Police Scotland will double its presence along the border with England but will not set up checkpoints and road blocks to enforce Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus travel restrictions, Scotland’s top police chief said today. Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said that he does not consider draconian curbs on cross-border travel ‘appropriate or proportionate’ as he doubled the number … Read more
‘That’s as it should be!’ Our Yorkshire Farm shepherdess is praised after she revealed her nine children will receive only a few ‘low value’ gifts because it’s ‘not what Christmas is about’ Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen, 45, revealed how she’ll spend Christmas Nine children will only have ‘small low value gifts’ and will have to … Read more
Event planner caught setting up second illegal rave in just eight days at same venue is fined £10,000 for breaking Covid rules Abhishek Beltharia, 37, was busted setting up a second illegal rave in eight days The ‘unlicensed music event’ took place at Forest Business Park in Leyton Beltharia held an event on August 31 … Read more
Supermarkets are the most common ‘exposure setting’ for Covid as official data shows 20% of patients had visited one in the week before testing positive Public Health England said supermarkets were linked to the most positive cases They examined data on check-ins using the NHS app to 16 different locations But experts today said the … Read more
Homeless man is jailed for more than 10 years for dousing a police officer with petrol and setting him on FIRE after he tried to evict him from a campsite Blagovest Hadjigueorguiev, 30, has been jailed for 10 years for attack on police PC Darral Mares, 51, suffered horrific burns when he was set on … Read more
Woke culture is setting back progress by assuming all minorities are victims, warns author who deliberately wrote inane articles that were unwittingly PRAISED by academics Helen Pluckrose was part of a team who successfully submitted parody articles She has now told a podcast about her fears for society due to woke campaigning She predicted it … Read more
Dowagers to disco: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes raises prospect of setting the show in the 1970s to see the fate of Lord Grantham’s heirs Downton Abbey’s creator has raised prospect of reviving the historical drama Julian Fellowes wants to set the drama in the 1970s to see out the Thatcher years He said it … Read more
Army chiefs setting up a £500,000 ‘woke force’ to develop politically correct policies as ex-officers brand MoD’s move as ‘liberal madness’ Defence chiefs are set to splurge more than £500,000 on new ‘diversity’ staff New hires to ensure troops and MoD employees ‘feel authentic in the workplace’ The directorate’s new regiment of woke advisers will even … Read more
Book me in: Put on your Meryl stare and head to Lyme Regis – the setting of classic novel and Oscar-nominated movie The French Lieutenant’s Woman The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles is set in Victorian Lyme Regis You can visit the mansion called Belmont, where the author wrote the book The fossil-packed Lyme … Read more
A pensioner’s car insurance scam backfired, causing a disastrous blaze burning huge swathes of land, when his car exploded in a protected rainforest in Brazil. Heli Barroso Martins, 66, burned down 673 hectares of vegetation in the the Araras Biological Reserve, in Petrópolis in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro. The fire, which destroyed the … Read more