The prosecution of a press photographer has been dropped the day before it was due to go to trial before a jury. Swansea Crown Court heard there was 'no evidential basis' for charging him. A judge described the case as 'disturbing'. #journalism ⬇️
walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

🚨 BREAKING: Nottingham University Hospitals has tonight declared a critical incident with 220 people in its A&E and 120 waiting to be admitted. Patients are in ambulances who cannot be safely off loaded:

'If you need my help deciding whether one way of killing a baby is better or worse than another then we are lost' | ✍️ Giles Coren thetimes.co.uk/article/people…

Bernie Ecclestone is at Southwark crown court this morning. He's accused of hiding some of his wealth from HMRC.

Naturally, this is how his name appears on the public court list.

Mr Ecclestone is 92.

Public service announcement:

I have lost count of the number of chilling moves towards suppressing court reporting and the press in general. But to suggest blocking us from covering sex offence cases [and the public too], really takes the biscuit thetimes.co.uk/article/devast…

20 years ago a little telly program appeared on Channel 4 that nobody watched cos they were all at the pub. I was just a boy, fumbling around in my first acting job. Anyway, it did alright in the end. Thanks largely to Jesse Armstrong Sam Bain Robert Webb David Mitchell

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This is potentially one of Letby's first victims. Worth a read. I am biased.

🔴EXCLUSIVE: In March 2014, Sarah’s newborn son died at the Countess of Chester Hospital after medics spent two days caring for him in the neonatal unit.

Before he died, the Telegraph can reveal, he was being looked after by Lucy Letby
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/1…

'Trust me,' she said. 'I'm a nurse.' My profile of Lucy Letby, the woman who killed seven babies and tried to kill six more: telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/1… #LucyLetby with Will Bolton The Telegraph

A driver killed a woman & badly injured 2 children when driving at 123mph
Sentence: 12 years prison

Another driver was caught doing 120mph on the M25.
No crash
Sentence: £500 fine & 6 pts

Time for a serious debate on tougher penalties for bad driving?
theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/1…

Good

A Belfast teenager shot dead by British soldiers in 1975 was “entirely innocent”, a coroner has ruled

✍️: Rebecca Black

independent.ie/irish-news/tee…

Covid prosecutions are still happening, quietly.

£5000 fine for taxi driver who hadn't booked a quarantine hotel when flying to UK through a 'red list' country

His plea for leniency is sad

'We are struggling to reach the end of each month when we come to pay all our bills'

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/3…

Don't fear the semicolon.

Here's how to use it:

You’re going to see a lot more stories like this in the coming years. And then, gradually, you won’t see them anymore.

This is a Telegraph investigation which the Sun has re-written. Absolutely no issue with a re-write, we all have to do it in this industry, but, would be great if you credit it properly on your show..

🔵 The hiding figures are hopeful men, women and children desperate to cross the Channel. Some are holed up in tents further inland, waiting for their chance telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/1…