Friday, September 25

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Comedian Simon hands over Theresa May P45 in her middle of speech and says Boris gave to you
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Comedian Simon hands over Theresa May P45 in her middle of speech and says Boris gave to you

    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...
Calls Boris to be sacked after Libya dead bodies comment
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Calls Boris to be sacked after Libya dead bodies comment

    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 ...
Suu Kyi stripped of Freedom of Oxford
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Suu Kyi stripped of Freedom of Oxford

    An honour bestowed on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the city of Oxford has been withdrawn as a reaction to her perceived inadequate response to the plight of Rohingya Muslims in the country, reports Times of India. The ‘Freedom of Oxford’ had been granted to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997 for her ‘long struggle for democracy’ by the Oxford City Council. A cross-party motion was unanimously passed by the council yesterday which said it was ‘no longer appropriate’ for her to hold the honour. Oxford City Council leader Bob Price supported the motion to remove her honour and confirmed it was an ‘unprecedented step’ for the local authority. The city council will hold a special meeting to confirm that the honour is removed on November 27. Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobe...
Sack Boris Johnson for sake of Brexit talks, key MEP urges May
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Sack Boris Johnson for sake of Brexit talks, key MEP urges May

    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...
Last chance to comment on Tower Hamlets local plan
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Last chance to comment on Tower Hamlets local plan

Residents have six weeks to tell the council whether its draft Local Plan, which sets out the guidance for development and future investment decisions until 2031, is sound and legally compliant. Consultation on the draft plan opens on Monday 2 October 2017 and closes on Monday 12 November 2017. It is being used to ensure the Local Plan's policies are positively prepared, effective, justifiable and consistent with national policy and the legal requirements and procedures set out in the regulations. John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets said: "It's really important that local people have their say and help us to shape our vision for Tower Hamlets up to 2031. We listened to local views which have helped us set out what types of development should take place, where and how they should be delivere...
Tower Hamlets new planning document sheds light on the process of  development viability
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Tower Hamlets new planning document sheds light on the process of development viability

Following two public consultations, Tower Hamlets Council has now launched a Development Viability Supplementary Planning Document to implement a standardised approach, increase transparency and ensure planning obligations are being met. Tower Hamlets is the fastest growing Borough in the country. One of the biggest challenges we face is ensuring that growth works for local people and the demand for delivering genuine affordable housing is met. Development viability is a financial exercise undertaken to assess the level of planning obligations (e.g. affordable housing) a particular development scheme can potentially deliver. In order to help meet this challenge, Tower Hamlets Council has adopted the Development Viability Supplementary Planning Document. This aims to provide greater clarity...
Who is Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Marilou Danley
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Who is Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Marilou Danley

    While her boyfriend rained bullets and death on Las Vegas concertgoers, Marilou Danley was out of the country, enjoying Japan and her native Philippines with some gal pals, authorities now say. Danley, who lived with the killer Stephen Paddock, was initially dubbed by authorities as an associate of the Las Vegas shooter, partly because her ID had been used by Paddock to secure the 32nd floor room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino from which he killed 59 people and injured more than 500 in the worst mass murder in decades Mum-of-two among victims Law enforcement contacted Paddock’s friends and family, and Danley, 62, was cleared of any involvement in the shooting, but her exact whereabouts remain unclear. An Australian daily, the Courier Mail, reported that she left for...
Health Secretary will announce an historic 25 per cent increase in nurse training in UK
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Health Secretary will announce an historic 25 per cent increase in nurse training in UK

    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...
Woman flushed baby’s body down drain until plumber found it three years later
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Woman flushed baby’s body down drain until plumber found it three years later

    Sinead Connett admitted to concealing her baby in a towel and three Marks and Spencer's plastic bags before putting him into a drainage pit at the bottom of her parents' garden. Connett, 29, told officers she had been shocked to discover she was pregnant and was terrified her partner would leave her. The newborn baby boy was hidden away for almost three years without her family's knowledge before a plumber made the devastating discovery. Sentencing Connett to 12 months in prison for concealing the birth of a child, Judge Jeremy Richardson described the act as so dreadful that it almost defies description. The discovery was made after her father called in a plumber after having problems with the drains at his home. Judge Richardson said: I have made the decision that you wi...
Rohingya refugees doubt Myanmar’s assurances on going home
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Rohingya refugees doubt Myanmar’s assurances on going home

    Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh were sceptical on Tuesday about their chances of ever going home to Myanmar, even though the government there has given an assurance it would accept people verified as refugees. More than half a million Rohingya have fled from a Myanmar military crackdown in Rakhine State launched in late August that has been denounced by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing and placed a huge burden on Bangladesh. Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, saying it is only fighting Rohingya terrorists who have claimed attacks on the security forces. The government has said anyone verified as a refugee from Myanmar will be allowed to return under a process agreed with Bangladesh in 1993. Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Monday to work on a repatriation plan, and a My...