An innocent grandfather was wrongly accused of being a thief after facial recognition technology suggested he had stolen items.
Ian Clayton, 67, said he was told to leave a Chester Home Bargains shop after the technology claimed he was involved in a theft he said had nothing to do with him.
Four people have been arrested in raids following an alleged £3million benefits fraud involving hundreds of innocent victims having their identities hijacked and stolen.
The suspected members of the gang were detained in dawn raids across south London and Berkshire, the Department for Work and Pensions has revealed.
Ministers have revealed special needs spending will keep soaring over the next decade despite reforms to bring it under control.
Labour’s long-awaited schools white paper, published today, says costs will keep rising over the next few years and only come back to today’s levels in 2035.
Huge numbers of young people are getting 'trapped in a world of benefits', a Labour adviser has warned.
The stark message was delivered by Alan Milburn, who is leading a government review into surging numbers of so-called NEETs - youths not in education, employment or training.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor charged taxpayers for massages while working as the UK's trade envoy, a retired civil servant has claimed.
The former member of staff, who worked in the UK's trade department in the early 2000s, said the disgraced royal successfully expensed the treatment as well as excessive travel costs during his time in the role between 2001 and 2011.
Keir Starmer's plans to build 1.5 million new homes before the next election have been hit by a new blow as the UK faces a shortage of scaffolders.
At least 6,000 new scaffolders are needed each month to keep to Labour's building targets and to replace retiring workers, according to the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC).
The BBC has sparked a major backlash over its BAFTAs coverage after editing out 'Free Palestine' during one speech while keeping in a racial slur in another.
BAFTAs host Alan Cumming was forced to apologise to viewers after Tourette's activist John Davidson was heard yelling the N-word during a presentation by black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo.
A Christian street preacher was arrested on suspicion of 'inciting religious hatred' after he delivered a sermon 'on Islam and transgender ideology'.
Dia Moodley's legal counsel ADF UK, which is part of faith-based legal organisation Alliance Defending Freedom, said the 58-year-old pastor was detained for eight hours in November last year.
The intended target in the kidnapping of missing grandfather Chris Baghsarian has been identified, as a focused police search continues in Sydney's northwest.
Mr Baghsarian, 85, was snatched from his home in North Ryde in what police believed to be a case of mistaken identity about 5am on February 13.
President Donald Trump is 'considering assassinating the son of Iran's supreme leader' as brave protestors have marched again in Tehran chanting 'death to Ayatollah' over the weekend.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's 55-year-old son, Mojtaba Khamenei is his father's most likely successor due to close ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) - a powerful branch of the armed forces designated a terrorist group by the US.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor annoyed figures around the world and kept such 'dubious' company while acting as trade envoy that Whitehall officials raised concerns, it has emerged.
Insiders from the former coalition government claimed yesterday that Andrew was widely viewed as a liability, but terminating his official role was considered politically sensitive because it risked dragging Buckingham Palace into a row.
A windsurfing doctor was savagely mauled to death in a shark attack while his horrified family watched from the beach on a holiday paradise island.
The 55-year-old was catching waves on a popular beach on New Caledonia - a French territory in the South Pacific, east of Australia - when he suddenly was seen thrashing around in the water.
