Latest United Kingdom News
RSS-
Terror Attack in London
A police officer carries an evidence bag containing a knife near the scene of the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, London, May 23, ...
-
Terror Attack in London
A police officer carries an evidence bag containing a knife near the scene of the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, London, May 23, ...
-
Both suspects in London attack part of previous security services probes
A police officer carries flowers near the scene of the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, southeast London May 23, 2013. The soldier was hacked to death on Wednesday by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street, in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist attack. (Luke ...
More United Kingdom News
RSS-
UK police defend response to London attack
One of Britain's top policemen has defended the time it took for armed officers to respond to calls of the attack on a soldier on a London ...
-
Tindall to face England
Former England international centre Mike Tindall will face his countrymen at Twickenham on Sunday after being named in the Barbarians' starting XV. Tindall will line up alongside Casey Laulala in midfield while Welsh duo Dwayne Peel and James Hook are the half-back combination.Young Wasps back Elliot Daly has been handed the number 15 jersey alongside impressive finishers Taku Ngwenya ...
-
London soldier’s killers known to security
The two men shot by police after the terrorist murder of a soldier were both known to security services, it was confirmed today. While the killers were under armed guard in different London hospitals, it is understood police searched the former home of a man called Michael Adebolajo in Lincolnshire.The serving soldier was hacked to death in daylight yesterday in front of horrified onlookers by ...
-
We Will Never Give In To Terror Britains Cameron Vows
Flowers have been left near the site in south London where a British soldier was hacked to death Wednesday. One day after a British soldier was hacked to death on a busy southeast London street by two men who were heard claiming that they wanted to avenge the deaths of Muslims killed during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Prime Minister David Cameron declared Thursday that "we ...
-
Will the Xbox One take control of your home How Microsofts new console is changing the game
Microsoft's new console will let you record and interact with live TV, browse the internet and video chat with your friends - often all at the same ...
-
Chelsea Manchester City square off at Busch Stadium
Soccer fans are pumped up for the much anticipated international match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Busch Stadium Thursday night. The match is technically sold out, but tickets are still available ...
-
Ian Coley retiring from his role as British Shooting double trap coach
Sports News: Ian Coley admits it is the perfect time to retire and the 66-year-old from Gloucestershire has compared his departure to that of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who has just stepped down as boss of the Premier League giants following 26 years at the club in which he won 38 ...
-
JLS to headline Londons Hyde Park before they split
Rob Hallett of promoter AEG Live said of the latest line-up: "I have always wanted to promote a show where you can take your kids and your parents. Junior can be enthralled with the Gruffalo and your daughter can scream at JLS while your parents dance around to The Beach ...
-
Exclusive Woolwich attack suspect was known to banned terror group and security services
It was also reported today that the alleged killers, who are under armed guard in different London hospitals, were both known to security services. Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the group, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he had known the man who was seen on video in the immediate aftermath of yesterday's horrific killing waving a cleaver with bloodied hands and making political ...
-
Pair jailed for murder of drug dealer Genson Courtney - stepson of gangland author Dave Courtney
Drug dealer Genson Courtney, 23, was executed by his uncle David Pinto, who shot him through the left eye. Pinto, 33, and getaway driver Robert Bleach, 46, both of Greenwich, south-east London, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week. They were sentenced using a videolink following fears of disturbances involving Pinto and members of his family in the public gallery. Judge ...
-
Solution to London machete terror attack ban uniforms
The horrific murder of a soldier by a pair of self-described jihadis, in broad daylight on the streets of London yesterday, posed quite a conundrum. London is already a gigantic ';gun-free zone,'; although according to some reports the jihad killers somehow managed to get their hands on a firearm anyway. The murder weapons were knives and cleavers, which are common household and garden ...
-
Chatter Machete terrorist attack in London
: A British soldier was murdered and possibly decapitated in a south London street yesterday by two men, apparently British-born Muslim converts. It is ...
-
British mom filmed confronting killers of soldier in London explains brave act
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the woman filmed trying to talk one of the knife-wielding Woolwich attackers down, has said she intervened because "it was better having them [the weapons] aimed on one ...
-
We Killed This British Soldier. It’s An Eye For An Eye
today identified as Michael Adebolajo – boasted: "It is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth -- by Allah." In surreal mobile phone footage taken before anti-terror cops swooped, unsuspecting pedestrians -- including women carrying shopping -- pass the scene of horror, some oblivious to the slaughter outside Woolwich Barracks in South East London. Traffic there ground to a ...
-
London Terrorists Soldiers Murder Eye for an Eye
In a brutal act of terrorism in London Wednesday, two men with butcher knives shouted "allahu akbar" before hacking a British soldier to death outside an army barracks. Witnesses say the attackers ran over the victim and then savagely stabbed him with knives. "The guy was already dead in the road," eyewitness Jamie France said. "But that's when I saw the other guy ...
-
Anti-terror police search Lincolnshire property as part of Woolwich soldier killing investigation
While the two suspected killers were under armed guard in different London hospitals, detectives swooped on an address in Saxilby. There were also reports of addresses in the London area being searched by police. Scotland Yard refused to comment, but Lincolnshire Police said: "We can confirm that the Metropolitan Police executed a search warrant under PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act) ...
-
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke The cross-dressing spy who was arrested on a secret mission
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a 'key figure in British intelligence' in the Middle East in the Second World War, set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested dressed as a woman.Files released publicly by the National Archives reveal that Lt Col Clarke told Spanish police he was a novelist and had "wanted to study the reactions of men to women in the streets" ...
-
London attack suspect British of Nigerian origin says source
A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London, his office said on Wednesday REUTERS/Stefan ...
-
Brave woman told London attacker he cant win the war
London: A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the two attackers after she tried to help the man lying on the street but found he had no pulse and was already dead.The 48-year-old mother kept talking to the ...
-
Soldiers murder is attack on Britain betrayal of Islam Prime Minister David Cameron
London: Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday the brutal murder of a soldier by two suspected Islamists on a London street was an attack on Britain and a betrayal of Islam."This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life. It was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country," he said."There is nothing in Islam ...
-
Signs of weakness mar UK economic growth
By Olesya Dmitracova and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's better-than-expected economic growth in the first quarter turns out to have been boosted by a rise in inventories, while consumer spending was weak and investment fell, ...
-
Paralympian Jonnie Peacock looks forward to Manchesters BT Great CityGames – video
discusses competing at the Manchester Great CityGames . The 100m runner will be competing for the first time since London 2012 and it is the first time that disability events have been included in this competition. Peacock has been recovering from an ankle injury since the ...
News from around our Network
