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Fury as bridge fear ignored
16Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

Fury as bridge fear ignored

    A now-deleted statement on the party's website from 2013 argues against a project to improve Genoa's highways including the bridge saying those who backed the plan showed 'an embarrassing lack of critical sense. The plan is an obsolete idea with exorbitant costs that, in the end, would fall entirely on citizens who would have to deal with a decade of building works and disruption, the statement says. Money would be better spent creating a separate bridge for trucks and investing in public transport to convince people to stop using their cars, the party argued. Repair work was eventually carried out on the bridge in 2016 but plans to rebuild it were shelved amid fears it would be too disruptive to locals. The bridge collapsed on Tuesday morning killing at least 38 ...
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British expats take Brexit legal route
15Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

British expats take Brexit legal route

    The judicial review against the prime minister, Theresa May, has been submitted to the high court in London by the UK in EU Challenge group, which represents Britons living in France, Italy and Spain. Nearly 80% of the estimated 1 to 2 million Britons living overseas in EU countries are of working age or younger. Many fear Brexit will threaten their livelihoods and make it far harder to travel across the continent. They argue that the decision to trigger article 50 to withdraw from the EU was therefore not in accordance with the UK’s constitutional requirements. We look forward to having this important constitutional case considered by the court. Elinore Grayson, one of the four named claimants in the action, lives in France. She said: It is fundamental that illega...
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Boris family at war over burka jibes
15Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Boris family at war over burka jibes

    Boris Johnson brings tea for the press to drink outside his house in Thame. Boris Johnson’s family has gone to war over his burka comments, with his brother accusing him of bigotry. Leo Johnson, who is married to a Muslim, spoke out after other members of the family declared they thought the former foreign secretary had not gone far enough in his newspaper column. Silence does not mean consent, the younger brother wrote on Twitter. Would be great if this round of competitive bigotry would end. He addressed the call to both Boris Johnson and their father Stanley who had dismissed uproar about the burka jibes as synthetic indignation that was whipped up by political opponents. Leo, who is three years younger than Boris, 54, met his Afghan-born wife Taies Nezam, with...
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Jeremy Hunt: EU must change its approach to avoid no-deal Brexit
14Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Jeremy Hunt: EU must change its approach to avoid no-deal Brexit

    Jeremy Hunt in Finland on Tuesday. Jeremy Hunt has called on the EU to change its approach on Brexit, and said the risk of failing to reach a deal has risen in recent weeks. The British foreign secretary was speaking at the start of three-day tour of continental Europe aimed at persuading member states to back Theresa May’s Brexit plan. I think the risk of a no Brexit deal has been increasing recently, Hunt told journalists in Helsinki. But it’s not what anyone wants and I hope very much that we’ll find a way to avoid that. He added: We do need to see a change in approach by the European commission. Hunt, who became foreign secretary last month after Boris Johnson resigned in protest at May’s plan, is also due to meet counterparts in Latvia, Denmark and the Nether...
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Westminster terror suspect identified and believed to be from Midlands
14Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Westminster terror suspect identified and believed to be from Midlands

    A terror suspect accused of deliberately crashing a car outside the Houses of Parliament has been identified and is believed to be from the Midlands, according to reports. Forensic officers by the car that crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster The man, in his late twenties, is being held in custody at a south London police station but is not co-operating with officers, counter-terrorism head Neil Basu said on Tuesday. He was arrested on suspicion of terror offences after the silver Ford Fiesta he was driving collided with cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into security barriers outside the House of Lords just before 7.40am on Tuesday. Basu said: Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being a...
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M25 major incident: injured more than 40 people including children
13Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

M25 major incident: injured more than 40 people including children

    More than 40 people, including seven children, have been injured after a coach crashed through a barrier and overturned at the bottom of an embankment on the M25. Three of them suffered serious injuries in the collision and have been rushed to hospital, it has been confirmed. Highways officials warned that queues of more than seven miles had built up in the aftermath of the crash, which happened at around 4pm close to the Dartford Crossing. Ambulance chiefs tweeted: Following reports of a coach involved in an RTC on the M25 at J3, we have 41 patients. Currently, 31 adults and 7 children with minor injuries, three other patients with more serious injuries taken to hospital. This means that we're preparing to accept casualties from the incident. We've been told no...
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112 seats switch to support UK staying in EU
13Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

112 seats switch to support UK staying in EU

    More than 100 parliamentary seats that backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum have flipped to support staying in the EU, according to a major new poll. Constituencies in Wales and the North have seen the largest swing, according to YouGov research commissioned by Hope Not Hate and pro-EU group Best for Britain. The constituencies of Brexiteers Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg are among the 112 areas where opinion has changed in favour of staying in the EU. But support for Brexit has increased by nearly half a percentage point in eurosceptic Ken Clarke's Rushcliffe constituency. The figures show the national mood has shifted to 53% support for Remain and 47% for Leave. Constituencies with the biggest swing to Remain :: Liverpool Walton - 14.3% :: Kn...
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News brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
13Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

News brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone of an underpass adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College on the Airport Road in Dhaka today. Earlier, the Premier made a commitment to construct the underpass following the tragic death of two students of the college. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the work on the Padma Bridge rail link on September 5 next. Railways Minister M Mazibul Hoque informed this while visiting the construction site of the Padma Bridge yesterday. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader visited the ongoing construction work of Elevated Expressway in the capital yesterday. During the visit, he informed the media that 25% of the construction work of the expressway has already been completed. A high-profile Bangladesh dele...
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How you know your relationship is rock solid
12Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

How you know your relationship is rock solid

    Happy couple hugging How do you know your relationship is in a good place? Every relationship is different, as are the people in those relationships. But there are core tenets that seem to be present in all healthy relationships. How you specifically go about checking these boxes off is still subject to your own interpretation, though? What works for one couple might not work for you, but as long as you're both happy and feel respected, that's enough! You don’t stress when they’re out with friends. It doesn’t matter that they’re away from you. You trust them to make smart decisions and you know they’re not going to put your relationship in jeopardy. You can go to bed without waiting up for them. You don’t feel the need to text them every 10 minutes, or ca...
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Jeremy Corbyn accused of arrogance by former Scottish Labour leader
11Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Jeremy Corbyn accused of arrogance by former Scottish Labour leader

    A former Scottish Labour leader has accused Jeremy Corbyn of being arrogant and inept in his handling of the row over anti-Semitism which has engulfed the party. Jim Murphy has taken out a full page advert in the Glasgow edition of the Jewish Telegraph to offer an apology to British Jews and to accuse Corbyn of failing to do enough to throw anti-Semites out of his party. The former Cabinet minister’s comments comes as Corbyn faced fresh criticism after footage emerged of him drawing comparisons between the Nazi occupation of wartime Europe and Israeli actions in the West Bank. Murphy said that under Corbyn, Labour appeared to have deliberately turned its back on British Jewry. It’s as inexplicable as it is destructive, he said. And when in a hole of its own making...
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