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Torture girl, 16, led mob Leader ... Ainsley       By ANDY RUSSELL THIS 16-year-old was exposed yesterday as the leader of a vicious, all-girl torture gang. Bianca Ainsley headed the mob of up to 50 youngsters who beat up and terrorised other girls. Last night she was handed a five-year anti-social-behaviour order — and was warned she faced the same period in prison if she breached its terms. The Asbo was sought by council officials after brunette Ainsley was heard bragging about hurting her victims.   Fear ... Ainsley and her gang terrorised Manchester streets   She was also...

LONDON: Marriage is on the rocks in Britain, with the proportion of unmarried people set to exceed that of married people within 25 years as more men and women opt to live together without constraints, according to government statistics published this week. The proportion of married men is expected to fall from 53 percent in 2003 to 42 percent in 2031, while the percentage of married women will decline from 50 percent to 40 per cent, Britain's Office for National Statistics predicted on Thursday. The "Population Trends" report predicted on the other hand that the number of unmarried couples living...

Blair: Get shot of yobs All guns blazing ... the PM talking tough on hooligans yesterday     By DAVID WOODING Whitehall Editor TONY Blair declared all-out war on yobs yesterday as he vowed to bring respect back to society. The PM unveiled tough new measures to tame rowdy teenagers BEFORE they commit any crime. And he warned he will “come down heavy” on parents who fail to keep kids in line. Mr Blair put anti-social behaviour at the top of the agenda as he returned to work from his family holiday. He pledged to “change the rules of the...

ONE of the son’s of Britain’s top scrounger Margaret Wilson became a dad at FOURTEEN. William got next-door neighbour Angeline Dugdale pregnant when he was 13. The Sun revealed yesterday how mum-of-fifteen Margaret, 41, and her unemployed husband Eric, 34, are raking in a staggering £49,000 a year in handouts. William, now 15, has a nine-month-old daughter Amy. He said: "I want to learn a trade such as plastering or plumbing so I can look after her properly." William splits his time between helping his mum mind her brood in their cramped four-bed council semi and caring for his baby....

SYDNEY, Australia - A movie fan had his nose bitten off outside an Australian cinema in an argument over the quality of the violent new Bruce Willis movie "Sin City," police said. The 19-year-old victim underwent surgery to reattach the tip of his nose following the brawl Sunday night outside a movie theater in Bathurst, 125 miles west of Sydney. Bathurst police Inspector Cameron Lindsay said the victim and his attacker got into a fight over the merits of the film, an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel about a wicked metropolis filled with tough guys and gorgeous dames. The...

Tue 21 Jun 2005 Elderly Woman Left Humiliated by 'Happy Slapper' Attack By Simon Evans, PA An 81-year-old woman’s trip to the West Country was ruined when she was attacked by a “happy slapper” in a city centre, police said today. The woman, from Sidcup in Kent, was smacked in the face in front of a group of jeering teenagers. The pensioner was visiting Salisbury in Wiltshire when she was subjected to the humiliating attack. She was walking to rejoin her husband and son after collecting a prescription from a Boots chemist when a youth slapped her hard on the...

Tuesday, 21 June, 2005, 13:52 GMT 14:52 UK Attack on woman recorded on phone An 81-year-old woman was hit in the face when she was attacked by a "happy slapper", police say. The woman, from Sidcup, Kent, was smacked in the face in front of a group of teenagers in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She was walking to her husband and son after visitng a chemist's when a youth slapped her hard on the cheek and poured a drink over her. A friend of the youth captured the attack on a mobile phone while being watched by girls on a nearby bus....

Sisters pregnant at 12, 14 and 16. So what does their mother do? She blames the school Three sisters have each had children while still at school, the youngest at the age of 12. Jemma, Jade and Natasha Williams, who receive benefits totalling more than £31,000 a year, are raising their babies alone after they became pregnant within three months of each other. The sisters, aged 12, 14 and 16 when they gave birth, live in Derby with their twice-divorced mother, who holds the education system responsible for their plight. "I blame the schools - sex education for young girls...

Blair war on yob gangs Vow ... Tony Blair yesterdayPicture: REUTERS     By TREVOR KAVANAGH Political EditorTONY Blair yesterday vowed to “reclaim the streets” from terrorists, thugs and binge drinkers. Sweeping new laws will be introduced to combat everything from alco-pops to al-Qaeda, the PM said. As the Queen opened the new Parliament, Mr Blair told MPs: “It is time to reclaim the streets for the decent majority. All of us here in Parliament and in the country should work to that end.” Forty-five new laws will target anti-social behaviour, illegal immigration, terrorism and robbery — with ID...

Suburban streets in the grip of feral youths, says police chief By Nigel Bunyan (Filed: 18/05/2005) Feral youths are running wild in suburban streets with no fear of either the police or the criminal justice system, a senior police officer said yesterday. Chief Supt David Baines, of Greater Manchester police, spoke out as Phil Carroll, 48, continued to fight for his life after being attacked by a gang of youths he had confronted in an alleyway behind his home.Mr Carroll, from Lower Broughton, Salford, gave chase to the gang when one of them threw a stone that hit his car....

Time to make yobs fear the police again, says Howard By George Jones, Political Editor(Filed: 01/04/2005)Michael Howard promised yesterday to combat a growing "yob culture" that was turning town and city centres into no-go areas at night and weekends.He would ensure that lawless teenagers once again feared the police, he said.   Tough love: Mr Howard ‘wants yobs looking round in fear’ A Conservative government would end the "defensive policing" and political correctness that had allowed teenage yobs free rein.As home secretary in the last Tory government, Mr Howard angered libertarians with his tough law and order policies, claiming...

More than half of British people have no idea why Easter is celebrated, a survey revealed. Just 48 per cent of some 1,000 adults questioned for the Reader's Digest Magazine poll correctly answered the resurrection of Christ. In addition, a massive 92 per cent failed to recognise Karol Wojtyla is better known as Pope John Paul II, according to the survey. People appeared to struggle with religious figureheads, with two-thirds clueless as to the identity of the Archbishop of Cantebury Rowan Williams and 42 per cent unable to name Judas Iscariot as the man who betrayed Jesus. Despite their lack...

Yob family all get ASBO Unruly ... Bridge family, pictured several years ago, all given ASBO     By ANDY RUSSELL ALL five members of a family from hell were kicked out of their home and the surrounding area yesterday after a four-year reign of terror.Anti-social behaviour orders were issued against the Bridge family — who were banned from entering the Wirral in Merseyside for up to seven years.John Bridge, 40, his wife Karen, 37, and sons John Jnr, 20, Alan, 18, and Luke, 16, terrorised neighbours in New Brighton, a court heard.The family had used threatening and violent behaviour,...

Music to deter yobs by By Melissa Jackson BBC News Magazine It will be music to the ears of anyone who's been plagued by vandalism and anti-social behaviour - a blast of Mozart or Vivaldi. It seems the classics can speak volumes when it comes to changing the mood music. The experience of standing at a bus stop or railway station and feeling intimidated, perhaps by a group of teenagers hanging around, is not uncommon. Dealing with it has led to a variety of expensive attempted solutions, including the installation of CCTV. But the idea of using piped classical music,...

More than 4,000 drunken yobs have been handed on-the-spot fines, ranging from £40 to £80, by police during an eight-week summer "blitz" on anti-social behaviour. Home Office figures published today will also show that alcohol has been confiscated from 9,500 adults and juveniles during the campaign in 90 towns and cities. There have also been 5,000 arrests for alcohol-related offences. Police and trading standards officers have used children aged 13 and 14 for "sting" operations to check whether alcohol was being sold to under-age drinkers by licensed premises and shops.

She was just having a bit of fun. So said a friend of Jemma-Anne Gunning, 18, the British teenager who was earlier this week sentenced to eight months in jail for indecent exposure on the Greek island of Rhodes. Gunning had defeated six other British girls to win the title "Miss Bottom 2003" in the resort of Faliraki after competing in a "strip-type" show. As Gunning herself put it: "Within only 10 hours of winning this funny contest, I found myself arrested, sleeping in a police cell, and dragged from a prosecutor to a magistrate, and eventually got hit with...

TWO asylum seekers last night told how they fled Scotland after being battered and left for dead by a gang of thugs. The Palestinian brothers were left lying in a pool of blood after the attack. Yesterday, four yobs admitted assaulting the pair. Ayaad and Haitham Saada were among 7000 asylum seekers housed in Sighthill, Glasgow. But they ran off to Bolton, Lancashire, after the beatings that left them in hospital for six days. Haitham, 41, came to Scotland six months before the assault in April last year after his wife was killed in an Israeli attack on a refugee...