Shoplifting is an under-reported crime, costing UK retailers £2.2 million every yea.  This week the Evening Post reported on the troubling exponential rise of shoplifting offences in Nottingham. However, the more worrying statistic than the 25% escalation in crimes from April to August, was the mere 58.8% police detection rate.

Monday 5th November 2012

At 5.30pm the 4 Candidates attended hustings for the Police & Crime Commissioners job.

THE director of communications at Nottingham City Council is set to leave the authority.

Stephen Barker, who has been a high profile and controversial figure in Nottingham for several years, is due to take voluntary redundancy later this month.

His departure comes as council chief executive Jane Todd continues to investigate concerns that public money was used to support the Labour Party…

Derby:

Five men on trial over leaflet calling for gay people to face death penalty, in first prosecution of its kind under new law.

to be given the death sentence, a court has heard.

The pamphlet was entitled The Death Penalty? and showed an image of a mannequin hanging from a noose. It said sodomy was a sin that led to hell, that it used to be punished by hanging, and that people practisin…