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BBC News
02-07-2025
- BBC News
Thames Valley Police officers in Cowley sacked after sex video lies
A police officer found to have shown an intimate video of a woman he had been having an affair with has been sacked, along with a colleague a panel said lied about watching John Birch and Daniel Gunston, who were based in Cowley, Oxford, met up outside work and discussed the former's wife finding the sex video and other pictures on his later Gunston told colleagues he had seen an "interesting video" but later denied watching it and said he had briefly seen indistinct thumbnails on Mr Birch's Thames Valley Police officers were found guilty of gross misconduct and sacked following a hearing last month. Mr Gunston was a member of a team celebrated for its response to a crash that killed a mother and three of her children in a panel found his backtracking on what he had seen on his colleague's phone amounted to "operational dishonesty" and was "intentional and deliberate".Mr Birch, who had been friends with Mr Gunston before they joined the police, had the consensual sexual relationship with the woman in February acknowledged that he kept at least two videos of them on his phone and that he could not have "reasonably believed" the woman had consented to them being shown to other he denied showing at least one of those to his friend because he said he would have been "embarrassed".Mr Birch said he had instead "explained the videos in detail" and that Mr Gunston might have seen intimate images of the woman as he was "waving his mobile phone around".The panel found that "highly implausible".The police officers' identities were initially anonymised "for the purpose of protecting the welfare of [Mr Birch's] children" but revealed after they were dismissed. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
Times
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Reform candidate calls for ‘gunfire' at migrant boats
Reform UK council candidates have been found defending Southport rioters and allegedly advocating shooting at migrant boats, despite Nigel Farage claiming that the party has done a 'damn good job' at vetting for offensive remarks. Farage has said his party's use of artificial intelligence techniques to vet potential councillors meant that there would be no one 'who persistently has said things that we would find fundamentally offensive'. However, The Times has uncovered comments from several candidates that rival parties have called 'disturbing' and 'loony'. • Local election results: follow live John Birch, a candidate in Warwickshire, reposted a message on the seventh day of last summer's far-right-led riots that described the violence as Britons insisting that 'we have had enough'. It read: 'Now our patience
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Ivybridge residents urged to have their say on market future
Residents of Ivybridge have been invited to have their say on the future of the town's 2024, more than 700 Ivybridge residents and business owners shared their views on what they want and need for the town when they took part in the council's public feedback from local people has helped South Hams District Council shape a Community Economic Plan (CEP) for market stallholders and visitors can now have their say on what they want from Ivybridge Market by taking part in a survey online. 'Encourage people to visit' The council's executive member for economic development, John Birch, said: "Local markets are often at the heart of a community, and it is important Ivybridge is getting what it needs from theirs."We want to transform the local economy and support our high streets and businesses; this is set out in our council plan and our ambition for all towns across the South Hams."By improving our local markets, we can support small businesses to thrive and encourage more people to visit and enjoy the wonderful things our towns have to offer."
