An alleged Australian drug kingpin who was tricked into revealing information about hundreds of organised criminals has been told to hand himself in for his own safety. Hakan Ayik – who is believed to now be living in Turkey – thought he was helping criminal associates when he suggested they use an encrypted communications app.
Month: June 2021
Andrew Lloyd Webber has said he will open his theatres on 21 June, and is prepared to be arrested if authorities try to intervene. The composer has also warned he may have to sell his six West End venues if the government does not relax its restrictions as set out in its roadmap. The pandemic
Boris Johnson is battling to avoid a sausage trade war with Brussels which could see chilled meats barred from shops in Northern Ireland from the end of this month. The PM’s Brexit minister Lord Frost is holding a showdown with a top EU official who is threatening to prevent sausages and mince produced in Britain
President Joe Biden is facing calls to introduce a wealth tax following a report alleging America’s richest executives, including Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, have avoided paying income tax – some over several years. ProPublica, the not-for-profit investigative journalism organisation, said its findings showed the tax bills were especially low when compared with their
The UK and the EU are set to thrash out their differences over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Brexit minister Lord Frost and Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission vice president, will meet on Wednesday after the latter suggested the EU is finding it hard to trust the UK following its departure from the
A huge global web outage is always slightly shocking. We’ve come to expect that websites like Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit, Spotify and the UK government site, gov.uk, are there when we want them, so when they’re suddenly unavailable, or even just a bit slow, it feels outrageous. In truth, what’s outrageous is that these sites don’t
Dua Lipa’s songs were played more than anyone else’s in the UK last year, after her multi-award winning album Future Nostalgia shot up the charts during lockdown. The 25-year-old rocketed to fame in 2017 with her track New Rules, and has now enjoyed a stellar year with her disco-pop record winning her critical acclaim, Grammys
The launch of a new digital GP data sharing system has been pushed back amid concerns about privacy. The NHS system, which will be able to extract patient data from doctor’s surgeries in England – including people’s treatments, referrals and appointments over the past 10 years – was due to start in July but has
Environment secretary George Eustice has described a ban on exporting sausages and processed meats from Great Britain to Northern Ireland agreed as part of the Brexit process as “nonsensical”. Under the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol a ban will come into force if the UK and EU cannot agree new regulatory standards to cover
The Queen met every serving US president except one during her remarkable reign, including JFK, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Image: Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are greeted by Harry Truman in Washington DC in 1951 Harry Truman was first in 1951 when the Queen was still a princess – and seven years
A number of major websites have gone down around the world, including the UK government web pages. Those logging into to gov.uk have been faced with a message saying “503 Service Unavailable”. Other sites affected include news outlets The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, New York Times, Evening Standard, Bloomberg and Le Monde as well as
A Senate investigation into the US Capitol riots has uncovered a “number of intelligence and security failures” leading up to and on the day violence erupted. On 6 January pro-Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building, vandalised and destroyed property and ransacked offices as Congress met to certify Joe Biden as the 46th President of
Greater Manchester and Lancashire are to receive a “strengthened package of support” to tackle a rise in the Delta coronavirus variant, Matt Hancock has announced – with residents told to minimise travel. Addressing the Commons, the health secretary said: “I can tell the House that today, working with local authorities, we are providing a strengthened
Drug dealers in the UK are among hundreds of people arrested after criminal gangs were duped into using an app being watched by police around the world, with tonnes of illegal substances seized and murder plots also thwarted. A joint investigation led by the FBI, Europol and Australian Federal Police (AFP) saw US officials take
Former Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens has admitted to the kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard at the Old Bailey. Sarah, 33, vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, in March. Couzens, 48, appeared at the Old Bailey on Tuesday morning when he entered the guilty pleas. Appearing via video
Actress and comedian Ellie Kemper has apologised for taking part in a debutante ball as a teenager, saying the event had an “unquestionably racist, sexist and elitist past” and that “ignorance is no excuse”. The star, who is best known for roles in Bridesmaids, The Office (US) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, has shared a lengthy
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