Royal Mail workers are being offered thousands of pounds by gangs to intercept letters containing bank cards and PIN numbers. A BBC investigation revealed that employees of the postal service were being offered £1,000 a week to steal cards, after one of its journalists posed as a postman and responded to an advert online.more
Arrested this morning, a 20-year-old man, who is considered to be the head of a four-person gang that attacked Polish tourists in Rimini, wanted to escape to France, Italian media reported. As revealed, he is a refugee from Congo.more
A drugs gang waits outside a north Dublin social welfare office almost every other day to collect debts owed to them by their vulnerable customers. The cash-strapped addicts are forced to hand over the vast majority of their meagre dole payments to the ruthless crew, who have become main players in Balbriggan and surrounding areas of the capital's northside.more
Two Cheltenham families, one Muslim and the other Polish, have both been left traumatised by terrifying racial abuse and threats from Ryan Gobey, 24, a court heard yesterday.more
GREYHOUND HOUSEHOLD is calling for garda assistance to protect waste collection crews in some parts of Dublin. The waste collection company said it is considering cancelling collection services in some areas due to how some of its employees have been treated.more
Rimini victims asks for more privacy and without any contact attempts. According to the press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, victims have not spoken so far to any media.more
A lorry driver charged over a crash on the M1 motorway which killed eight people has been remanded in custody after appearing in court.
Two lorries and a minibus crashed near Newport Pagnell on Saturday.more
Italian police are increasingly closer to identifying the perpetrators who attacked a couple of Polish tourists in Rimini, the media said. According to this information, investigators have names of suspects from a range of common criminals living on drug trafficking and theft.more
The perpetrators of the attack on Polish tourists in Rimini are likely to be four illegal immigrants from North Africa under the age of 30, the ANSA reported, citing investigators.more
Italian police are investigating the suspected gang rape of a Polish tourist and the savage beating of her partner on Italy's popular Rimini beach.more
A man who tried to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a plane at Manchester Airport has been jailed for 18 years.
The "crude improvised explosive device" was found in Nadeem Muhammad's luggage as he passed security on 30 January to try to board a plane to Bergamo, Italy.more
Six people were being treated in three Dublin hospitals on Tuesday night after a driver mounted a footpath in the city centre and hit five pedestrians. The rush-hour collision occurred near the junction of Adelaide Road and Earlsfort Terrace in the south inner city at about 6.15pm. It ended with the Saab vehicle involved coming to rest on its side in the middle of Adelaide road.more
An investigation has been launched into how the body of a dead woman lay undiscovered in a hospital toilet for "up to 10 hours". The body of the woman - who is understood to be a Polish national - was found in a disabled toilet beside the Emergency Department of University Hospital Galway over the August bank holiday weekend.more
Gardaí are mystified about the vicious murder of a 34-year-old man who was stabbed around 40 times before his body was dumped in a ditch. One line of inquiry is that homeless Polish man Michal Kurek may have been stabbed by other eastern Europeans at another location before his body was left in a secluded area at Grange, Ballyboughal, Co Dublin, on August 4 last.more
A car has crashed into a pizzeria in a village east of the French capital Paris, killing a girl and injuring 12 other people, four of them seriously. The driver of the BMW was arrested after the vehicle hit the terrace of the cafe in Sept-Sorts, near La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, French media say.more
