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Adam Powis made the foul-mouthed farewell on the public address system at the hardware giant's Weston-super-Mare branch in November. He shared a TikTok of the incident, which quickly went viral, showing the 18 year-old saying: 'This is a customer announcement. I just got sacked and B&Q are c****. F*** everyone. Have a nice day'. Britain's youngest EuroMillions winner has opened up about how her win didn't bring her happiness, saying she wouldn't 'wish it on anyone'.Appearing on an episode of the US TV show Dr Phil, Jane Park, 27, discussed the downsides of her £1million EuroMillions windfall in 2013 when she was 17-years-old. In the episode, titled 'The Curse of the Lottery,' ...... There are fears union barons could be plotting the first general strike since 1926 when they meet at a 'war cabinet' later this week. Some of the country's top union bosses, including Mick Lynch, will meet at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to plan their next move after weeks of crippling walkouts. It will come just a day after they conduct talks with ministers amid ongoing pay disputes that have seen large parts of the country grind to a halt over the last year. Representatives from the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, Aslef and the GMB will gather to 'compare notes' on their discussions with the Government, it is being reported.

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The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will make it easier for trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC), which is legal recognition of their acquired gender.It will introduce a system of self-declaration for obtaining a GRC and remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria...................................... Rob Burrow's dad has reacted furiously after the rugby league icon's wheelchair-accessible van was vandalised in Castleford on Friday night. Rob, 40, has Motor Neurone Disease and is a fundraiser for others with the condition. He was made an MBE in the 2021 New Years Honours List for his services to the sport and the MND community. But the Leeds legend's van was scratched up while his family were out for a Christmas meal in West Yorkshire, according to his father, who posted on Twitter about the harrowing incident. Just Stop Oil eco-zealots have been branded hyprocrites after gluing themselves to works of art and the UK's roads to protest - using adhesives made from fossil fuels. The militant campaigners want the government to end all new licenses and consents for the exploration, development and production of the fuel in the UK. Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has been criticised on social media by Muslim fans after he posted a picture of his family next to a Christmas tree. Salah, who is a Muslim, captioned the photo with '#MerryChristmas' on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. The 30-year-old and his family - wife Magi and daughters Makka and Kayan - posed in matching pyjamas for his traditional Christmas post.

Greek MEP Eva Kaili, who has become the face of the European Parliament's widening graft scandal, will spend at least another week in custody before attending a postponed pre-trial hearing, her lawyer said Wednesday. Former EU parliament vice-president Kaili, 44, her partner Francesco Giorgi, 35, ex-MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri and lobbyist Niccolò Figa-Talamanca are all charged with corruption, money laundering and organised crime. A fishing crew has given a shocking account of how drowning migrants 'screamed' for help - as it was confirmed that at least four died after a small boat capsized in the freezing Channel this morning. The captain of the fishing vessel described the scenes as 'something out of a Second World War movie', saying they pulled more than 30 people from the water - but at least one could not be saved.

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Civil servants have been told to call their Christmas parties 'festive celebrations' in an attempt to avoid offending other faiths. In another move to promote diversity and inclusion, some officials have been informed they cannot drink alcohol at a celebration if one team member is tea-total. UK Driving Low tread on tyres - £10,000 A vehicle with low tread on its tyres becomes even more dangerous in snowy and icy conditions as it can already be difficult to come to a stop. To avoid the fine you must have the minimum legal tyre tread depth for cars in the UK of 1.6mm, but a tread depth of 3mm for tyre is best. Tests by UK technical organisation MIRA found that the difference in wet braking distance between a tyre worn to 3mm and one worn to 1.6mm can be as much as 44 per cent. Careless driving - £5000 Most drivers take extra care in wintry conditions, but failing to drive appropriately to the road conditions could land you the joint second largest fine on the list. Being mindful of snow on the road, the increased risk of the car sliding and of longer breaking distances will help you avoid any potential careless driving charges. Driving through puddles - £5000 Intentionally driving through puddles can have a significant financial penalty, but you are unlikely to be charged if the puddle is unavoidable and you slow down appropriately beforehand. Driving through at speed can be dangerous as there is potentially to lose control of the car, especially if there is snow and ice on the road. Driving in inadequate footwear - £5000 The Highway Code states that drivers should ensure 'clothing and footwear do not prevent you using the controls in the correct manner'. To avoid this fine you must make sure your footwear isn't compromising your driving. Snow on car roof - £2500 A very simple fine to avoid, by remembering to scraping off any snow before you set off. Failing to do so can be expensive and cause potentially dangerous situations for yourself or drivers behind you. Snow on car lights or number plate - £1000 Much like the snow on the car roof fine, taking 30 seconds to make sure you lights are now covered and your number plate is visible could save you £1,000. Driving with low visibility - £1000 It can be frustrating scraping ice off the windscreen in the morning, but not doing this properly or only clearing enough so you can see through a small gap could be costly. Set aside enough time in the morning to scrape off all the ice and snow so that you have full visibility. Defective exterior lights - £1000 Like having snow covering your lights, defective exterior lights can be dangerous - particularly in the snow. Taking a quick look around your car after starting the engine and turning your lights on could save you £1,000

A TikTok star has revealed how he makes more money than a doctor - despite sleeping in and only working two hours every day.Andy Peng, who goes by Andy the Sk on social media, has racked up more than 4.6million followers on TikTok thanks to his outrageous pranks. For years, the obituaries in our grander newspapers have been dominated by the intensely moving life stories of men who fought on against impossible odds, when all around them were dead, who flew badly damaged aircraft safely home despite terrible injuries and loss of blood, or who turned the tide of battle with a crazy charge. The row over Labour's 'class war' plan to add VAT to private school fees deepened last night after it emerged that Sir Keir Starmer sent his children to a primary school which has been described as a 'state-run prep school for the middle classes'. The move to strip private schools of their charitable status – meaning their fees will be subject to 20 per cent VAT – triggered a political storm after it was highlighted in last week's Mail on Sunday, with experts warning that tens of thousands of pupils would have to switch to state schools because their parents would be priced out A row of terraced houses has been lit up with Christmas decorations as part of an anuual tradition to raise money. Houses on Byron Road in New Milton have been going the extra mile for the Christmas light switch-ons over the years - and residents are now raising money for the NHS. They band together to deck their halls in luminous twinkly lights and raise money, but one home - which remains undecorated - seemingly didn't seem to want to participate.

According to Spain's Labour Inspectorate Ryanair violated the right of workers to strike earlier in the year, when it used so called “scab” labour. Business Secretary Grant Shapps today acknowledged 'national security' fears led to taxpayers' cash being used to end China's involvement in the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Shapps boasted the Government's £700million investment in the controversial Suffolk project would help create thousands of jobs and shore up Britain's energy security. The US Air Force is planning to unveil the most advanced aircraft ever created early next month after spending nearly $203 billion on the program.The B-21 Raider stealth bomber will be unveiled at the Northrop Grumman facility in Palmdale, California, on December 2.The bomber was designed to carry out long-range bombing and nuclear missions employing cutting edge stealth technologies. No one at the BBC could understand how the disgraced journalist Martin Bashir got his job as religious affairs editor after he hoodwinked Princess Diana for his Panorama interview, Radio 4 presenter Samira Ahmed has claimed. Writing in the Radio Times, she said workers were 'puzzled' as to how Bashir - who has since been criticised by the broadcaster for faking bank statements that persuaded Diana to give him an interview in 1995 - managed to get the position in 2016.

Plans to use ‘pushback' tactics against small boats in the Channel have been ditched by the Home Office, the immigration minister confirmed yesterday. Robert Jenrick said analysis showed there were only ‘limited circumstances' in which the turnaround idea could be deployed against dinghies. He said the proposals were ‘currently withdrawn' and there were ‘no current plans' to bring them into operation. Church worshippers cried 'heresy' at the Dean of Trinity College as they left a sermon claiming Jesus may have been transgender 'in tears'. But the view of a transgender Jesus is 'legitimate', according to Dr Michael Banner, the Dean who stepped in to defend the claim made at a Sermon last Sunday that Christ had a 'trans body'.Dr Michael Banner, the Dean of Trinity College, was backing up junior research fellow Joshua Heath, who displayed Renaissance and Medieval paintings of the crucifixion depicting a side wound that he likened to a vagina in front of the congregation.

A female secondary school mentor sent a teenage pupil 3,000 messages in just two months and told 'I think I'm falling for you' and 'I want you so badly', a court heard.In a series of 'overtly sexual' texts Ellen Cadman-Smith told the 15-year-old that he 'drove her insane' and that she was 'thinking about him non-stop'.In extracts from messages read to a jury, the school worker, of Sandown, Isle of Wight, admitted she was 'half naked', saying 'I can't have you and you know why,' before arranging to meet him in her car........... Cadman-Smith was a mentor at the Cowes Enterprise College responsible for supporting pupils' 'behaviour, mental health and learning difficulties'. A drugs Queenpin running a county lines operation on her own has been convicted after she boasted about her lavish lifestyle including £500 haircuts in Knightsbridge which were funded by selling crack cocaine and heroin on Snapchat. Henna Ashraf, 25, flaunted her wealth by taking pictures inside her flash Mercedes car while also posting photos of bundles of cash on social media. A predatory rapist Googled how to get away with assaulting a woman on the same night he carried his victim to a car park in Portsmouth before sexually assaulting her.Daniel Booth, 20, of Beresford Road, Portsmouth, began his seven year jail sentence on Saturday, which was handed down nearly 17 months after the attack. The jury heard how a young woman, aged in her 20s, had become separated from her friends shortly after 11pm following a night out in Portsmouth in June last year. She woke up in a car park after passing out with no idea what had happened to her, a court heard. A woman in North Wales was left shocked after spotting the world's deadliest plant, which contains a substance 6,000 times more poisonous than cyanide, in a council flowerbed. The flower, called Ricinnus Communis and known as the Castor Oil plant, was named by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most poisonous. Do you want to know why the Just Stop Oil fanatics manage to cause so much chaos? It is because of New Labour's Left-wing Supreme Court, which has made the police and the law so feeble when faced with green zealots blocking motorways and roads.This grandiose tribunal, whose very existence has given liberal judges more power, should really be called the Blair Court. It has existed only since 2009.

Ministers were accused of betraying British workers today as a £1.6billion contract for Royal Navy support ships was handed to a consortium that will carry out work in a Spanish dockyard. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace today announced the Team Resolute consortium including Navantia, the Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company, was the preferred bidder to construct three Fleet Solid Support (FSS) vessels. A judge slammed a blundering barrister for turning up at court in Newport in Wales - when he should have been 150 miles away for a case in Newport on the Isle of Wight. Lawyer Brad Lawlor had travelled from London after being drafted in to pick up the case from a colleague after reading it was in Newport. Michael Sheen appears to have taken yet another swipe at Prince William by sharing a clip of Welsh children cheering Gareth Bale and the national team before they left for Qatar after he ignited a row over whether the new Prince of Wales should have done the same. SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez held second meeting this year with Samsung executives, this time during his official visit to South Korea on November 17. This follows a meeting held in Madrid on August 31 as Sánchez wants help to grow the new tech industry in Spain whilst Samsung has not only the technology but looks to receive a sizeable chunk of the European Recovery Funds allocated to technology. Party hotspot Malaga is set to ban inflatable sex dolls and blow-up penis costumes in a huge crackdown on stag and hen parties. The southern Spanish city has become a tourist favourite thanks to cheap flights and a buzzing nightlife - but now locals are set to come down hard on crude antics. New legislation passed in France this week, by President Emmanuel Macron, insisted that all large car parks must be used for the installation of solar panels. This move comes as part of the French government's drive for the use of renewable energy. According to The Guardian today, Sunday, November 13, this new law passed by the French Senate applies to car parks – either existing or when planned to be built – with a capacity for 80 vehicles. Caving in to nurses' wage demands would hike their average annual pay to more than £46,000, a Mail on Sunday analysis reveals ahead of their strike.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) wants a 17.6 per cent rise, claiming a 20 per cent cut in real-terms pay since 2010.But figures provided by NHS Digital show the average pay for qualified nurses in England has reached £40,147.This comprises basic salary of £35,841, plus extras for shift work, overtime and living in a pricier area worth £4,306. A former teacher will face misconduct proceedings almost a year after she was jailed for a 15-month 'affair' she had with a schoolgirl. Aimee Jones, 36, admitted sexually touching the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in the back of her car months after she initially approached her victim at school. Teesside Crown Court heard how she told the teenager she was bisexual and that she was 'having feelings of attraction towards her'.A woman has sparked an online debate after saying stay at home wives and mothers are often the target of vitriol - prompting some to say they would be 'devastated' if their offspring chose not to work.

Britain is facing a winter of discontent after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike today as comrades on the rail network agreed new dates and nurses decided on taking industrial action for the first time in more than a century. Salto de Castro, found in north-western Spain, has 44 homes, a hotel, a church and a swimming pool has been put up for sale by the current owner. The village is built over 65,000 square feet along the hilltops in the province of Zamora, near Spain's border with Portugal. But despite its picturesque location, Salto de Castro is home to no inhabitants, and has been abandoned for more than three decades. Morocco announced on Friday, November 4, that it had appointed a new person to oversee the public company that is in charge of the project to construct a 40km tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar to link the north African county to Spain. During the Moroccan government council meeting held on Thursday 3, it was decided to appoint AbdelKabir Zahoud. Spain briefly closed parts of its airspace over risks posed by a Chinese rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Barcelona and Ibiza airports were among those impacted by the grounding, which lasted around 40 minutes on Friday. The decision came after China sent its powerful Long March 5B rocket to deliver the final module of its Tiangong space station. Greta Thunberg believes it is time for her to 'give up the megaphone' on climate change issues - but called for more 'civil disobedience' as eco-protests sweep Europe.The teenage activist, 19, wants to step out of the limelight to make room for people who are actually suffering the effects of climate change, four years after starting her world-famous 'school strike for climate' movement Four people were killed, including a teenager, and eight others were injured early on Sunday after a car rammed into members of a wedding party near Madrid following a brawl, police said.The fight erupted at dawn outside a restaurant that was hosting the wedding in Torrejón de Ardoz, some 25 kilometres northeast of Madrid. The new regulations, which introduced fines for both, produced the desired effect and while prostitution continues, it is hidden from view. Fewer homeless are now seen sleeping in the city centre and many have moved on to neighbouring Elche. Mariano Valera, Elche's Social Rights councillor, condemned the Alicante City law, approved with the votes of the Partido Popular, Ciudadanos and Vox parties, as “shameful” when it came into force. Watching violent television programmes from a young age has been scientifically linked to poor performance at secondary school. Researchers from the University of Montreal analysed the content shown to nearly 2,000 children aged 3.5 to 4.5. When the kids turned 12, the team asked them and their teachers to evaluate how well they thought they were doing at school. It was found that boys and girls exposed to violent content in early childhood were more likely to experience 'increases in emotional distress' later on. Uk Labour's Ed Miliband today backed calls for taxpayers' money to be given to countries such as Pakistan and the Maldives for 'loss and damage' from climate change.The shadow climate and net zero secretary insisted it was 'morally right' to hand money to poorer nations that are 'on the frontline of the climate crisis'.As the Cop-27 climate change summit begins in Egypt, Mr Miliband stressed it would also be in Britain's 'self-interest' to boost aid to developing countries.But, while he highlighted both Pakistan and the Maldives as possible recipients of 'loss and damage' payments, he denied it would also see China handed cash

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A Royal Navy submarine which was fully armed with nuclear missiles aborted a top secret operation after a fire broke out onboard.The £3billion HMS Victorious, which is one of Britain's four Trident submarines, had been sailing to a base overseas when the electrical fire started six weeks ago. The Home Office is spending millions of pounds on taxis to transport migrants across the UK - with some drivers claiming they were told to drop off passengers at railway stations with no follow up. Officials have paid more than £3.7million in the past year alone for taxis, vans and buses to move asylum seekers, illegal migrants and unaccompanied minors, an analysis of public contracts revealed. Gary Neville, the former Manchester United footballer, 47, sparked a blacklash when he agreed to be a pundit for state broadcaster beIN SPORTS for the World Cup tournament - due to begin later this month. Neville has repeatedly insisted he will 'never shy away' from highlighting controversial issues while working for the broadcaster. Commuters can shell out more on railway station parking than on travelling on the train, campaigners said yesterday. Their research shows that some drivers face bills reaching as high as £3,000.In some cases it costs more to use a car parking space year-round than it does to take the train. Grant Shapps was facing fury last night after saying there ‘wasn't really much point' to a long-promised railway across northern England. Bonfire Night across the country erupted into chaos last night as thugs chucked fireworks at passers-by, set alight wheelie bins and threw explosives at police. Scenes of disarray were seen in Leeds and Edinburgh with police in Manchester and Merseyside reporting blockaded roads. Civil servants have spent £500,000 of taxpayer cash on mindfulness apps which have celebrities including Idris Elba and Kate Winslet reading bedtime stories to soothe users to sleep. Fly-tipping has been practically decriminalised across Britain, with fewer than one in 400 offences being prosecuted in the past decade. .A partygoer died after a downing three pints of gin in a drinking game during a 36-hour session, an inquest heard. Shamed inspector Dean Gittoes, 49, of Merthyr Tydfil, who 'throttled' a teenage boy and called him a 'clever little internet freak' because he was filming a police station faces losing his job. Gittoes was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work after 'unlawfully' detaining the 16-year-old outside Merthyr Tydfil police station on August 20 last year.

All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier.A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they were kicked out of their privately-rented home in June. Birmingham City Council could not find a home big enough to accommodate all of the family, with the family members split into two temporary houses instead of one.Emma Lee, who owns The Sutton Arms in Faceby, North Yorkshire, shared a public appeal urging the table of six to do the right thing and pay for their expensive meal. .Angry residents have hit out at late-night music and raucous football tournaments at a Holiday Inn Express that is housing 130 asylum seekers.They claim there has been 'really loud music all night long' at the site in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after refugee families were relocated and young men were housed at the hotel instead.Labour MP Rosie Duffield has slammed the British Transport Police (BTP) after they tweeted an appeal to identify a suspected flasher, referring to the suspect as 'them' rather than stating their gender.A former infant school headteacher has been accused of bullying her colleagues and favouring her husband, who was also a teacher on staff. Nicola Blythin was appointed headteacher at St Asaph VP School in North Wales in 2009 and was initially well liked and respected, a colleague said.Britain is falling further behind targets for its electric car charging infrastructure and a growing disparity in availability of public devices is making EV ownership in London extremely attractive but almost impossible in the north.Incredibly, there are more charging points in London's Westminster than in Birmingham, Liverpool and Greater Manchester combined, according to new data released from the Department for Transport this week.

China is operating dozens of secret police stations in plain view by disguising them as British restaurants, estate agents and other ordinary businesses, a civil liberties watchdog has claimed. A report from human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders warned China was operating more than 50 undeclared police hubs as part of a global network to force dissidents to return to Beijing. Change is at last taking place in the controversial arena of caring for Britain's transgender children.The turn of events is so dramatic it is being hailed by family campaigners as a huge step towards ending what they call a 'massive medical and social experiment' on youngsters who believe they have been born in the wrong body. The Foreign Office has issued a travel warning for Spain following political unrest - as protests are breaking out over the country's spiralling cost of living crisis. Thousands of Spanish residents have been taking part in protests across the country calling for an increase in wages and pensions in line with inflation.A large demonstration took place in Madrid last week, while pro-independence marches have been taking place in Barcelona in which protesters blocked the city's airport and major roads. Valencia council said on Monday, October 31 that some 7,000 panels will be installed across the roofs of all the cemeteries in the city. The Councillor for Cemeteries, Alejandro Ramon, told ElDiario that the installation was part of the city's roadmap towards a greener and more self-sustaining environment. The implications are horrifying. We now know a foreign power hacked the personal mobile phone of the talkative Liz Truss. The severity of this security breach can hardly be overstated. As a former prime minister, ex-foreign secretary and ex-international trade secretary, Miss Truss was the chief custodian of our national security secrets and the recipient of invaluable MI6 intelligence.Millions of drivers were potentially put at risk during a terrifying near-national outage of life-saving technology on smart motorways.The system controlling hundreds of miles of the controversial carriageways had to be rebooted following a 'glitch' that meant it was out of action for seven hours, including the evening rush hour. 'Old people' who call work meetings on a Friday afternoon, expect staff to make calls as part of their job and make random noises over Zoom have been put on notice by Gen Z. A hotel in East Yorkshire has been told it can no longer house asylum seekers after a council was successful in securing an interim High Court injunction.East Riding of Yorkshire Council today confirmed that it had gone to the High Court to prevent the Hull Humber View Hotel in North Ferriby from being used for asylum seekers temporarily. The King enjoys his brief commute by car up the Mall – waving to crowds – to Buckingham Palace from Clarence House. But he expects his staff to walk or cycle there........

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All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier. A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they were kicked out of their privately-rented home in June. Birmingham City Council could not find a home big enough to accommodate all of the family, with the family members split into two temporary houses instead of one. Emma Lee, who owns The Sutton Arms in Faceby, North Yorkshire, shared a public appeal urging the table of six to do the right thing and pay for their expensive meal. . Angry residents have hit out at late-night music and raucous football tournaments at a Holiday Inn Express that is housing 130 asylum seekers.They claim there has been 'really loud music all night long' at the site in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after refugee families were relocated and young men were housed at the hotel instead. Labour MP Rosie Duffield has slammed the British Transport Police (BTP) after they tweeted an appeal to identify a suspected flasher, referring to the suspect as 'them' rather than stating their gender. A former infant school headteacher has been accused of bullying her colleagues and favouring her husband, who was also a teacher on staff. Nicola Blythin was appointed headteacher at St Asaph VP School in North Wales in 2009 and was initially well liked and respected, a colleague said. Britain is falling further behind targets for its electric car charging infrastructure and a growing disparity in availability of public devices is making EV ownership in London extremely attractive but almost impossible in the north.Incredibly, there are more charging points in London's Westminster than in Birmingham, Liverpool and Greater Manchester combined, according to new data released from the Department for Transport this week. This is the eye-popping moment a cyclist well and truly got his comeuppance after pushing a wheelie rider out of his way on a cycle lane in east London. A video shows a man wearing a blue helmet and back stretch out his arm and rudely push a young man in the middle of doing a wheelie. Against the odds, the youngster manages to stop from falling by putting his foot on the ground It is instead the aggressor whose bike flops sideways and he embarrassingly ends up falling down. He rolls several times on the pavement before coming to an abrupt stop. Joey Barton has been cleared of assaulting his wife after a judge ruled he could not have a fair trial because prosecutors would not call her to give evidence.The former Premier League midfielder, 40, was accused of pushing Georgia Barton, 36, to the floor before kicking her during a drunken row at their home in in Kew, south-west London on June 2 last year.

The outgoing Prime Minister could leave a lasting mark and controversially lavish her closest aides with gongs despite a disastrously short tenure in Downing Street. Mark Fullbrook , the former premier's chief of staff, is understood to have suggested she reward her outgoing staff and advisers with knighthoods and peerages. https://www.climateemergencyfund.org Just Stop Oil's disruptive protests, blamed for petrol shortages across parts of England, have been funded by US philanthropists who say they want to incite a global “spring uprising” over climate change. A convicted sex offender has been jailed again after dressing up as a schoolgirl in order to talk to pupils and plying two young boys with booze. Mark Nicholson, 55, sat outside Blessed Trinity school in Burnley, Lancashire, dressed in the uniform of a white tie, blazer and a skirt. Transgender comedian and Labour candidate Eddie Izzard has accused MPs of 'bullying' over their 'transphobic' comments as she urges people to 'join the 21st century' having declared her intention to be 'based in girl mode from now on'. Bakers stop their ovens and declare war on high energy costs: “ There is no one to put up with it ” The sector calls for a national blackout on October 28 to demand solutions from the Government. Its electricity bills have tripled, a problem aggravated by the increase in the cost of raw materials and the lack of generational replacement... Costa Rica Meanwhile, the battle for the tiny silicon brains is not letting up. The US government on Friday announced that US companies will be banned from supplying Chinese customers with certain categories of semiconductors made with US technology, in a move that deals a blow to China's production of weapons and supercomputers. It is the latest escalation in a bilateral battle that accelerated on August 2 with the surprise visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the world's leading semiconductor producer, in a trip viewed by China as a provocation in its own backyard.

A new report has suggested that mums who choose to stay at home with their children should be given an extra £8,000 for support. Researchers at the Civitas think tank plan to urge ministers to make an £8,000 childcare allowance available in order to help stay-at-home mums. Labour MP Rosie Duffield has said she will refuse to call Eddie Izzard a woman. The comedian, who is campaigning to stand as a Labour MP, announced two years ago the decision to use 'she/her' pronouns. Parents of children as young as three were fabricating stories that their toddlers were transgender, a former psychiatrist at the Tavistock child gender clinic claims.Dr Az Hakeem worked at the controversial NHS clinic for 12 years until 2012 and said he expressed concerns the procedures followed by staff 'were mad', describing Tavistock as a 'transing factory'. Qatar's emir has raged against an 'unprecedented campaign' of criticism over his country's hosting of this year's football World Cup, saying on Tuesday no other host nation has ever faced the same level of scrutiny Two women have been taken to hospital after they were mauled by a dangerous dog which escaped from a nearby property. A family has revealed how their beloved three-year-old chihuahua was mauled to death by two 'vicious' dogs while out on an early morning walk. A body has been found in a skip outside a major hospital yesterday after police sealed off an area close to an A&E unit. Police made the grim discovery of the man in his 30s at Doncaster Royal Infirmary (DRI), South Yorkshire, just before 8.30am. Robbie Williams has come under fire after it was announced he will be performing in Qatar during the World Cup........And now Eric Cantona has urged suggests Beckham isn't aware of 'what has happened there'. An Australian woman who sparked an online storm after she complained about being wedged between two 'obese people' on a flight has hit back at haters who asked her to 'square up' - saying the only thing their fighting is 'high cholesterol'

Mike Payne joined me to discuss the bizarre series events taking place in the UK after Liz Truss became Prime Minister. How much longer will she remain in office?

Spain will waste €300 million by putting the clocks back by one hour according to calculations by the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE). By abandoning this move from Summer Time to Winter Time, the evenings (when people are more active) would remain lighter for one hour and could ensure a reduction in energy consumption of around 5 per cent. In theory the decision to introduce Summer Time was to give more light to farmers at the height of their sowing and harvesting times but there are two interesting facts about Spain, as during the Civil War, both sides observed different time zones and even today, the Canary Islands are one hour ahead of the rest of Spain. “Car cannibalism” is the latest crime wave to hit England's streets with parked cars being stripped of components overnight. According to a report by broadcaster LBC, cars are being broken into and then stripped of body and engine parts, with Yorkshire and the Midlands said to be worst hit.Most commonly broken into and stripped are Vauxhall Corsas and Toyota Yaris' according to information obtained by the broadcaster. The Bank of England was kept in the dark about the contents of the huge 'mini-Budget' that sent the markets into meltdown, it was revealed today. Deputy governor Jon Cunliffe said officials were not 'fully briefed' in advance about the package of £45billion of tax cuts, as would normally happen. Jessica Baker, 20, has avoided jail after she struck her boyfriend's ex in the head with a stiletto shoe-shaped designer perfume bottle during an ugly row in a Poundbury park . A children's home has been ordered to improve after extraordinary failings saw a manager buying a tattoo gun for one child - which they used to permanently ink another – and staff being slow to stop a young resident making a flamethrower. The centre, which cannot be named but is registered in Leicester, was today revealed to be the site of a series of worrying incidents. At one point – just three months ago – staff were threatened by a child who had made his own weapon to menace them. They had used an aerosol can and a cigarette lighter to fashion a homemade flamethrower. In another troubling incident the home manager bought a tattoo gun for one of the children. They then used it to permanently ink another child, despite the fact both were supposed to be under 2:1 supervision. The director of a cryotherapy firm used by elite Premier League football teams has won more than £20,000 at a tribunal - despite being sacked for installing a cryo-chamber that leaked deadly gases which ‘could have led to fatalities'.David Morris stepped in to fit one of the £80,000 chambers as the company's engineer was unavailable. A lawyer who left a businesswoman feeling suicidal after he sent a video of them having sex to her work colleagues has avoided prison. David West, 38, gained access to the footage when he submitted a digital access request after claiming he was preparing for a defamation case.

Former British fighter pilots are training the Chinese to shoot down Western aircraft, officials warned last night. Up to 30 pilots have recently moved to China after securing £250,000-a-year contracts to teach Western flying procedures, it was revealed. Nicola Sturgeon today claimed the UK is 'fundamentally on the wrong path' as the SNP leader continued her fresh push for Scottish independence. The Scottish First Minister insisted an independent Scotland would be able to have its own Scottish pound and dismissed suggestions that Scots would be required to use passports to get into England as 'utter nonsense'. But Ms Sturgeon admitted there would be other border checks for trade between Scotland and England. A primary school teacher who lost her job after she refused to address an eight-year-old pupil with male pronouns has launched legal action against the school's governors and the local council. The anonymous teacher is bringing a judicial review after she was sacked by the school earlier this year, with the case to be heard in the High Court in Birmingham next week. Wheelie bins could be a thing of the past as councils across the UK consider whether to roll out European-style 'super-bins' after a successful launch in Liverpool. The huge underground bins, a common feature in European cities such as Amsterdam, can hold up to 5,000 litres of waste - equating to a week's worth of rubbish from 20 houses. A massive £5.5bn was set aside for the Ajax light tanks . But the programme has been a disaster that has been plagued by glitches, with prototypes having damaged the hearing of the troops who tested it and made other personnel sick . Now, with £3.2bn of taxpayers' cash having been pumped into the scheme - which has so far failed to deliver a single one of the promised 589 tanks into service - fresh question marks are swirling whether it is time for the Ajax to be axed entirely. It comes as the new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, today warned 'there will be more difficult decisions to be made on both tax and spending' following his predecessor's disastrous 'mini-budget' last month, which caused financial chaos and led to pound plummeting in value. Three thugs caught on CCTV fleeing a shooting where a 13-year-old boy was left paralysed after being shot in the spine with a homemade gun have been jailed for life. Zidann Edwards and Diago Anderson, both 20, and 17-year-old Tafique Thomas gunned down the schoolboy after he 'strayed onto their turf' in Birmingham. The victim and his friends were on their way to get food when he was attacked in an underpass at Hockley Circus on November 18 last year. A court heard the teen was shot because he crossed into the territory of a notorious gang called Armed Response. Following the chilling attack, Edwards even made a drill rap music video expressing his regret that he had failed to kill the young boy. The victim managed to call 999 despite his injuries to tell the ambulance service he had been shot. Albanian migrants are working at cannabis farms within three days of crossing the Channel, an investigation has found. The men are being actively recruited by drug lords to cultivate cannabis in empty houses and industrial buildings that have been converted into production sites following their release from detention. Eco zealots Just Stop Oil blocked Park Lane and sprayed paint over an Aston Martin showroom in their latest display - hours after they were branded 'thugs and vandals' by the Home Secretary. A group of geology students almost became history after they risked their lives by standing under a fragile cliff prone to rockfalls. The 15 university students ignored warning signs about getting too close to the 150ft sandstone cliff at West Bay in Dorset during a field trip to the Jurassic Coast. Wearing yellow hard hats, the group huddled together by the cliff face to examine some of the 180 million year old rocks seemingly oblivious to the danger they were in. A shocked resident observed them for about 20 minutes. A family has revealed how their beloved three-year-old chihuahua was mauled to death by two 'vicious' dogs while out on an early morning walk. Tracey Logan, 51, was out for a walk with her chihuahua Belle on Wednesday morning when two dogs raced around a corner and attacked her pet. Her dog suffered a punctured lung and died at the scene in Seacroft, More than one in ten clamps attached to the wheels of untaxed vehicles in the last five years have been forcefully removed or damaged when vigilante motorists have tried to extract them, according to official figures.1. CCTV captured the horrific moment a motorcyclist hit three young schoolgirls while driving nearly double the speed limit in a hit-and-run. Oskars Bolsteins, 27, has been jailed after ploughing into the trio while driving 55mph in the 30mph in Southampton on August 1.

Nicola Sturgeon was rebuked by ministers and MPs after she delivered the jibe during an interview in which she hinted at a possible election tie-up with Keir Starmer . The SNP leader insisted it is 'not difficult to answer' the question of whether Sir Keir or Liz Truss should be in No10, saying: 'I detest the Tories and everything they stand for.' An orchestra which has received more than £1 million of public money refused to play the National Anthem after the Queen died because it said it symbolises the ‘racist' British Empire.The Chineke! Orchestra performed at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland during the mourning period, but founder and artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku banned the playing of God Save The King. The rapper Kanye West , 45, has found himself in hot water following his controversial Paris Fashion Week show where he showcased a White Lives Matter shirt - before making a swipe at the Jewish community. In a tweet that has since been removed by the social media giant, Kanye wrote: 'I'm a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I'm going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.' British lamb has been shipped to the US for the first time in 20 years on October 6. It is the result of landmark deal reached last year with the United States Department for Agriculture and will open up a market of more than 300 million people for British lamb producers.The first consignment of lamb was sent to the US this week by Dunbia from its site in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Britain's most tattooed man has spoken out about how his extensive collection of body modifications has resulted in unfair treatment in the workplace. Matthew Whelan from Birmingham, who is also known as King Body Art, kingofinkland79 or B-art, has tattooed over some 90 per cent of his body, spending more than £40,000 on the extensive inkings. Men technically age faster than women, experts have claimed. Anti-ageing researchers found men in their fifties were biologically four years older than their female counterparts, on average. And the gap already exists in 20-somethings, according to the first study of its kind. Scientists compared the chronological age of thousands of volunteers — how many birthdays they've had — against their biological one. This was done using tests that estimate the body's decline based on subtle markers attached to our DNA ..................After all, these days Sky Sports is the official broadcast partner of BLM and jumps on every passing woke bandwagon with all the subtlety of Sunderland's Lee Cattermole taking out anyone who got in his way.So you won't be surprised to learn that Football's Toughest Opponent isn't any of the above. It is, wait for it, climate change..............

The Spanish government said on Thursday that residents whose wealth exceeds €3 million will be subject to a new asset tax during the next two years, 2023 and 2024, as part of its upcoming budget that will need to be approved by the Spanish Congress. Budget and Public Finances Minister María Jesús Montero said the temporary wealth tax, which could affect 23,000 people, or 0.1 % of taxpayers, was one of ‘solidarity'. budget minister said this will benefit some 50% of the workforce given that the average annual salary in Spain is €21,000. Vladimir Putin is set to make hundreds of millions of pounds from a luxury development in an exclusive area of London, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Russia is building 255 flats on a site in Kensington it bought in 2006 for £8 million using an offshore company. It is planning to use the vast profits from the scheme to refurbish its embassy properties in the capital.........But documents seen by this newspaper show that any ‘surplus remaining' will go to the Kremlin. A shocking video shows the moment a barrel of liquid nitrogen exploded in a botched chemistry experiment in Spain - causing 15 people, including nine children, to be hospitalised. The blast from the experiment at the House of Culture in Girona left victims with burns, which were treated at Placa de l'Hospital, reported The Sun. Driving in Spain...........The ambassador's latest message has done little to calm the anger, frustration and sense of helplessness felt by those who almost five months ago were told they could no longer drive on Spanish roads, if they were resident in Spain yet still holding a UK driving licence. Since 1 May 2022, thousands of UK licence holders who had been resident in Spain for six months or more have been unable to drive with their UK licences, even though the vast majority of other EU nations have struck deals with the UK post-Brexit for the simple exchange of driving licences. An eco warrior has prompted fury over her perplexing decision to pour a bucket of human excrement over a memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore in a protest over the use of private jets.The bizarre decision to target a beloved national hero by former medical student Maddy Budd, 21, on behalf of pressure group End UK Private Jets. Dr Anmol Arora, a researcher at Cambridge University, argued that the devices may affect child development for a number of reasons. When they ask a question they receive a ‘specific' and ‘concise' answer, but this goes against how children typically learn.

Eco-protestors who smear the government as ‘genocidal' paralysed central London for hours yesterday as they unleashed a planned month-long campaign of mayhem.Members of the group Just Stop Oil occupied four bridges in the capital, causing gridlock on busy roads, before converging on Parliament. Local councillors have been accused of telling 'sob-stories' about how they are struggling in the cost-of-living crisis to ensure their own pay-rises - after they rejected debating a £660,000 boost for free school meals moments before. Tories at Central Bedfordshire Council unanimously voted against debating a motion for an inflationary 10 per cent uplift to the £6.6million free school meals budget - which provides just 82p worth of food per child per day after other costs. An under-fire transgender children's charity is reportedly giving advice to 16-year-olds on how to change their names without their parents' knowledge. The Charity Commission has confirmed they are 'assessing' concerns raised about Mermaids after they were accused of giving chest-flattening devices to young girls against their parents' wishes. A shocking video shows a man walking in front of a car honking for him to move before being knocked to the ground by an onlooker, as online viewers debated who was more in the wrong. The incident occurred in Melbourne with some people wondering whether the man was deaf, while others said his attacker had gone overboard in knocking him out of the way. Dr Anmol Arora, a researcher at Cambridge University, argued that the devices may affect child development for a number of reasons. When they ask a question they receive a ‘specific' and ‘concise' answer, but this goes against how children typically learn. This Morning star Phillip Schofield has reportedly been dropped as the £1million face of We Buy Any Car as the fallout from widespread claims that he and his co-host Holly Willoughby jumped the 14-hour queue to see the Queen lying in state continues.The ITV presenters are battling a huge backlash for apparently skipping the line into Westminster Hall to pay respects to Her Majesty - and have even faced calls to resign from their lucrative jobs with This Morning, with a petition demanding they quit or be sacked gaining 75,000 signatures. The family of a British travel executive found hanged in a Qatar hotel room days after he was 'tortured by secret police' said England's football team should keep his unexplained death in mind during the World Cup. Marc Bennett's family don't believe he killed himself and have called on the footballing world to take a 'hard look' at which countries get to host tournaments. When Daniel Asadi was 14, he was told by his doctor that his growing phase was all but over. 'He said I was pretty much done,' recalls Daniel today. At nearly 5 ft 7 in, Daniel was already a reasonable height - but the words were still a 'stab in the heart.' 'It's really hard for a lot of people to understand, but I couldn't handle it,' he says. 'It was this one thing I didn't have, and it was on my mind day and night.' Not any more. In May last year - 11 years on from that distressing doctor's appointment - Daniel, then 25, underwent leg-lengthening surgery to gain the height he so desperately craved

Terry Whitehead 29th September 2022 Europe must prepare for 'previously unimaginable' threats to its offshore and undersea infrastructure, Germany's interior minister has said today, after the Nord Stream pipe was blown up in a suspected Russian attack. Leaders have already begun scrambling to shore up their defences with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Denmark today for talks which he said 'addressed the protection of critical infrastructure' while Norway said it was deploying the military to protect its oil and gas rigs. The Spanish government is planning to impose a temporary tax on the wealthiest 1% of the country's population, starting from next year amid soaring inflation, Budget Minister María Jesús Montero said on Thursday. She acknowledged that she was negotiating with the PSOE socialists' junior coalition partner, the left-wing Podemos group, who had the initiative in its electoral programme. Why has the pound dropped? The pound has plummeted in direct reaction to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's so-called mini-budget on Friday, which announced the biggest tax cuts in the past 50 years. Why has it got worse over the weekend? While there was an initial fall after the chancellor's announcement, sterling started to rally slightly. The Danish monarch has removed prince and princess as well as 'His/Her Highness' titles from Nikolai, 23, Felix, 20, Henrik, 13, and Athena, ten. A statement on Wednesday said Queen Margrethe hopes the move will allow the siblings to 'shape their own lives without being limited by the special considerations and duties' that a formal affiliation with the Danish Royal Family involves. The world's second-largest fresh produce wholesale market in Rungin near Orly airport in the southern suburbs of Paris has been reportedly been totally destroyed today, Sunday, September 25, after a massive fire broke out. Italy Silvio Berlusconi has sparked fury by claiming Vladimir Putin was 'pushed' into invading Ukraine and only wants to put 'decent people' in charge of Kyiv. the nationalist Giorgia Meloni is swept into power on Sunday's vote. The Brothers of Italy leader has been dominating the polls despite a number of gaffes in her campaign, which saw her forced to suspend a party candidate for praising Hitler and a close associate accused of performing a Nazi salute. he Royal Air Force has admitted 'mistakes were made' following claims it pressured a recruitment boss to prioritise women and ethnic minorities over white men as part of a diversity drive.Claims first emerged last month that the RAF's head of recruitment had refused to follow an order to prioritise particular candidates because she believed it was 'unlawful' Peter Hitchens Like a man who has had his head severed but doesn't realise it, much of Britain still has not grasped the significance of the huge constitutional changes brought in by Brown and Blair after 1997. Judges in an English court warned a few years ago in a case about Christian foster parents who couldn't agree to the modern view of homosexuality: ‘Although historically this country is part of the Christian West, and although it has an established church which is Christian, there have been enormous changes in the social and religious life of our country over the last century… We sit as secular judges serving a multicultural community of many faiths............But can a ‘multicultural community of many faiths' put up with a ceremony which requires the new monarch to assent to the demand made to his mother in 1953: ‘Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law?' If so, the promise will be empty, as King Charles well knows. It is quite obvious that, in the 70-year gap between the two ceremonies, the entire country has been utterly changed, divorced or unwed rather than married, committed to personal autonomy rather than to self restraint, vaguely republican rather than vaguely monarchist, filled with competing cultures rather than sharing a single one...............

Disgraced former King Juan Carlos of Spain has arrived at Buckingham Palace ahead of the Queen's state funeral amid a row over his attendance. The former monarch, 84, who currently lives in Abu Dhabi, was reportedly asked not to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchéz. But he was pictured being ushered into the Palace by Queen Sofía while clutching the hand of an official for support ahead of the 'reception of the century', where King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla will greet leaders from around the world. Legend has it that all the men who have owned the Koh-i-Noor have fallen from grace. A Hindu text from the 14th century states that “he who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God or woman can wear it with impunity.” No one has dared to challenge the prophecy, but things could change, as it is a man, King Charles III, who has just inherited the diamond. “By appointment to the Queen” is a royal mark of quality that will disappear now that the Queen has passed on, affecting around 600 companies across the UK. Liz Truss and Fracking and poverty stricken Romanian villagers rose up to reject fracking when they arrived in their country. The UK has overlapping drinking water aquifers and fracking uses a poisonous , carcinogen cocktail. UK shale is also clay heavy unlike US shale which is silica rich therefore more suited to the fracturing process.hough I doubt ignorant Tory ministers know and/or are too rich to care. Their advice would probably be to simply move. A Canadian high school teacher has sparked controversy after pictures emerged of her wearing large breast prosthetics while teaching students. Kayla Lemieux, a Manufacturing Technology teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Ontario, has been pictured online taking classes while wearing the huge prosthetics, which stretch her clothing and stick out prominently. Ms Lemieux, who began transitioning from being male to a female a year ago, has gone viral online after students took photos and videos of the teacher, seemingly without her knowledge. A pack of more than six dogs is set loose on a wild boar in its death throes in a video uploaded to an Instagram account dedicated to hunting. The unsettling images show the animal bleeding as it attacked by the canines, and an accompanying text commentary praises the ferocity of the attacking beasts. “Money can't buy the assurance they give me with their grip,” writes the owner of the account. A problem-plagued project to build a £5.5bn fleet of new armoured vehicles for the British Army has been branded a 'disgraceful use' of taxpayers' cash after it emerged the scheme was still stuck in limbo amid safety fears and delays. Whitehall has already spent at least £3.2bn - the same cost of one of the Royal Navy's huge new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers - on the Ajax fighting vehicles.

What a colossal mistake it was to invite China's Communist leaders to the Queen's State Funeral in Westminster Abbey on Monday............... Britain's fattest man who weighs 47 stone has complained that his human rights are being infringed by his doctors who have put him on a calorie-controlled diet in a battle to save his life.Jason Holton, 32, from Camberley, Surrey, has been housebound for seven years and recently came moments from death as he suffered a series of mini strokes and a suspected blood clot on June 4 this year. Extinction Rebellion protesters who brought London to a standstill and blocked London Fire Brigade HQ cannot use the Human Rights Act to avoid prosecution a judge ruled today.Emma Cooper, 31, Jamie Russell, 48, and Luke Mallett, 25, were part of a 300-strong march that blocked Vauxhall Bridge on April 10 this year, Westminster Magistrates Court heard today A teenage one-punch killer who walked off laughing after an unprovoked attack on his victim has been locked up for six years. Kieran Scott, 19, lashed out at defenceless Daniel Thomas, 53, while he was sitting on a bench in Hull on June 14 this year. Hull Crown Court heard that Scott was annoyed at Mr Thomas - known as Mark - for 'getting lairy' with him and being 'cheeky'. Michael Sheen has said the King and Queen Consort's recent visit to Wales could be seen as 'insensitive to the point of insulting'.King Charles III, 73, and Camilla, 75, completed their four nations tour with a stop in the country yesterday with a visit to Cardiff. A high school in Stoke-on-Trent has been accused of turning into a 'military camp' as new uniform rules meant pupils were put into isolation rooms and missed lessons. The crackdown at Moorside High School in Werrington has targeted make up, banned skirts being made of the wrong material and focuses on footwear - saying shoes must not look like trainers or have embellishments. Tory grandee Ken Clarke has leapt to the defence of Therese Coffey after critics seized on pictures of the new Health Secretary enjoying a smoke and a drink. Lord Clarke, who was health secretary himself between 1988 to 1990, called for a reduction in the focus on 'personalities and trivia' in British politics.

Celtic fans mocked the Queen's death with a banner that read 'F*** The Crown' and chants of 'if you hate the royal family, clap your hands' last night - while Rangers defied Uefa's ban on British teams playing the national anthem. Scottish football is divided by sectarianism and many fans who follow Rangers identify themselves as Protestant and unionist, while many who support Celtic identify themselves as Catholic and Irish republicans. James McClean wore a black armband before Wigan's Championship clash with Huddersfield - but decided to stand away from his team-mates in an apparent gesture of defiance during the commemorative minute of silence for the Queen. There is stern policing; and there is idiotic policing. On Sunday afternoon, a history tutor living in Oxford called Symon Hill was handcuffed for shouting 'who elected him?' during the proclamation of King Charles III in the city. King Charles should pay inheritance tax on his late mother's estate, campaigners said yesterday. Under rules signed in 1993, the Queen agreed to pay income and capital gains tax – but ‘sovereign-to-sovereign bequests' are exempt from inheritance tax.Her late Majesty's personal wealth, which included property, private investments and racehorses, was estimated to be around £370million.

A Christian chaplain was dismissed after refusing to chant 'smash heteronormativity' at inclusion training at a fee-paying boarding school, an employment tribunal was told. Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, 49, from Long Eaton, Derbyshire, did not join in the 'chant' when urged to do so by the leader of Educate and Celebrate Dr Elly Barnes during an inset session at the independent Trent College, Long Eaton. Extremist groups are using blasphemy to silence free speech, a counter-terrorism expert has warned. William Shawcross, who was appointed by the British government to lead the review of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy, said the Batley row was an example of how some groups were using blasphemy as a way to curtail free speech. Enoch Burke was arrested yesterday morning for breaching a court order not to teach at his Westmeath school, or be physically present there. After Judge Michael Quinn made his ruling, Mr Burke said: 'It is insanity that I will be led from this courtroom to a place of incarceration, but I will not give up my Christian beliefs.'

A 78-year-old coach driver died in a crash on the M25 after suffering 'a medical episode'and veering across three lanes into the central reservation today. Six teenage girls were also injured but did not require hospital treatment. A 19-year-old woman has said she is too 'afraid to leave the house at night' after she was beaten by a mob of youths shouting 'get her phone'. Chloe Miller had been on her way to her local corner shop with her mother and sister on August 27 when she was attacked on a street in South Norwood, London, leaving her concussed and with heavy bruising all over her body. The father of a 13-year-old girl forced to wait almost three years for her case to be heard has castigated Justice Secretary Dominic Raab after he received a mealy-mouthed letter following media interest in his daughter's case. A young woman drowned in the sea after being swept away by waves as she and her boyfriend took photos of a famous lighthouse near Beachy Head in Eastbourne, an inquest has heard. Pharmacist Dora Mango, 26, was found floating face-down in the sea off the beach in the East Sussex town. Ms Mango and her boyfriend Jerry had travelled down to the coast on a sightseeing trip from their home in Redhill, Surrey. A luxury £200,000 Bentley that was allegedly stolen in London has been found five thousand miles away in Pakistan, according to Pakistani police. The Bentley Mulsanne V8 Automatic was recovered by Customs Enforcement agents following a tip-off which came from a 'friendly nation' the agency said, with local media suggesting it was British intelligence who helped. The man who was spotted scaling The Shard in London this morning is a notorious free climber who has ascended some of the world's tallest buildings. Daredevil Adam Lockwood, 21, is believed to have successfully scaled the UK's tallest building this morning around 5am, before taking a selfie at the skyscrapers summit. Four long-standing Radio 2 stars are set to be replaced by presenters who are on average 25 years younger. The BBC has been accused of ‘rank ageism' after Vanessa Feltz, Paul O'Grady, Craig Charles and Steve Wright – whose ages range from 58 to 68 – announced their departures.

A police force has been praised for its 'fantastic decision' to bring back traditional headwear - just six years after switching to 'more practical' US-style baseball caps. Lancashire Police announced the U-turn on social media, saying it would be ditching the gender-neutral headgear for all its officers, before re-introducing bowler hats for females and white flat caps for males. The move was welcomed by many on social media, as one suggested: 'Just need to see the custodians return now', referring to the traditional police officer's helmet After Just Stop Oil activists dug two tunnels underneath entrances to the Navigator oil terminal at Saint Clements Way and Stoneness Road in Essex, they warned the decision to partially reopen the roads was dangerous and could 'risk their collapse'. Essex Police assistant chief constable Glen Pavelin rejected the idea, saying it was up to the protestors to remove themselves from the tunnels they had climbed into to avoid endangering themselves and others. Gabriel Callero, 57, was viciously assaulted by two British holidaymakers on the Spanish island of Majorca in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident began when an 'intoxicated' tourist, who was walking down a street accompanied by two other men, climbed onto the hood of the taxi at around 2am. Information has been revealed today, Monday, August 22, about a driver who was arrested yesterday, Sunday, August 21, for fatally running over two cyclists and leaving another critical in the Barcelona municipality of Castellbisbaç An alarming incident occurred on Monday, August 15 aboard a Boeing 737-800 on flight ET-343, operated by Ethiopian Airlines airline. It was travelling on the route between the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, and Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. While flying on autopilot at 37,000 feet (11,000m) both pilots fell asleep. – Speaking to Finnish news outlet, YLE, the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, spoke about the leaked video of her partying which led people to question her leadership of the country. “I'm disappointed that it has become public. I spent the evening with friends. Partied, pretty wild, yes. Danced and sang,” she told the broadcaster.

Police officers faced a backlash over the weekend for joining in with a performance of the Macarena at a Pride festival, as critics accused them of not taking their job seriously enough. Locals reacted with fury after multiple posts were made showing on-duty officers having fun on Lincolnshire Police's social media accounts from the festival, including the video of officers dancing.

I use a bit of social media but don't use TikTok. For me, it's always been one for the youngsters. I can't dance, sing or do backward somersaults or forward ones come to that.TikTok have strict rules too, or so I thought. The number of passports lost by the Home Office in 2021 amidst the covid catch-up battle has tripled the amount seen in the previous year. It has been revealed that HGV driver Craig Heal, who was involved in a traffic accident last March, had traces of cocaine in his system. A few weeks ago we were shaken by the alarming figures of hunger in the world. There have been many headlines warning that hunger now affects 828 million people, anincrease of 150 million since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.This is even more worrying for Latin America and the Caribbean, the region that has suffered the greatest increase in food insecurity, and in which 60 million people do not have enough food to eat. Hunger is a gender issue. Globally, about 32% of women are moderately or severely food insecure, compared to 27.6% of men. I'm so pleased Boris has been kicked out as Prime Minister. What amazes me is how he got the job in the first place. The man has cheated and lied through every single job. He cheats on his wife, has been nicked for breaking covid rules that he put in place – the list is endless.

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Taiwan, Inflation and Prince Charles 4th August 2022 ..... Moreover, Britain goes into the cost-of-living crisis with nearly full employment. The more people in work ,the more National Insurance and income tax contributions flow into the nation's coffers and the more there is to spend, pushing up VAT receipts. Prince Charles was accused of a 'serious lack of judgment' yesterday after it emerged his charity accepted £1million from the family of Osama bin Laden. It received the donation after Charles had a private meeting with the terrorist's half-brother Bakr bin Laden in 2013 – two years after the Al Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces. Iván's parents and friends described him as a normal 17-year-old. He went to high school, played soccer, took piano lessons and hung out with his buddies. He wanted to become a member of the riot police. One day, he logged onto a dating site and started talking to a man almost 40 years older than him. The massacre on the Faroe Islands was so bloody it turned the sea dark red as the bottlenose dolphins were stabbed with spears and hauled onto the shore . Residents of Skálafjörður herded the dolphins into a bay and penned them in before wading into the shallows to stab them with spears, hooks and knives. The 'hunt' comes just weeks after the Faroe government set an annual catch limit of dolphins to 500 a year, and less than a year after 1400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed in one weekend. Residents claim the mass-killing of dolphins is an important part of their tradition and history, and supplements the islanders' diet.

A study has revealed that Chester, the walled cathedral city, in the northwest of England, has the highest percentage of buildings - 83.7 per cent - that align with the 'golden ratio'.Using this ratio as a guide, researchers drew up a ranking of the most eye-catching cities on the planet, with Venice coming second. It has a 'beauty score' of 83.3 per cent. In third place, meanwhile, it's London (83 per cent). Fourth place is scooped up by Belfast (82.9 per cent), while Rome slides into fifth place at 82 per cent. Birmingham has long had a special place in my heart. I fell deeply in love there and visited dozens of times for work enjoying the pubs and the people. Then, for nearly two decades, I went regularly to see a close family friend. So it was with much anticipation I sat down to watch the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games....................................................Sir Keir Starmer is facing a major crisis as trade unions threaten to stop funding Labour over his lack of support for strikes.Unite, the Opposition's main financial backer, called on Sir Keir to decide which side he was on and warned there was 'no point' giving money to a party that no longer supports workers........................................The burglar climbed over the high garden fence, creeping into my house through French windows early one morning, as I sat a few feet away from him in the kitchen. When people decry the evils of Western capitalism, Konstantin Kisin remembers the words of his grandmother who told him people were jailed for inadvertently having their chips wrapped in a newspaper with Stalin's face on it When people decry the evils of Western capitalism, Konstantin Kisin remembers the words of his grandmother.For while the MeToo movement and Everyone’s Invited — a site that has hit the headlines for exposing ‘rape culture’ in schools and universities through anonymous testimonies, usually from girls — have undoubtedly helped unmask disturbing predatory male behaviour, they have also helped breed a generation of young women and girls who see all boys as predators.

hree died after the traditional bous al carrer ..........56 yr old in Picassent, 50 years old in Meliana and 64 years old Frenchman in Pedreguer in this year's fiestas. According to the Donetsk People's Republic's Deputy Head of the Ministry of information, the republic will be freed from Ukraine Armed Forces by the end of August. The new Science, Technology and Innovation Law in the Balearic Islands will mean more funds for research and better working conditions for researchers.On July 26, the Parliament of the Balearic Islands approved the new Law on Science, Technology and Innovation of the Balearic Islands (LCTIIB) with the support of all the parliamentary groups, except Vox. The scientific community was represented by the main institutes and organisations dedicated to research in the Balearic Islands. If there's one thing Elon Musk does on Twitter even more often than posting dodgy memes, it's talking about ‘population collapse'.The Tesla CEO and billionaire has been very vocal over recent times about the threat of a reduction in the human population size. British Gas owner Centrica sparked fury today after announcing profits had risen five fold to £1.34billion - just as it emerged UK household energy bills could rocket to £500 a month amid Russian threats to cut Europe's gas supplies. The bumper operating profit for the six months to the end of June compared to the £262m recorded in the same period last year. CARP-R-US fished the Rio Segura at Bigastro for the first time in two months for Round Seven of the Summer-Autumn Series. “And how it had changed!” exclaimed club secretary Steve Fell. “The bankside vegetation, so carefully cleared after 2019 storms is now back to head height in many places.” The river itself was down about half a metre from the previous visit, Steve said, and fell a further 15 centimetres during the match. “Another tough day at the office was expected,” he added. Winner of the match with 2.8 kilos from Peg 2 was Richard Crawshaw, now fishing more regularly after almost a year spent renovating his house. Steve Fell, next door on Peg 1, managed 1.3 kilos with a catch that included two small barbel. “That was to see,” he said. Third was Tony Flett with 1 kilo and Jeremy Fardoe was fourth with 280 grammes. “It is worth mentioning that over 20 terrapins were caught during the match,” Steve said. Further information about the club can be found on its www.carp-r-us.weebly.com website or on the Carp-R-Us Fishing Costa Blanca Facebook page. JUST when you thought you heard it all, up pops an organisation that has recently suggested we should ‘off' old people as a ‘favour to our children'! Yep, you ‘eard. ‘The World Economic Forum' is an extremely well-financed outfit which has its finger in a positive global pie shop. It is also a somewhat shady union of powerful left thinking people who want to change the world

Proof of having enough cash is not the only new requirement, with Spain saying British entrants may have to provide a range of documents when entering the country under new rules introduced because of Brexit. I Striking rail workers were yesterday accused of demanding pay rises ‘at the point of a gun' amid claims that some drivers already earn over £100,000 a year.Ahead of yet more stoppages this week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps angrily insisted that drivers and other rail workers already had ‘generous salaries … paid for by the public'.But union leaders were prepared to ‘punish commuters' and stoke inflation by demanding even more, he added. A writer and coach has revealed how she faced a backlash over a viral letter in which she said: 'I'm not oppressed because I'm black'.Africa Brooke, 29, who lives in London, spoke to the Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett about her views on race, and what it really means to be oppressed for his popular podcast. The Southern Co-Op chain is facing a legal challenge to its 'Orwellian' and 'unlawful' use of facial recognition cameras.Privacy rights group Big Brother Watch claimed supermarket staff could add people to a secret 'blacklist' without them knowing. Stonewall has been criticised for claiming that children as young as two can recognise if they are transgender and that nurseries should teach that idea.The row was triggered when the LGBT charit y shared an article on social media headlined ‘My 4-year-old is gender nonconforming – but her nursery doesn't respect that.

Knowing where a crime is going to be committed before it happens is the dream of police departments all over the world, and data scientists and artificial intelligence experts want to make it a reality. Many law enforcement agencies, especially in the US where gun violence is rampant, have been using pattern- detecting information systems to predict crime hotspots. Firefighters in France and Spain have struggled to contain wildfires raging out of control across Europe, as it continues to wilt under record temperatures that have reportedly killed more than a thousand people. Spain is to hit energy firms and banks with temporary windfall taxes that should rake in 7 billion euros during 2023-2024, in order to cover the cost of measures put in place to help Spaniards grapple with soaring inflation, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday during a ‘state of the nation' speech in Congress. THE UK press reports labour shortages across nearly every industry yet graduates can't find jobs. Something doesn't add up. Are graduates setting their expectations too high or not trying hard enough? Or basically getting degrees in ‘useless' subjects? A degree in sports/media studies is no preparation for the world of work. Today's world needs people with ‘useful' skills; lucrative jobs abound in the engineering sector. Spain should compensate a woman who was forced to undergo a caesarean (C- section) without her consent and with her arms strapped down, a United Nations committee ruled on Thursday. The committee also said that the procedure was carried out without the woman's husband present and that she was not allowed to immediately hold her newborn boy since she was still strapped down. The woman was ‘a victim of obstetric violence, a particular type of violence against women … which has been shown to be widespread, systematic in nature and ingrained in health system', the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) said.

When I was a child, the TV weather forecasts were based around a map to which magnetic symbols, usually denoting fog or slanting rain, would be attached.When the weather did improve, it was always cheering to see childish little yellow sun images suddenly slapped on to our bit of the UK.At such times the weather forecaster might suggest it was time to ask Dad to pump up the paddling pool or get out his Panama hat. In a keynote address Monday before the United Nations General Assembly to mark the observance of 'Nelson Mandela International Day', Prince Harry chose to condemn the United States for 'contributing to a global assault on democracy and freedom.' A top British dance school has dropped ballet from its auditions after branding it an 'elitist art form', built around 'white European ideas and body shapes'. The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) reviewed the dance as part of a wider plan to 'decolonise the curriculum', and consider the impact of race and gender on dance. Officials spent more than £38,000 in taxpayers' cash at a Domino's branch buying pizza for migrants last year, according to new figures. Border Force staff at Dover's now-closed Tug Haven holding centre used government credit cards to pay for the food over just five months last year. Dr Lalitaa Suglani reveals 7 things that can kill relationships 1. Being indirect about your wants and needs.2. Forcing the other person to change the way you want them to be.3. Not making an effort to understand your partner's perspective.4. Disengaging during disagreement instead of having 'difficult' conversations and/or using disrespectful language.5. Not apologising or taking accountability.6. Not having a life away from the relationship, such as hobbies, meeting with friends.7. Ignoring your partner's trauma, triggers, or past experiences.

Thousands of festivalgoers lined Pamplona's narrow streets for the centuries-old festival as the bulls charged through the city. Seven men needed hospital treatment on the third day - Saturday July 9. Expert runners that take part in the historic festival run directly in front of the bulls before trying to jump out of the way at the last minute without being injured - with varying success. Any amount of alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk for certain cancers. Alcohol is toxic, as well as addictive. This is why many medical professionals are adamantly opposed to recommending anything other than – try to drink as little as possible. When she was eight, Sandra Bravo wrote a letter addressed to the Virgin Mary in her diary. In it she asked her to make a boy from school her future husband and father of her children, promising in exchange to be chaste and pure until marriage. She did not keep that promise and, in time, she forgot about it. Thirty years later, she found the diary and was shocked by what she had written. “How, at the age of eight, could I be asking the Virgin Mary for all that stuff when I had no idea what love, sexuality, or even virginity was?” she wonders. The Church of England has admitted it does not have a definition of the word woman.A bishop said yesterday that the meaning of the word used to be ‘self-evident'.But he added that there are now ‘complexities associated with gender identity' which a church project about sexuality and relationships is exploring. The Community of Madrid has declared war on okupas, attempting to reverse present trends and persuade the government to amend unfavourable rules for property owners.The Madrid Community is prepared to wage a war on okupas, after this type of crime increased by 25% in the region in 2022. Britain's greatest long distance runner has said he was trafficked into the UK when he was around eight or nine and spent his early years as a domestic slave for a woman he had never met before. In a BBC documentary , The Real Mo Farah, which will be broadcast tomorrow night, the father-of-four apologises for lying about his identity and the deception in his 2013 autobiography

A Question of Values with Barbara Anne 12th July 2022 Britons complained that it was 'too hot to work' today on what could be the hottest day of the year so far - with temperatures hitting 33C (91F) amid a heat-health alert, as sunbathers hit beaches and parks early this morning......... Radio 4's specially extended edition of the Today Programme on Thursday morning was interrupted for the BBC's political editor Chris Mason to boast that he had just received a call from Downing Street informing him that 'the Prime Minister has agreed to stand down'......... Wimbledon organisers have come under pressure to abandon their strict all-white dress code for women players who are menstruating. School children were told prostitution is a 'rewarding job' by sex education providers who promoted wild kinks to pupils.Organisations brought in to teach kids about sex have introduced children to hardcore kinks including being flogged, caned, locking people up in a cage and being slapped in the face, The Times reported The Church of England has admitted it does not have a definition of the word woman.A bishop said yesterday that the meaning of the word used to be ‘self-evident A holidaymaker whose EasyJet break was ruined by cancellation, delay and miserable conditions has blasted the airline for holding a five-star trip in the sun for its bosses.Chloe Smith, 31, was among 19 members of her extended family who were left stranded in Turkey after their flight home was axed as they waited to board the plane......... A five-year-old boy died 'from helium poisoning' after he tried to climb inside a dinosaur balloon the same size as him. Karlton Noah Donaghey, from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, wanted to wear the balloon as a costume to surprise his family.

The Australian Kyrgios, who has proved to be his usual controversial self during the first week of Wimbledon after a number of high profile incidents including rows with umpires and crowd members, grew frustrated with the match official during his third round tie with the fourth seed. ........... The Scout Association faced a backlash last night after it introduced a ‘trans fun badge'for members as young as four. Youngsters were also offered a ‘bisexual fun badge', a ‘lesbian fun badge' and a ‘Pride fun badge'............ BBC DJ Steve Wright quit his Radio 2 show live on air today, after more than 40 years with the broadcaster because bosses want to 'try something different' in the slot - sparking listener fury as Radio 1's Scott Mills is brought in to replace him. Two men from the campaign group Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a painting hung in Manchester Art Gallery today, making them the third set of eco activists to target a gallery this week. A Howard Brown was the wonderfully cheery, bespectacled, sharp-suited customer-services rep who was plucked from obscurity more than 20 years ago to put some bang into banking as the all-singing, all-dancing new face of the Halifax. Hordes of furious visitors to beaches in Cornwall have blasted a parking firm after a machine glitch meant that they were wrongly hit with £100 fines. The wife of a man who was savagely battered by teenagers as he defended an 11-year-old boy in a park has described how her husband has been left unable to talk or look after himself a year later due to his horrific head injuries..

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning west coast rapper, 35, was one of a number of artists at the Glastonbury music festival His plea for female rights was in protest against the US Supreme Court's recent decision to end the country's constitutional right to abortion. Rising diesel prices could soon stop Britain's fishing crews from setting sail as it becomes too costly to fish, boat captains warned this weekend. Trawlers and commercial fishers are now struggling under the weight of price rises that mean in many cases tens of thousands of pounds extra in diesel for a fishing trip leading to take-home pay that is below the minimum wage. A mother who is pulling her daughter out of a London school is battling to see lesson plans, after being shocked about how their child spoke about white privilege and gender.