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Andrew Munday, 37, of Velocette Way, Duston, pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud in at Northampton Crown Court on Thursday (February 14).
He admitted to using his position as an accountant at the now-defunct Blue Cube Business Ltd between 2009 and 2016 to skim millions of pounds from high-profile clients.
The total of his offending adds up to an estimated £3.4million.
The list of victims included Ora Multi-Services, a client of Blue Cube owned by pop star and X Factor judge Rita Ora.
After the case Ora's lawyer Graham Shear, of international legal firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, told the BBC a "substantial part" of the money taken from his client had been recovered.
Mr Shear, who is head of international litigation with the firm, described Munday's actions as "pretty disgraceful".
Munday also reached into the coffers of Northampton's own VV Brown, the singer-songwriter behind 2009's hit single Shark in the Water.
In a statement reported by the BBC, VV Brown said: "Thank goodness for indemnity insurance.
"It left me in good stead financially despite the crime. I went into this case pregnant. Two years later I came out of this maze pregnant again with my second baby, fighting, fit and alive.
"I am a survivor."
Munday has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced in April.
Munday stole money from VV Brown's personal bank account, made payments from her account to Tottenham Hostpur FC and settled invoices for Blue Cube clients using the pop artist's money.
He also used the money to buy three separate houses including properties in Palmerston Road, Abington and Turnberry Lane, Collingtree.
The court heard how efforts to recover the money and liquidate Munday's assets to pay back the defrauded cash were still underway.
The 37-year-old has reportedly 'taken full responsibility' for the fraud since his arrest in 2016.
Fixture: Northampton Town v Crawley Town, Sky Bet League Two
Date/time: Saturday, February 16, 3pm kick-off
Venue: PTS Academy Stadium
Forecast: 12C, sunny spells
Outs and doubts: Cobblers: George Cox (ankle), Sam Foley (back), Marvin Sordell (knee). Crawley: Jimmy Smith, Ibrahim Meite
Betting: Northampton 8/11, draw 11/4, Crawley 7/2
Form guide: Cobblers DWLDLW, Crawley LDWLLL
Possible line-ups: Northampton (3-5-2): Cornell; Goode, Taylor, Pierre; Facey, Buchanan, Turnbull, McWilliams, O’Toole; A Williams, Morias. Crawley (3-5-2): Morris; Young, Sesay, Dallison-Lisbon; Payne, McNerney, Francomb, Camara, Gambin; Palmer, Morais.
Man in the middle: Nick Kinseley
Last time out: Lincoln 1 Northampton 1 (Pierre); Crawley 0 Oldham 3
Most recent meeting: Saturday, December 8, 2018 – Crawley 0 Northampton 1 (van Veen)
Record v Crawley: P6 W3 D0 L3
James Heneghan’s preview: An opportunity awaits for Northampton and Crawley this weekend with both clubs looking to banish all talk of relegation with three points when they lock horns at the PTS.
Separated by just two points and a solitary place in the current League Two standings, the two teams have experienced similar seasons, both flirting with the drop throughout without ever really being dragged into the dogfight.
That said, Crawley’s five-game winless run in December had fans fearing the worst and left them precariously placed heading into the New Year, only for back-to-back wins over Colchester and Cheltenham to halt their alarming slide.
Crawley’s poor run of form during December was started by a 1-0 defeat to the Cobblers when Ollie Palmer’s two minutes of madness cost his team dear and allowed Kevin van Veen to score from the spot and earn Keith Curle’s men a first win in six.
Palmer subsequently served a five-game suspension; three for his unceremonious elbow on Town defender Aaron Pierre and an extra two for being found guilty of using foul and abusive language towards a match official.
The Red Devils have the chance of sweet revenge over Northampton when they reconvene this weekend and Palmer’s battle with Pierre might well be one keeping an eye on.
Like their hosts, it’s only in these past two or three weeks when Crawley have properly given themselves breathing space over the teams below them, mostly thanks victory at Swindon followed by a draw against high-flying, free-scoring Bury, though they were beaten 3-0 at home to Oldham last time out.
The Cobblers return to home soil seeking to make amends for their forgettable last outing at the PTS – a 4-0 drubbing to Colchester United – and also with the aim of building on recent good work on the road.
Their battling win at Tranmere Rovers last Tuesday and Saturday’s controversial 1-1 draw with Lincoln has lifted them 10 points above the drop, and given the kind nature of upcoming fixtures, there’s now an opportunity to go from fearing a relegation fight to sitting comfortably in mid-table.
Cule’s assistant Colin West had little to report on the injury front this week. Marvin Sordell, George Cox and Sam Foley are likely to again miss tomorrow’s game, but otherwise Town are in good health and well-placed to collect their just second home win since early November.
Prediction: Northampton Town 2 Crawley 1
But the black, green and gold will be without David Ribbans and Teimana Harrison, who have been ruled out due to illness and a hamstring injury respectively.
Alex Moon is the man to replace Ribbans in the second row while Tom Wood, who came off the bench after just eight minutes last weekend, comes in for Harrison and captains the team.
Biggar is back in the 10 shirt as Wales do not have a Six Nations fixture this weekend.
Francis has not played since dislocating his shoulder in the win against Exeter Chiefs on December 28 but he resumed full training this week and goes straight back in at 12.
England Under-20 lock Alex Coles is in line for his Premiership debut if he is introduced from the bench.
Saints: Furbank; Tuala, Hutchinson, Francis, Naiyaravoro; Biggar, Reinach; van Wyk, Fish, Painter, Ratuniyarawa, Moon; Gibson, Ludlam, Wood (c).
Replacements: Marshall, Waller, Hill, Coles, Brüssow, Mitchell, Burrell, Collins.
Sale Sharks: S James; Solomona, O’Connor, Janse van Rensburg, McGuigan; MacGinty, de Klerk; Harrison, Webber, John; Evans, Phillips; Ross (c), B Curry, Beaumont.
Replacements: Neild, Bristow, Jones, Ostrikov, Strauss, Cliff, James, Reed.
Fixture: Northampton Saints v Sale Sharks
Competition: Gallagher Premiership (round 13)
Venue: Franklin's Gardens, Northampton
Date and kick-off time: Saturday, February 16, 2019, 2pm
Television coverage: None
Referee: Karl Dickson
Saints: Furbank; Tuala, Hutchinson, Francis, Naiyaravoro; Biggar, Reinach; van Wyk, Fish, Painter, Ratuniyarawa, Moon; Gibson, Ludlam, Wood (c).
Replacements: Marshall, Waller, Hill, Coles, Brüssow, Mitchell, Burrell, Collins.
Sale Sharks: S James; Solomona, O’Connor, Janse van Rensburg, McGuigan; MacGinty, de Klerk; Harrison, Webber, John; Evans, Phillips; Ross (c), B Curry, Beaumont.
Replacements: Neild, Bristow, Jones, Ostrikov, Strauss, Cliff, James, Reed.
Outs: Saints: Courtney Lawes (international duty). Mike Haywood, Dylan Hartley, Harry Mallinder, Andy Symons (all knee), Tom Emery (shoulder), Teimana Harrison (hamstring), David Ribbans (illness).
Most recent meeting: Saturday, November 24, 2018: Sale Sharks 18 Saints 13 (Gallagher Premiership)
Tom's preview: There has been plenty of talk of late of how Saints are still competing on all three fronts this season.
Some may raise their eyebrows at that considering they currently sit ninth in the Gallagher Premiership.
But the fact of the matter remains that Chris Boyd's side are still just six points off the top four with 10 league games to play.
And if they are to stay alive in the hunt for the play-offs, the next four weeks will be pivotal.
Saints have a huge chance to put themselves in contention with three home league games coming up before they play Saracens in the Premiership Rugby Cup final on March 17.
They also have to go to Saracens in the Premiership, on March 2, before that and if they can take confidence from recent results, who knows where the black, green and gold could be sitting before savouring their Franklin's Gardens showpiece next month.
There is little between Saints and any of their next three Gardens opponents, with Sale, Bath and Bristol Bears all within touching distance in the table.
Sale are three points ahead of Boyd's side, having gone five games unbeaten in the Premiership.
Bath are just two points ahead of Saints, who are two ahead of Bristol.
And with home advantage against all three of those teams, now really is the time for the black, green and gold to stamp their mark on the season.
They have been scoring tries for fun of late, racking up an astonishing 39 in their past four matches.
But they will know they have to work even harder for such rewards in the Premiership.
Even so, this is their big chance.
If they can take it, not only will they still be alive on three fronts when that final comes around next month, they will be in great shape mentally.
We are getting to season-defining territory, and a win on Saturday would set Saints up very nicely indeed.
Tom's prediction: Saints 30 Sale Sharks 24
Both boys were arrested yesterday (Thursday, February 14) on suspicion of theft of motor vehicle, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to stop.
The collision occurred at around 4.40pm when the vehicle collided with a tree in the eastern district of Northampton.
A six-year-old girl, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was taken to Northampton General Hospital with minor injuries. When the boys were arrested, the girl was believed to be suffering serious injuries (the charges may change accordingly to reflect this).
Anyone with information can contact Northamptonshire Police on 101. Alternatively, they can call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
The prosecution and defence cases in the murder trial of Daniel Fitzjohn have ended after 10 days of evidence at Northampton Crown Court.
Daniel Quinn, 28, and Parminder Sanghera, 25, both from Wolverhampton, are accused of 'hunting' Mr Fitzjohn down through the streets of Kingsley on June 14 last year before Quinn stabbed him twice in the abdomen.
Nearly all of the events that led up to Mr Fitzjohn's death - including the stabbing - was captured on the dashcam of a brave Northampton taxi driver who chased after the pair in his cab.
Quinn does not deny that he stabbed Mr Fitzjohn in Randall Road that evening but he has told the jury he is 'truly sorry' for what happened and 'never meant to kill him or cause serious harm'.
He claims he only remembers stabbing Mr Fitzjohn once, but does not deny he must have caused his second fatal injury and says it must have happened 'by accident'.
Meanwhile, Sanghera maintains that footage of him running at a group of Mr Fitzjohn's friends while wielding a machete was 'only meant to scare them off' and he did not know his ride with Quinn in his grey Mini would end in violence.
Prosecutor Miss Mary Loram QC told the jury in her closing speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I could just show you that awful footage of the moment Quinn stabbed Mr Fitzjohn. I could just show it to you over and over. But I owe it to Mr Fitzjohn's family to do more than that.
"I put to you that this was the clear murder of Mr Fitzjohn by Daniel Quinn, Not an accident. And no matter how much he tells you now that he regrets it, that does not change the fact he is a murderer.
"And you may look at the footage of Sanghera leading the charge with that machete in hand. It is my case that this shows his true character."
The jury was sent out to deliberate at 2.15pm on February 15.
A spokesman for Northampton Neighbourhood Police Team said on Twitter: "Residents of Far Cotton have raised concerns of the bike causing issues the past two days, with the support of @Op_Neutrino, the bike is now off the road and the rider being processed for driving offences.
"This action sent out a clear and strong message both to the community and the people who perpetrate these types of crimes.
Far Cotton residents have also said a big thank you to police officers for their speedy work in catching the nuisance motorbike offender.
On Twitter, Northampton Neighbourhood Police Team told of how their reaction: "I cannot tell you how relieved and elated that the action today by Operation Neutrino, which concluded in the culprit and his bike removed from our streets.
"On behalf of myself and the Far Cotton residents, praise where praise is due in this case - very well deserved."
A Geography teacher at a secondary school in the Daventry District is celebrating 35 years of teaching at the school.
John Ditchburn arrived at Guilsborough Academy as a newly qualified teacher at the age of 23. Although he started as a Geography teacher and still teaches that subject today, he also taught PE and Religious Studies and has been head of Geography and head of Sixth Form during his time at Guilsborough.
As well as teaching different subjects over the years, John has also seen some major changes to the teaching profession in his career.
“Teaching is in a constant state of change,” said John. “When I started at Guilsborough, the cane was just being phased out and every classroom had rotational blackboards we wrote on in chalk. Overhead projectors using acetates and coloured pens were the main way to get ideas across to the class. Printed materials were reproduced in the printing room using a Banda machine that produced poor quality, carbon-like copies.
“It wasn’t until eight years after I started teaching that computers appeared in school and not until the mid 1990s that teachers began to have laptops. Information had to be accessed through libraries. Google didn’t exist and mobile phones were not invented.
"Overall, I believe the quality of teaching and learning has improved over the years. The multimedia, audio-visual approach we use now provides the kind of stimulating environment for learning that we could only have dreamed of 35 years ago.”
John also met his wife Lucy, a Spanish teacher, at Guilsborough Academy in 1990 and the couple went on to have two children together – Marcos and Christina.
Out of school John involves himself in youth work, is a chair of trustees for Samuels Nursery in Northampton and is an active a member of Broadmead Baptist Church.
Julie Swales, principal at Guilsborough Academy, said of John’s milestone: “John has been - and continues to be - an integral part of the team. We are so pleased that he has chosen to devote his career to Guilsborough and has shaped many young lives in his time here at the school.”
John added: “I have worked with some wonderful colleagues over the years and leading the Sixth Form for nine years was a real privilege.
"Workplace relationships are very important to me and Guilsborough students are clever, engaging and great fun to work with.
"I have learned a lot along the way but I have always strived to be better both as a person and a teacher. Guilsborough has been a wonderful place to teach and I hope I have been able to inspire one or two students along the way.”
Guilsborough Academy is situated in the village of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire.
Respected opponents of each other in their playing days, fate would later throw the duo together as they ended up living a few doors apart in Sheffield.
At the time, West was assistant boss to Chris Turner at Sheffield Wednesday, while Curle was running the show at Mansfield Town, and the pair struck up a friendship.
"We played against each other when we were players," said West, who enjoyed a long professional career, playing as a striker for the likes of Sunderland, Watford, Rangers, West Bromwich Albion and Leyton Orient, even getting in a couple of loan games for the Cobblers in 1987.
"I was at Sheffield Wednesday as the assistant manager, and Keith was the manager at Mansfield, and we lived virtually next door to each other.
"We obviously bumped into each other quite a lot, knew each other from our playing days, and spoke to each other about the football side of things.
"We both had similar philosophies of how we wanted to play, how we wanted our teams to play, and we struck up a really good friendship."
Although in work at the time, both were well aware of the unpredictable nature of football life, and they made something of a pledge for the future.
"We always kept in touch, and Keith said to me if ever he got a managerial job, or if I did, then we would take each other as well," said West, who had spells as assistant to Turner at Hartlepool and Stockport County as well as the Owls, and also enjoyed coaching roles at Millwall and Southend United.
"And in fairness, when he got the job at Notts County (in 2012) he struck to his word and rang me up to join him.
"We get on well, we know how each other's moods are going, and it has worked well."
Prior to teaming up at Meadow Lane, West had been out of work having left his assistant boss role at Hartlepool in 2010, and he jumped at the chance to join Curle at the Magpies.
It proved to be a fairly short-lived partnership initially though, as Curle lost his job as County boss after just one year in charge.
It wasn't long before the pair were back together in the dugout though, as when Curle got the job as manager of Carlisle United in 2014, he took West on as his assistant.
They spent three seasons together at Brunton Park before leaving the club last summer at the end of their contracts.
Curle felt he wanted a new challenge, and he didn't have to wait too long as the Cobblers came calling at the end of September following the sacking of Dean Austin.
Once again, Curle and West came as a managerial package, and the pair have enjoyed a solid if unspectacular start to their stint at the PTS Academy Stadium.
Town have gradually eased away from the Sky Bet League Two relegation zone under the stewardship of Curle and West, and going into the final straight of the season they sit 16th, 10 points above the drop zone, and 13 points shy of the play-offs.
Curle is obviously very much the boss but it is very much a management team, with West, who has enjoyed brief caretaker managerial stints at both Hartlepool and Millwall, a vital sounding board.
So how much input into team affairs does West have?
"Keith has always wanted my opinion, which is good, because otherwise what is the point of me being here?," said West, who hails from Wallsend on the outskirts of Newcastle.
"He knows that I won't just say yes to him for the sake of it.
"You have to have your own opinions, Keith takes them on board, and he will then make the final decision which I will go with.
"But, I have to say that something Keith has done everywhere we have been together, is if I have said something to him and then we have changed and it's came off, he will pull me and say 'well done'.
"He'll say, 'that's good information - but it is kind of your job!' Which is fair enough isn't it?"
West played a lot of his football in the top divisions of English football, while Curle spent the majority of his career in the top flight, and is of course a former England international.
Another ex-England player joined the league two managers' club this week, with former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes taking charge of Oldham Athletic.
Earlier this season ex-Tottenham, Arsenal and England defender Sol Campbell took the reins at Macclesfield as well, so is West pleased to see these legends of the English game being given a managerial chance in the lower leagues.
"I think it is needed," said West. "With the greatest respect to foreign managers, there are a lot within all the leagues in this country.
"I think it is a time when we need to get a few more English managers, because we all take our badges, we all take our qualifications, and who's to say that foreign managers are better than us?
"But they do seem to get that job, whether it's through a fancy name or whatever it is, I don't know."
Scholes enjoyed a dream start to his stint at Boundary Park as the Latics thrashed Yeovil Town 4-1 on Tuesday night.
Having played his entire career at the top level, being involved in league two may come as someting of a culture shock for Scholes, but West is sure he will adapt.
"I think Oldham is a club that Paul has always supported, and has always had an affiliation with," said West.
"He used to go and watch them, and support them, so he knows what he is walking into.
"Football wise, he may get a little frustrated because he has always been at that top level, and Keith and myself were a bit similar with this.
"But you get accustomed to it, and you try and grow from there, rather than wanting players to do things that you could do yourself.
"It will be a learning process for him."
Planning a wedding comes with plenty of big decisions that need to be made along the way and picking the right venue for you and your guests is key. So here we have 28 of the best wedding venues in Northamptonshire.
Mick Scrimshaw, the Labour councillor who chairs the council’s overview and scrutiny committee, asked leaders at Thursday’s cabinet meeting whether it was considering joining a lawsuit that has already been launched by other authorities across the country.
Councils taking action include Leeds, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Newcastle, North East Lincolnshire, Nottingham, Oldham and Sheffield.
Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBO) loans are long term loans, usually between 40 to 70 years, where the lender can change the fixed interest rate over the course of the loan.
They usually start with a small interest rate to attract custom and undercut the Public Works Loans Board, but lenders have to either agree to new fixed rates on pre-determined dates, or pay back the entire loan plus a penalty fee.
The councils are arguing that initial interest rates set by Barclays were fraudulent as they was based on a manipulated libor rate, for which the bank has previously been fined £290million in 2012.
Councillor Scrimshaw said: “We had £150million worth of these toxic LOBO loans, including I believe £20million with Barclays Bank. Is it true that Barclays has approached us with a deal to change these loans to a different type of loan, and did we subsequently take up that offer?
“Legal action for compensation has been started against Barclays from several bigger and better-run councils than ourselves.
“If we do have a new arrangement with Barclays, did we sign an undertaking not to sue them for any kind of compensation? If we did, bearing in mind the approach that those other councils have taken, I would have to question whether NCC took the best approach, and I can’t help but wonder whether we would have been better advised to have joined in with that joint action instead of taking a different path.
“If we haven’t however renegotiated those loans from Barclays, why haven’t we joined in that action? I believe there is still an opportunity to do so.”
The other councils suing Barclays are urging the High Court to allow them to exit the LOBO loans without paying the financial penalties that would normally be incurred.
Council leader Matt Golby responded to Councillor Scrimshaw by saying: “On the point about the action taken by the other councils, I’m aware of it and have spoken to the chief executive [Theresa Grant] about it to see if there’s anything we can do about it, frankly.”
Back in June 2018, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported that county council accounts showed that the authority had £130m of LOBO loans that have a call-in date within the next 12 months.
The loans were taken out to meet expenditure on road, infrastructure and schools projects.
Barclays declined to comment.
Four people were injured in a three-vehicle crash on an A-road in South Northants.
In the early hours of Friday (February 15) a van and two cars were in collision on the A508 near Church Lane in Grafton Regis.
Northamptonshire fire crews, who had to remove a casualty from one of the cars, tweeted that there were "four walking wounded" involved.
A Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said: "We were called to a three-vehicle road traffic collision at 12.15am on the A508 near Church Lane.
"The road was closed and re-opened at 4.30am and a number of people were taken to hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries."
A South Central Ambulance Service spokesman said: "There were four patients in the three vehicles involved in this collision.
"One patient went to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford as the most seriously injured patient, and two to Milton Keynes Hospital.
"We had two ambulances at the scene along with a rapid response vehicle – our ambulances took the three patients above and possibly the fourth patient was dealt with by EMAS."
A new weekly singing project for members of the community is being launched this spring at Royal & Derngate, starting with a taster session on February 27 at 11.30am.
Singing 4 Pleasure is a new initiative for people from all walks of life who want to come along to sing and socialise.
Singing is widely recognised as being good for your well-being and these daytime sessions, run by professional music tutors in a relaxed and friendly setting, will provide a great opportunity to develop vocal skills while making new friends. There is no audition process and no experience is required.
The emphasis will be on fun and pleasure, allowing participants to explore their singing ability through vocal warm-ups and learning a fun mix of accessible music, ranging from spirituals and traditional songs, and classical pieces, through to pop songs and songs from the shows.
The Singing 4 Pleasure sessions will be led by husband and wife duo, Nicolas Moodie and Anna Gould.
Nicolas has been teaching for over 10 years, working with a number of schools and with Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust, as well teaching individual students of all ages privately.
Anna has worked as vocal coach with primary and pre-school children, cathedral choristers, and with singers of all musical styles from classical to contemporary, pop and rock.
Both perform professionally as baritone and soprano soloists respectively, as well as singing with numerous choirs and ensembles.
The free taster and registration session for Singing 4 Pleasure takes place at Royal & Derngate on Wednesday 27 February from 11.30am to 12.30pm with regular weekly sessions starting from Wednesday 6 March at 11.30am, during term time.
The sessions will cost £6 a week, payable termly. For more information contact Royal & Derngate’s audience development co-ordinator Janet Gordon on 01604 655733 or email janet.gordon@royalandderngate.co.uk.
The congregation of a Northampton mosque needed just a single morning service to raise over £1,000 for the town's hospital.
When the community of the Al Jamatul Muslimin of Bangladesh Masjid mosque heard Northampton General were raising money for a new patient transport buggy, they pitched in to do their part for charity.
And in just a single morning congregation on February 8, the mosque in St George's Street raised £1,044.15 to help the hospital.
It comes after the hospital launched an appeal for funds to buy a new £15,000 buggy in late January.
NGH is spread across 40 acres where the walk from the Billing Road entrance to Tree Wards stretches over 800 metres long.
The mosque's leaders presented the generous donation to the hospital on Thursday (February 14) and have helped the appeal a tenth of the way towards its target.
Treasurer Abdul Ali said: " We thought it would be a good idea to raise some money towards the new buggy. We asked the Friday congregation to make donations if they could and we raised over £1,000.
"We're a charitable organisation, and to help the hospital in a way that will benefit everyone who uses it seemed a good thing to do.
"We will see if we can help even more in the future."
The appeal for the new buggy comes after one of the hospital's two patient transports became worn down.
In the last 14 months, use of the buggy has increased by nearly 80 journeys per week.
Alison McCulloch of Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund said: "Unfortunately, we can’t have just an ordinary golf buggy due to the narrow corridors and tight corners in the hospital, so the buggy we need has to be made to measure for our hospital.
"We are working with a company to build a bespoke buggy so that is it perfect for the job in hand.
"Having a buggy service here at NGH means that it doesn't just assist patients and visitors who are less able to walk the distance to appointments. The buggy also helps people feel less anxious about attending their appointments."
Two Wellingborough men have been charged with drugs and weapons offences following their after driving away from police officers.
The men were arrested on Tuesday, February 12, at about 10.30am, after failing to stop their vehicle for officers in Great Doddington.
Luke Barnes, 25, of Gosforth, Wellingborough, has been charged with possession of a class B drug, namely cannabis.
Anthony Beech, 40, of Valley Road, Wellingborough, has been charged with possession of a bladed article and theft.
The theft charge relates to the theft of a pedal cycle in July 2017.
A 32-year-old man from Kettering was also arrested and released without charge.
Barnes and Beech are due to appear before Northampton Magistrates Court on Monday, March 18.
The NSPCC's 'blueprint' came with the approval of nine out of ten British parents who took part in a survey and backed regulation of social networks to make tech firms legally responsible for protecting children.
In the same survey six out of ten adults said they don’t think social networks protect children from sexual grooming, and inappropriate content like self-harm, violence or suicide.
The proposals come ahead of a White Paper on online harms which will street the Government's future policies on how it could protect children online and regulate social media sites.
The charity is calling on the Government to create an independant, statutory regulator that will have legal powers to investigate tech firms and demand information about child safety measures.
They also want social networks to meet a set of minimum child safeguarding standards and deploy tough sanctions for failures to protect their young users – including steep fines for tech firms of up to €20m and a new criminal offence for platforms that commit gross breaches of duty of care.
The charity says their plans would make Britain a 'leader in online child protection'.
Some of the ways social media sites could promote child safety is to make children's accounts have the highest privacy settings by default, turn off friend suggestions and make them invisible to public searches.
Father Francis McDermott, now 75, is accused of committing sexual offences against six children in the 1970s.
McDermott was for a time practising as a priest at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Bedgrove - although none of the the alleged offences took place during his time in Aylesbury. All the offences are said to have taken place in either London, High Wycombe or Norwich.
Katherine Lumsdon QC said in her closing arguments at Crown Court today that the scenario was that of a man with a high sex drive who's forbidden from having sex, children who know nothing about sex, and being in a position of trust.
She explained the passing of time between the crimes and the reporting of them as being due to feelings of guilt, shame and “the need to bury it away.”
Father McDermott shook his head as Ms Lumsdon concluded: “He does not have the courage to admit what he's done.”
The defence in return began by making great play of the responsibilities of jury duty and the burden of truth.
Trevor Burke QC said: “Empathy with a victim has its place but it's not here,” adding, “You're basic starting point is that this man is innocent.”
He dismissed complainants as “troubled individuals” or self-obsessed, and suggested it was impossible for the former Priest to defend himself against such historic allegations.
Mr Burke asked the jury: “How can you defend yourself against allegations of unspecified dates from 48 years ago?”
Judge Catherine Tulk took exactly three hours to sum up the case for the jury, highlighting key points from both the defence and prosecution.
Ms Tulk said: “No allegations since 1978 mean Father McDermott is entitled to ask you to give considerate weight to his character.”
However, she also said: “You're entitled to think about how likely it is that six people would make similar accusations against the same person.”
Francis McDermott, now of Bideford in Devon, but who moved between London, Norwich, High Wycombe and Aylesbury between 1970 and 2005 when he retired, denies 18 counts of indecent assault, four counts of indecent assault on a male person, two counts of indecency with a child, one count of buggery and one count of rape.
The jury have retired for deliberation.
The prosecution and defence cases in the murder trial of Daniel Fitzjohn have ended after 10 days of evidence at Northampton Crown Court.
Daniel Quinn, 28, and Parminder Sanghera, 25, both from Wolverhampton, are accused of 'hunting' Mr Fitzjohn down through the streets of Kingsley on June 14 last year before Quinn stabbed him twice in the abdomen.
Nearly all of the events that led up to Mr Fitzjohn's death - including the stabbing - was captured on the dashcam of a brave Northampton taxi driver who chased after the pair in his cab.
Quinn does not deny that he stabbed Mr Fitzjohn in Randall Road that evening but he has told the jury he is 'truly sorry' for what happened and 'never meant to kill him or cause serious harm'.
He claims he only remembers stabbing Mr Fitzjohn once, but does not deny he must have caused his second fatal injury and says it must have happened 'by accident'.
Meanwhile, Sanghera maintains that footage of him running at a group of Mr Fitzjohn's friends while wielding a machete was 'only meant to scare them off' and he did not know his ride with Quinn in his grey Mini would end in violence.
Prosecutor Miss Mary Loram QC told the jury in her closing speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I could just show you that awful footage of the moment Quinn stabbed Mr Fitzjohn. I could just show it to you over and over. But I owe it to Mr Fitzjohn's family to do more than that.
"I put to you that this was the clear murder of Mr Fitzjohn by Daniel Quinn, Not an accident. And no matter how much he tells you now that he regrets it, that does not change the fact he is a murderer.
"And you may look at the footage of Sanghera leading the charge with that machete in hand. It is my case that this shows his true character."
The jury was sent out to deliberate at 2.15pm on February 15.
Bank nurse Lenuta Botezatu was working a night shift on Benham Ward at NGH when an elderly patient she was taking to the toilet hit her in her chest.
Despite knowing the man only lashed out because of his dementia, she yelled at him words to the effect of: “if you carry on I will break your wrists”.
She also raised her arm as if to strike the man, but was restrained by colleagues. Bizarrely, she also twisted his nose, causing bruising.
Evidence put to a Nursing and Midwifery Council tribunal this week says two people witnessed the incident:
'Ms 2' said "Botezatu grabbed Patient A’s right hand, pulled him forward and then, out of nowhere, gave him a Chinese burn."
And Ms 1 said: "Botezatu then raised her hand to Patient A and it looked like she was going to hit him in the face. "She did not hit him and I felt that she was maybe using her actions as a way of threatening him.
"Ms 2 was telling Ms Botezatu to calm down. Ms Botezatu raised her hand again and everyone exclaimed “no” and stepped in”.
It was at that point that Ms 2 grabbed both of Botezatu's hands.
Striking Botezatu off the nursing register for the incident, which happened in October 2017, the panel said they had no real option.
Chair of the panel Anthony Mole said: "Although she apologised to her employer, the panel was not satisfied that Ms Botezatu had shown sufficient insight into the seriousness of her actions, and in particular its potential effects on her colleagues and public confidence in the profession.
"Furthermore, the panel considered that Ms Botezatu’s misconduct would be considered so serious by members of the public that it may be incompatible with ongoing registration."