Twenty-five fire engines have been sent to tackle fire in historic statute territory About 150 firefighters and 25 fire engines were combating a flame in London’s historic law district on Sunday morning after a flaming broke out in an office building in Holborn’s Chancery Lane. Eleven people were evacuated from …
Read More »Police chiefs admit failures on diversity 21 years after pledge
Study uncovers number of black police officers has barely increased since 2007 Police managers have admitted they have been too slow to boost diversity in the ranks and still have a long way to go, nearly 21 times since a landmark report into race and policing triggered promises of radical …
Read More »British man dies in US immigration detention in Florida
Fatality of mortal, 39, initially attributed to hangingUK Foreign Office said to be in touch with man’s wife A British man has died while being held in US immigration detention in Florida, the Guardian has confirmed. The death was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which said the man was 39 …
Read More »Woman who was gang-raped at 17 tries to find attackers after 40 years
Two witnesses urged to come forward over onslaught in Devon hotel room in 1978 A woman who was raped as a 17 -year-old by a gang of men more than 40 years ago has spoken out to try to catch her attackers. The woman was sexually assaulted by the men, …
Read More »Food security plan after Brexit: biggest shake up to farming in 40 years
Bill necessitates regular monitoring of supplies and transformation from CAP-style subsidies but no gate on lower quality imports The UK’s food security is to be regularly assessed by parliament to ensure minimal disruption to renders after the country leaves the EU and while brand-new trade bargains are sought. The commitment …
Read More »Harry and Meghan: what price their independence?
The consequences of the couple’s decision to bail out of the family firm must still be worked out When in the 1990 s Prince Charles and palace consultants started the process of slimming down the royal family’s entourage and hangers-on, they could not have imagined that natural wastage rather than …
Read More »Rebel alliance ready to put a halt to the ‘disneyfication’ of Edinburgh
Some occupants dread the city’s public spaces are being sacrificed to tourism For 800 years or so the castle that retains watch above Scotland’s capital has carry witness to the bloody rise and fall of realms and nations. Now, the conflict is one of theories, with Edinburgh’s everlasting being on …
Read More »UK would not back US bombing of Iran cultural sites – No 10
Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit chide to Trump UK politics latest- live updates Downing Street has said targeting cultural areas in Iran would breach international war conventions in an implicit admonition to Donald Trump for threatening to bomb protected heritage locates. Boris Johnson’s …
Read More »Reynhard Sinaga: man jailed for life for raping dozens of men in Manchester
Reynhard Sinaga is believed to have lured nearly 200 victims to his flat and attacked them Reynhard Sinaga: the’ Peter Pan’ student who raped ratings of menHow serial rapist posed as a good samaritan to lure victims A man believed to be responsible for hundreds of rapes has been shall …
Read More »Britons reach Africans’ annual carbon emissions in just two weeks
Research for Oxfam evidences inequality between footprints of people in UK and in countries including Rwanda, Ethiopia and Malawi The average British person will have emitted more carbon dioxide emissions in the first 2 week of this year than private citizens of any one of seven African nations does in …
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