Newsnight award for coverage of high-profile children’s charity is probed after High Court cleared founder and trustees of wrongdoing Kids Company collapsed in 2015 just after getting a £3m grant from Government BBC Newsnight team won Royal Television Society Scoop of the Year prize in 2016 for their reports on the charity But RTS is … Read more
The daughter of a black couple who claimed they were racially profiled after officers stopped them for ‘driving a vehicle on a road’ said Suffolk Police have been ‘cleared of any wrongdoing’. Ingrid Antoine-Oniyoke, 47, and her 50-year-old husband Falil Oniyoke were stopped near their home in Ipswich in June last year because one … Read more
Mum who called trans woman ‘he’ on Twitter is CLEARED of wrongdoing after appealing against conviction Kate Scottow was arrested after allegedly sending tweets to transgender woman Stephanie Hayden had accused Mrs Scottow of causing ‘significant online abuse’ St Albans Magistrates’ Court had found Mrs Scottow guilty of persistently using a public communications network to cause annoyance … Read more
Whistleblower ‘ousted over EU fraud expose’: Briton accuses officials of ‘Kafkaesque’ behaviour after he exposed financial wrongdoing Robert McCoy, 70, pushed out of post after over three decades as an EU official The Liverpool-born economist said he uncovered ‘fraudulent expenses’ claims Mr McCoy said he was bullied and forced out of job on health grounds … Read more
A decorated Army Major vexatiously accused of drowning an Iraqi teenager at the time of the Anglo-US invasion has been cleared of any wrongdoing following a 17-year witch-hunt. Major Robert Campbell, 47, was investigated on bogus claims that he forced suspected looter Saeed Radhi Shabram Wawi Al-Bazooni, 19, into a river at gunpoint in Basra … Read more
A popular DJ suspended by his Isle of Man station after he told listeners he had not benefited from ‘white privilege’ during a debate on Black Lives Matter has today been cleared by the Manx media regulator. Talk-show host Stuart Peters made the comments on June 3 when challenged by a black listener on his late-night … Read more