All news on the topic: Community service

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Come Dine With Me sex offender who works as life coach convicted of stalking
Lucy Haughey won the hit TV cooking show the same year she was convicted of sleeping with a 15-year-old schoolboy and was sentenced this week for a relentless social media campaign targeting her latest victim. This week she was in the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court facing sentence for stalking Joanne Bell.
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Trampoline park directors fined after 11 people broke their backs in two months
Chester's Flip Out trampoline park saw a total of 270 people injured whilst open, 11 of which resulted in broken backs and prompted owners David Shuttleworth and Matthew Melling to be prosecuted
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Violent reality of fox hunting as saboteurs risk their lives to stop the sport
A Mirror Exclusive reveals the horror attacks faced by hunt saboteurs as they attempt to put an end to illegal fox hunting - as violent altercations between hunters and saboteurs appear to be on the rise
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Metal detectorist dubbed 'Lord of the Rings' makes his 200th find
Darren Wiles, from Bournemouth, has reunited people with their lost jewellery and other treasures over the last 12 years - including a ring containing a boy's ashes
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Race faker Rachel Dolezal loses teaching role amid side gig discovery
Infamous 'race faker' and former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal has lost her job at an elementary school in Arizona
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Mum is left with a huge nine-inch scar after her throat slashed in nightclub
Jeanette Irvine, 51, feared she would never see her children again when violent thug Marie Huggan sliced her throat open with a bottle in an unprovoked attack at De Vito's in Arbroath in July 2022.
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Domestic abuse numbers reach record high as more victims than ever seek help
More than 100,000 sought help to escape their abuser via the National Centre for Domestic Abuse and Violence last year - the most ever since records began.
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Gunman kills himself after eight people found dead in three homes in mass attack
Police had been on the lookout for 23-year-old Romeo Nance who was "armed and dangerous" but the suspect shot himself after a stand-off with police in Natalia, Texas
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Man praised for 'glorious' revenge on coworker who kept stealing his lunch
A man has proved that revenge is a dish best served cold, after catching his work lunch thief resulted in him being arrested and fired from his job
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Love Island’s Jack Fincham dons £3.5k outfit during community service in shop
Love Island's Jack Fincham was given a 36-month driving ban and given 60 hours of community service in October 2023 after admitting two counts of drug driving
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Air Force pilot, 22, training to be Top Gun fighter crowned Miss America
US Air Force pilot Madison Marsh, 22, has been named Miss America at a pageant in Florida at the weekend, becoming the first active officer to take the crown when she beat dozens of others
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US Air Force prodigy studying at Harvard could become Miss America this month
Talk about having your life sorted out… Madison Marsh is just 22 years old and she’s a training Air Force pilot enrolled in a Harvard master’s degree - who could also become Miss America in four days
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Reeva Steenkamp's mum emotional as she says husband 'died of a broken heart'
Reeva Steenkamp's mother June appeared on Wednesday's episode of ITV's Good Morning Britain in her first UK TV interview since Oscar Pistorius' release from jail
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Landlord dubbed 'better than Santa Claus' after Xmas gift to tenants
Praise has flooded in for a landlord who gifted her tenants free rent and shared their delighted and emotional reactions on TikTok, being described later as an “angel”
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Shoplifters 'most likely to benefit' from Tory bid to free up prison cells
Ahead of the Boxing Day sales, analysis of Government figures shows more than one in eight offenders who will be spared jail under Tory reforms committed theft from shops
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'Upskirting' perverts regularly being spared jail sentences
Perverts who take pictures up skirts and hide spy cameras in toilets are being given light sentences like community service rather than being sent to prison, new figures reveal
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Mum pretended to be daughter at middle school - and even sat in classes
Casey Garcia dressed up as her daughter and headed into school for the day - claiming she did so to make a statement on school safety. But now she has been convicted and sentenced
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'High priest' of group pushing for 'holy race war' unmasked as delivery driver
James Costello was the “high priest” of an online white supremacist church which called for a “racial holy war” - until he was tracked down in August 2021. He now faces years behind bars
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‘I got revenge on my office lunch thief with laxatives - and got them arrested’
They say revenge is a dish best served cold but one disgruntled employee turned lunch-thief vigilante managed to get retribution that came piping hot and very, very smelly
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Budding jockey escapes prison after cannabis and cocaine found in police raid
Oran Brown, who has an amateur licence and was reportedly due to ride at Cheltenham this weekend, received a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence
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Fewer shoplifters could be sent to jail in Tory bid to free up prison cells
The Tory minister in charge of prisons told MPs on Monday some low-level offenders handed sentences of less than a year will be spared jail and instead ordered to scrub graffiti off walls
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Low-level criminals to clean up graffiti and plant trees instead of prison time
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said plans would end the 'cycle of criminality' triggered by a 'merry-go-round of short sentences' as ministers battle to solve overcrowding in prisons
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First Donald Trump defendant agrees to testify after taking deal in RICO case
One of the 18 Trump defendants in the Rico case agreed to testify against his co-conspirators and more as part of a plea deal he took today
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'Giving pit bull who attacked me back to owner is like giving criminal a gun'
Jennie Lawrenson spent three days in hospital after an English pit bull called Kaiser mauled her, but now she fears the beast will be returned to owner Holly Snelgar
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Churchgoers say 'only hope is God' as council hikes Sunday parking fees by 700%
Residents in Winchester are furious at the "insane" hike in parking charges for Sunday - with four hours now costing £17 in some car parks, some say it's "penalising people who want to go to church"
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