By James Patient and Shivani ChaudhariBBC News, Essex
Essex PoliceCraig Sharp has been sentenced after leaving more than £8,000 of unpaid billsA man who left more than £8,000 worth of unpaid bills after he repeatedly dined and dashed has been sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Craig Sharp, 52, of Dockfield Avenue in Harwich, Essex, dined in venues in Essex and Suffolk, including a 15th Century Tudor house.
Sharp pleaded guilty to the offences at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on 14 February. Read More...
Explore More Chilling audio captured the final moments when a small plane lost both its engines and crashed onto a busy Florida highway near a wealthy Naples enclave, killing two people aboard the aircraft on Friday.
“Hop-A-Jet 823, lost both engines, emergency,” the pilot of the Bombardier Challenger 600 jet relayed to the nearby control tower. “I’m making an emergency landing. We’re clear to land but we’re not going to make the runway. Read More...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The black city council members had just left a recentmeeting when they were met in the parking lot by younger activists of color with a piercing question.
Why did the council — which is newly dominated by black members — refuse a request to write “Black Lives Matter” in yellow paint near the historic Market House, where slaves were once sold? Why did they vote to write “Black lives do matter”? Read More...
