Burglars who tried to carry out a Hatton Garden-style heist on an antique shop have been branded ‘three buffoons with utter incompetence’ by a judge. David Newman, 42, Mark Rabjohns, 34, and Peter Fitzharris, 42, broke into clothing shop Cheltenham Tweed Company on January 9. They then drilled through a dividing wall in the basement … Read more
One of the attractive aspects of the Dutch character is an insistence on plain speaking. Even so, it was quite something when, after we voted to leave the EU, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, declared that, as a result, ‘England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’. Let’s bring things up to … Read more
Baby girl is left brain-damaged after hospital allowed mid-wife who was ‘banned for incompetence’ to help deliver her A baby girl was left with cerebral palsy after a midwife banned delivered her Barts Health Trust in London admitting legal responsibility for the blunders Sophie Addo, 58, was ‘excluded’ from working in the hospital just days earlier … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer today blasted Boris Johnson‘s ‘serial incompetence’ as he accused the Government of ‘bobbing all over the place’ over its handling of the coronavirus crisis. The Labour leader claimed the Prime Minister had bungled the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and accused him of committing ’13 or 14 U-turns’ so far. Speaking at … Read more
Keir Starmer today warned plans for children to return to classrooms in September could be at ‘serious risk’ due to the government’s chaotic handling of exam results. The Labour leader said Downing Street had wasted two weeks which could have been spent preparing for the new school year ‘clearing up a mess of the government’s … Read more
Where is Boris? We are told he’s camping in Scotland with fiancée Carrie Symonds and baby son Wilfred. It’s hard to imagine him banging in tent pegs, or hunched over a flickering Primus stove. Maybe he’s not really camping and being bitten to death by midges but sheltering in a friend’s house on some pleasant … Read more
When my son sat GCSE mocks a few weeks into the spring term, I didn’t pay much attention — nor, I rather fear, did he. He was doing two of them early, in strong subjects for him: history and PE. His plan — like that of so many teenagers — was to treat the mocks … Read more