A loner schoolboy who caused widespread panic by launching a terrifying nationwide bomb hoax campaign from his bedroom has been jailed for three years. George Duke-Cohan, who was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Friday, sent thousands of emails to schools, colleges and nurseries across the UK and America warning that bombs had been planted in classrooms.
British government plans to adopt an international definition of anti-Semitism to help tackle hatred towards Jewish people.
Police, councils, universities and public bodies can adopt the wording, which was created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
Three Jewish students were subjected to vile anti-Semitic abuse by members of a Cambridge University drinking society amid allegations of a cover up.
One of the victims has accused university authorities of failing to investigate the attack properly. Two members of Christ’s College have been disciplined for their part in the assault although they were cleared of anti-Semitism.
Desmond D’Mello, a dentist whose surgery hygiene standards sparked a major health scare has had a string of malpractice allegations against him proven.
A conduct hearing at the General Dental Council in London found scores of allegations against him, included failing to change gloves between patients and not putting on a new surgical mask for each patient.
Labour’s Jewish movement votes almost unanimously for Owen Smith to become new leader
Christopher Biggins, having been removed from Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother house for making a “joke” about the Holocaust, is to visit Nazi concentration camps from the Second World War.
To make amends, Biggins is planning to turn a trip to Krakow in Poland into a pilgrimage to the camps, including nearby Auschwitz where more than a million people were killed.
Princess Beatrice has split from her boyfriend of 10 years, it was reported.
The daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York is believed to have separated from Dave Clark a month ago despite hopes that the pair were planning to announce their engagement.
Christopher Biggins has made a tearful apology after being removed from Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother house for making a “joke” about the Holocaust.
Channel 5 ruled that the 67-year-old actor made remarks “capable of causing widespread offence” following a conversation on the show with former X Factor star Katie Waissel.
Biggins, who had made earlier controversial comments about Aids and bisexuals, told the 30-year-old, who is Jewish: “You better be careful or they’ll be putting you in a shower and taking you to a room.”