Sunbathers will be spied on with police DRONES on Mallorca’s beaches to check for Covid breaches

Police in Mallorca will use drones to spy on tourists sunbathing on beaches to make sure they are not breaking coronavirus regulations.    The devices will be used in the busiest areas to keep a track of whether people are social distancing – and if they detect crowds, the police will be notified. A government minister … Read more

Russian agents spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal FIVE YEARS before Salisbury attack, coroner is told

Russian agents spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal five years before the Salisbury novichok poisoning, a pre-inquest review has heard. The Royal Courts of Justice was told yesterday the then national security adviser Sir Mark Sedwill sent a letter to the Nato secretary-general in April 2018 mentioning a ‘cyber-interest’ in the Skripals from 2013. It said: ‘We … Read more

Images taken by US satellite that spied on Russia during the Cold War are being used to study Earth

The Corona Project was a classified US military mission comprised of a satellite tasked with spying on Russia during the Cold War and decades later, it is producing vital environmental data. Although inadvertently, the satellite captured nearly one million images of Earth’s landscape during the 1960s and 1970s, which scientists can use to see how … Read more

Retired police offices say they’ve been spied on and accused of lying

Police officers injured in the line of duty have told how cost-cutting attacks on their pensions have now devastated their retirement. Money Mail reported last week how penny-pinching police chiefs were targeting pensions paid to injured officers.  Now retired officers have come forward to tell of their treatment at the hands of police forces they … Read more

The cat who spied for the US – until he got run over

HISTORY  NUKING THE MOON   by Vince Houghton (Profile £9.99, 304 pp)   Conspiracy or cock-up? I have long subscribed to the cock-up theory of human disaster myself, because I believe more in things going wrong than going very, very right. Vince Houghton, though, believes in both. He’s very interested in conspiracies, but only in the ones … Read more