Tag: Metropolitan Police

  • Hero of the Hour: Kerry Needham

    Hero of the Hour: Kerry Needham

    Kerry Needham speaks for the nation in calling for more help for parents of missing children (other than just Madeleine McCann) (more…)

  • Chitty Chitty Crash Crash

    Chitty Chitty Crash Crash

    As a number of ‘star cars’ fail to sell at Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale, Matthew Steeples suggests that bidders are now more cautious and prices have peaked (more…)

  • Wally of the Week: Richard Littlejohn

    Wally of the Week: Richard Littlejohn

    Richard Littlejohn’s attack on the memory of the late Jean-Charles de Menezes is an utter disgrace (more…)

  • Jill Dando (1961 – 1999)

    Jill Dando (1961 – 1999)

    Jill DandoSomerset born Jill Dando was the greatly respected presenter of the BBC’s Crimewatch between 1995 and 1999. (more…)

  • Forcing Fernbridge

    Forcing Fernbridge

    It is time to step up Operation Fernbridge

     

    As Max Clifford faces further police questioning and Rolf Harris’ trial hears that he wrote a letter to the father of an alleged victim stating “I know that what I did was wrong but we are, all of us, fallible and oh how I deluded myself”, we again call for greater transparency about Operation Fernbridge – an investigation that appears to simply not be getting enough attention from the Metropolitan Police. (more…)

  • The new life of Max Clifford

    The new life of Max Clifford

    An insight into the new life of Max Clifford

     

    In a press release sent to The Steeple Times, the author Ian Hitchings has revealed details about disgraced publicist Max Clifford’s new life in Wandsworth Prison.  (more…)

  • Chaneling an Audi

    Chaneling an Audi

    Audi Q7 rammed through the window of Chanel’s Brompton Cross store

     

    In the early hours of Good Friday, thieves rammed a stolen Audi Q7 through the window of Chanel’s store on Brompton Cross, SW3. (more…)

  • Your Country Needs You

    Your Country Needs You

    Original Scotland Yard site to become hotel ‘of the quality of Chateau Marmont’

     

    An Edwardian building on the site of the original Scotland Yard is to be converted into a 92,000 square foot, 235-bedroom 5-star hotel of the “world class… quality of The Mercer or the Chateau Marmont” (more…)

  • Finding the truth of Fernbridge

    Finding the truth of Fernbridge

    Now is the time to progress Operation Fernbridge

     

    Some will say he’s dead and unable to defend himself but now that the Metropolitan Police have confirmed that Sir Cyril Smith visited the Elm Guest House in Barnes, it truly is time that a proper investigation into him and the other paedophiles who allegedly abused youngsters there was conducted with greater transparency. (more…)

  • Plodding communications

    Plodding communications

    Matthew Steeples argues that the detainment of David Miranda again illustrates why a clearer communications strategy is required on the part of the police

     

    David Miranda’s detainment may have been legitimate and he may indeed have been carrying information that could be considered dangerous to Britain. Equally, though, these charges could simply be, as most suspect, trumped up by the Met. The main wrong in this story, however, is the way in which our police and their press departments have handled it. (more…)