three Mariners, Trimley St Mary, near Felixstowe, started with an explosion in historic barn outbuildings and spread to a car parked alongside the pub.
Privatisation will save cash and jobs
A MOVE to privatise more than 100 council jobs has been backed in Worcester with senior politicians describing it as imaginative.
Pc tells of grapple with attacker
A police officer has described wrestling a knife-wielding attacker to the ground moments after he had stabbed worshippers at a mosque.
Crews battle recycling plant blaze
Firefighters are continuing to battle a huge fire at a recycling plant - as environmental teams try to prevent polluted water escaping the site.
Mounted police on real ale trail
It coincided with the start of alcohol sale restrictions along the Transpennine rail route of pubs along the line between West Yorkshire and Manchester with some landlords introducing bans on selling lager, doubles, shots and other binge-drinking tipples.
Knifemen in A 3,000 raid on Blackburn store
TWO robbers armed with a 10-inch kitchen knife forced a terrified shop assistant to hand over more than A 3,000 in takings.
Heading into a real crisis on funding for homeless
HOMELESSNESS is rising in Oxfordshire and experts are warning of an impending "catastrophe" as budgets to deal with it are slashed.
Kirsty is crowned Miss England
Kirsty Heslewood, 24, was once so shy she would not speak to anyone outside her home.
Brady in prison transfer tribunal
Ian Brady wants to be transferred to a prison from the secure Ashworth Hospital, where he is on hunger strike Moors Murderer Ian Brady is scheduled to go before a tribunal in his bid to be transferred to a prison to die.