All news by author Thomas Brown

28 Mar 2024 602

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud

Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in the former billionaire wunderkind’s dramatic downfall.

28 Mar 2024 649

Tragic scene where Gogglebox’s George Gilbey, 40, fell to his death in workplace accident

Gogglebox star George Gilbey has died at the age of 40 after a reported tragic workplace accident in Shoebury, near Southend-on-Sea

28 Mar 2024 809

Paul O’Grady’s beloved dog nuzzled star’s shoulder as devoted husband battled to save him

One year on from Paul O’Grady’s heartbreaking death, the Mirror’s Tom Bryant talks to the TV legend’s widower Andre Portasio about his late husband’s legacy and how he plans to mark the first anniversary of his passing

World

27 Mar 2024 618

Macron charms Brazil’s Lula with submarines

Brazil is building a submarine fleet with France’s help.

Politics

27 Mar 2024 818

Rishi Sunak mocks Liz Truss’s claims she was ousted as PM by the ‘Deep State’

Ms Truss made the claims to a US audience when she attended the big conservative conference CPAC

News

27 Mar 2024 499

Armagh crash victims named and pictured as four friends killed in ’unspeakable tragedy’

The crash involving a grey Volkswagen Golf occurred at around 2.10am on Sunday and ’was an unspeakable tragedy for the families involved’

25 Mar 2024 723

Shock video shows wreckage of ‘HSTikkyTokky’s £220,000 McLaren after TikTok star’s supercar destroyed in horror crash’

Cops say the driver of the car fled the scene

25 Mar 2024 778

Is this Banksy? Fans think they’ve spotted graffiti artist in photos of artwork

A photo taken over the weekend at the green mural in Finsbury Park in London shows a man with greying hair who bears a striking resemblance to the man widely believed to be Banksy

News

25 Mar 2024 745

UK should ’absolutely’ be concerned about threat of Islamic State after Moscow terror attack

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said European countries must “remain vigilant” after 137 were killed in an assault that suggests the jihadist group still maintains the capacity for major atrocities

News

24 Mar 2024 682

Nurse who swiped patients’ cakes and left dying man to go on break struck off

The Nursing and Midwifery Council found all 17 allegations proven against Bacon

Crime

24 Mar 2024 825

How tatty dress & Guinness sign hold key to solving grim ‘Angel of the Meadow’ murder – 55yrs after woman buried in slum

Worker found remains of unknown woman buried in rubble at site

Finance

24 Mar 2024 755

John Lewis denies staff their bonuses AGAIN- and warns of job losses as retail giant plans robot workers

Reports suggest another 11,000 staff could go in the next five years

World

24 Mar 2024 629

‘I just want to go home’ says Brit ISIS bride trapped in ‘ticking timebomb’ Syria camp with Shamima Begum

The Brit ISIS brides are said to be spreading extremism to their children but still want to return to the UK

News

24 Mar 2024 813

Man buys wife’s parents a £600k ’forever home’ and their reactions are priceless

When he unveiled the extravagant property purchase to his family members, he wrapped it in an enormous red ribbon - and his in laws were absolutely gob smacked

Politics

24 Mar 2024 638

China targets group of senior UK politicians with string of cyberattacks as urgent meeting called at Westminster

It’s not the first time serious warnings have been made in government about the China threat

23 Mar 2024 833

Mum and son still living in Covid lockdown ’nightmare’ wash shopping and social distance

Four years after the first national lockdown was announced, mother and son Mandy and Mason Milne still wash their food shopping, social distance and do regular Covid tests

World

23 Mar 2024 774

US veterans dodge gun-wielding kids & checkpoints to save civilians from Haiti’s gangs in daring SAS-style missions

Bryan Stern and his team at Project Dynamo specialise in ’hard cases in hard places’ and say they’ll never leave anyone behind

23 Mar 2024 659

Woman who broke her neck diving into swingers club swimming pool while drunk sues NHS for more than £10 million

She suffered a permanent spinal cord injury and spent more than six months in hospital

World

22 Mar 2024 582

Putin wades in on Kate Middleton photo scandal and warns ’crisis of power brewing’ in UK

Pro-Putin media outlets in Russia carried a fake story that King Charles had died earlier this week while politicians have claimed the Royal Family’s photo scandal is a "crisis of power"

Investigation

04 Feb 2024 1116

Timur Turlov’s Freedom Finance pyramid launders billions for Nazarbayev clans and sanctioned Russian oligarchs

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, after facing his first serious test, learned an important truth: governing slowly and leisurely, without making any changes and maintaining an oath of loyalty to Nursultan Nazarbayev, won’t succeed.

Investigation

26 Jul 2023 398

AST Agroholding accuses Alliance Bank of fraud: fertilizer loan issued, goods never delivered

The agricultural holding and its management have never been linked to Viktor Medvedchuk or Oksana Marchenko, do not know them personally, and have no business or personal ties with them, UNN reports, citing TSN.

Investigation