PoliceTown centre hub in Crawley intended to act as deterrent and give people chance to talk to officers
As police stations go, it is not exactly big, but it is centrally located and visible from the far end of the high street, which is, according to the neighbourhood policing inspector for Crawley, part of the point.
“It encourages increasing engagement, it’s community reassurance and it acts as a preventive as well,” says Insp Steve Turner of Sussex police.
Tennis This article is more than 5 years oldNick Philippoussis child rape charges dropped after strokeThis article is more than 5 years oldFather of Australian tennis star Mark Philippoussis will no longer face trial in US because he is ‘completely incapacitated’
A California judge has dismissed child sexual assault charges against Nick Philippoussis because the Australian tennis coach “is completely incapacitated” and near death after suffering a massive stroke in jail.
FictionReviewBluebeard meets boarding-school comedy in a cruelly funny satire of class and eating disorders
Oligarchy is the story of Natasha, or Tash, who has been sent from Russia to a minor boarding school in Hertfordshire by the oligarch father she barely knows, having been raised in poverty by her mother. She’s a fish out of water – new money, foreign and Jewish – but bonds with her classmates over their shared passion for self-starvation.
World newsRacists created the Noble SavageAuthor claims term was the work of bigots, not RousseauThe Noble Savage, long assumed to be the invention of the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was, in fact, a racist propaganda device of British anthropologists to create a climate where slavery and genocide could be mooted.
The claim that Rousseau created the myth was made by one of the nineteenth century's most notorious racists to give weight to his belief in the notion of 'inferior' races, according to a new book, The Myth of the Noble Savage .
The election officeCaliforniaFears of election night unrest arose amid dispute with ultra-conservatives who insisted county use hand-count system for ‘election integrity’
The Shasta county elections office was prepared for a night unlike any other. On the evening of this November’s special election, sheriff’s deputies stood inside as workers processed ballots that would decide a school board race and the fate of a proposed fire department.
Security guards were stationed outside the building in Redding, the county seat, while across Shasta, observers from the California secretary of state’s office had come to ensure the election ran smoothly.
Photograph: masterzphotois/Getty Images/iStockphotoWe look at the science behind romance, from the brain chemicals that make us swoon to how to know when you’ve met ‘the one’
by Hannah Devlin Science correspondentWhat do you get when you fall in love?We crave romantic love like nothing else, we’ll make unimaginable sacrifices for it and it can take us from a state of ecstasy to deepest despair. But what’s going on inside our heads when we fall in love?
BaliLocals on the Indonesian island have been enraged by behaviour that includes visitors driving motorbikes dangerously and posing nude at sacred sites
Luiza Kosykh claims she didn’t know the 700-year-old tree she posed naked in front of was sacred. However, the viral shot captured by the Russian national in Bali was enough to infuriate the local community and resulted in her swift arrest and deportation.
The case is one of a growing number of incidents involving unruly visitors, as tensions between foreign influencers and locals on the Indonesian island reach boiling point.
Germany This article is more than 6 months oldGerman Catholic church ‘dying painful death’ as 520,000 leave in a yearThis article is more than 6 months oldSpeed of departures has been driven by series of child abuse scandals and accusations of a cover-up
The Catholic church in Germany has revealed it is losing followers like never before, with more than half a million people deciding to renounce their membership last year.
Iran This article is more than 10 years oldIranian who survived execution will be spared second hanging, says ministerThis article is more than 10 years oldJustice minister claims Alireza, found alive in morgue and now on life support, survived penalty so will not be 're-executed'The Iranian prisoner who survived his execution and revived in the morgue having been pronounced dead, will not be hanged for a second time, Iran's justice minister has said.
BusinessPilots' joke flight ended in deathTwo airline pilots joked and laughed as they flew an empty commercial jet to its limits, switched seats in mid-air and ignored automated warnings before crashing into a residential area, a cockpit voice recorder has revealed.
Captain Jesse Rhodes and First Officer Peter Cesarz were both killed after they decided to "have a little fun" and take the 50-seat Pinnacle Airlines jet they were flying to 41,000ft - the limit of its capability.