Mayor Sadiq Khan announces £110m police cuts just hours after Met chief Cressida Dick vowed to crack down on London’s illegal raves in showdown talks with Home Secretary Priti Patel Mayor Khan revealed scale of cuts just hours after pledge from Dame Cressida Met Commissioner spoke out after talks with Home Secretary this morning Mrs … Read more
Two men were stabbed and police were abused and spat at during three brawls on Britain’s beaches yesterday – one of which ended with a 15-year-old being arrested. Huge crowds of young people clashed by the seaside in South Wales, Kent and Exmouth on Thursday, with hundreds of people involved across the three sites. Violent … Read more
Hundreds of ‘hippies’ last night defied police orders by attending an ‘illegal rave’ to mark the Summer Solstice at an ancient English Heritage site. Video shows hundreds of people, many appearing to be in breach of social distancing rules, gathered at the popular beauty spot in the Peak District in Derbyshire. The footage shows people … Read more
Police apologise for not breaking up all-night rave where 1,000 revellers paid no attention to social distancing rules saying it was too big to shut down Revellers took to the streets in Bristol keeping families awake with loud music Police were warned as the event started but only attended three hours later By the time … Read more
Police swoop on illegal rave attended by thousands breaching lockdown rules in Manchester that ‘looked like a nightclub at kicking out time’ after reports of a stabbing Officers swoop in on illegal rave in the Carrington area of Greater Manchester It is claimed thousands of people attended the event which took place last night Greater … Read more
Hundreds of carefree partygoers showed zero regard for the coronavirus crisis by participating in an illegal rave on the outskirts of Liverpool. Lockdown defiers surged to a woodland area in Kirby, Merseyside, on Friday night, where they danced the night away. At least 200 people are understood to have attended the event, and partied through … Read more
A police investigation has today been launched after a small team of officers unsuccessfully attempted to break-up a 300 person-strong illegal ‘rave’ – which later ended in reports of a stabbing. More than a dozen officers rushed to the lockdown-defying party in Paston, Peterborough, last night, where they found hundreds ‘intoxicated’ party-goers gathered in the … Read more
Police were forced to break up a 70-person rave this weekend as revellers insisted they are ‘sick of self-isolation’ – and dozens more flouted social distancing rules to attend a baby shower. Officers in Telford said they shut down a ‘mass gathering’ at the Granville Country Park in Shropshire on Saturday amid the coronavirus lockdown. … Read more
It is well known that Germans are fond of a good rave, and even the coronavirus and the country’s social distancing rules has not stopped them from getting their club-night fix. Club Index, in the German town of Schüttorf close to the border with the Netherlands, found an innovative way around the social distancing rules … Read more
‘Rave king’ James Perkins is the unlikely saviour for listed £15m Elizabethan mansion destroyed in a mystery fire By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:01 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 04:39 BST, 19 April 2020 An unlikely saviour has been found for one of the country’s … Read more