Rare sightings of aurora borealis as far south as Essex and Jersey, with grand displays in Scotland and north-east England • Did you spot the northern lights? Send us your images • The northern lights illuminate the UK – in pictures For one night only the northern lights came south , seen in spectacular displays of green, pink and crimson as far south as Essex and Jersey. The light show by the aurora...
t imagine a way in which Neanderthals would have been able to force mammoths down this slope and then up again before they even got to the edge of the headland," said Beccy Scott, an archaeologist at the British Museum. "And they...
Lenny Harper, former child abuse investigator, says he believes Savile was involved in indecent assault at Jersey institution The former head of the Jersey child abuse investigation has said he now suspects that Sir Jimmy Savile was implicated in the Haut de la Garenne children's home abuse scandal. Lenny Harper said he now has "no reason to doubt" that Savile was involved in indecent assault...
Damian Rzeszowski's wife and children among those he stabbed in a frenzied attack at their home in Jersey last year A man who killed six people including his wife and two young children in a frenzied knife attack has been jailed for 30 years. Damian Rzeszowski armed himself with kitchen knives and stabbed his father-in-law Marek Gartska, 56, wife Izabela Rzeszowska, 30, daughter Kinga, five, and two-year-old...
HMRC is examining leaked list of 4,388 British residents who bank with HSBC in Channel Islands tax haven UK tax authorities are in the early stages of examining a recently received leaked list of 4,388 British residents who bank with HSBC in the tax haven of Jersey. HM Revenue and Customs confirmed it was probing the list, following a report that serious criminals were banking in the Channel Islands,...
web of secrecy jurisdictions' Britain, in partnership with Her Majesty's overseas territories and crown dependencies, remains "by far the most important part of the global offshore system of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions", the Queen will be told tomorrow in a letter from tax experts and campaigners. The monarch, who acts as head of state for UK-linked jurisdictions as far away as the Cayman...
s biggest confiscation order A Jersey court has ordered Curtis Warren to pay £198m after the drug dealer failed to prove he had not earned that sum in a lifetime of high-level criminality. Warren, a 50-year-old former bouncer from Liverpool famed as the only drug smuggler to make it on to the Sunday Times Rich List, will be handed a default sentence of 10 years unless he surrenders the whole amount...
highly defamatory' articles Jersey's former health minister has been sentenced to three months in prison after refusing to take down articles on his blog making serious allegations against a number of people on the island. Stuart Syvret, described by one judge as "a thorn in the side of the [Jersey] establishment", did not attend the court hearing in the royal court in St Helier on Monday but was arrested...
s most notorious drug dealer and once headed Interpol's target list. In his first ever interview, he tells Helen Pidd at his prison in Jersey that he is 'anti-drugs', hasn't squirrelled away £198m – and is the victim of a miscarriage of justice There is only one prison on Jersey. La Moye is tucked away down an unmarked country lane and has to cater for everyone caught on the 14km-wide island: drink-drivers,...
s most notorious drug smugglers has been told to pay £185m – or face another 10 years in jail. Curtis Warren , the only drug dealer to make it on to the Sunday Times Rich List , faces a confiscation enforcement hearing this week in Jersey, where he was jailed in 2007 over a £1m cannabis-smuggling plot. Authorities believe the 50-year-old has benefited to the tune of £185m from a global empire of drug...
s wealthiest ever drugs barons, has admitted his involvement in serious crime as he agreed to measures restricting his freedoms. Warren is due for release as early as next year from a 13-year sentence for attempting to smuggle £1m of cannabis into Jersey. On Friday the high court in London heard that Warren had submitted to an attempt by law enforcement to have a serious crime prevention order issued...
finest lidos. Is your favourite here? Perhaps it's optimistic to be British and to swim outdoors – the past few summers, this one being (touch wood) the exception, don't really inspire most to find their local lido and swim under the skies. Which means many outdoor pools, some with incredible art deco architecture from the golden age of British lido-building in the 1920s and 30s, are under threat...
get our own houses in order' before G8 summit in June, where he claims tax avoidance will be a priority David Cameron has written to the leaders of Britain's offshore tax havens stressing the need to "get our own houses in order" as he pushes for international action to tackle avoidance schemes. In a message to 10 crown dependencies and British overseas territories Cameron said he backed their right...
collective action over tax avoidance and evasion on final day of financial summit The G7 group of industrialised nations has agreed collective action needs to be taken to target tax avoidance and evasion, the chancellor George Osborne has said. Speaking at the end of the two-day summit of finance ministers and central bank chiefs in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Osborne said it was "incredibly important...
s closure of a loophole allowing it to sell VAT-free CDs and DVDs from the Channel Islands Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its retail business following the UK government's closure of a loophole allowing it to sell VAT-free CDs and DVDs from the Channel Islands. The company is reportedly making 147 staff redundant in Jersey as well as 67 in its Cambridge and Bristol offices as a result of...
s chief minister says Channel Islands and overseas territories discussing agreement modelled on US arrangements The UK government is exploring whether it can force the British Virgin Islands and other offshore havens for which it is ultimately responsible to share far more information on owners of offshore trusts and companies. Jersey's chief minister, Ian Gorst, confirmed that Channel Island officials...
s courts to sue the world's poorest countries for historic debts. Vulture funds, which buy up poor nations' debts on the cheap before suing them for up to 100 times the original amount, had attempted to take cases to Jersey after British law banned the practice. In the latest case, multimillionaire speculator Peter Grossman used Jersey's courts to sue the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for...
s richest and most powerful men has been found guilty of stealing millions from Brazilian taxpayers and stashing it in a secret bank account in Jersey. Paulo Maluf, a multimillionnaire businessman and serving congressman in the Brazilian parliament, took bribes and "kickbacks" when commissioning public work projects while the mayor of São Paulo in the 90s, a court in St Helier ruled on Friday. A judge...
re sooo moneysupermarket.com. The island of Jersey is expected to be the new home of Simon Nixon, the multimillionaire founder of the price comparison site, which would allow him to shelter his £400m fortune from HM Revenue & Customs. A move by Nixon, who owns just under 50% of the company and who – only two months ago – cashed in some shares to benefit from entrepreneur's tax relief, is likely to...
tax affairs. The leak is highly embarrassing for Jersey, which claims to have comparatively tough regulations for its licensed banks, requiring them to know who their customers are and where their funds come from. "Jersey has got some of the toughest anti-money laundering regulations in the world, as assessed by the IMF [International Monetary Fund]," said Jersey treasury minister Philip Ozouf. "There...