The pandemic has seen a huge surge in domestic abuse cases in Tameside - including victims at risk of 'homicide'

The group of technology, media and telecom analysts behind research firm LightShed Partners have launched an early-stage investment fund. Through LightShed Ventures, co-founders and general partners Rich Greenfield Walter Piecyk, Brandon Ross and Jamie Roberts Seltzer will invest $75 million in the seed and series A funding rounds for TMT startups.

Sunderland.The big striker arrived from Ross County in a £300,000 deal last month.Stewart arrived with a slight hamstring issue and Black Cats boss Lee Johnson confirmed he has suffered a minor complication.Johnson, speaking on his club’s website, said: "Ross has had what we expect to be a brief setback.“It may be around a week to 10 days.“He slipped in a rehabilitation drill with the physio, and felt tightness for the first time in two to three weeks.”The 24-year-old netted six times for the

Longtime Wall Street analyst Richard Greenfield and principals at boutique research firm LightShed Partners have launched an early stage venture fund in the tech, media, telecom and consumer space.

Diana Ross, Motown legend and, so went the gossip, a diva among diva.  Ross spoke quietly but firmly.

Kent Live reports.Falconer, who had been subject to a restraining order at the time, denied inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent and was to stand trial in September last year. A month after Robinson’s death he pleaded guilty to the less serious offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm and one of criminal damage.Members of her family were at his sentencing hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on Wednesday.

link!Sheriff Allan McKay had said that, even though Strachan has no previous convictions, a jail sentence was “at the front of mind”.However, after studying a social work report, the sheriff placed him under supervision for two years.

direct to your inboxVictims were left ‘trapped’ in their homes by coronavirus restrictions as the numbers of domestic abuse reports increased in Trafford during the first lockdown of 2020, new data reveals.The number of domestic abuse incidents across Trafford increased during the first lockdown of 2020.Reports of domestic abuse were made across the borough throughout 2020 but numbers climbed after the first lockdown was announced in March, according to Greater Manchester Police’s data.A council

Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, will today say that the First Minister is willing to risk Scotland’s economic recovery by ramping up the SNP’s push for another referendum before Christmas The Tory leader will use a speech on Monday to respond to renewed SNP demands for a second re-run vote and the threat to legislate for a referendum without the Section 30 powers from the UK government.Ross hit out at the so-called wildcat referendum plan contained in Constitutional Secretary

John Malkovich, Thomas Mann and Rosa Salazar are toplining The Chariot, director Adam Sigal's dark comedy now shooting in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sigal's third feature film also stars Shane West, Scout Taylor Compton, Vernon Davis, Chris Mullinax and Joseph Baena-Schwarzenegger.

Phil Keoghan has lifted the lid on the challenges of filming reality series Tough As Nails and also revealed that he and the team are “champing at the bit” to get back to shooting Amazing Race.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Domestic abuse incidents are declining in Renfrewshire despite fears they would rocket during the coronavirus lockdown, according to fresh statistics.Figures from Police Scotland show there were 1,302 reports between April and October last year, which represents a drop of almost eight per cent when compared to the same period in 2019.Meanwhile, the number of crimes or offences raised as a result of reports

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A twisted Paisley taxi driver who battered a woman and children in an eight-year reign of domestic abuse has been jailed.Malicious Iftikhar Sharif, 47, was locked up for almost a year after engaging in a “course of conduct of physical violence and psychological abuse” against the victims at a house in the town’s Hillman Crescent.Sharif, who is deaf and drove a private cab, was convicted of six charges of

Irish actress Clare Dunne stars in Herself, a harrowing drama about a single mother who, after escaping an abusive partner, aims to rebuild her life in a unique manner. After months of struggling with the welfare and housing systems, she comes upon the idea of self-building an affordable home and, with the help of friends and neighbors, rebuilds her life and theirs from the ground up.