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Sir Keir Starmer has been warned he is 'not reading the room' after unveiling new police crackdown to treat 'far right thugs' like football hooligans in the wake of violence on Britain's streets following the Southport knife attack. Reform MP Lee Anderson suggested that the Prime Minister had failed to understand public anger over the killings. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister condemned the 'mindless minority' who have delivered nights of chaos since Monday's tragedy. He hit out at a 'gang of thugs' who travelled by train and buses to Southport and attacked police. There has also been mayhem in London, Hartlepool and Manchester leading to scores of arrests.

A woman raped by her father has won a payout and an apology from the police after officers told her she would look like 'the biggest slag going' if she reported him. Carol Higgins (left), 55, finally ended a 39-year battle for justice after she was sexually abused by her father, Elliot Appleyard (right), now 76, when she was 13 years old. He took her to a tattoo parlour to get his nickname tattooed on her shoulder - and put an engagement ring on her finger, telling her they'd 'live happily ever after'. The mother-of-two first reported Appleyard to the police in 1985 - and four more separate occasions stretching from 1984 to 2015. But it wasn't until 2019 that he was jailed for 20 years for his crimes. Ms Higgins says in 1985 she was told by police it would 'blacken her name' if she pursued a prosecution and would be considered 'the biggest slag going'.

The commercial arm of the corporation is looking to generate sales in the UK by introducing ads to their podcasts on third-party websites such as Apple and Spotify . And earlier this month a coalition of more than 20 media companies fiercely criticised the corporation's proposals to monetise its podcasts - saying the move risks having a 'significant adverse impact on fair and effective competition'. Now the Head of Content for Salford-based creative audio company Audio Always has warned that it could be rolled out 'over the next couple of years'.

Richard McCann was just five years old when he walked to a bus stop with his sister Sonia, then seven years old, to look for his mother on a bleak and cold morning in 1975 after she had failed to come home. Wilma, 28, (left), was never present, but instead the siblings were picked by a police officer. They mother's body was discovered just 100 yards from their family's house in Leeds after she was stabbed 15 times in the chest, neck, and abdomen. Wilma was one of 13 people injured in one of Britain's most famous serial murderers, Peter Sutcliffe (right).

Probationary PC Caitlin Howarth (left and right), 23, was placed on suspension by West Yorkshire Police in a Line of Duty internal probe, as well as her Bradford district chief Superintendent Daniel Greenwood (inset), 39, amid charges of an affair. However, new reports suggested that PC Howarth had a separate fling with a heroin dealer who is now in jail, but her family has now dismissed suggestions of a long-term relationship.

PC Caitlin Howarth (left and right), a young 21-year-old girl who was suspended from West Yorkshire Police in November 2021 after being accused of having an affair with her commanding officer Chief Superintendent Daniel Greenwood (inset), who was 38 years old at the time. However, their suspected relationship emerged only after an investigation by anti-corruption police officers into her connections with a drug kingpin who now works in prison for supplying heroin.

Small businesses will soon have to contend with the dreaded tax return deadline, along with rising costs, supply chain challenges, and dampening consumer demand. We talk to tax-loving comedian John Robins about his top tax tips for small businesses ahead of the looming tax return season.

On January 2, 2017, Yassar Yaqub, 28, was the front passenger in one of two cars traveling together along the M62 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, when they were surrounded by four unmarked police cars near junction 24. Following the cessation, Mr Yaqub ignored a plea to'show me your hands,' according to a six-week inquiry into his death at Leeds Crown Court. An officer told the hearing that instead, he 'crouched down' before raising a handgun over the car's dashboard. The jury came to a conclusion today that V39 "honestly believed that a rifle was being shot at him, his life was in jeopardy, and he used a lawful means discharging his weapon."

During the conference, Mermaids, a West Yorkshire company, announced that they had provided'support training' to some officers from the county's police force, as well as others in Merseyside, sparking ridicule online. Chief Constable John Robins (left) is now facing calls for police to prosecute Mermaids, which is operated by Susie Green, after children were reportedly sent "chest binders" by government officials from the trans charity.