Dipesh Gadher

Prince Andrew's top adviser ­continued a financial relationship with an alleged Chinese spy despite warnings from MI5. Dominic Hampshire, an ex-Army intel officer, received cash from a firm set up by Yang Tengbo two years after the spooks raised concerns. https://t.co/mFGeKpKcfS

RT @thetimes: The National Crime Agency is investigating the boom in Turkish-style barber shops on high streets over concerns that premises…

"Postwar Ukraine could become a 'Kalashnikov society', in which disputes once settled with fists will be resolved with guns". Worrying read by @Will___lloyd. The NCA has also warned of "blowback" - with weapons ending up in the hands of UK criminals https://t.co/Sx9dufgi5g

Greedy universities + lack of regulation = industrial scale student fraud Brilliant investigation by @LyonsIzzy & @HarryYorke1 https://t.co/ph85QY6tvx

A third of all shootings in London, including at least 2 recent murders, now involve converted blank firing pistols. There are about 8,000 Turkish-made weapons, that can be turned into killing machines in 20mins, circulating in the UK https://t.co/r3ktvDh3pa

How thousands of phones stolen from the streets of London are ending up on the black market in north Africa. Read the ST's brilliant investigation for free here https://t.co/zx0FJ15uB2

My colleague @HarryYorke1 and I recently investigated how organised crime groups have muscled in on the lucrative trade in stolen mobile phones. Met police chief Sir Mark Rowley said the gangs are "making a fortune out of this". Free to read this weekend https://t.co/QSrGSCwSr4

RT @emilykentsmith: Our whole website is FREE to read this weekend. From investigations that changed Britain to some of the best reporting…

A MUST READ by @ManuMidolo & Peter Gillman for anyone interested in spooks, hacks and geopolitics

The Times and The Sunday Times @thetimes

David Holden, the Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent, was assassinated hours after landing in Cairo in 1977. At last we can reveal who did it and why ⬇️ https://t.co/10pOuNKnwp

Al-Qaeda chiefs instructed Minh Pham, who arrived in the UK as a child refugee, to pack his bomb with shrapnel dipped in rat poison to “maximise the death and destruction” in the arrivals hall at Heathrow over Christmas, say US prosecutors https://t.co/p7w7O4oLWi

RT @jimconey: My son Charlie was born with a severe learning disability. For 12 years we never knew what was wrong…..then we got a phone ca…

A former senior police officer who joined the Harrods security team has been accused of threatening a victim of Mohamed Al Fayed's abuse https://t.co/l8rc2HrBQJ

The Metropolitan Police has been hit by a fresh recruitment scandal after it emerged it hired more than 1,000 officers without obtaining references before they started work. The HR chief involved in the failings later got promoted and now earns £235k https://t.co/G2puLgaIFK