Frightening scale of reoffending revealed: 148,000 criminals caught this year had at least FIFTEEN previous convictions

Almost 150,000 criminals convicted or cautioned last year had committed 15 or more previous offences,  figures revealed last night.The ‘frightening’ re-offending rates mean this group alone have been responsible for  more than two million crimes between them.And shockingly, the number of such career criminals has increased by 14 per cent in just five years. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said the figures exposed the abject failure of the criminal justice system to get to grips with repeat offenders and showed the desperate need for action to tackle persistently high reoffending rates.Mr Grayling said the public – and the Government – were ‘fed up with crooks doing their time and going straight back to crime’. The Justice Secretary has proposed radical reforms to the...

Read More »

Peacocking to the max! Lady Gaga quickly discovers the perils of her outlandish feathered headgear as she struggles to fit inside a car

She's never been afraid to push the boundaries when it comes to her outlandish sense of style. But Lady Gaga discovered the perils associated with her eccentric headgear on Tuesday night as she struggled to fit into a car due to a series of enormous feathers protruding from her crown. The 27-year-old singer appeared to have channelled a peacock when it came to her rather interesting - and revealing - choice of outfit as she arrived to film her segment on The Graham Norton show in central London. Now that['s what you call peacocking! Lady Gaga demonstrated her typically outlandish sense of style with a garish feathered headpiece as she stepped out in London on Tuesday night Making a daring sartorial statement, the Applause hitmaker adorned her head with huge 5ft-high feathers...

Read More »

Belle of the Angel Ball: Rita Ora holds her own surrounded by a bevy of models in a striking gold gown at New York charity gala

Rita Ora may have found herself surrounded by a room full of models on Tuesday night, but the British songstress certainly held her own.The 22-year-old looked a million bucks as she hit the red carpet at the Gabrielle's Angel Foundation 2013 Angel Ball, held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.The benefit, in aid of cancer research, saw the city's sexiest women - not to mention some equally gorgeous men: Hello, Hugh Jackman! - don their finest gowns for the occasion. Holding her own: British songstress Rita Ora stood out from the model pack in her striking gold fishtail gown as she attended the Gabrielle's Angel Foundation 2013 Angel Ball in New York City on Tuesday Picture-perfect: The 22-year-old's shimmering frock perfectly enhanced her golden skintone and platinum...

Read More »

Girl, 13, digs herself out of a shallow grave after she is raped and buried alive by two men in Pakistan

A teenage girl dug herself out of shallow grave after she was raped by two men and buried alive.The 13-year-old was snatched while walking to Koran lessons from her local village in Punjab and raped by the men in an isolated area.Her attackers then buried her alive when they thought that she had died during the assault. Horrific: A 13-year-old girl was buried alive and left for dead after being snatched while on her way to Koran class in the Toba Tek Singh region of PakistanBut she regained consciousness and managed to dig her way out of the muddy grave and flag down a passerby.She was taken to a medical centre and survived her horrific ordeal. According to the New York Post, her father Siddique Mughal told local police that his daughter had been taken.But they initially refused to...

Read More »

Disgraced Shoesmith demanded £1.5million: As backlash grows over pay-out to woman at centre of Baby P tragedy, her greed is revealed

Provoked fury: Sharon Shoesmith will benefit from a total pay-out of around £700,000 after winning her unfair dismissal caseSharon Shoesmith demanded £1.5million in compensation after she was sacked over the death of Baby P.The revelation prompted a fresh wave of fury yesterday, as it also emerged that the disgraced social services chief wants to start working with children again. Shoesmith, former head of children’s services at Haringey Council, will benefit from a total pay-out of around £700,000 after winning her unfair dismissal case.Yesterday children’s charities branded the taxpayer-funded deal ‘absolutely disgraceful’, with one former government minister saying: ‘It stinks.’A source close to the family of Peter Connelly, who died when he was only 17 months old, said: ‘It’s...

Read More »

ITV rejected me for live national service debate because I'm a girl, says Cambridge Union president.

Snubbed: Joanna Mobed was stunned when researchers from ITV's Alan Titchmarsh Show changed their minds her taking part in a debate because she was a womanAs the president of the Cambridge Union, Joanna Mobed is one of the best young debaters in the country.So the 20-year-old felt more than capable of taking part in a current affairs discussion when a TV show contacted her.But she was left stunned when researchers from ITV’s Alan Titchmarsh Show had a change of heart – after they found out she was a girl.They explained that since the debate was about national service, they wanted two men to take part and asked her if she knew any male debaters instead.Yesterday, Miss Mobed, a linguistics finalist at Murray Edwards College, said she was upset by the treatment.‘Being a woman should...

Read More »