Tag Archives: Traced

Greig WatsonBBC News, East Midlands Leicestershire Police Anthony Smith was found fatally injured in Ling Road, Loughborough A man who killed a cyclist and tried to get rid of evidence has been jailed. On 7 July 2023, 47-year-old Anthony Smith was found fatally injured in Ling Road, Loughborough in Leicestershire. …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two people have died after eating oysters contaminated with flesh-eating bacteria, health officials confirmed, and others have been infected.  Both of the fatal cases were traced to Louisiana-harvested oysters that ended up on plates in restaurants in Louisiana and Florida. The bacterium, …

Microplastics are all around us all the time. From kitchen tools to food storage, microplastics have infected our world. This means that each day, you’re probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food …

PA Media The meat should have been destroyed or used in pet food Two men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to sell meat intended for pet food to unsuspecting shoppers. Anthony Fear, 63, was found to have supplied meat unfit for human consumption to Azar Irshad, …

Robles Casas & Campos A Italian master painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam has been spotted on the website of an estate agent selling a house in Argentina, more than 80 years after it was taken. A photo shows Portrait of a Lady by …

A motorcyclist who led police on a pursuit at more than 130mph (210km/h) while uninsured and unlicensed has been sentenced. The 33-year-old sped past officers on a blue Suzuki motorbike at the Spittals Interchange, Huntingdon, at about 20:30 BST on 29 July heading to the A1 in Cambridgeshire. Although police …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Eating disorders can affect anybody, no matter their age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or body size. Yet the myth that eating disorders are “diseases of affluence” persists, and can mean those from wealthier backgrounds are more likely to receive a diagnosis and be able to …

Tomos Morgan Wales correspondent, BBC News Unshackled/Roar Films An AI rendition of what John Hughes may have looked like, based on a combination of prisoner records, historical records and photos of descendants Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts …

A call to police about an abandoned wheeled-trolley bag sparked a multi-team mountain rescue search. The bag, filled with outdoor walking equipment, was discovered by a walker on the Pennine Way near the Cheviot Hills on Friday, Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team (NNPMRT) said. Soaring temperatures in the days …

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News in Nairobi Standard Newspaper Eleven months after his funeral in 2013, Harry Roy Veevers’ body was exhumed and it has been in a mortuary ever since A Kenyan magistrate this week expressed the hope that a British property tycoon would finally “find rest in eternal peace”, …

Sakshi Venkatraman BBC News Getty Images Four people in New York City’s Harlem neighbourhood have died from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, an aggressive and potentially deadly form of pneumonia. The city has seen 99 confirmed cases with 17 people in hospital with the infection, according to the New York …

Martin Heath BBC News, Northamptonshire Reporting fromNorthampton Family handout Robert Brown used to work in his family’s fruit and vegetable shops in Northampton Crimestoppers has offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the death of a man found fatally injured on a towpath. …

Stuart Cowper Emergency services in Perth were alerted on Thursday evening A major search operation has been launched in Perth after a 27-year-old man went missing in the River Tay. Emergency services are searching Moncreiffe Island following a report that three men got into difficulty in the water at about …

Half-full or half-empty? These latest UK gross domestic product (GDP) figures bring alive the classic metaphor about what exactly is in the glass. The reality is that growth of 0.3% in the spring quarter between April and June is a slowing from the start of the year’s 0.7% expansion. Yet …

Reuters Liam Shaw is subject to a restraining order for two years which states he must have no contact with Sunak or his constituency office A man who sent racist death threats to former prime minister Rishi Sunak has been sentenced. Liam Shaw, 21, of Birkenhead, Merseyside, admitted sending two …

X owner Elon Musk has threatened Apple with legal action after claiming it had made it “impossible” for apps to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in its App Store. He called OpenAI boss Sam Altman a “liar” – after Altman claimed Musk used his platform to “benefit himself and his own …

Caroline Gall BBC News, West Midlands Police handout US citizen Aimee Betro had virtually no “criminal footprint” before the shooting in Birmingham, UK, police say US woman Aimee Betro has been found guilty of attempting to shoot a man dead in the UK. But the investigation into the Wisconsin native …

Chloe Harcombe BBC News, West of England PA Media Peter Monro was found fatally stabbed at his home in Bath in February A man has admitted killing his 73-year-old father – on the day his murder trial was due to begin. Christopher Monro, 30, pleaded guilty to killing Peter Monro …

The US has doubled its award for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50m (£37.2m) as it accuses him of working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine. At the time Maduro was indicted in Manhattan federal court in 2020 on federal charges of narco-terrorism and …

Njeri Mwangi BBC Africa Eye in Maai Mahiu Tamasin Ford BBC Africa Eye BBC Nyambura (left) and Cheptoo (right) told undercover investigators how they exposed children to prostitution in Maai Mahiu – a trucking hub A BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed how women, known as “madams”, have involved children …