Myrteza Hilaj and Kreshnik Kadena convicted after NCA operation into Albanian crime group involved in illegal migration
Two men who used a plane to smuggle people from northern France to an aerodrome in Essex have been jailed.
Myrteza Hilaj and Kreshnik Kadena, both from Leyton in east London, were found guilty at Southwark crown court in March of facilitating the commission of a breach of immigration law.
Cannes film festival Yorgos Lanthimos reinforces how the universe keeps on doing the same awful things with a multistranded yarn starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons
Perhaps it’s just the one kind of unkindness: the same recurring kind of selfishness, delusion and despair. Yorgos Lanthimos’s unnerving and amusing new film arrives in Cannes less than a year after the release of his Oscar-winning Alasdair Gray adaptation Poor Things. It is a macabre, absurdist triptych: three stories or three narrative variations on a theme, set in and around modern-day New Orleans.
An office worker finally revolts against the intimate tyranny exerted over him by his overbearing boss. A police officer is disturbed when his marine-biologist wife returns home after months of being stranded on a desert island, and suspects she has been replaced by a double. Two cult members search for a young woman believed to have the power to raise the dead.
England’s Test captain thrilled Stanley Park on his county comeback but Keaton Jennings helped Lancashire hold firm
I don’t want to sound like an obsessive, but I’ve just watched Stokes doing up his shoelaces through my binoculars. Do all cricket boots have velcro straps and laces, or just if you’re superman? And here he comes: on to bowl at the South End.
Hello Mike Daniels in the Grace Road scorebox! “Cloudy morning at Grace Road. One stand full of school children which livens the place up.
Teenagers need and want good information about sex. The government’s review, and this ideological tug-of-war, is failing them
Imagine a teenage boy, alone with his phone late at night. A message pings in from a pretty stranger, or even from the hacked account of a girl he already knows. Either way, it’s crudely calculated to grab his attention. There will be pictures, tantalising promises of something even more explicit, if he’ll send nudes in response. But if he does, the brutal trap springs shut.
What follows is a demand for money, if he doesn’t want the compromising pictures plastered all over the internet for everyone at school to see. Some boys (the vast majority of so-called sextortion victims are boys) try to pay up. The lucky ones panic and tell their parents. Tragically, a handful are known to have killed themselves rather than risk public humiliation.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
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Government ministers have dismissed allegations one of them pushed a conspiracy theory in campaign literature.
Maria Caulfield, a health minister, spread claims about “15-minute cities" – an idea explicitly referenced in a guide on conspiracy theories prepared for MPs last week by the leader of the Commons, Penny Mordaunt, and the shadow leader, Lucy Powell.
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