Rory Tingle

12 hours ago | dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett |Rory Tingle

Labour has unveiled plans to build three new jails for another 1,400 prisoners amid warnings men's jails could be completely full within five months. The Justice Secretary said prisons are currently 99 per cent full and Britain risks a 'total breakdown of the justice system' if the issue is not addressed.

2 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Rory Tingle |Tom Bedford

A Welsh town with only 5,970 inhabitants has just got another barber shop - meaning it now has 14 hair salons, or one for every 400 people. Plans by a Kurdish businessman to open a new barber in a vacant amusement arcade sparked anger among residents in Porth, South Wales, who said their town was already 'saturated'.

2 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Mark Nicol |Rory Tingle

SAS soldiers executed a handcuffed child and Taliban suspects when they were asleep, a BBC documentary reports today. The claims are part of evidence being studying by an ongoing High Court inquiry into SAS war crimes. Around 80 Afghans are feared to have been executed on night raids in Afghanistan, though the figure could be much higher. Troops said to have been present when these executions took place between 2010 and 2013 were interviewed by Panorama.

3 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Rory Tingle |Shannon McGuigan

Former Pimlico Plumbers boss Charlie Mullins has lambasted the maintenance firm's new American owner after they axed the UK company's popular apprenticeship scheme, as countless trainees were on the verge of qualifying. Mr Mullins, himself a former apprentice plumber, founded Pimlico in 1979 before growing the company into a £50million-a-year plumbing, heating and electrical services giant.

4 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Cameron Roy |Rory Tingle

Deporting foreign criminals languishing in British prisons is 'the answer' to tackling the overcrowding crisis, a shadow justice minister said today. More than 10,800 foreigners are behind bars in England and Wales, equivalent to 12 per cent of the current prison population. Yet at HMP Wandsworth, one of the country's biggest jails, inmates from overseas make up nearly half of the total. They also account for at least a quarter of prisoners at Belmarsh, Wormwood Scrubs, Pentonville and Risley.