Author: Darren Smith

Fairlane Town Center evacuated as police and state troopers respond to gunfire; witnesses describe scenes of panic.Multiple people have been shot at Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Michigan, according to sources who spoke to Britannia Daily, as police continue to investigate an active and ongoing incident at the shopping centre. Officers from Dearborn Police were seen at the mall, located near Evergreen Road and Michigan Avenue, from around 2pm on Friday, 3 July. Michigan State Police are also at the scene. The mall has since been evacuated. Television cameras captured at least one person being loaded into an ambulance, though…

Sultani Bakatash convicted after plying teenagers with alcohol before assaulting them at his flat A man has been convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls he lured to his flat in Bolton after contacting them on social media. Sultani Bakatash, 29, was found guilty of two counts of rape following a trial at Bolton Crown Court. He is yet to be sentenced. The court heard that the two victims had been messaging Bakatash online before arranging to meet him in Bolton on 6 December 2025. He took them back to his flat, where he encouraged them to keep drinking alcohol until…

Trial collapses as jury rejects claims trio helped gunman who killed journalist during 2019 Derry riot Three men have been acquitted of murdering journalist Lyra McKee, more than seven years after she was shot dead during rioting in Derry/Londonderry. Ms McKee, 29, died after being struck in the head as a masked gunman opened fire in the direction of police officers amid disorder in the Creggan area of the city in April 2019. She was not the target of the attack but was standing nearby when the shot was fired. Paul McIntyre, Peter Cavanagh and Jordan Devine, all from Derry/Londonderry,…

Three men have been charged with people smuggling offences after a boat was spotted depositing migrants onto a beach in Holland-on-Sea, near Clacton — the Essex constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Polish nationals Konrad Dabrowski, 25, and Damian Ciuron, 41, both from Bradford, were arrested by Essex Police at the shoreline on Wednesday 1 July after officers observed a vessel dropping people off at the beach. Christian Albano, 45, an Italian national, was subsequently detained at sea by the Border Security Command, supported by HM Coastguard, for the same alleged offence. All three were questioned by the…

Millions of Americans have been urged to remain indoors on Friday as a dangerous combination of wildfire smoke, ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution spread across 16 states, with health authorities warning the contaminated air poses serious risks to breathing and could trigger asthma attacks. The National Weather Service issued the alerts covering Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Depending on location, warnings range from single-day advisories to alerts lasting through Sunday night. Authorities across the affected states are advising residents to keep windows…

A woman who murdered her 84-year-old husband with a small paring knife and told police he must have stumbled and fallen onto the blade while carrying her lunch tray has been jailed for life with a minimum of 12 years, after a jury rejected her account of an accident for the second time. Daryl Berman, 72, was convicted of murdering retired businessman David Berman at their £500,000 detached home in Butterstile Lane, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, on 13 March last year. A first jury was unable to reach a verdict, but following a retrial last month she was found guilty of…

Vickrum Digwa, the man jailed for life for stabbing 18-year-old student Henry Nowak to death in Southampton, has applied to the Court of Appeal in a bid to quash his murder conviction and reduce his sentence — a move that comes as newly released footage shows him lying to police as his victim lay dying metres away. Digwa, 23, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years after stabbing Henry five times with a 21cm ceremonial blade in December 2025. The sentence had already been referred to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient scheme by Solicitor…

Tens of thousands of migrants have fled South Africa after gangs issued death threats to the country’s estimated ten million foreign nationals, demanding all undocumented migrants leave by a 30 June deadline or face being hunted down and killed. The anti-migrant group March by March had set the deadline weeks in advance, triggering waves of violence across major cities including Johannesburg, Durban and Pietermaritzburg. While some demonstrations remained peaceful, others descended into looting, riots and clashes with police, resulting in more than 900 arrests. South African police have confirmed the deaths of at least four people — one Malawian, two…

Millions of people in England are going to have to wait longer than expected before they can claim a free bus pass, following a change that took effect this year as the state pension age begins its gradual rise from 66 to 67. The free bus pass in England is directly tied to the state pension age, meaning that as the pension age increases, so does the age at which people become entitled to free travel. Under the previous system, anyone reaching 66 was eligible to apply. That has now changed. Anyone who turned 66 before April 2026 can still…

A 17-year-old British boy is on life support in an Athens hospital after falling from a hotel balcony in the early hours of Friday morning, with a local shopkeeper arrested for allegedly selling him alcohol before the incident. The teenager plunged from the first floor of a hotel in Chalandri, a northern suburb of Athens known as a party district, and was rushed to the Red Cross Hospital where he was intubated and placed in intensive care. A source told the Sun his condition was “touch and go,” describing multiple injuries including internal wounds. “He has multiple wounds, some internal,…