Sixty top architecture firms from around the world have mooted 500 eye-catching projects across Albania, sparking fury and protests. Now they’re being celebrated in an 800-page tome that some are calling ‘a smoking gun’Last...
Read MoreThe double assassination of two Scots in the Costa del Sol may have ended the war between the Lyons and the Daniels – but the crimes haven’t gone awayIt was a warm evening in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol last year when two...
Read MoreExclusive: Dr David Wilson says former British police officer approached him as part of efforts to influence his workThe author of a Home Office-sponsored report on the Chinese state and organised crime in the UK was the target...
Read MoreMako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed herIn almost 40 years, Mako Nishimura never lost a fight. She told me this as if it...
Read MoreEstimates suggest £1bn a year is laundered through high street businesses, with some connected to tax evasion, drugs and counterfeit goods“Dodgy” retail outlets such as vape stores, barbers, mini-marts and sweet shops suspected...
Read MoreThanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dumpThis country’s a dump. I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean it literally. From the point of view of criminal waste...
Read MoreRegulator for England lacks powers to deal with what the public accounts committee calls an ‘out-of-control plague’ The Environment Agency is too weak to tackle an “out-of-control plague” of waste dumping, a powerful group of...
Read MoreSeveral deals have been struck so far but there does not appear to be a big bundle of investments worth billionsKeir Starmer will be pleased that he has secured several agreements to mark his visit to Beijing and by the warm...
Read MoreExclusive: 136 organisations call on PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summitMore than 130 refugee and human rights organisations have called on Keir Starmer to stop using language that...
Read MoreAmid increasing drone use and drug-related violence, the prisons minister, James Timpson, is ‘beefing up’ measuresThe Prison Service is “beefing up” a cadre of officers dedicated to smashing gangs in prisons in the face of...
Read MoreYvette Cooper also plans to increase deportations for refused asylum seekers as part of illegal migration clampdownThe home secretary has announced plans to recruit 100 investigators and intelligence officers to target people...
Read MoreGaps in regulation over franchise university providers leaving funding unprotected, according to National Audit Office Organised crime could be profiting from student loan fraud worth at least £60m at unregulated colleges in...
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