THE family of an RAF sergeant who was killed on the motorway has labelled the driver’s jail sentence as ‘not justice’. Scott McConnell, from Barrow, was sat in his VW Golf with the hazard warning lights on when an articulated lorry ploughed into the back of the car, causing fatal …
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British airlines that fly professional footballers, packages, PPE and car parts around Europe in chartered jets have lost as much as 70 per cent of their business to EU rivals this year because of Brussels red tape, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Some have been so badly penalised by …
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More people in the Midlands are receiving fake emails from scammers claiming to be from Royal Mail. The bogus texts and emails have become a huge problem during the lockdown, with more people than every sending and receiving parcels. Warwickshire Trading Standards has issued the following warning: “More residents are …
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Sometimes tragedies do more than cause death and destruction. Sometimes they detract attention away from other, seemingly lesser events. Big disasters – wars, killer hurricanes, assassinations – tend to jam our ability to fully absorb concurrent crises. In chronological order, here are ten catastrophes that, to varying degrees, were overshadowed …
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The owner of MailOnline and the Daily Mail has complained to CBS for doctoring headlines and taking them out of context during the Oprah interview. Associated Newspapers said a section of the programme designed to illustrate racist coverage of Meghan by the British press was ‘seriously inaccurate and misleading’. CBS …
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A ‘massive explosion’ was heard in Newport on Saturday night with a boat exploding – while a woman was on board. Locals at Newport, on Sydney’s northern beaches, said their ‘whole houses shook’ following the incident. The woman, 54, was later taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in a stable …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nine-bedroom mansion in the exclusive neighbourhood of Montecito, California, has tripled in value just nine months after they bought it for £10million. Last year, the royal couple bought their nine-bedroom, 16-bathroom mansion with the help of a $9.6million mortgage. The property market in Montecito has gone …
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The Telegraph What history tells us about the Royals and race In February 1956, the young Queen Elizabeth II’s three-week visit to Nigeria, the multi-ethnic, multi-faith West African nation preparing for its independence, was nearing its close. During a tour of the north, she had invested Malama Kuburu, a 33-year-old …
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Stories about the continuing coronavirus vaccine rollout and news of a police officer being charged with the murder of Sarah Everard lead many of the papers on Saturday. The Times and The Daily Telegraph both lead with details of the Covid jab scheme, with the former saying all adults in Britain will …
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A LORRY driver, who was distracted on a hands-free call when he killed a Barrow RAF sergeant on the motorway, has been jailed for three years. Scott McConnell, from Barrow, was sat in his VW Golf with the hazard warning lights on when an articulated lorry ploughed into the back …
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