Environmental campaigners told a UK High Court judge today that an Olympic basketball training facility was being built on parkland filled with “lead and asbestos”.

In one sense, the London riots defy explanation. All mob violence does.

TWO dentists were celebrating victory yesterday after a trademark judge overruled a fashion giant’s protests at a crocodile symbol that adorns their private surgery.

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As six Pitcairn men convicted of sex crimes await sentencing, observers say life on the remote Pacific outpost will never be the same again.

The prosecution in the cases of seven Pitcairn men accused of a catalogue of sexual offences against young girls on the island scored a significant victory yesterday when one of the defendants changed his plea to guilty.

A Pitcairn Island man on trial for sex abuse used to act as though young girls were available for him whenever he chose, a prosecutor said in a makeshift courtroom on the remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A STRING of sex abuse trials opened yesterday on Pitcairn Island, the isolated British territory in the Pacific that is home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A woman wept as she described being raped as a young girl by a man who is now mayor of Pitcairn Island, as his sex abuse trial opened on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A host of famous mums, dads and grandparents have been practising their fashion designing skills by customising a collection of baby T-shirts, which are to be auctioned for charity.