Leicester’s Covid-19 infection rate has dropped 13% in a week but the city’s lockdown still won’t be reviewed until July 18 as Matt Hancock refuses to reveal threshold for easing measures Health Secretary said there is no set benchmark at which lockdown will be lifted Leicester went into England’s first local lockdown last week in … Read more
‘Lion of London Bridge’ Millwall fan who was stabbed eight times as he confronted terrorists is given 21-day curfew after being caught with golf ball-sized amphetamines packages Terrorists carried out attacked on London Bridge and Borough Market in 2017 Roy Larner, 49, screamed ‘f*** you, I’m Millwall,’ as he took on knife murderers He was caught … Read more
A statue of British colonial explorer Francis Light has been vandalised with red paint in a city he founded in Malaysia. The monument in George Town, the capital of the former British possession of Penang, is the latest symbol of imperialism to come under attack amid global anti-racism protests triggered by the death of George … Read more
A single super-spreader forced a pub, a vape bar and an Indian restaurant to close when he went out boozing on ‘Super Saturday’. The mystery drinker visited The Lighthouse Inn in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset before heading to Vape Escape during his bar crawl, locals have claimed. A driver from takeaway Saagar Indian had also been in the same … Read more
The January U.S. drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Monday. The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on … Read more
Meghan Markle ditched best friend Jessica Mulroney in the midst of a race row in order to appear ‘woke’, people close to the Canadian stylist have claimed. Mulroney fears she may never work again after black blogger Sasha Exeter said she threatened her during an argument over Black Lives Matter, which saw Mulroney’s jobs with … Read more
Black and Asian Britons are up to four times more likely to have had already fought off the coronavirus, official data today suggested. A government-run Covid-19 surveillance scheme, which has tested 36,000 people across England, revealed 4.5 per cent of white people had developed antibodies — substances created by the immune system in response to … Read more
David Lammy today called for the police watchdog to investigate the ‘shocking’ stop-and-search of black team GB sprinter Bianca Williams after she and her partner were pulled over in their Mercedes and handcuffed by the Met during a hunt for weapons. The shadow Justice Secretary said Ms Williams, 26, and Portuguese sprinter Ricardo dos Santos, … Read more
Shocking moment Chinese bus full of passengers swerves into oncoming traffic before plunging off a bridge into a reservoir, killing at least 21 The incident took place at 12pm Tuesday in south-western Chinese city Anshun At least 21 have died and 15 injured people are being treated at a local hospital The bus is said … Read more
The ex of former EastEnders star Gillian Taylforth was shot confronting gangsters threatening to burn her house down while he was on bail over a huge £850,000 cannabis factory. Dave Fairbairn, 64, who is stable in hospital after being gunned down in the stomach, had been arrested three months ago over a drugs farm found … Read more
Former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has arrived at court today charged with beating his former fiancee Vikki Ager. The rock star, 39, appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court accused of assault by beating on April 9 this year. He quit the band yesterday with it releasing a statement saying he was dealing with ‘personal issues’ and … Read more
Baby seal is pelted with rocks by beachgoers after the curious animal approached them in Kazakhstan Beachgoers pelt stones at a baby seal in the city of Aktau, in Kazakhstan An local captured a video of the perpetrators laughing, sharing it to social media Kazakh environmental authorities warned people to ‘respect nature’ By Roksana Panashchuk For … Read more
Ministers vowed to ‘stand up for British values and security’ today after China threatened ‘consequences’ if Huawei is barred from involvement in the 5G network. The government is set to U-turn on allowing the firm a role in the huge project after intelligence agencies warned US sanctions had raised doubts about security. Conservative MPs are … Read more