The iconic bearskin hats worn by the Queen’s guards for more than 200 years are facing a threat from from Brexit deals as activists push to ban fur sales. Discussions have been held between animal welfare minister Zac Goldsmith and Humane Society International UK (HSI) as the Government aims to ‘raise standards’, two decades after … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, tests carried out by German doctors have indicated. He is being kept under armed guard at The Charite hospital in Berlin, where he is receiving treatment. Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert told a press conference this morning that is was ‘fairly likely’ the politician had been poisoned. ‘It … Read more
They are two men called David – but the contrast between them could hardly be more stark. A BBC ‘lifer’ of more than 30 years, David Jordan is the Corporation’s chief trouble-shooter tasked with upholding its editorial standards and investigating when Auntie gets it wrong. Meanwhile, Jamaican-born David Whitely – better known as Sideman – … Read more
The family of a train guard who overturned a ban on non-white staff at British Railways in the 1960s has said his contribution to UK race relations should be taught in schools. Asquith Xavier applied for a promotion that would see him move from Marylebone Station to Euston in 1966, a shift that would boost … Read more
TikTok star Charli D’Amelio has reportedly hired full-time security after receiving threats on social media. TMZ reports that the 16-year-old, who is the most-followed star on TikTok , with 75.1 million followers, was threatened on social media by a user who said they were going to turn up at her family’s house in Norwalk, Connecticut. Her family … Read more
Three Georgia inmates are filmed rushing to save life of guard who suffered heart attack but managed to electronically unlock their cells before collapsing Mitchell Smalls, Terry Loveless and Walter Whitehead all rushed to Deputy Warren Hobbs’ aid when he fell unconscious at his desk in Gwinnett County Jail Smalls first alerted the rest of … Read more
President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to quell Portland protests in an apparent attempt to save face hours after he backed down and agreed to remove federal troops from the city. Trump once again decried ‘agitators and anarchists’ in Portland during an address in Midland, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon following the … Read more
An FDNY diversity official has said that it’s ‘most definitely’ acceptable to keep a white firefighter off a ceremonial color guard so the flag bearers could all be black, according to a new report. White firefighter Lt. Daniel McWilliams filed a lawsuit claiming racial bias after he was removed from a flag-bearing unit at a … Read more
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been spared jail after being found guilty of accessory to 5,230 murders. Bruno Dey was handed a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday by a court in Hamburg. In what could be one of the last such cases involving surviving Nazi guards, Dey was convicted for his role … Read more
‘I needed three surgeries’: Charlize Theron reveals the horrific injuries she suffered doing stunts on the set of her new Netflix film The Old Guard By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 15:08 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 15:54 BST, 18 July 2020 Charlize Theron has revealed just how much she suffers for … Read more