Day: January 23, 2018

    Approximately 1,450 people have been evacuated from a nightclub and a hotel and a major railway station is closed after a gas main ruptured in the Strand, central London. Witnesses described chaos as doormen at the Heaven nightclub ordered them to leave after the alarm was raised at around 2am, while guests at the hotel were moved into emergency accommodation. Strand after a gas leak forced the evacuation of 1,450 people from a nightclub and a hotel and closed Charing Cross station in central London London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called to the scene at after high levels of natural gas were detected at the scene in Craven Street near Charing Cross station. The Strand, a major route through central London, has been closed entirely and a 150m cordon put in plac...

    Amena Khan, from Leicester, said she deeply regret the tweet and apologised for the upset and hurt caused by the posts. Ms Khan was set to be the first woman in a hijab to be a part of an advert for hair care and would have started alongside the likes of pop star Cheryl Tweedy. She announced the news on Instagram and said: I deeply regret the content of the tweets I made in 2014, and sincerely apologise for the upset and hurt that they have caused. Championing diversity is one of my passions, I don’t discriminate against anyone. I have chosen to delete them as they do not represent the message of harmony that I stand for. In the tweets Ms Khan said Israel is an illegal state and Israel Pharaoh. Both are child murderers, according to the. A spokesperson for L’Orea...

    The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has warned that a major cyber-attack on the UK is a matter of when, not if, raising the prospect of devastating disruption to British elections and critical infrastructure. In remarks underlining newly released figures showing the number of cyber-attacks on the UK in the last 15 months, Ciaran Martin said the UK had been fortunate to avoid a so called category one (C1) attack, broadly defined as an attack that might cripple infrastructure such as energy supplies and the financial services sector. The US, France and other parts of Europe have already faced such attacks. Interference in elections would also constitute a C1 attack, as would a deliberately provocative move by a hostile state. During an hour-long inte...

    Boris Johnson is set to confront Theresa May face-to-face tomorrow with his controversial demand for £100million a week for the NHS after Brexit. Allies said the Foreign Secretary has vowed to raise the much-disputed Brexit dividend in Cabinet risking a new Tory row. It piles fresh pressure on the Prime Minister's leadership after a senior Tory MP, Nicholas Soames, complained her offering to voters was dull, dull, dull". Sir Nicholas added today: It really won't be enough to get people to vote against The Corbini. Mr Johnson is said to be planning the intervention despite Labour reporting him to the UK Statistics Authority when he resurrected the misleading NHS pledge, originally made during the EU referendum , a week ago. An ally of Mr Johnson said: Boris believe...