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🚨 Oh dear @antoniabance, not a good a way to start your political campaign 🙈. @UKLabour @WMLabour

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🚨 CRAZY CLEARANCE HIT WITH £135,000 PENALTY AFTER EMPLOYING ILLEGAL WORKERS

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A popular Tipton clearance business has been hit with a £135,000 civil penalty after being named in official Home Office records over illegal working.

Crazy Clearance, based in Princes End, appears in the government data under the company name Catalogue Clearance Ltd.

The Home Office record names Krishan Stuart Singh Digpal alongside Catalogue Clearance Ltd and states that a £135,000 civil penalty was imposed.

The business is well known locally for selling discounted and clearance goods and has built up a large following on social media.

The penalty was issued as part of Home Office enforcement action against employers found to have breached rules surrounding the employment of people who do not have the legal right to work in the UK.

Employers are required to carry out right-to-work checks before taking on staff. Businesses can face significant financial penalties where those checks have not been properly carried out and a person is found to be working illegally.

Crazy Clearance was among a number of businesses across the West Midlands named in the latest government data, with penalties running into tens and, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The Home Office regularly publishes details of employers handed civil penalties as part of its efforts to tackle illegal working across the UK.

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🚨 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 🚨

The rebrand is now complete.

After five years as Sandwell Corruption, we have officially changed our name and identity to Sandwell News.

This marks the start of a brand-new chapter for the platform.

Over the years, the page has grown far beyond its original focus. We now want to bring you more breaking news, local stories, community updates, crime and court coverage, politics, public-interest investigations and the stories that matter across the whole of Sandwell.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝.

We will still ask difficult questions.

We will still scrutinise those in public office.

We will still hold people in positions of power to account, regardless of party, title or position.

But Sandwell News gives us the opportunity to become much more than that.

There will be more local coverage, more stories from our communities and new people joining us as we continue to grow.

To everyone who supported Sandwell Corruption over the last five years, thank you for being part of the journey.

Now it’s time for the next one.

NEW NAME.
NEW LOOK.
BIGGER PLATFORM.
SAME COMMITMENT TO SANDWELL.

📰 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒.

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🚨 𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆… 🚨

After five successful years, which culminated in Sandwell Labour being removed from power, Sandwell Corruption as you know it is coming to an end.

But don’t worry…

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍’𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄.

In fact, we’re doing the complete opposite.

We are preparing for a major 𝐑𝐄����𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃, expanding what we do and branching out across the whole of Sandwell.

Our mission remains the same: to scrutinise those elected into public office, ask the questions others won’t, investigate matters affecting our communities and hold decision-makers to account.

But the next chapter will be bigger.

There will be new people joining us on this journey, new areas of coverage, new investigations and a much broader focus on the issues that matter to people across Sandwell.

Over the last five years, thousands of you have followed, shared, contacted us, sent information and supported the work we have carried out.

You helped turn a small local page into a platform capable of making people listen.

Now it’s time to build on that.

This isn’t the end of Sandwell Corruption.

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

We’re growing.
We’re expanding.
We’re bringing new people onboard.
And we’re preparing for our biggest chapter yet.

Those in positions of power should always expect scrutiny, regardless of party, position or title.

That principle will not change.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.

👀 𝐑𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐍.

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Working on something big!! 😉

Today I will be speaking with someone from Oxford... This is going to be a very very intersting chat!

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Were on the road again 😎👊

Tick tock... It's game over nonce chops.

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Lmfaooooo man loves the snow ❄️🚀

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Fella caught on sky sports news on the fucking packet�

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Silly sausage 😂😂😂😂.

Cry baby Reeves lost her job lmfaooooo

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Well worth another watch now they’ve all been sacked for being useless! 😂🇬🇧

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What is it with Labour politicians and inciting hatred and violence?!

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ANDY BURNHAM’S A WANKER 😉

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💥 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 2 MEN SENTENCED FOR A ARSON ATTACK TARGETING THE PM

In May 2025, a series of suspicious fires targeting properties linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer triggered one of the most significant criminal investigations involving a serving British Prime Minister in recent years

Roman Lavrynovych, 22, of Sydenham, London, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for plotting to damage property and damaging two properties by fire, being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

However, Justice Garnham says he will serve "up to four years and eight months in custody".
"You will then be released and serve the remainder of your sentence on licence."

Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, was sentenced to two years, but Garnham says he will "serve up to one year in custody" and the remainder will be spent on licence.

The incidents began on 8 May when a Toyota RAV4 that had previously belonged to Starmer was deliberately set on fire in Kentish Town, north London. At first, the blaze appeared to be an isolated act of vandalism, but investigators soon realised it was part of a wider pattern.

Three days later, on 11 May, firefighters were called to a small fire at the entrance of a property in Islington where Starmer had previously lived before it was converted into flats. Then, in the early hours of 12 May, a fire damaged the doorway of Starmer’s former family home in Kentish Town.

The property was being occupied by members of his extended family, including his sister-in-law and her family. Fortunately, nobody was injured, although the circumstances created a serious risk to life.

Because all three incidents involved properties connected to the Prime Minister, the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command took charge of the investigation. Detectives quickly concluded that the attacks were unlikely to be a coincidence, noting that three separate fires involving property linked to the same person within a matter of days strongly suggested a coordinated operation.

Within days, police arrested a 21-year-old Ukrainian national, Roman Lavrynovych. He was later charged with multiple arson offences. Further arrests followed, including Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc and Ukrainian national Petro Pochynok, as investigators uncovered evidence of a wider conspiracy.

During court proceedings at the Old Bailey, prosecutors revealed that the attacks had allegedly been organised through Telegram by an individual using the alias “El Money”.

Evidence showed that cryptocurrency payments had been offered in exchange for carrying out the attacks and filming them. Hundreds of messages recovered from phones suggested that Lavrynovych had been promised around £3,000 worth of cryptocurrency for the operation.

The case attracted international attention after evidence emerged suggesting that the mysterious handler may have had links to Russian-speaking networks.

Investigators found communications in both Russian and Ukrainian, and prosecutors alleged that the men had been recruited remotely through online messaging platforms. However, despite speculation about foreign involvement, authorities stated that no direct link to a hostile state had been proven in court.

Lavrynovych admitted setting the fires but claimed he did not know the properties were connected to the Prime Minister. Prosecutors argued that whether or not he knew the significance of the targets, the attacks were deliberate, coordinated and reckless, creating a clear risk to anyone inside the buildings.

In June 2026, a jury at the Old Bailey found Lavrynovych guilty of carrying out the attacks and convicted Carpiuc of conspiracy offences connected to the arson campaign. Pochynok was acquitted. The court heard that the attacks formed part of a planned operation carried out over several days against multiple properties associated with PM Starmer.

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Should the death penalty return to Britain for extreme cases, such as child murder, terrorism, mass murder and paedophilia?

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This police officer (if you can call her that) has forced an homeless man to pack his stuff up and move!

He's causing no harm to the public, he doesn't have an home because the system failed him, yet she's forcing him to move on!!

Where exactly is he meant to move to officer? Meanwhile there's an hotel down the road full of migrants.

Why don't you get them to move on?

- Tom

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@NonceAwareness Shameful

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They really can't handle democracy can they? 🙄

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@NonceAwareness Yes 100%

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Those that have turned a blind eye to Grooming Gangs must go to prison.

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It's 3.45am and I'm still awake, preparing a report on grooming.

Even after more than a decade running Predator Awareness, some of the figures still stop you in your tracks.

In the year ending March, there were around 210,000 recorded sexual offences in England and Wales. That's just one single year!

For comparison, the prison estate in England and Wales has capacity for around 88,000 prisoners and is already operating at or near full capacity.

If all those arrested during that year are convicted we would need to empty every prison in the country and still find space for a further 122,000 people just to give them a custodial sentence.

The scale of the problem is impossible to ignore, and it's one of the reasons this work remains as important today as it was when I started over a decade ago.

Anyway, back to the report. Looks like another all-nighter.

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Well it's on it was off it was on it off

But now it seems it might actually be happening...

THIRD time lucky? 🍀

NEW HOME SOON 🏡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Ps. Don't think cuz I'm moving sandwell corruption will just go away... It's staying!! 😉

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@antoniabance protest will be announced soon 👀

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South Wales bound for tomorrows protest to hey the paedophile protecting chief constable out!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💚

We will be holding a protest at Bances office soon to remove her from office!! Keeps your eyes pealed.