Edinburgh Castle’s gun salute is to be made quieter to stop it being silenced by health and safety rules. The historic firing of the gun, which has happened at one o’clock in the afternoon every day – except Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day – since 1861, was in jeopardy on Easter Saturday after it […]
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The charity that arranged the funeral of Abdul Ezedi, the man who recently threw a corrosive alkali substance on a former girlfriend and her children in London, is being investigated for using a false name when appealing to raise funds for the funeral. The Muslim Burial Fund appealed to the public for funds to bury
Charity lied to raise funds for the funeral of the London Chemical attacker. Read More »
Public Health Scotland said action was needed quickly as the country’s health continues to deteriorate and the health gap between the rich and poor grows. Scotland’s health is getting worse under the stewardship of the SNP as people die younger than any other Western European country. Paul Johnston, chief executive of Public Health Scotland, called for a
People in Scotland have a shorter life expectancy than anywhere else in Europe. Read More »
More than 1500 locals have signed a petition to reverse a decision to force a market trader to cease trading. Pick n Mix sweet stall holder Kevin Hilliard had traded at Saxmundham’s Wednesday market for over twenty years, but due to a rebranding by the local council. The town council said the market’s rebranding towards
Sweet stall forced to leave the market. Read More »
Iceland has become the latest name to court controversy by erasing Christian iconography and, by extension, attacking the religion itself. The chain has decided to ditch the cross on its hot cross buns, which represents Jesus’s crucifixion on Good Friday. In its place will be a tick, reminiscent of Nike’s famous logo. David Lennox, Head
Iceland replaces iconic religious symbol on its hot cross buns. Read More »
Thomas Black Among the curiosities of the modern world is the masquerading liberal. By this, I mean the liberal who hides behind a left-wing mask. Beyond mere deception, this particular archetype genuinely believes themselves to be socialist, seemingly unaware that their ideology and cosmopolitan sensibility are identical to the international elite they wholeheartedly claim to
Masquerading liberal. Read More »
There was always going to be one fatal flaw in the Government’s policy of importing waves of migrants and dumping them in hotels—space, or lack thereof. The supply of lodging establishments in the UK is finite; therefore, the Home Office has no choice but to get creative. Their solution? Brazenly go all out and create
Home Office asylum sites to cost millions more than hotels. Read More »
Parents will be “deeply alarmed” by reports suggesting the accurate scale of violence in schools is being under-reported. It has emerged that secondary schools in one council area “don’t report at all”. The revelation backs up longstanding claims by teaching unions that staff are “dissuaded” from reporting violent incidents because of a “culture of fear” instilled by
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Law enforcement in Great Britain is a joke, and we all know it. Apologies if that statement comes across as rather blunt, but such are the depths that modern policing has fallen to that we are now beyond the point of eloquent and diplomatic language—it’s time to call a spade a spade. The fact is
Nottinghamshire Police joined the club and told to improve. Read More »
Residents across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Nottingham will get the chance to vote for the first-ever East Midlands Mayor next May after councils gave the go-ahead to devolution for the region. Devolution is a form of administrative decentralisation involving the delegation of administrative powers from central government to regional or local levels. It’s a policy
First East Midlands Mayor election to cost eye-watering £4 million. Read More »
