A car enthusiast is offering the world’s most expensive car wash service – charging up to £7,200 per vehicle. Gurcharn Sahota, 30, takes up to 250 hours to clean each vehicle with an array of 100 cleaning fluids and wax that costs £8,200 per tub. His premier wash includes polishing and buffing every inch of [...]
A new ice cream van with tasty treats specifically for canines will have man’s best friend howling with delight. Instead of offering the traditional vanilla whip cones topped with a flake, these frozen feasts contain gammon and chicken ice cream – complete with a crunchy canine biscuit bone. A team of scientists investigated the perfect [...]
The invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan led to a huge surge in the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom, the former head of MI5 said. Giving evidence to the official inquiry into the war, Baroness Manningham-Buller said the service struggled to cope with the number of plots in the aftermath of the invasion in 2003. [...]
Ministers are due to meet civil service union officials to discuss possible changes to redundancy terms, as they try to reduce costs of cutting staff. Treasury figures suggest 600,000 public sector jobs could go over the next five years, as the coalition tries to slash the country’s record budget deficit. But last month, the government [...]
The Home Office says it is reviewing counter-terrorism laws after a European court decided the government could not appeal against a ruling that said random stop and searches were illegal. The European Court of Human Rights came to its decision in January and it has now insisted it cannot be challenged. It followed a case [...]
MSPs are poised to pass major justice reforms later, despite Scots ministers having to water down their plans. The Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill aims to cut reoffending by boosting alternatives to jail sentences. However, plans for a presumption against prison terms of six months or less have been cut to three months, to gain [...]
Vast sums are being spent “warehousing” people in outdated prisons without any proof it protects the public, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke is to say. In a speech later, he will say he is amazed at the growth in the prison population and he will demand a radical new approach to cut re-offending. It will involve [...]
The England football team have returned to the UK after being knocked out of the World Cup by Germany. The players looked tired as they passed through security at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport after a coach journey from their Rustenburg training base. They landed at Heathrow airport at about 0630 BST. Manager Fabio Capello has [...]
The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war is set to resume its hearings after a four-and-a-half-month break. Witnesses expected to attend over the summer include former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix and ex-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The session begins with Douglas Brand, the former chief police adviser to Iraq’s interior ministry. The panel, [...]
Current police numbers are not “sustainable” in the face of budget cuts, a senior officer will warn later. President of the Association of Chief Police Officers Sir Hugh Orde will tell a conference it is “misleading in the extreme” to claim otherwise. But he will urge ministers to make structural reforms, rather than “salami slicing” [...]
