China has been deploying bulldozers and diverting the course of a river near the disputed Himalayan border where Chinese and Indian soldiers died in a deadly clash on Monday, satellite images suggest. The images appear to show China bringing in pieces of machinery and damming a river in the Himalayan mountainside in the last 10 … Read more
Vandals smash two graves marking Bristol burial site of African slave and scrawl ‘put Colston’s statue back’ on paving nearby – 10 days after toppling of city’s controversial memorial to 17th century trader The headstones mark the burial place of African slave Scipio Africanus Chalk message in the churchyard suggested the vandalism was in revenge … Read more
An affluent community is raising £100,000 to buy a patch of bulldozed farmland amid fears it will become a massive traveller site in the shadow of Windsor Castle and Eton College. Villagers in leafy Eton Wick, Berkshire, were alarmed when a digger began ripping dowen trees and churning up the empty plot Crown Farm ahead … Read more
Hacker group Anonymous takes down Atlanta Police site and calls for the arrest of the two cops involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks The Atlanta Police Department site temporarily went offline on Sunday morning The hacking group, Anonymous, claimed responsibility on Twitter The group stated that the hacking attack was in response to … Read more
New age travellers block entrance to their site with caravan and occupy contractor’s JCB as they fight to stop eviction The group are facing being removed from the old gas works site in north Bristol Bailiffs from GRC arrived on Saturday morning with police also in attendance They say that the eviction is illegal and … Read more
Travellers have ignored police advice and arrived at the site of Appleby horse fair even though Europe’s biggest gathering of gipsies has been cancelled this year due to coronavirus. Appleby Horse Fair was cancelled for just the second time in its 250 year history because of the coronavirus pandemic. Police and gipsy leaders urged people … Read more
The place ‘where Jesus miraculously fed the 5,000’ has been totally submerged by flooding, forcing archaeologists to abandon the excavation site. Bethsaida — hometown to disciples Andrew, Peter and Philip — was reputedly where Christ performed the miracles of feeding the multitude and helping a blind man see. Archaeologists have been working to prove that the … Read more
The government’s coronavirus contact tracing site crashed on launch this morning amid complaints it has been a ‘complete shambles’, which has seen workers paid £10-an-hour to sit at home and do nothing. Doctors and other staff reported major teething troubles as the much-trumpeted scheme finally got up and running, with some saying they had not … Read more
Valuable stone axes discovered at a 6,000-year old hilltop burial site in Germany suggest Neolithic societies were not as egalitarian as previously thought The two rare weapons were found at a tumulus site west of Frankfurt in the 1880s Experts have linked them to a burial mound recently found at the neolithic site The presence of … Read more
Sophie Wessex is said to be ‘incredibly saddened’ by the closure of a children’s hospice facility after the coronavirus pandemic saw them lose £2million in funding. The Countess, 55, is patron of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices, a charity which cares for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families. The organisation, which … Read more