Young women are being deterred from public life because they fear deep fake porn, Baroness Owen has warned. Lady Owen, 31, the second youngest member of the House of Lords, is spearheading efforts to make the creation or solicitation of deep fake porn – in which explicit photographs or videos of a person are created … Read more
Someone has chopped down speed cameras that cost a quarter of a million pounds to install at a Welsh accident hotspot where three people have been killed and dozens more injured. Police are appealing for information after average speed cameras on the A4069 Black Mountain Pass road between Brynamman and Llangadog were damaged with the … Read more
An actor who claimed to have worked as Brad Pitt’s body double has been jailed for 16 years for a campaign of sexual and physical abuse against women. Luke Ford, 35, was found guilty of abusing nine female victims, including the rape of six of them and the attempted rape of another. The High Court … Read more
The National Theatre Wales (NTW) has now formally ceased to exist several months after its £1.6m a year Welsh Government funding was pulled in its entirety. Speaking to BBC News Wales, Naomi Chiffi, who is the head of collaboration at the company, described the loss as “devastating”. It comes following months of uncertainty after Arts … Read more
A boss of Wales’ environmental agency Natural Resources Wales has been grilled by MPs on its actions during recent bad weather. Jeremy Parr, who is head of flood incident risk management, told a Commons committee that people need to be prepared such as by having a radio and batteries in their home. Answering a question … Read more
Bobbies on the beat are for the first time using body-worn facial recognition cameras to identify wanted suspects and missing people almost instantaneously. South Wales and Gwent police have become the first forces in Britain to issue frontline officers with the cameras, which use AI to cross-reference images they take with those of wanted criminals. … Read more
Alec Baldwin has suggested that America wanted him “to die” after his involvement in the on-set death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. The 30 Rock star, 66, appeared on the December 17 episode of David Duchovny’s podcast Fail Better, where he claimed “there is more to come” after his involuntary manslaughter case was … Read more
A priest under investigation for historic sexual offences against children was able to take part in funeral services because of “data protection rules”, a former colleague has said. Rev Canon Timothy Biles, 89, was sentenced to six years imprisonment on Tuesday after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two pupils at a boarding school … Read more
Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a children’s nurse, Karen Cummings, in Northern Ireland. Glenn King, 32, of no fixed address in Lurgan, and Kevin McGuigan Jr, 42, of Annacloy Park in Hillsborough, appeared at Newry magistrates court on Wednesday. Cummings, 40, was found unconscious with a serious head injury … Read more
The Daily Beast Biden Slaps Down Trump and Explains the Mystery Drones President Joe Biden on Tuesday made his first public comments about recent reports of unexplained drone sightings in the northeast. Asked by reporters what was behind the drones, Biden answered: “Nothing nefarious, apparently, but they’re checking it all out.” He added that authorities … Read more