Shops and supermarkets including Sainsbury’s and Sports Direct have began fighting back against the UK’s ‘shoplifting epidemic’ with facial recognition cameras.

Sarah Lancashire fought back tears as she was honoured with the Special Recognition Award at the 2023 National Television Awards on Tuesday night.

Surveillence platform Auror is being used by 40 per cent of Australian retailers as retail theft spikes – but founded Phil Thomson has reassured customers the technology is nothing to worry about.

Policing minister Chris Philp is pushing police forces to use of facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence to match shoplifting offenders with those photographed in national police data.

The Gender Recognition Reform Bill was passed by the SNP in Holyrood last week on Thursday, December, 15. The UK government warned it could seek to block the bill from becoming law.

An 87-year-old Buddhist who lived in Nepal before moving Down Under is said to be a ‘definite match’ for British aristocrat Lord Lucan, according to leading expert Professor Hassan Ugail.

Community safety minister Ash Regan said that her ‘conscience will not allow’ her to support the Scottish Government’s controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.

An Olympic athlete has warned that gender recognition reform could have a ‘devastating’ impact on women’s sport in Scotland and prompt female competitors to quit ‘in their droves.’