White House ‘wanted to deploy 10,000 troops to Washington, DC to control George Floyd protests’

The White House reportedly wanted to deploy 10,000 active duty soldiers onto the streets of Washington, D.C. to quash George Floyd protesters earlier this week.  A senior defense official told NBC on Saturday that President Trump requested the large number of troops during a ‘contentious’ Oval Office meeting with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday.   … Read more

Fantastic Four’s Josh Trank says he wanted to cast a black woman as Sue Storm in his 2015 misfire

Fantastic Four helmer Josh Trank says he wanted to cast a black woman as Sue Storm in his 2015 misfire but encountered ‘pretty heavy pushback’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 07:13 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 07:13 BST, 6 June 2020 Unlike the Avengers, X-Men and Spider-Man, the superhero group known as the … Read more

Supportive father wears matching costume after his son wanted to dress-up as Elsa from Frozen

An Australian father has gone viral on TikTok after sharing footage of him wearing an Elsa from Frozen costume with his son who wanted to dress up to watch Frozen 2 at the cinema in 2019. Scott Stuart, a graphic designer and children’s author from Melbourne, said his son Colin has been ‘obsessed’ with Elsa … Read more

Internal emails show Facebook employees wanted to remove Trump’s ‘looting and shooting’ tweets

Some workers at Facebook are unhappy with the social media giant’s decision to not take any action on controversial posts by President Donald Trump, despite having been flagged on Twitter. Some of the employees are calling on Facebook executives to reconsider the decision to keep up Trump”s controversial posts about mail-in ballots and the Minnesota … Read more

‘Tourists go away’: Graffiti appears in Granada telling visitors that they’re not wanted

‘Tourists go away’: Graffiti appears in the Spanish city of Granada telling visitors that they’re not wanted Granada was declared a World Heritage Site in 1984 due to its Moorish past  According to local media, over 27,000 visitors come to Granada every day  Police suspect that an organised movement is behind the anti-tourism graffiti  By … Read more

Coronation Street’s Des Barnes actor Philip Middlemiss ‘is wanted by police in Ghana’

Coronation Street’s Des Barnes actor Philip Middlemiss ‘is wanted by police in Ghana over £5m bribery scandal linked to the sale of three military planes’ Philip Middlemiss was named by prosecutors in Ghana as one of four sought Sale of three Airbus C-295 military planes is the subject of the investigation French air giant Airbus … Read more

Mothers and daughters: ‘I wanted to celebrate my life by going to my own wake’ 

When Lin Dalton decided to stop her treatment for incurable cancer, she knew she wanted to make the most of every moment she has left. So with her daughter Laura, she brought family and friends together for an evening of fun and farewells  Lin’s graduation in 2015 – she gained a first-lass honours degree in … Read more

MAFS bride who wanted a Polynesian husband resurfaces with shock new career

Whatever happened to John Robertson’s first ‘wife’? Married At First Sight bride who only wanted to marry a ‘Polynesian man’ resurfaces with a VERY surprising new career By Daily Mail Australia Reporter Published: 05:16 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 05:17 BST, 29 April 2020 She’s the bizarre Married At First Sight bride who dumped … Read more

Roger Moore really wanted was to star with Morecambe and Wise… 

BOOK OF THE WEEK  RAISING AN EYEBROW: MY LIFE WITH SIR ROGER MOORE  by Gareth Owen (History Press £20, 224 pp) Sir Roger Moore, the sleekest and most humorous of 007s, was similarly pampered and jokey off-screen, his dulcet tones never wavering. Grinning broadly, he thoroughly enjoyed the film-star trappings and never forgot ‘the wonderful … Read more