A US woman billed $US5800 ($5860) after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue a lawsuit against the debt collectors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Central Highlands regional mayor Peter Maguire says he is not sure if councils can force residents to build high-set homes in flood-prone areas in Queensland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An officer from Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command has contacted universities in London with a request to pass on intelligence as students prepare to step up their campaign against increases in tuition fees and education cuts in the coming weeks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The trafficking of British children around UK cities for sexual exploitation is on the increase with some as young as 10 being groomed by predatory abusers, a report reveals today.
The average age of victims of such abuse has fallen from 15 to about 13 in five years, according to the report by Barnardo’s, the UK’s biggest children’s charity.
But victims continue to be missed as telltale signs are overlooked from the frontline of children’s services to the corridors of Whitehall
, said Anne Marie Carrie, the charity’s new chief executive — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Renters left homeless during the Queensland floods are legally obliged to keep paying rent on their flooded home until they officially
end their agreement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police have warned of an increasing number of scams to rob Queensland’s flood victims as the federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said the economic cost of the disaster will be the highest in Australia’s history.
The scams include tricking victims into giving their bank details to people claiming they will help them obtain emergency funds.
Scammers claiming to be tradesmen are also going into affected areas offering to repair the damage and demanding payment in advance before disappearing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A charity that recruits volunteers to run recreational activities at detention centres is on the brink of deregistration for failing to provide a single financial statement to Fair Trading NSW since it was formally created in 2003 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
They want our sheep,
said Andrew Allen, 46, surveying his flock, now thinned after the recent theft of 45 head.
Allen is one of 19 farmers to fall prey to sheep rustlers in the majestic lake region over the past 12 months, with the thefts here only one part of a bizarre surge in rural crime that has seen incidents of sheep rustling skyrocket across Britain.
The culprit? Globalization — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s lights out at busy intersections – the work of criminals who targeted particular components in the city’s high-tech traffic lights — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The leader of a girl gang who burned a teenager with a cigarette and stamped on her face has been described as sadistic
by a judge — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves. Only a few days ago they held 16,000 volumes.
Now, after a campaign on Facebook, there are none. Every library user was urged to pick their full entitlement of 15 books, take them away and keep them for a week. The idea was to empty the shelves by closing time on Saturday: in fact with 24 hours to go, the last sad bundle of self-help and practical mechanics books was stamped out. Robert Gifford, chair of Stony Stratford town council, planned to collect his books when he got home from work in London, but left it too late — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A furious family is suing property developers after they demolished every staircase in a seven-storey apartment block to make them quit their top floor flat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The first recognisably modern computer is to be rebuilt at the UK’s former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with WikiLeaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
He experienced a similar incident last year at Newark airport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ACT Greens want all new suburbs in Canberra to have land set aside for community gardens — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A strange bit of JavaScript has found its way onto Tunisian Internet users’ internet login screens. Some are now in jail in a country known for torture. But they’ve been adopted by an unlikely ally: Anonymous — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Web streaming of ABC News 24 is normally blocked from access overseas, but the service has temporarily removed that restriction to ensure Australians overseas can access its ongoing coverage of the Queensland floods. Worth mentioning to any friends or family overseas trying to keep up with developments in the ongoing flood disaster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Swiss village has found a drastic way to compel dog holders to pay their pet’s annual tax: cough up, or the dog gets it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
RSS – Posts