New plans to demolish Jimmy Savile's Schottish Highlands home, where he abused young victims, have been submitted. The disgraced paedo telly star lived in the house at Allt-na-Reigh in Glencoe from 1998 until he died in 2011. It's thought that he abused 20 victims there. Harris Aslam, who runs Eros Retail, has now bought the cottage. Aslam asked locals for […]
Read moreThree Bengal tigers have been seized from a drug cartel boss accused of conducting human experiments. Mexican authorities carried out two raids on sites associated with Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as El Nini. El Nini is thought to be head of security for Los Chapitos, the faction of the Sinaloa Cartel led by the sons of infamous drug lord […]
Read moreTory MP defends Suella Braverman over article row Suella Braverman is at the centre of speculation again over her future as Home Secretary after she penned a controversial article questioning the double standards of the police in handling protests. While MPs on the left of the Tories are agitating for the champion of the right to be sacked, her allies […]
Read morePolice and MI5 will be able to see sex offenders and terrorists connecting to websites, under new revised laws. The Home Office will over the next 12 months update the “Internet Connections Records” in a bid to provide investigators with more tools to catch dangerous criminals. The Daily Express understands this will give police, the National Crime Agency and Britain’s […]
Read moreGermany’s economic future is under threat due to an ageing population and rapidly outdated economic structures, warned the country’s top economic advisors on Wednesday. The Council of Economic Experts, the government’s economic advisory body, highlighted the need for Germany, the eurozone’s largest economy, to attract more private capital from other European countries to mitigate the risks. The German economy, already […]
Read moreThe father of a Hamas hostage has urged the terror group to “show humanity” and release his daughter unharmed. Emily Hand, 8, is believed to have been snatched by Hamas fighters during the militant attack on October 7. Emily’s father Thomas believed at first she had been killed during the battle at Kibbutz Be’eri, in Israel. Speaking directly to Emily’s […]
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Read moreA top Russian politician has threatened the US and its NATO allies with weapons of mass destruction as tensions soar over the war in Ukraine. Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said today that the “destructive” policies of the US and its allies were increasing the risk that nuclear, chemical and biological weapons could be used. The close Vladimir Putin […]
Read moreThe Covid-19 Inquiry was shown extracts from the notebooks of former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance. In an early October 2020 entry, he wrote of a “very bad meeting” with the then Prime Minister who spoke of “medieval measures” to suppress the pandemic. Sir Patrick’s notes suggested Mr Johnson had questioned the approach to tackling the virus, saying: “Surely […]
Read moreAround 100 cruise passengers have been injured after their ship was thrashed in a brutal storm. Saga's Spirit of Discovery was on its way back to port in the UK when it was smashed with 30ft waves and gale-force winds. The worst struck over the Bay of Biscay, along the western coast of France. Weather warnings meant the two-week trip […]
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