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British Firefighter On Dream Holiday Helped Dozens Of Victims In Las Vegas Shooting
A British firefighter saved dozens of people in the Las Vegas shooting after he stumbled on the massacre as he went from an evening stroll. Tony Dumbleton was on a dream holiday with wife Lucy when the atrocity, which left 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, unfolded on Sunday night (1/10). The couple, from Exhall, near Coventry, were staying at the MGM hotel when Tony went for an evening walk and heard shooting coming from the Mandalay Bay...
Watching Theresa May’s speech, it now looks Prime Minister may have plagiarised The West Wing
Oh deary dear. Deary deary deary me. So it turns out that the bit of Theresa May’s car crash Conservative Party Conference keynote speech that wasn’t marred by being handed a P45, her constant miserable coughing or the new slogan she got in to replace “strong and stable” falling off the wall behind here letter by letter... well that uplifting, inspiring bit appears lifted of an uplifting, inspiring speech in hit political TV show The West Wing. https://twitter.com/D_Raval/status/915618207343480833 https://twitter.com/chrisasabutton/status/915615879135744005 Downing...
Was Tory PM Ted Heath a serial paedophile – and what happened to the boys on his boat?
@BenGelblum Tomorrow an investigation into claims of sexual abuse by former Tory PM Sir Ted Heath is due to publish its report. It is expected to reveal links to 42 assaults on boys, with seven claims detectives regard serious enough that they would have questioned the former Prime Minister under caution if he was still alive. The Mail on Sunday has reported that the report has looked at allegations of sexual assault on boys aged as young as 11, including a rape....
As Theresa May served P45, all the ways a calamitous Conservative Party Conference turned into an episode of The Thick Of It
Usually when Theresa May makes an important speech the pound tends to plummet scarily on international markets and confidence in Britain falls even further. Sterling cliff dive after Theresa May speech But you know it’s been a good speech when everyone’s favourite political farce The Thick Of It starts trending on social media before the speech is even over. Still it’s not like this lot have anything more complex to negotiate apart from getting through a week in Manchester without any...
Top Grammar school for girls operated an unlawful admissions policy for prospective sixth form students
A top grammar school has been rapped by education watchdogs for operating an unlawful admissions policy. Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (MGGS) in Kent applied a secret points system to chose prospective sixth form students. The school requires pupils to have six GCSEs at grade A* to C, including at least four B grades as well as B grades in the subjects they are taking at A-level. However the Local Govenrment Ombudsman found school bosses were making offers based on...
Watch – May’s speech descends into chaos after she is handed P45
Theresa May's conference speech descended into chaos after TV prankster Lee Nelson interrupted her appearance to hand her a P45. The Prime Minister was forced to pause her keynote address to the Tory gathering after she was handed the end of employment form. The comedian said "Boris asked me to give you this." She also has an awful cough, which made the whole affair pretty awful. Especially as her Conservative Party Conference 17 speech comes in a week that it...
David Davis urged to keep border controls in Calais after Brexit to prevent more illegal immigrants entering Britain
Border controls should be kept at Calais after Brexit to prevent more illegal migrants and asylum seekers entering Britain, according to council chiefs in Kent. The leaders of both Dover and Shepway councils have warned Brexit minister David Davis that bringing back controls to the UK as part of any deal risks further increasing the number of migrants that would have to be dealt with. A joint letter signed by the leaders of both local authorities states: “Dover and Shepway...
Austerity Britain – Homeless person dealing with cold…by living in a fridge
A homeless man has been beating the autumn cold - by living in a fridge. Eyebrows were raised when his den was discovered – inside a massive refridgerator. The rough-sleeper set up home in the industrial fridge, which was dumped near an abandoned grocery shop, and set up camp. His abode was stumbled upon by unwary council workers investigating the rubbish-strewn back alley in Harrow, north west London. The massive fridge in which the homeless man had made his home....
VOLCANO ON MARS – They grew a thousand times slower than those on Earth
Volcanoes on Mars grew a thousand times slower than those on Earth, according to new research. Scottish scientists have reconstructed the evolution of a volcano on Mars for the first time using space rocks that fell to Earth. Analysis of the meteorites from the Red Planet uncovered more than 90 million years of information about the supersized mountains - and identified from which volcano they came from. Martian volcanoes - including Olympus Mons which is over 13 miles high and...