A Cardiff man who was caught with nearly £25,000 in cocaine while driving through Rhondda was sentenced
Macauley Cotterill, 25, of Caerwent Road, Ely, was arrested in May of this year by officers from the Organised Crime Unit after they spotted him driving his Audi Q3.Officers in an unmarked police car followed him and then pounced when he came to a halt in Tonyrefail.Officers discovered half a kilogramme of cocaine and £15,000 […]
Celebrity MasterChef returns to BBC One this summer with an all-star line-up of comedy legends, world champion sporting heroes, multi award-winning musicians and stars of screen and stage who will be battling it out for the coveted Celebrity MasterChef 2022 title. John Torode MBE and Gregg Wallace MBE will be once again putting 20 well-known faces to the test across six weeks. They’ll discover who has the palate and skill to chop, slice and sizzle their way to lifting the iconic Celebrity MasterChef trophy. The celebrities hoping to tickle John and Gregg’s tastebuds and follow in the footsteps of last year’s champion, Team GB Paralympian Kadeena Cox, are: TV presenter and actor, Adam Pearson; former World Boxing champion, Chris Eubank; actor, Clarke Peters; actor, Cliff Parisi; musician and TV Judge, Danny Jones; reality TV star, Faye Winter; TV presenter and musician, Gareth Malone OBE; former pro-footballer, Jimmy Bullard; comedian, Kae Kurd; professional dancer, Katya Jones; TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher; British drag performer, Kitty Scott-Claus; actor, Lesley Joseph; TV presenter, Lisa Snowdon; musician, Mel Blatt; media personality, Nancy Dell’Olio; actor and comedian Paul Chuckle; reality star, MoJo; actor and comedian, Richard Blackwood and actor, Ryan Thomas. Following on from a hugely successful MasterChef final earlier this year, Celebrity MasterChef features four heat weeks concentrating on whittling down the celebrities; testing their abilities until only the best go through to the final stages. The series will once again feature an array of cookery challenges designed to stretch the celebrities’ culinary ability to their limits including the returning challenges in the heat rounds; Under The Cloche, The Street Food Challenge and Dinner Party Dish. Then the top celebrity cooks face the nerve-racking and exhilarating challenges during the Semi and Final Week stages. Post pandemic, this series sees our Semi-Finalists and Finalists face challenges cooking for large numbers of people including a special centenary challenge to mark 100 years of the BBC. Katie Attwood, MasterChef Series Editor, says: “Celebrity MasterChef is a firm favourite in the television must-see calendar and this series is as funny, engaging and nail-biting as ever. John and Gregg are in for a treat, as are our viewers.” Sarah Clay, Commissioning Editor for the BBC, says: “This line up will absolutely cement Celebrity MasterChef as one of the nation’s most loved cookery programmes, with a lot of laughter alongside fierce competition guaranteed. The level of cooking is fantastic this year and you can really see how much it means to them all.”
Over the next six weeks, John Torode MBE and Gregg Wallace MBE will put 20 well-known faces to the test. They’ll find out who has the palate and skill to chop, slice, and sizzle their way to the iconic Celebrity MasterChef trophy.The celebrities hoping to tickle John and Gregg’s tastebuds and follow in the footsteps […]
A domestic abuser who raped and abused a teenage girl on multiple occasions has been sentenced after detectives discovered a history of violent outbursts
Kyle Pugh subjected the now-18-year-old girl to four years of coercive control as well as physical and sexual assaults.Throughout the relationship, he was controlling towards her, dictating what she wore and refusing to let her wear makeup. He also regularly assaulted her by pulling her hair and biting her.The 19-year-old lashed out at the girl […]
A damning report found that gangs of men sexually exploited and physically abused over 1,000 children for at least 30 years by sharing the children around.
The Telford Sexual Exploitation Independent Inquiry, key agencies dismissed exploitation as “child prostitution,” and both child abuse and exploitation were ignored.Local authorities and agencies were aware of the abuse at the time it occurred but did not investigate, leaving children unprotected and “emboldening” the perpetrators.In findings published on Tuesday, unnecessary suffering and even deaths of […]
After crashing his car in the early hours of November 28 last year, an MP was found guilty of failing to stop and report the accident
Jamie Wallis, the Conservative MP for Bridgend, was also found guilty of leaving his car in a dangerous condition.He was found not guilty of driving without due care and attention.Wallis received a £2,500 fine and was barred from driving for six months.District Judge Tan Ikram dismissed one charge against Wallis, ruling that it had not […]
A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with several offences
It follows an investigation by officers from the South East Command Unit, PC Thomas Andrews was charged with: ABH Criminal Damage on Monday, July 11th.There were three counts of intentional strangulation.He was held in custody until his appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court the following day.He has been remanded in custody and is scheduled to appear […]
F1 man Bernard Ecclestone has been charged with fraud
Following an investigation by HMRC, the CPS has authorised the charging of Bernard Charles Ecclestone with fraud by false representation. We can confirm that a fraud by false representation charge has been authorised against Bernard Ecclestone,” said Simon York, Director, Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), HMRC. This comes after a lengthy and global criminal investigation by […]
A man has been jailed after admitting murder following a brutal and sustained assault in Homerton
Jordan Graham, 25, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to the murder of Abu Yusuf Twaha at the Old Bailey on Monday, 30 May.On Monday, July 11, he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 15 years in prison at the same court.“This assault was dreadful, and the shocking violence perpetrated was […]
After fatally stabbing a father-of-three in Chingford, a teenager has been convicted of his murder
After a trial at the Old Bailey, the 15-year-old boy who was 14 at the time of the offence, was convicted on Friday, 8 July. He was also convicted of possessing an offensive weapon. Sentencing is scheduled for Friday, September 16 at the same court. On Monday at 6.0pm police were called to Churchill Terrace […]
Penny Mordaunt’s campaign to become the next Tory leader got off to a shaky start when her launch video was hurriedly edited to remove several identifiable figures, including athlete Jonnie Peacock.
On Sunday morning, the international trade minister declared her candidacy for prime minister, saying the UK’s leadership “needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship.”Her original campaign video featured two seconds of footage of Jonnie Peacock competing in the Paralympics in London in 2012.Peacock later responded on […]
Domingo was found guilty on all nine counts at Kingston Crown Court on Friday, July 8, and sentenced to 14 years in prison
Following a Met investigation into a series of robberies at supermarkets in west and south-west London, a man was sentenced. After claiming cash prizes on a batch of stolen lottery scratch-cards, Flying Squad detectives were able to track him down and apprehend him. Henderson Domingo, 47, of Kirkfield Close, West Ealing, was charged with five […]
An investigation by Met detectives, a man who assaulted two women was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison
Following an investigation by Met detectives, a man who assaulted two women was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. Mohammed Tarik, 21, of St Stephens Crescent, W2, was sentenced on Friday, July 8, at Southwark Crown Court. He was sentenced to 20 and a half years in […]
