Pair 'tried to blackmail royal'

Two men tried to blackmail a member of the Royal Family with a sound recording containing claims he had performed a gay sex act, a court has heard.

The Old Bailey was told that Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan demanded £50,000 from the unidentified Royal Family member, called Witness A.

The recordings featured a man who had been employed by the royal.

Mr Strachan, 31, of Fulham, and Mr McGuigan, 41, of Battersea, both London, deny blackmail charges.

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I wonder how Parliament will handle this.

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Male rapist prowled city streets

A security guard has been convicted of raping two men and indecently assaulting two others in Glasgow.
Hissein Atie prowled the city's streets looking for men to attack, the High Court in Glasgow heard.
The 30-year-old, who was caught by DNA evidence, committed the offences between January and June last year. Sentence was deferred for reports and Atie, who arrived in the UK from Chad in 2000, was placed on the sex offenders' register.

Judge Ian Peebles QC said he would consider deporting Atie to the Central African country. At the time of the last attack, he had been granted bail for police assault and alleged indecency. He was also being sought by the Home Office, who wanted to remove him from the country after his asylum application failed.

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This story shows how the law system in the U. K. works so well , and that the United Kingdom does not mess around with Rape.

BA managers leave after T5 fiasco

British Airways has said that two of its senior executives will leave the company after the opening of its Terminal 5 was dogged by problems.
BA said Gareth Kirkwood, director of operations, and David Noyes, director of customer services, would be leaving

The company said it would now look to appoint one person to cover both roles. The opening of Terminal 5 was beset by a catalogue of problems, with staff not able to get into work, thousands of bags mislaid, and flights cancelled.

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When mistakes are made at British Airways , you will have to compensate with your job.

Diana inquiry costs exceed £12m

The cost of the investigation into the death of Princess Diana has topped £12.5m, new figures show.

The coroner's inquest reached £4.5m, with a further £8m spent on the Metropolitan Police investigation.

The inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed, who died in a 1997 Paris car crash, lasted more than three months and heard from 250 witnesses.

The jury returned verdicts of unlawful killing. A BBC poll found 78% of people thought the inquest a waste of money.

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Does Great Britain have no better use of their money? I mean yes, Princess Diana died, but does it mean that £12.5m needs to be spent just so everyone can be sure that she wasn't murdered? Come on people...

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