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    Zameer Ghumra was found guilty of disseminating terrorist propaganda as he tried to brainwash two young brothers into becoming Isis fighters. The 38-year-old taught the children how to survive a bomb attack and fight with knives, rewarding them with sweets to keep them onside. He was sentenced at Nottingham crown court on Friday for what the judge, Gregory Dickinson QC, described as a particularly serious attempt to turn the children into terrorists. These were shocking crimes which damaged the children and caused offence to the vast majority of law abiding Muslims, he said. Dickinson also noted there had been an absence of remorse from Ghumra. Jurors heard how Ghumra followed various Isis-linked social media accounts and made the two unidentified children follow similar a...

    The incident happened on Friday evening when police were called to Astley Bridge in Bolton after reports that a man was standing on the bridge, threatening to drop a child into the river. Specially trained police negotiators were called to the scene and attempted to speak to the man. They were unsuccessful in their attempts as the male refused to speak to officers, and the toddler was dropped into the river. The three-year-old was quickly rescued from the water by a police officer already in the water. The child was taken to hospital, to treat her injuries which included a broken wrist. The man fell into the water, which was around a 30-foot drop. He was removed from the river by police officers and taken to hospital for treatment to minor injuries. He was then arrested on...

    Former Conservative co-chairman Grant Shapps has prepared a list of Tory MPs who are calling on Theresa May to resign. Speculation has swirled over the Prime Minister's position following her calamity-ridden conference speech on Wednesday and this year's General Election result where the party lost its overall majority. Mr Shapps told Sky News: "As it happened this list has been growing, and this week didn't help. There are five former Cabinet ministers, one former minister, and quite a lot of the backbenchers. We think May is a decent person doing her best but she led us into an election with that result. We're not pointing any fingers. He added that the list was pretty much my initiative, saying: I hold the list myself and I know a number of people on the list have texte...

    Theresa May has just given one of the most unfortunate and embarrassing speeches ever delivered by a British prime minister to their annual party conference. The toe curling endurance test was interrupted by a comedian’s stunt, a coughing fit, and a sore throat that reduced her voice, at times, to a whisper. While she was speaking, a letter fell from the slogan on the wall behind her as social media commentators rushed to observe: It was an F off for the Tories. The unfortunate series of events which were largely out of her control came at an awful time for a beleaguered leader who has been derided and diminished by members of her own party at a moment when she is fighting to keep hold of her job. We don’t know which unnamed party insiders have briefed the newspapers that ...

    A man who showed a video of a beheading to two young children has been found guilty of spreading terrorist propaganda. Zameer Ghumra brainwashed the two boys, claiming Islamic State were not bad people and asking the children if they wanted to join the terrorist group or help recruit others. He also instructed them to only have Muslim friends. The 38-year-old was found guilty of disseminating terrorist propaganda in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court. Ghumra taught the children how to survive a bomb attack and fight with knives, giving them sweets to keep them on-side, the court heard. The jury was told that the children were told they would have to behead people when they arrived in Syria. Ghumra was working...

    The prime minister’s disaster-stricken address in Manchester drew scorn from traditional critics and supporters alike Thursday’s front pages will make agonising reading for Theresa May, as the fallout from her “nightmare” speech to the Conservative party conference continues. Virtually all the broadsheets and the vast majority of the tabloids led with the address, which was overshadowed by a faulty backdrop and coughing fits from the prime minister, who was handed a P45 by a prankster. May will find the reaction from normally supportive elements of the national press particularly concerning, with some papers even suggesting her future in No 10 is now in major doubt. May is on a final warning after the most shambolic conference speech in memory, according to the Times, whic...

    Theresa May’s keynote speech at Tory conference descended into chaotic scenes after she struggled to cope with a sore throat and was interrupted by a prankster. The Prime Minister intended the speech to relaunch her Premiership after a Conservative Party conference beset by Cabinet splits and leadership speculation. The Prime Minister made a full apology for her disastrous snap election, admitting that it had been too Presidential and scripted. She also conceded that her unemotional image as an ice maiden had been damaging and spoke of her sadness at not being able to have children. But her speech was overshadowed by the comedian Simon Brodkin, who broke through security to step up to the podium and hand the Prime Minister a P45. The prankster said Boris asked me to give y...

    Boris Johnson is facing calls for his sacking after saying a Libyan city could become the next Dubai once it had cleared the dead bodies away. A Tory MP said the Foreign Secretary’s comments were 100% unacceptable and insisted he must lose his job. His Labour counterpart, Emily Thornberry, said the remarks were unbelievably crass, callous and cruel. Mr Johnson was made to move on after he told Tory activists that investors want to transform the coastal city of Sirte, where dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed during the 2011 civil war, into a new version of the emirate. But when he said their only obstacle is to clear the dead bodies away, the host of the conference fringe event stepped in. As Mr Johnson continued to speak, Baroness Stroud, a former special adviser to ...

    Britain's  as she holds the first Cabinet meeting following the general election at 10 Downing Street, in London The European Parliament savaged the British government's handling of Brexit negotiations on Tuesday, voting against opening talks on future trade and condemning disarray in Prime Minister Theresa May's team. The leader of the European Union legislature's biggest party, a German ally of conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, said cabinet in-fighting was putting a deal at risk and called on May to get rid of her own foreign secretary, Boris Johnson. Please sack Johnson, said Manfred Weber, a leading figure in the assembly, which must approve any deal struck by EU negotiator Michel Barnier before Britain leaves in March 2019. Opening the debate in Strasbourg, Barni...

    Jeremy Hunt will try to reverse a damaging crash in the number of applications for nurse training, with a promise of cash for fast-track courses. The Health Secretary will announce an historic 25 per cent increase in nurse training, to allow an extra 5,000 nurses to start their degrees next year. He will also pledge funding for a further 5,500 nursing associates each year who will earn and learn, rather than study full-time through a traditional university degree. A right to buy affordable homes developed on surplus NHS land will also be promised, in Mr Hunt’s speech to the Conservative party conference. This represents the biggest increase in nurse training places in the history of the NHS, the Health Secretary will tell the Tory faithful in Manchester. However, the annou...