P olice warned Londoners not to hold large Halloween parties this weekend in breach of Covid regulations, amid City Hall fears that London will “highly likely” be moved into Tier 3 within weeks if the Government does not bring in a circuit breaker. The Met is deploying additional officers to clamp down on breaches of […]
Police release e-fit image after indecent exposure outside east London primary school
D etectives investigating an incident of indecent exposure outside a primary school in east London have released an e-fit image of the suspect. A pupil was walking to school on September 29 when a man in a car parked outside a primary school in Tower Hamlets called out to her: “Little girl, what’s the time?” […]
Covid-19 surging among older school children, ONS figures show
C OVID-19 is surging among older school children, experts warned today. This is up from an estimated 35,200 new cases per day for the period from October 10 to 16. The rate of new infections has continued to increase in recent weeks, according to the report. Katherine Kent, Co-head of analysis for the COVID-19 Infection […]
Turkey and Greece shaken by 7.0 magnitude earthquake
B uildings collapsed after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Turkey and Greece. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, with an epicentre 13 kilometres north northeast of the Greek island of Samos. The United States Geological Survey put the magnitude at 7.0. Residents of Izmir, Turkey, could be seen […]
‘Tell my children I love them’: Last words of Nice terror attack victim Simone Barreto Silva to paramedics who tried to save her
H arrowing details of the last moments of one of the victims of the Nice terror attack emerged today as the French government warned that more atrocities were likely. Simone Barreto Silva was stabbed several times inside Nice’s Notre Dame basilica as the Tunisian attacker Brahim Aouissaoui went on a rampage, “virtually beheading” another woman […]
Trump-Russia dossier: Businessman loses libel fight against MI6 spy over its leak
A Russian businessman has lost a High Court libel claim against the former MI6 officer who compiled a dossier on Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. Aleksej Gubarev sued Christopher Steele over the document which claimed he had “knowing involvement” in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computer systems in the run-up to […]
