Crime

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Aid agencies have urgently called on Israel to allow more tents and essential supplies into Gaza after the first heavy winter rains hit the region, raising fears of disease and further suffering. More than a quarter of a million families are in immediate need of emergency shelter, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Jan Egeland, Secretary...

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a US-drafted resolution endorsing former President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza. The resolution, backed by 13 countries including the UK, France, and Somalia, paves the way for the establishment of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) and a transitional governance body in the Palestinian territory. Russia and China...

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Agency workers who continued to operate during Birmingham’s protracted bin strike have voted to take industrial action themselves amid allegations of bullying and harassment in the workplace. The move adds a new layer of complexity to a dispute that has already seen the city’s waste collection services disrupted for months. Unite, the union representing both permanent and...

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A mother has recounted the devastating moment she watched emergency services try to save her teenage daughter after the girl was electrocuted on a railway line in Weymouth, Dorset. The inquest into the death of 15-year-old Roxy Phillips heard how the young girl suffered a fatal accident in the early hours of 23 March 2023, leaving her...

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Broadcaster and columnist Dan Wootton has issued a firm denial in response to a civil claim filed against him in the High Court, rejecting allegations that he posed online as a woman to deceive a man into sending explicit images more than a decade ago. The claimant, whose identity is protected by an anonymity order, brought forward...

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A paralegal who was secretly filmed offering to help businesses evade immigration fines of up to £60,000 has been sacked, triggering a wider police and Home Office investigation into illegal working networks operating across the United Kingdom. The undercover recording, made during a BBC investigation, showed Zohaib Hussain appearing to offer fabricated documents and legal manoeuvres to...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, citing her government’s violent crackdown on student-led protests last year. The 78-year-old fugitive politician was tried in absentia and found guilty of orchestrating what the tribunal described as “systematic and deliberate attacks” on civilians during the 2024 uprising, which left...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online At least forty-five Indian pilgrims have tragically lost their lives after the bus they were travelling in caught fire following a serious accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, authorities have confirmed. The bus, carrying 46 passengers, was en route from the Islamic holy city of Mecca to Medina when the incident occurred, according to a statement from...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Llyr Powell, the Reform UK candidate who stood in last month’s Caerphilly by-election, has revealed he received at least 55 death threats over the course of his campaign—an escalation of intimidation that became so severe he was moved from his home to an undisclosed location for his safety. Powell, who ultimately finished second to Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online The mother of a seventeen-year-old boy who died following a devastating car crash in Surrey is calling for urgent reforms to the UK’s driving licence system in the hope that no other family will have to endure the anguish she continues to live with every day. Her proposal centres on what is known as a graduated...