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Lyndsey Telford News NIKhalid El-Astal said he is trying to get his father evacuated from Gaza A Belfast-born man who battled to have his children evacuated from Gaza and brought to Ireland is now trying to help his father to safety.Khalid El-Astal’s wife, mother and brother were killed in a bomb attack on their home in 2023.The 32-year-old, who is an Irish citizen, managed to get his two small children to Dublin where they have since settled, but two years later his father is still in Gaza.The Republic of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, which helped relocate his children, have…
After being dropped on three, England remove Travis Head for 33 for their first Australian wicket of the second Test, with Gus Atkinson taking the catch off the bowling of Brydon Carse, with the home side 77-1 in their first innings in Brisbane. FOLLOW LIVE: The Ashes second Test – day twoAvailable to UK users only.
Heathrow Airport will start fining drivers £80 if they spend too long saying their goodbyes at drop-off zones under new plans aimed at pushing more travellers onto public transport.From January, the drop-off charge will jump from £6 to £7 – with the maximum amount of time allowed in the zone capped to just 10 minutes. Motorists who spend any longer will be slapped with an £80 fine, halved if paid within two weeks. The move marks yet another rise in the so-called “kiss and fly” charges which have been creeping up over the past few years. In 2021, Heathrow introduced…
Nigel Farage has a 50/50 chance of becoming the next Prime Minister, a former Tory MP who defected to Reform UK has said.Chris Green, 52, the former Conservative MP for Bolton West from 2015 to 2024, told Chopper’s Political Podcast that he had not yet decided whether to stand as a candidate for Reform at the next general election.Mr Green is one of three ex-Conservative MPs who lost their seats at last year’s general election and have now jumped ship to Reform UK. The other two were former deputy Tory party chairman Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.In his first interview…
Nick Tarabay has revealed that getting the call to return as Ashur in Spartacus: House of Ashur was a “brilliant surprise”, more than a decade after his character was killed off in the original series.The 50-year-old star spoke exclusively to GB News about being resurrected for the highly anticipated sequel series, which explores an alternate timeline where Ashur survives Naevia’s attack and is rewarded by the Romans for helping bring down the slave rebellion.Mr Tarabay remembers the moment he received the call “like it was yesterday”.“It was a brilliant surprise. I was pleasantly surprised because once the show was done,…
Ministers are attempting to broker a deal with the EU and other countries to give frozen Russian assets in the UK worth £8bn to Ukraine, reports the Times. The paper says they are also warning Vladimir Putin is an “active threat to the UK’s citizens, security and prosperity”. A photo of Israeli Eurovision singer Yuval Raphael is splashed across the paper after the competition was “hit by boycotts” from several nations over the inclusion of Israel.The Guardian focuses on Reform UK leader Nigel Farage who it says “turned on broadcasters” for questioning him about racist and antisemitic comments he is…
Marnus Labuschagne dives at full stretch to take a brilliant catch in the deep from Jofra Archer, as England are bowled out for 334 runs on day two of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane.FOLLOW LIVE: The Ashes second Test – day twoAvailable to UK users only.
Thousands of people in a Kent town have been left without water for a week – with their local water company’s chief executive accused of being “missing in action”. In Tunbridge Wells, several schools have been closed and neighbours forced to rely on one another after tens of thousands of households experienced issues with their water supply.South East Water’s head of water quality, Dr Neil Hudson, has made several media appearances since the crisis began on November 29.But chief executive David Hinton has faced fury for what many see as a failure to engage with the public throughout the ordeal.Tens…
GB News host Stephen Dixon has brutally shut down a Labour MP for defending the Government’s decision to delay four mayoral elections.In a fiery exchange on the People’s Channel, Stephen told Children’s Minister Josh MacAlister that the move is “not democratic” and Labour has had “almost two years” to sort the local authorities out.FULL STORY HERE.
Watch: Animal welfare campaigners secretly film one worker urinating in a pen filled with turkeysA turkey farm that breeds premium birds which are then sold at Christmas in high-end stores and butchers has been suspended from a food standards assurance scheme amid allegations of poor biosecurity and animal welfare standards.Hockenhull Turkeys in Lincolnshire is being investigated by Red Tractor after welfare campaigners secretly filmed workers not following biosecurity measures, throwing birds and, in one case, a staff member urinating in a pen of birds.The Spilsby facility supplies young birds – known as poults – to farms, including one that supplies…