US customs finds missing Vietnam war plaque

US customs officials have retrieved a Vietnam war plaque missing for seven years, after raiding a shipment of military items bound for Thailand, officials said Wednesday.The memorial plaque, paying tribute to 19 prisoners of war and military personnel missing in action during the conflict, disappeared after being sent for re-polishing by its owners in 2004.It belonged to Americans Who Care, based in Fayetteville, Carolina, and was seized by customs officers in a shipment leaving the West Coast port of Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, on April 19."This discovery attests the attentiveness, vigilance and high degree of expertise of CBP?s outbound enforcement team at LA/Long Beach seaport," said US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) acting Los...

Arrests as 16 lambs found tied up in cars

Sixteen lambs were found by stunned police officers tied up in two cars which were stopped travelling along the M5 in the Black Country early today.Officers were stunned to find the distressed three-month-old lambs trapped inside a Cavalier and Rover that were stopped by motorway cops at around 1.55am on the motorway heading north between Junctions 1 and 2, at West Bromwich and Oldbury.Eight lambs were found in the boot of one of the cars with another three on the back seats and in the second, four lambs were found in the boot and one in the foot well. They had been tightly bound.Six men have been arrested on suspicion of theft and were being questioned by police today.Acting Inspector Rob Barker, from Central Motorway Police Group, said: “We...

Thousands of people found by the high court to have been illegally detained for hours by police at a central London protest may sue Scotland Yard for false imprisonment.

The high court has ruled that the Metropolitan police had broken the law in the way it kettled up to 5,000 demonstrators at the G20 protests in April 2009.The judges heard police used the tactic of mass detention against protesters that they accepted were peaceful, with officers meting out punches to the face, slaps and shield strikes as they tried to move a demonstration against climate change.Judges found that the force used by police was "unjustified", criticised "imprecise" instructions given by senior officers about releasing innocent people, and said the mass detentions for five hours were an unlawful deprivation of liberty under article 5 of the European convention on human rights.The case was brought by Josh Moos and Hannah McClure,...