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Misconduct hearing found Tyler Coppin had breached standards of professional behaviour over offenceAn Essex police officer has been sacked after admitting “tragedy chanting” at Liverpool fans during a Premier League match last year.Essex police instigated misconduct proceedings against Sgt Tyler Coppin after he pleaded guilty to the public order offence during the Liverpool game against Chelsea at Anfield last October. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/09/essex-police-officer-sacked-tragedy-chanting-anfield-liverpool Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2025-02-09 18:44:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Ex-Foreign Office official says he saw conduct that ‘crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes’Mark Smith: I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign OfficeBritain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes, a former UK diplomat has claimed.Writing for the Guardian, Mark Smith, who resigned from the Foreign Office in August, said officials were instructed to manipulate findings on the misuse of UK arms by allies, and if they did not do so, their reports

Industry insiders say it will be ‘tricky’ to find suitable candidate who would agree to location and civil service payBritain’s state-owned energy company faces a “challenging” task to find a chief executive for its Aberdeen HQ when it begins recruiting this month, senior industry sources have said.Great British Energy is poised to begin the hunt, but sources claim there are still no obvious frontrunners for the top job almost six months after the £8.3bn publicly owned clean energy company was formed. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/09/gb-energy-recruitment-ceo-aberdeen-hq Author : Jillian Ambrose Publish date : 2025-02-09 16:38:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Trump tells the New York Post that he has a plan to end the war but declined to go into detailsDonald Trump has said he held talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over a negotiated end of the three year Russia-Ukraine war, indicated that Russian negotiators want to meet with US counterparts.Trump told the New York Post that he had spoken to Putin, remarking that “I better not say” just how many times. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/trump-putin-ukraine-war Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2025-02-09 15:10:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.