Man armed with a grenade takes senior policeman hostage in Ukraine, two days after bus passengers were taken captive by gunman By Tom Pyman For Mailonline Published: 10:09 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 10:20 BST, 23 July 2020 A man armed with a grenade has taken a senior policeman hostage in the central Ukrainian … Read more
Senior human rights lawyer, 61, is killed by train after lying down on railway tracks on busy commuter line in Wales, inquest hears Michael Clarke, 61, was hit by a train near Heath High Level station in Cardiff An inquest has heard the legal expert laid down on the tracks of the busy line Despite … Read more
Senior Wirecard executive ‘is hiding in Russia under the protection of GRU intelligence agency’ after the company admitted ‘missing’ £1.7bn never existed Jan Marsalek, COO of Wirecard, vanished as firm collapsed amid claims of fraud Marsalek claimed he was going to Asia, but is thought to have fled to Belarus He is now near Moscow … Read more
Senior civil servant provokes storm as he claims ‘systemic racism’ exists in Britain and is learning about ‘my white privilege’ as he endorses Black Lives Matter in an email to hundreds of staff Senior civil servant Iain Bell announces he is learning about his ‘white privilege’ He says collecting statistics ‘is done with only White … Read more
Who needs a fake ID! Teenagers dress up as senior citizens with face masks to buy alcohol from liquor stores in trend sweeping TikTok US teenagers are dressing up as senior citizens to buy alcohol from liquor stores The TikTok users wear face masks to add to the effect and cover their face Some went … Read more
The British Army’s senior ranks are ‘full of middle-aged white guys but they’re not all toffs’, says top commander who also believes the military ‘should do a lot better’ at tackling racism Lieutenant General Tyrone Urch has said the top brass are ‘not all toffs’ However, he added that the army ‘should be doing a … Read more
Senior police officers call for a temporary ban on protests during the coronavirus pandemic following a weekend of clashes Far-right protestors hurled missiles, smoke grenades, bottles and flares at police Shocking scenes included one yob urinating on a memorial to PC Keith Palmer Police Federation chairman called for a ban on demonstrations during the virus … Read more
‘End the bloody boring daily No10 coronavirus briefings’: Tory MPs say they should be scaled back to once a week to ‘normalise’ the country Daily Downing Street briefings have been held on coroanvirus since mid-March Senior Tories say the government is under pressure to make announcements Calls for the press conference to be scaled back … Read more
Senior officer at nuclear police force faces the sack after being accused of wearing fake Iraq and Afghanistan war medals to awards ceremony Supt Glenn McAleavey accused of wearing fake medals to awards ceremony He could be sacked from his position at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary McAleavey served in Royal Navy for 4 years before becoming … Read more
Senior Tory MPs have urged Boris Johnson to reduce the UK’s two metre social distancing rule as they warned failure to do so could risk a wave of redundancies in the hospitality sector. There is a growing campaign for the existing restriction to be eased to one and a half metres. This would give pubs, … Read more