United Kingdom

    A man from the US has taken out a giant advertisement in The Times stating that he is the rightful King of England and will claim his historic Royal estate, all lands, assets and titles within 30 days. In the feature length soliloquy Allan V. Evans from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, says he is a descendant of a royal Welsh line from the 3rd century. Mr Evans also asserts in Tuesday's paper that he is the descendant of Cunedda Wledig, the founder of the Kingdom of Wales. The future king? Mr Evans from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, says he is a descendant of a royal Welsh line from the 3rd century He writes: Allan V. Evans... is a direct descendant of an unbroken line of primogeniture line legally documented since the 3rd Century [Cunedda] married the Princess of Powys, whose direct desce...

    Birmingham schools reassured of right to ban hijab after row Birmingham City Council is to reassure schools that they are free to ban pupils from wearing Islamic headscarves, after its equalities chief was criticised for trying to force a headteacher to allow a four-year-old to wear the hijab. John Clancy, the Labour leader of the council, said Waseem Zaffar, his cabinet member for transparency, openness and equality, had referred himself to an independent standards committee after the government’s integration tsar said she was very concerned about his behaviour. Mr Zaffar wrote on Facebook that he had met with the headteacher of a local primary school after a four-year-old girl, who it later transpired was a relative, was prevented from wearing a headscarf and told to wea...

    Tesco has responded after refusing to serve two men buying £200 worth of food for homeless and vulnerable people. Stephen Peter Chamberlain and Michael Taub on Friday said that Tesco staff at a store in Brent Cross, London, prevented them from stocking up on groceries bound for food charity Saint Laurence's Larder. Stephen and Michael had got to the checkout with a trolley-full of produce and tinned goods, only to be told that they were buying too much. Google On Wednesday, the Tesco store manager apologised to the pair and invited them to visit the branch to make amends. We got an apology and admittance that it was a bad judgment call, Michael told Mirror Online. Dean the manager was off on holiday last week and came back to a storm. He handled himself and the situation v...

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Prince Harry is on the verge of proposing to his girlfriend Meghan Markle, according to a pal of the royal. A source tells Us Weekly that Harry will likely propose near the anniversary of their first date. They will be engaged by the end of summer, the source said. An engagement wouldn't be a complete surprise to the Suits actress. They have spoken candidly about their future. They see a life together, the source told the mag. While she was on a production break from Suits, Harry and Meghan basically lived together at his Kensington Palace apartment. In fact, the mag said that guards at the Palace already just wave her in as if she lives there permanently. Meghan feels a move to London is inevitable, the source said. It's not like Harry can u...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said various social safety net programmes were undertaken to lift the poor people from the poverty line. The Prime Minister said this when newly appointed High Commissioner of Brunei Darussalam Hajah Masurai Binti Haji Masri called on the PM at her Jatiya Sangsad office here yesterday evening. The High Commissioner of Brunei said Bangladeshi expatriates are very hard-working. The National Economic Council (NEC) yesterday approved an overall Revised Annual Development Program (RADP) outlay of Tk 1,19,296 crore for the current fiscal year (FY17), down from the original overall ADP size of Tk 1,23,345 crore. The approval came from the NEC meeting held at the NEC conference room in the city with its Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chai...

    The chief executive of Uber has apologised after video emerged of him getting into an ill-tempered argument with one of the company's drivers about falling pay rates. Travis Kalanick has admitted he needs to grow up and get help after the embarrassing dashcam footage showed him angrily dismissing the driver's concerns. The businessman, who had been travelling with two women, was coming to the end of his Uber journey when driver Fawzi Kamel asked him why the ride-hailing app has slashed the prices customers pay for every mile they travel. People are not trusting you anymore … I lost $97,000 (£78,370) because of you. I'm bankrupt because of you, Mr Kamel had said. Mr Kalanick dismissed the driver's concerns as "bulls***", and told him: Some people don't like to take responsi...

    Theresa May's Conservative government faces defeat in the House of Lords after it refused to secure the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. The Lords wanted a clause in the bill to trigger Article 50 to ensure that Europeans already in the UK will have the same rights to live and work here after Brexit. However, after Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the Government would be unable to go further than give the verbal assurances already given, a majority of peers are ready to back a Labour amendment to ensure rights are protected within the first three months of Brexit being triggered. In a last-ditch effort to convince peers not to back the amendment, Rudd has penned a letter to the House of Lords in which she outlined that the Government plans to treat EU citizens with th...

    The pound fell during early Asian trading after reports that Scotland could be about to call a second independence referendum. Concerns around a renewed push for Scottish independence have increased in strength since the EU referendum, however yesterday the Times reported that Theresa May is preparing for another vote. The pound tumbled to $1.2392 against the dollar in the early hours of this morning, and at pixel time was hovering around $1.24. The Scottish concerns are, in fact, nothing new, said LCG Insight's Ipek Ozkardeskaya. The UK’s decision to quit the European Union had immediately triggered questions regarding Scotland’s future in the United Kingdom. However, the eventuality hasn’t been largely factored in the pound’s value so far. If Scotland decides to proceed ...

    Britain is set to be colder than Moscow tomorrow as an horrendous start to spring sees -8C (18F) lows, four inches snow and ice - less than a week after Storm Doris caused UK-wide devastation. And an even bigger bigger polar plunge chill is due next week with two colder-than-average months forecast. The Met Office has forecast -8C lows tomorrow and on Wednesday morning - the first day of spring - coldest in Scotland but with -6C as far south as Wales. That will make Britain colder than Moscow, which will see 1C lows. Government weathermen predicted up to an inch of snow by Wednesday morning on hills in the South-West and West, and up to four inches in Scotland, with more snow in the North from Friday. Ice warnings are expected every night until the weekend as heavy rain so...

    British citizens are facing a level of threat from terrorists not seen since the IRA bombings of the Seventies, the country’s new terrorism watchdog has warned. In his first major interview since taking the role, Max Hill said Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) was planning indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians on a scale similar to those perpetrated by the IRA 40 years ago. He told The Sunday Telegraph that Islamists were targeting UK cities and said there was an enormous ongoing risk which none of us can ignore. The warning comes just days after Mr Hill, one of Britain’s leading terrorism prosecutors, was unveiled as the new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation. It follows a 30-year legal career during which he helped convict the 21/7 bomb plotte...