Day: October 2, 2018

    The man was taken to hospital with an arm injury. It is not believed to be life threatening, West Midlands Police said. Six people four men and two women were arrested for firearms offences at a property in Shepherds Gardens, Edgbaston, at around 5am. The men aged 21, 35, 45 and 52 and women aged 59 and 64 all from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and remain in police custody. A firearm was recovered by police and has been seized for forensic examination. Police had entered the property looking for a man wanted in connection with a firearms offence. The incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Police said inquiries are at an early stage and investigations are continuing. Police issued a statement to ...

    The Queen has joked about how she is not built for sitting cross-legged in a documentary about her global role. In the second part of ITV’s Queen Of The World, the monarch is seen chatting about a trip she made to the Pacific island of Tonga. She recalls how she was welcomed with a performance of Polynesian nose flutes, and that she found it difficult to sit cross-legged, as is the custom in Tonga. Asked by Elizabeth Kite, winner of a Queen’s Young Leaders Award, if she enjoyed her time in Tonga, the Queen replies: It was wonderful. We had people playing the nose flute outside the window. Just the most extraordinary thing. Sounds awfully uncomfortable but they play it rather well The only thing I found difficult was sitting cross-legged. She adds: It’s quite painf...

    Theresa May has slapped down her Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt by publicly disowning his comparison of the EU with the Soviet Union. Mr Hunt’s comments have been widely condemned by politicians and diplomats from across Europe, with particular disdain expressed in countries formerly under Soviet domination. Lithuania’s European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who was born in a Siberian labour camp after his family’s deportation by Stalin and was later arrested by the KGB secret police as a dissident, offered to give the Foreign Secretary a history lesson. And Estonia’s ambassador to London, Tiina Intelmann, described Mr Hunt’s comments as insulting to all those who lived under the Soviet yoke before the collapse of the communist regime in 1991. In his keynote s...