A legal loophole from 1971 means the ringleader of the Rochdale child grooming gang, released eight years early and rejected by Pakistan, must remain on UK streets under taxpayer‑funded monitoring. Share The release of Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, has sent a shockwave through communities across the UK. Ahmed, now in his seventies, walked out of prison around eight years earlier than the full length of his sentence , despite being convicted of some of the most brutal child sexual offences ever brought before a British court. He was supposed to serve decades. Instead, he is back on British streets under licence, fitted with a GPS tag and placed under curfew, but undeniably free. Shabir Ahmed, and Adil Khan, lost their bid to keep British citizenship after a failed 2017 appeal, yet Ahmed was still released in 2026 despite Pakistan refusing to take him back. Full story and image credit: BBC News . For many, the most disturb...
A breathtaking moment atop the spire becomes a global sensation and a legal dilemma.
Love stories usually begin with a nervous glance across a crowded room. Theirs began hundreds of metres above the ground, where one wrong step could have been their last.
For years,Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus have lived in a world most people would never dare enter — climbing the tallest skyscrapers on Earth without ropes, without permission and with nothing but absolute trust in one another. Their extraordinary partnership drew millions of viewers and became the emotional core of Skywalkers: A Love Story, a documentary that showed how their greatest safety net was never a harness. It was each other.
And now, life has handed them a chapter even Hollywood would struggle to write.
High above New York City, on the needle‑like summit of the Empire State Building — a place never meant for human footsteps, let alone romance — Ivan dropped to one knee.
No violins.
No staged photographers.
No luxury restaurant waiting below.
Just the wind, the endless skyline and the woman who had trusted him with her life for years.
Angela said yes.
For a couple whose relationship has always existed above the clouds, there was no more fitting place to promise forever.
As they embraced on one of the world’s most recognisable landmarks, they unfurled a banner carrying the words: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.”A message as bold as the moment itself — and one that raced around the world within hours, blurring the line between breathtaking romance and breathtaking risk.
Angela Nikolau shows off her engagement ring against the breathtaking sweep of New York City, capturing the moment she said yes high above the Empire State Building’s iconic skyline.
Their engagement has captured global attention not only because of its audacity, but because it appears to be something the world has never seen before. While countless couples have proposed from the Empire State Building’s observation deck, there is no verified record of anyone illegally climbing to the spire before asking the biggest question of their lives. If confirmed, this may stand as one of the most remarkable — and unconventional — proposals ever documented.
Minutes after returning to the ground, police detained the newly engaged couple. Authorities are now reviewing what offences may have been committed during the unauthorised climb, and any decision on charges rests with the legal system.
That leaves one question hanging almost as high as the proposal itself.
Will this be remembered as a case of criminal trespass, or as the moment two people proved that love, for them, has never recognised barriers, warning signs or impossible heights?
Whatever the courts decide, one truth is already clear.
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus share a quiet, triumphant moment together — two world‑renowned rooftoppers whose unmatched skill and fearless partnership have now written themselves into history.
Most couples promise to lift one another up.
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus have spent years doing it literally.
They built their love story in the clouds — where every heartbeat mattered, every embrace defied gravity and every climb demanded absolute faith. Now, with a ring on her finger and the skyline beneath their feet, they’ve written a chapter destined to be remembered as one of the boldest proposals of modern times.
