We’re stood in the same spot, in the same level of dirty flood water, as we were reporting from 11 months ago. Collapsed plastic barriers and rubbish float by, as the one diesel water pump that’s still working struggles in vain against the force of the River Severn in Bewdley. Residents who had their homes […]
PARIS (REUTERS) – France will tighten its laws on incest, President Emmanuel Macron said in a series of tweets on Saturday (Jan 23), after publication of a book accusing a top French political commentator of abusing his stepson sparked outrage across the country. Macron said on his Twitter account that France needs to adapt its […]
Royal Navy’s Cold War submarine activities discussed by expert During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow came within touching distance of nuclear war in a bitter power-driven spat that would last more than four decades. This threatened to boil over during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev fulfilled Fidel Castro’s […]
DAVOS (REUTERS) – Student protesters who urged world leaders at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos to “Stop (f)lying to us” must be pleased this year, at least as far as the flying is concerned. The streets of the little Alpine town that welcomed around 3,000 business chiefs, political thinkers and state leaders for […]
Faith leaders play a ‘vital role’ in encouraging people to get a coronavirus vaccine, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said, as he visited the UK’s first vaccination centre opened in a mosque. Mr Jenrick met with the imam at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, as well as the pharmacists and staff who run the […]
An angry McDonald’s customer called the police after missing out on breakfast when she got stuck in a drive-thru queue. The woman was left fuming when she arrived at the window minutes after the 11am cut-off, to find out breakfast was no longer being served at the branch in East Grinstead, West Sussex. She called […]
PARIS (BLOOMBERG) – France’s top health authority is recommending a doubling of the time between two vaccine shots as a way to stretch supplies and inoculate as many people as quickly as possible amid a resurgence in the spread of Covid-19. Giving a second injection six weeks after the first would allow at least 700,000 […]
Brexit: Mike Graham hits out at Nissan plant ‘naysayers’ The Japanese-owned firm announced that the Prime Minister’s trade deal with the EU had confirmed the factory’s future – protecting thousands of jobs in the North-east. The move is seen in Downing Street as proof that the gloomy predictions about the UK’s departure were wrong. Mr […]
Princess Diana would have ‘charmed’ Meghan’s dad says Lorraine In the wake of Netflix’s drama The Crown, many have reevaluated the Royal Family’s relationship with Princess Diana. While creator Peter Morgan’s show is not biopic nor a documentary, it is based on real events that unfolded within The Firm. Away from the dramatised account, royal […]
Prince Philip ‘humiliated’ by argument with Queen says expert Winston Churchill was “dead set” against Prince Philip’s plans to change the British Royal Family’s name from Windsor to Mountbatten. The Prime Minister at the time of the Queen’s ascension to the throne counselled the monarch to reject her husband’s demands, according to historians. Royal commentators […]