Boohoo’s billionaire owners may be forced to tear down a set of ‘unsightly’ gates to the entrance of their Georgian mansion after flouting planning rules. The Kamani family are locked in a row with their council after building a new super-sized entrance to their Cheshire country manor. The company founder Mahmud Kamani had planning for … Read more
Britain is set to tear up its extradition agreement with Hong Kong today as Dominic Raab warns the country must be ‘very careful’ in its dealings with China. In a move that will further escalate tensions, the Foreign Secretary is expected to announce that the Government will no longer hand over suspects to the former … Read more
Boris Johnson vowed today to bulldoze Britain’s bloated planning system to help get the economy moving again. Relaunching his Government, the Prime Minister pledged to bring forward ‘the most radical reforms of our planning system since the end of the Second World War’. He said the move, which will see ministers take the axe to … Read more
He was named the Father of the Nation after his peaceful struggle to lead India to independence from the British. Mahatma Gandhi was the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience, organising boycotts against British institutions in a tactic that would influence the world. The political and spiritual leader famously staged 17 hunger strikes … Read more
Priti Patel has read the riot act to the Bristol police chief whose officers failed to stop Black Lives Matter protesters ripping down a slave trader’s statue. The Home Secretary is demanding the culprits face prosecution as she doubles down her zero tolerance approach to wanton criminality during the demonstrations. Stamping down her authority, she … Read more
Black Lives Matter protesters have torn down a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol and dumped it in the harbour – as demonstrations continue to sweep Britain following the death of George Floyd in America. Footage shows demonstrators heaving the metal monument down with ropes before cheering and dancing around it, … Read more
‘He wouldn’t have done it if I was white’: Cop threatens to fire TEAR GAS at protester with two-year-old son on his shoulders as others aim rubber bullet guns at him during George Floyd rally in Long Beach Dontae Parks, 29, brought his two-year-old son to a George Floyd protest in Long Beach, California on … Read more
Porsha Williams after being hit with tear gas in Atlanta while protesting the death of George Floyd said Wednesday the experience has given her ‘another level of strength’. The 38-year-old reality star and granddaughter of late civil rights leader Hosea Williams was protesting peacefully Monday with fiance Dennis McKinley, 43, when police fired off tear … Read more
Tear gas being used amid protests sweeping the nation in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd could leave people more vulnerable to coronavirus infection, experts warn. And that risk compounds the heightened risk of exposure that comes with gathering in tightly-packed crowds in the first place. Tear gas is designed to irritate … Read more
Some 20,000 protesters last night rallied in Paris to demonstrate against the 2016 death of a young black man in French police custody, some using the slogans of the George Floyd riots in the US. The protest rapidly descended into rioting, with bonfires lit in the street outside the Tribunal de Paris courthouse before police officers … Read more