Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost and Baroness Doreen Lawrence have launched a legal action against Associated Newspapers, publishers of The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the Mail Online. Hamlins LLP said "These individuals have become aware of compelling and highly distressing evidence that they have been the victims of abhorrent criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy by Associated Newspapers."

The Prison Governors’ Association has written to the Justice Secretary pleading in the strongest language that there should be no more cuts to the "broken" prison system in England and Wales.
prison-governors-association.org.uk/wp-content/upl… In an open letter to Brandon Lewis the PGA begged that the prison service should not be seen as a "cash cow" in the next round of cuts.
"We ask that you do not demand they make financial savings to an already impoverished agency," the PGA leadership wrote.

At the Conservative Party conference @SuellaBraverman describes herself as a recovering lawyer In the speech she called on police "to stop virtue signalling and start catching robbers and burglars"

It seems the Kremlin are now accepting that there are conscripts in Ukraine

https://twitter.com/Kremlinpool_RIA/status/1501569871477460992

Also on the Russian MOD telegram channel t.me/mod_russia_en/…

,@AmnestyUK expressing concern about Russian prisoners appearing at press conferences and on social media, saying "The third Geneva Convention specifies that PoWs must be protected from ‘insults and public curiosity’ Joanne Mariner, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Director, said: "As the conflict continues, it is essential that all parties to the conflict fully respect the rights of prisoners of war."

Speaking in the UK parliament Boris Johnson calls President Vladimir Putin "A blood-stained aggressor who believes in imperial conquest" UK imposing "a full asset freeze on VTB,"

In an emotional exchange at the Police and Crime Committee of the London Assembly, the Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Stephen House has praised his boss Dame Cressida Dick and criticised the London Mayor Sadiq Khan for the way she has been pushed out of her job. Stephen House said "I feel deeply disappointed. There's a clear procedure in statute laid down to allow the removal of a police chief officer. It's not been followed in this instance, it's not even been initiated in this instance, due process has not been followed."

A former director of Everton Football club, who resigned earlier this month, has appeared in court charged with Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH.) Sarvar Ismailov, the 26-year-old nephew of the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, is accused of attacking Edmond Krasniqi at a flat in Hyde Park Gate in London on 11th June.

The government is being threatened with legal action over its failure to give visas to a female judge and a female MP from Afghanistan

Both women are still in Afghanistan and are being assisted by a team of lawyers in Britain who are acting for free (“pro bono”.) In a statement issued by Daniel Berke of 3D Solicitors, and the barristers Michael Polak and Simon Myerson QC the legal team said: “These women put their lives on the line when they attained their respective civic roles."

How internet manipulation works.... Suddenly today, parts of the Ukrainian media started saying that Roman Protasevich may have worked in the press department of the Azov Batallion in Ukraine

Pictures from inside Napier barracks asylum “contingency” accommodation released by inspectors today. This was where young men were sleeping during a pandemic.

Hashem Abedi, convicted of 22 murders in the Manchester bombing has refused to come into the court room at the Old Bailey for his sentencing. Mr Justice Jeremy Baker told the court that while Hashem Abedi had been brought to the Old Bailey, he had refused to come up into the dock.

New statement from @DurhamPolice

“On Tuesday, March 31, our officers were made aware that Dominic Cummings had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city.” “At the request of Mr Cummings’ father, an officer made contact the following morning by telephone.

During that conversation, Mr Cummings’ father confirmed that his son had travelled with his family from London to the North-East and was self-isolating in part of the property.”

The Metropolitan Police say they will be actively discouraging people from gathering in Westminster Bridge tonight to “clap for carers”. Last week large numbers of people gathered on the bridge. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said:
"As this event has gained prominence it is understandable that major landmarks, including Westminster Bridge in central London, have become focal points for those who wish to applaud”

The new regulations are out legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/… They look like this

The Metropolitan Police has arrested one of its own officers on suspicion of being a member of a banned right-wing group. Press release follows: Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command have today, 5 March, arrested a serving Met Police officer on suspicion of being a member of a proscribed organisation.

The US Department of Justice has announced charges against two Russia-based men accused of running a cybercriminal organisation called Evil Corp. After an investigation by the FBI and the UK's National Crime Agency, Maksim Yakubets has been named as the group's leader, and Igor Turashev as a key administrator.

Court 1 at Westminster Magistrates Court is now in session. The Julian Assange case is not up yet but the lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service (acting for the US government) are in court. The public gallery is full. As are the press benches.

Dear all:
The following exciting-sounding operations are not scary interventions by the state. They are sensible planning by civil servants for a "bumpy ride" (to say the least) if the UK suddenly leaves the EU next Friday night. 1) Operation Yellowhammer - the centrally-run operation at the Civil Contingencies Secretariat that will keep across all relevant government departments and try to plug any gaps e.g. making sure that the roads keep moving, and key supplies for health/energy/food etc get through.

In the Finsbury Park trial the defendant Darren Osborne has taken to the witness box as the first witness for the defence. Darren Osborne has taken the oath on the bible. He has a slight West Country accent