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Johnson set for landslide victory
6Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Johnson set for landslide victory

    Boris Johnson is set to storm into Downing Street with a landslide victory this month, a poll of Conservative Party members has revealed. Mr Johnson is backed to become the next party leader by 74 per cent of members, with Jeremy Hunt on 26 per cent, according to a poll taken by YouGov and The Times. It comes as Tories began receiving ballot papers to cast their votes in the leadership race, which will lead to the naming of a new Prime Minister on July 23. Mr Hunt has urged party members to delay their votes until after two televised events next week, which will start with Tuesday’s head-to-head debate aired on ITV. “The big message I want to give to Conservative Party members is wait to see me and Boris in action on the TV debates. Try before you buy,” he said in...
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UK to run out of burial space soon
5Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK to run out of burial space soon

    Britain’s motorways have never felt particularly life-affirming, but they could become even more soulless under proposals to bury the dead alongside major roads to free up room in cemeteries. Around 20 per cent of people are now buried, with the majority of people now cremated. Professor John Ashton, former president of the Faculty of Public Health, has called for green burial corridors next to roads, railways and country footpaths. British graveyards are close to capacity, and with 500,000 deaths in England and Wales each year, it is estimated there will be no more plots left within five years. To combat the squeeze, Prof Ashton has proposed the creation of rustic cemeteries, similar to those proposed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1711, where corpses would be buried...
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US woman faces jail over ice cream stunt
5Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

US woman faces jail over ice cream stunt

    A woman filmed licking a tub of ice cream before putting it back in a supermarket freezer faces up to 20 years in prison. The footage which has been viewed more than 11 million times is believed to have been shot in a branch of Walmart in Lufkin, Texas. A police statement said: Our detectives are working to confirm the identity of the female suspect seen in a viral video of her licking a half-gallon of Blue Bell Tin Roof ice cream in a Lufkin Walmart store around 11pm, June 28. Once her identity is verified, detectives will proceed with getting a warrant for her arrest on a charge of second-degree felony tampering with a consumer product. As that portion of the investigation continues, detectives are focusing on identifying the male (in the green shirt) behind the...
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Children enslaved by UK drug gangs
5Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Children enslaved by UK drug gangs

    Children as young as seven are being targeted for grooming, violence and exploitation by drug gangs enslaving them into criminality, says a report from the Children’s Society. The charity says the main age bracket for criminal exploitation of children is 14 to 17, but warns the age at which youngsters are being targeted for grooming is getting younger. “There is evidence that primary school age children as young as seven are targeted,” states the report. There can be a lack of recognition of criminal exploitation of younger children and so opportunities to protect under-10s can be missed, it added. The report focuses on the criminal exploitation of children, best known via the county lines tactic, whereby drug gangs use children to break into new markets. Children...
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Iran threatens tanker retaliation
5Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Iran threatens tanker retaliation

    Iran has threatened to seize a British oil tanker unless an Iranian ship detained by the Royal Marines is released, the country’s Revolutionary Guards commander said on Friday. Mohsen Rezaee said on Twitter Iran’s duty was to act alike, and seize a British oil tanker, unless Iran’s ship was released immediately. British Royal Marines detained an oil tanker in Gibraltar suspected of carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions on Thursday a dramatic step that could escalate confrontation between the West and Iran. The Royal Marines abseiled onto the Grace 1 tanker on Thursday and landed a helicopter on the moving vessel in pitch darkness. Tehran has already summoned the British ambassador to voice its very strong objection to the illegal and unacceptable seiz...
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Super rich family funds Boris bid
5Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Super rich family funds Boris bid

    Boris Johnson’s campaign has been funded by a billionaire family behind a development he approved while mayor. The scheme was labelled unacceptable at the time as there is no social housing. Labour’s Len Duvall said: It begs the question of whether this is a sign of what’s to come if he enters Downing Street. Johnson has boasted in his Tory ­leadership battle he is the man to unite Britain, but the Daily Mirror can reveal as London mayor he signed off a property development with no affordable homes excluding hard-pressed residents. And the frontrunner’s battle to replace Theresa May was supported by a donation from one of the tycoons he is accused of helping to get the scheme through. Johnson controversially gave the nod to ­Westminster council’s recommendation f...
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Merkel’s health intensifies debate over her succession
3Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

Merkel’s health intensifies debate over her succession

    After a second episode in which Ms. Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, trembled uncontrollably in public last week, she headed to the airport, took a 12-hour flight to Japan, held 10 bilateral meetings and four group sessions with world leaders, including President Trump, then flew back to Europe for a record-breaking 20-hour negotiation with her European counterparts in Brussels. The last several days have been a reminder of Ms. Merkel’s storied stamina, proven in countless crisis summits during her 14 years in office. But they also reinforce the mystery of what exactly is going on with the health of the woman who has been the rock of European politics at a time when the authority of both her party and her country appear to be declining. When Angela Merkel trembles, th...
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Dubai princess in UK in fear of life
3Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Dubai princess in UK in fear of life

    Princess Haya, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, is believed to have fled the UAE for London after discovering disturbing facts about the mysterious return of one of his daughters who tried to escape. Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, the British-educated and Jordanian-born sixth wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, initially travelled to Germany to seek asylum but is now understood to be staying in her £85m townhouse in Kensington Palace Gardens. Until now it was not known why she fled, with the only clue a poem posted by billionaire Sheikh Mohammed, 69, on Instagram accusing an unidentified woman of treachery and betrayal. However, Princess Haya, is thought to have become aware of worrying details involving her step-daughter Princess Latifa, according to the B...
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China hits out at Hunt for basking in Britain’s faded glory
3Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

China hits out at Hunt for basking in Britain’s faded glory

    China on Wednesday said it lodged an official protest with London after British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned Beijing of serious consequences if it breaches the Hong Kong handover agreement. He seems to be fantasising in the faded glory of British colonialism and in the bad habit of gesticulating while looking down on other countries affairs, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing. Mr Hunt had said that Hong Kong authorities should not use an outbreak of vandalism in the legislative chambers by protesters on Monday night as a pretext for repression. He said the authorities need to understand the root causes of what happened, which is a deep-seated concern by people in Hong Kong that their basic freedoms are under attack. Mr Geng s...
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Insults fly as Tories lock horns over EU
2Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Insults fly as Tories lock horns over EU

    Boris Johnson’s allies today unleashed a heavy onslaught on Jeremy Hunt’s do-or-dither position on quitting the European Union, in a crunch battle for No 10. They sought to portray the Foreign Secretary as a “flip flopper” over the date of Brexit, suggesting the EU would welcome him as Theresa May in trousers. However, former Chief Whip Sir Patrick McLoughlin hit back against the attack on Mr Hunt by Mr Johnson’s campaign chairman Iain Duncan Smith, arguing that it showed the Boris camp was rattled. The Tory big beasts locked horns as Conservative HQ prepared to send out ballot papers to party members later this week to elect their new leader. Former party leader Mr Duncan Smith sought to make a clear dividing line between the two contenders over quitting the EU o...
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