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Shania Care-Slede, from Hyde, appeared via video link at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court this afternoon (August 21).

She was arrested in July and eventually charged with arson, arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered and dangerous driving following a moorland fire at Dovestone Reservoir.

Before her pleas were heard by the court, prosecutor Iain Simkin KC asked for the arson and dangerous driving charges to be separated, to which Judge Tina Landale agreed.

Care-Slede, who was represented by David James, pleaded not guilty to both arson and aggravated arson.

She went on to plead guilty to the dangerous driving charge.

A provisional trial date has been set for May 17 for the counts of arson and sentencing for the dangerous driving has been set for September 29.

Care-Slede was previously granted bail following a hearing at Minshull Street Crown Court on July 20.

The fire broke out at the Saddleworth reservoir on Saturday, July 11, and firefighters worked for weeks to contain the blaze and make the area safe.

Police have previously said it is continuing their enquiries into the Dovestone fire and have asked the public to stop sharing posts and speculation online about the incident.

The former Wales captain is taking on a new role at a critical time

Former Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones has joined the Ospreys’ board of directors with immediate effect.

The former lock, who made over 250 appearances and won three Celtic League and Pro 12 titles with the Ospreys during his playing career, has made his return at a crucial time for the region as it fights for its continued existence, having been pitted against the Scarlets in a direct battle for survival under Welsh Rugby Union plans to cut the number of professional teams from four to three.

Jones, who was born and raised in Swansea, has been appointed to strengthen the board with the wealth of experience he gained during his playing career, as well as in his life outside of rugby. Further details of his responsibilities are set to be confirmed in due course.

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The Ospreys announced on Friday afternoon that the 40-year-old will join the board immediately and will no longer provide punditry or analysis on matches involving the region, having also moved into media work after hanging up his boots.

“Ospreys Rugby Limited today announced the appointment of Alun Wyn Jones to its Board of Directors, with immediate effect,” a club statement read. “The appointment reflects a deliberate step by the Board to strengthen its capability at a critical time for the region, as the Ospreys continue to develop both on and off the field and navigate the wider challenges facing professional rugby in Wales.

“Jones joins the Board as a director with defined responsibilities, bringing experience from across rugby, his post-playing career experience and the public sector, alongside a strong understanding of Swansea, the Ospreys and the region.”

As his appointment was confirmed, five-time Six Nations winner Jones said: “For me, this is about bringing together my experience from rugby, business and life after playing, to help drive long-term growth and stability for the organisation.

“What I’ve built up on and off the field speaks directly to this role and to where the region wants to go. There’s a real opportunity here, not just for the Ospreys, but for the wider development of Swansea.

“I know the game, I know the city and I know the region. I played for Swansea RFC and came through the Ospreys and national academy. I understand both the history here and the greater potential that exists.

“I have remained in contact with some staff and members of the Board. I have an understanding of the challenges facing rugby in Wales and the Ospreys,” he continued. “Equally, I can see the plans around the region, the development of St Helen’s and the energy within the supporter base.

“Ospreys and the supporters returning to St Helen’s, the growth of the region and the positive impact on the wider community, these are all connected to our results on the field.

“I am looking forward to working with familiar faces and helping to navigate the current landscape of professional rugby.”

Every day on Criminal Record we will be bringing you a round-up of the biggest crime stories of the day.

If you love to read about crime in Scotland – this is the place to be every day.

Here’s what has been making the news across the country on Friday.

Lyons gang order brutal attacks on senior Daniel hood

The Lyons crime clan have ordered brutal machete attacks on rival members of the Daniel family.

Senior members of the Lyons gang are understood to have instructed Ross McGill’s Tamo Junto (TMJ) to launch the revenge attacks after the slaying of Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan in the Costa Del Sol last year.

The first attack took place on the city’s Curzon Street during the early hours of Friday morning before the hoods are believed to have travelled to Honeywell Drive in Stepps. The individuals targeted are understood to be Ronnie Daniel, 41, and Robert Daniel, 51.

Sources told the Record the TMJ footsoldiers ripped into the first property in Glasgow’s Maryhill before trashing the home in their pursuit for Ronnie.

The TMJ gang then travelled to Stepps in an attempt to target Robert but he managed to flee the scene. It comes just weeks after Police Scotland claimed the gang war had come to an end.

READ MORE: Lyons gang order brutal attacks on senior Daniel hoods as war re-ignites

Banned driver who stole Maserati and killed great-grandfather jailed

A disqualified driver who caused the death of a great-grandfather by crashing into the garden where he was working and hitting him with a stolen Maserati has been jailed for more than 13 years.

John Bell, 74, suffered “non-survivable injuries” when he was struck by the car and pinned against the wall of a house in Broughty Ferry near Dundee on April 13 this year.

Fraser Garden, 55, admitted causing Mr Bell’s death by dangerous driving at a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.

He also admitted theft of a motor vehicle, driving without insurance, driving while disqualified, and failing to provide a blood sample for drug testing.

Garden was jailed for 13 years and six months when he returned to the court for sentencing on Friday.

READ MORE: Banned driver who stole Maserati and killed great-grandfather is jailed

Rangers thugs handed football ban after Old Firm disorder

Two Rangers thugs have been banned from every football stadium in the UK for their part in the shameful disorder which marred the Scottish Cup Old Firm clash at Ibrox.

Mackenzie Graham and John Smith were separately caught on camera during the chaotic scenes which erupted after Celtic knocked Rangers out of the competition on penalties in March.

Graham, 21, from Glasgow, was filmed jumping over a fence and leading a group of supporters onto the pitch, repeatedly encouraging others to join him.

Smith, 19, from Peterhead, was captured throwing a bottle into the Celtic support before he was apprehended by police officers in the stands.

The disorder came as both sets of supporters stormed onto the pitch at the end of the quarter-final, with police, stewards and players assaulted and flares thrown.

READ MORE: Rangers thugs handed football ban over Scottish Cup Old Firm disorder

Mum beaten black and blue after gang storm home in middle of night

A mum was beaten black and blue in her own home and left with a bleed on her brain after a row over a dog fight.

Annette Robertson, 49, was asleep in her bed when she was woken by a knock at the door at around 3am on Monday, August 3.

She told how she was battered by a vicious gang who stormed her property and attacked her and her 19-year-old daughter Remy, who had just returned from work at a nursing home.

The thugs and the mum had an earlier run-in after their dog bit her elderly Lhasa Apso.

She claims that they burst through the door of her house in Kilmarnock before repeatedly stamping on her head and kicking her before breaking a broomstick in two to strike her with blows across her body.

Recalling her ordeal, Annette told the Record: “I thought I was going to die.”

READ MORE: Mum beaten black and blue after gang storm home in middle of night

Dad used bow and arrow to shoot squirrel in front of kid

A dad used a bow and arrow to shoot a squirrel in his garden in front of a child on Christmas Day. The small creature was “pinned against a wall” but somehow survived, a court heard on Thursday, August 20.

Matthew Cumming was charged after a shocked neighbour reported him to an animal welfare charity. Cumming, 36, was fined £185 when he admitted an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

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Airdrie Sheriff Court heard the incident happened at his home in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, on December 25 last year.

Sheriff James Spy fined Cumming £175 then asked: “Is there a victim surcharge for squirrels?”

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Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes has been given a 10-match ban for the role he played in on-field clashes after his side were beaten 1-0 by Spain in the 2026 World Cup final.

Fifa’s disciplinary committee has also handed his team-mate Nahuel Molina a seven-match suspension.

Argentina have also been ordered to play their next two home matches with 50% capacity, though one match of that sanction is suspended.

The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) has been fined $321,000 (£235,000) for breaches of the Fifa disciplinary code relating to using a sports event for demonstrations of a non-sporting nature, team misconduct, and discriminatory chants and gestures by its supporters.

Fifa have ordered that $100,000 (£73,000) of the fine must be invested in a plan to combat discrimination – and $100,000 (£73,000) of the fine is suspended, with a probationary period to apply.

After defeating England 2-1 in the World Cup semi-final, several Argentina players held up a banner claiming Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory.

Last month, Fifa appointed a disciplinary and ethics prosecutor to assess what happened after the final whistle at the New York New Jersey Stadium, when multiple Argentina players and backroom staff were involved in altercations with Spain players.

As well as their suspensions, Paredes and Molina will both pay fines of $90,000 (£66,000).

Spain midfielder Gavi will serve a one-match suspension and pay a fine of $30,000 (£22,000) for his part in the post-match confrontations, as has Argentina’s Thiago Almada.

Roberto Ayala, a member of Argentina’s coaching staff, has been given a three-match suspension and a fine of $30,000.

The match suspensions will only be enforced in international fixtures.

Several people have been injured after a sword attack at a high school in Sweden, local authorities say.

Police said they had arrested one man after the incident at Brinell School in Fagersta, central Sweden.

Officers were called to the scene just after 14:00 local time (13:00 BST) on Friday, with some reports in Swedish media saying the suspect was shot in the leg by police.

Fagersta council did not specify the number of wounded, but said police were searching the building and that eight other schools had been placed under lockdown measures.

Police have said there is currently no danger to the public.

In a post on X, Sweden’s Prime Minsiter Ulf Kristersson described the attack as a “serious incident,” and said “we do not know what lies behind the act, but we know that police are working very intensively”.

Sweden has experienced a number of attacks on educational institutions in recent years.

The country experienced it’s worst-ever mass shooting in 2025, where 11 people, including the gunman, died at an adult education centre in Orebro.

This led to the government tightening the country’s gun laws after it was found that the suspect legally owned four rifles, three of which were found in the school where attack took place.

Two teachers were killed in a violent attack on a secondary school in Malmo in 2022 – an 18-year-old student later confessed to the attack.

In 2015, a teacher and a pupil were killed in a sword attack at a school in Trollhattan.

A Chief Nurse for the hospital said the offences are ‘deeply distressing’

A nurse has admitted to making indecent images of children. Adam Feary was employed by the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust as a nurse.

In January 2023, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) received a referral from the trust outlining how Feary had been arrested at work by the police. He had been arrested following an allegation of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of a child.

The former nurse was charged on March 21, 2025 and subsequently admitted to the offences at Norwich Crown Court on August 12, 2025. He was convicted for three counts of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of a child, possessing a prohibited image of a child, possessing extreme pornographic image/images portraying an act of intercourse/oral sex with a dead or alive animal and for possessing a paedophile manual.

On November 20, 2025 at King’s Lynn Crown Court, Feary was sentenced to 18-months in prison suspended for 18 months, an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

Following Feary’s conviction, he faced an NMC hearing. According to the NMC report, the Judges’ comments said the paedophile manual “encourages people to offend and descends into a considerable amount of detail”. The panel also recognised the sentencing Judges’ comments which stated that “any normal human being would be appalled by the collection of paedophilic images you had on our computers”.

The panel found that Feary has demonstrated a “repeated pattern of behaviour and deep-seated attitudinal concerns”. The report said: “It considered the large volume of images found with over 14,000 images of children in total and nearly 2,000 images being Class A images which are the most serious.”

Dawn Collins, Chief Nurse at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said: “We are aware of the conviction of a former member of nursing staff and recognise that these offences are deeply distressing. Our thoughts are with anyone affected by this case. The individual was arrested by police in January 2023 following an investigation of which the Trust had no prior knowledge. He was immediately suspended from duty, and a full internal investigation was undertaken.”

The panel noted that Feary’s conduct in the proved charges occurred outside of his nursing practice and found that “it had not in the past put patients at risk”. However, the panel identified he had breached the “fundamental tenets of the nursing profession and therefore brought its reputation into disrepute”.

The panel recognised that whilst Feary had eventually pleaded guilty to the charges, there was no evidence to “demonstrate insight, remorse or remediation”. As a result, the panel concluded that Feary would be struck off from the NMC register, the most serious sanction. This prevents the former nurse from working in that profession.

Ms Collins added: ” His employment with the Trust was terminated in July 2023 and he has since been removed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council register.

“The safety and wellbeing of our patients and staff is our highest priority. We take matters of this nature extremely seriously and work closely with the police and other agencies whenever concerns are raised.”

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn serves a catchment population of between 250,000 and 330,000 people. It’s the nearest hospital for people in parts of Fenland in northern Cambridgeshire.

The new Chicken Fajita Pasty will be available in stores from next Friday (August 28), as well as at the Carrs Bolton Food and Drink Festival stall.

Carrs first teased the new menu item in July with an intriguing message on their Facebook page.

It read: “We’re back at Bolton Food and Drink Festival next month with prizes, surprises and a new pasty … more info to follow soon.”

After a month-long wait, they announced the new pasty today, describing it as a “taste sensation.”

The pasty (Image: Carrs)

But the new flavour is only available for a short time

In March, Carrs revived its raspberry and white chocolate pasty – the most recent new item to be added to the permanent menu.

Carrs do a limited-edition pasty for every Bolton Food and Drink Festival, with past examples including the Lamb Vindaloo and Cheese and Jalapeno.

The incident happened during the evening of December 25

A man ran out of a Cambridgeshire flat brandishing a knife on Christmas Day. Philip Evans, 46, left the property in Lowick Gardens, Westwood, Peterborough, at about 5pm on December 25 with the kitchen knife.

He was identified and arrested the following day, according to Cambridgeshire Police. Evans denied possession of a knife in a public place and a separate charge of wounding with intent.

On Friday, August 14, he was acquitted of wounding with intent but found guilty of possession of a knife following a trial at Cambridge Crown Court. At the same hearing he was jailed for two years.

It appears the revolting ‘brown challenge’ is still going strong, as it’s forced two Spanish pools to close due to connected incidents.

For those fortunate enough to still be blissfully unaware of this disgusting trend, never fear, as we can fill you in.

In recent years, Instagram and TikTok users have taken it upon themselves to try and get public pools to close by either pooing in the water or releasing it from a bag inside their swimwear.

It’s caused a serious public health crisis, with the so-called ‘prank’ already leading to the closure of more than 300 pools in Spain, which had to be cleaned thoroughly and remain closed to the public for 24 to 48 hours by law.

And now, two more pools at a Caribbean-themed waterpark can be added to the list of victims.

The closures affected an area for adults and another for children at the Caribe Aquatic Park inside the PortAventura World resort on the Costa Dorada in the east coast province of Tarragona.

Popular with British and Irish holidaymakers, the waterpark attracts around 5.3 million visitors per year and was full of tourists who were ordered out after faeces were spotted.

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Footage soon made its way to social media, and it left little to the imagination as the evacuation procedures got underway.

A Spanish speaker who shared photos and videos said: ‘It’s 4.33pm in the afternoon, and some pig has just defecated in the pool, and they’ve kicked us all out.

‘This isn’t AI – this is reality. If you’re at Caribe Aquatic Park, you’ll have seen it. We’re all out of the pool.’

Another swimmer affected by the closures described ‘moments of tension’, adding: ‘Both pools, the adult one and the children’s one, had to be completely evacuated after someone apparently carried out the famous “summer challenge.”

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‘Luckily, the quick response of the lifeguards and all the park staff prevented the situation from getting worse.’

Criticising whoever was responsible, they asked: ‘Do you really have to go this far to pull a prank?

‘The kinds of challenges can have very serious consequences.’

Theme park officials also told local media in a statement: ‘The safety and well-being of our visitors is our top priority, and our team is trained and prepared to manage this type of situation with the utmost diligence and efficiency.

‘We rigorously applied all the health protocols established by current regulations and the Public Health Agency of Catalonia (ASPCAT).

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‘Specifically, in the event of any detection and presence of faeces, vomit or other visible organic waste in the water, swimming is immediately prohibited until the situation is normalised after the corresponding protocol has been applied.’

Thankfully, the situation has returned to normal following the incident on Tuesday afternoon, though there were unconfirmed claims on social media today that the grim stunt had since been repeated there.

One user of the pools at the Caribe Aquatic Park said: ‘The incident that was reported on happened on Tuesday, but on Wednesday it occurred again. I was there that afternoon.’

An enraged local declared: ‘I’d make those responsible clean the toilets with their tongues.’

It was not immediately clear this afternoon if those behind the disgusting prank had been identified.

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However, authorities have not been messing around when it comes to consequences, as fines ranging from £1,000 to £5,000 have been brought in to punish offenders.

Those caught are, of course, banned from the pool as well, as you’d hope.

Pools have also been enforcing police surveillance, although catching the offenders can prove tricky, since pools cannot install cameras or demand ID on entry.

Currently, around 50 municipalities have issued public alerts in a bid to crack down on the behaviour.

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Over the past couple of years, the nasty prank has caused major issues for public pools in Spain, many of which are either small-town pools used by families or tourist hotspots.

As well as having to legally remain closed for sometimes two days while cleaning and filtering takes place, pools must test the water several times to ensure it is safe before reopening.

Sometimes, the pools must be drained and refilled completely, which can prove extremely costly.

This is because faeces can transmit viruses that pool chlorine does not kill, including norovirus; bacteria such as Salmonella; and parasites such as Cryptosporidium.

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If swimmers accidentally swallow or inhale the dirty water, it can cause problems like stomach pains, vomiting, fever, diarrhoea, and more.

Children are most vulnerable as they swallow more water while swimming.

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