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    A warship lying in the waters off the Kent coast is packed with so much explosives that it could cause a TSUNAMI if they were to go off. The SS Richard Montgomery resides at the bottom of the Thames Estuary after it sunk off Sheerness while delivering thousands of tonnes of munitions to France. Some of the bombs on board the World War Two shipwreck were later salvaged but more than 1,400 tonnes of live ammunition are still on board. The SS Richard Montgomery sunk off the Kent coast in 1944 (YouTube) An explosion could cause major damage to surrounding areas (Wikipedia) An explosion could cause a mini tsunami according to experts that some claim could destroy the nearby port of Sheerness. A BBC report in 1970 estimated the resulting tidal wave could be as high as 16ft, alth...

    Theresa May is to be told the EU will take a year to draft a new mandate for its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, effectively killing the Brexit negotiations, if she insists on discussing a future trade relationship at the same time as the UK’s divorce bill. In a sign of growing impatience with the shambolic state of the British side of the talks, senior EU sources said that if London insisted on talking about a free trade deal before the issues of its divorce bill, citizens rights and the border in Ireland were sufficiently resolved, it would be met with a blunt response. If they don’t accept the phased negotiations then we will take a year to draw up a new set of negotiating guidelines for Barnier, one senior EU diplomat said, adding that the EU could not understand Bri...

    New photos of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi have been released by police as they continue to piece together his final days. Greater Manchester Police say they now have a deep understanding of the attacker's movements before he detonated a bomb at the end of a sold-out Ariana Grande concert on 22 May. Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson confirmed 29 house searches have been conducted over the past three weeks and evidence of explosive material has been found at several locations with links to Abedi. Other The blue and red barrels were stored in the white Nissan Micra Officers are appealing for information about red and blue barrels which were stored in a Nissan Micra that Abedi had made repeated trips to before his attack. A search is also continuing at a lan...

    In a withering attack on Theresa May who sacked him as chancellor on her arrival in Downing Street last year, Mr Osborne said it was simply a question of how long she is going to remain on death row. Theresa May and her husband Philip arrive at St Andrew's Church in Sonning, Berkshire He predicted she could be out of office as early as the middle of next week. His criticism came as the PM, badly weakened by the loss of her majority in the election, moved to shore up her precarious position. However, this was dealt an early blow after Downing Street mistakenly announcing a deal had been reached with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority Tory government. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, buoyed by Labour's showing at the polls, said it was quite possible there would...