Day: September 6, 2018

    A mother-of-two has expressed her outrage after she was forced to stand and breastfeed her six-month-old baby on a crowded train because no one would offer their seat. Kate Hitchens, from Essex, was travelling home from London after a work event with her son Charlie when she realised her fellow passengers were not going to allow her to sit - even after she began breastfeeding. Frustrated by the situation, Hitchens, 32, took a photo of herself standing on the packed train and shared it on Instagram. What has the world come to that a mother has to stand up on a moving train breastfeeding a wriggling and writhing six-month-old, 20lb baby?! she wrote. The point here isn’t just that I found it difficult because I was nursing (although that was bloody difficult!), but t...

    The new BBC series Press dramatises the lives of editors and reporters toiling in London’s busiest newsrooms. Starring David Suchet, Charlotte Riley and Ben Chaplin, the drama from Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett centres on the intense rivalry between fictional print publications The Post and The Herald, a tabloid and broadsheet respectively. “Set in the fast-paced and challenging environment of the British newspaper industry, Press will immerse viewers in the personal lives and the constant professional dilemmas facing its characters,” the corporation says. Journalism has long provided a rich source of material on the big screen, from His Girl Friday (1940) and Ace in the Hole (1951) to All the President’s Men (1976), Network (1976), Nightcrawler (2014), Spotli...

    Sergei Skripal was poisoned by agents of the same shadowy but buccaneering Russian intelligence agency he served in and betrayed decades ago, British authorities have claimed. Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, named as suspects in his attempted murder and of his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, are agents of the GRU, the Russian ministry of defence’s elite intelligence and special forces arm, Theresa May told the House of Commons on Wednesday. There is barely any information available about the pair, but they are almost certainly commissioned Russian military officers highly trained in covert operations, espionage and assassination. After releasing photographs of the two well-built men in their 40s, police said they were travelling under aliases. Fontanka, an inde...

    Theresa May has vowed that Britain will wage an international campaign to disrupt the Russian GRU spy agency behind the… Theresa May has vowed that Britain will wage an international campaign to disrupt the Russian GRU spy agency behind the deadly Salisbury novichok attack. She said the UK would use its full range of security services including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to expose its malign activity and dismantle its networks, after revealing how two of its agents were behind the chemical weapons incident. The prime minister then signalled new sanctions against Russia, with government insiders suggesting key GRU figures could be targeted with travel bans and asset freezes. The Foreign Office also hauled in the most senior Russian diplomat in the UK to explain his governmen...