THE mother of a teenager knifed to death by her ex-boyfriend has condemned the ‘watering down’ of justice system reforms she campaigned for. Ellie Gould, 17, was found in a pool of blood in her kitchen after sixth-former Thomas Griffiths stabbed her at least 13 times before calmly returning to …...Read More
Mother's fury at 'watered down' plans for Ellie's Law
Carole Baskin of ‘Tiger King’ Will Star in New Show
Carole Baskin, the animal rights activist who gained national attention while sparring with exotic tiger keepers on the popular Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” is getting her own show. The new show will star Ms. Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, …...Read More
Lancashire 'will be placed under Covid curfew TOMORROW'
Advertisement Lancashire is set to follow the northeast into a coronavirus curfew tomorrow as fears grow the whole of England could face new restrictions. Reports this morning said ministers were considering nationwide 'circuit breaker' rules, forcing hospitality businesses to close in a bid to lessen a second peak of the …...Read More
The £1bn cost of maternity blunders: Jeremy Hunt exposes damning toll of lawsuits against NHS
Blunders on maternity wards are costing the NHS nearly £1billion a year, the former Health Secretary warns today. Jeremy Hunt has revealed that almost twice as much is spent on lawsuits following poor care of mothers and babies as on the combined pay of all the labour doctors in England’s …...Read More
HENRY DEEDES watches Dido Harding explaining the coronavirus testing shambles
An eerie silence suddenly befell Committee Room number six just after 4pm yesterday. Baroness Dido Harding had just explained to the Commons’ science and technology committee how she’d come to be head of our vital testing programme. The matter had been raised by Graham Stringer (Lab, Blackley and Broughton) who …...Read More
C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections
A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as …...Read More
Ofsted officials will mark down schools that don't teach pupils LGBT relationships
Schools that fail to teach about same-sex relationships risk being marked down by inspectors. They will have their 'readiness' to teach the Government's new relationships and sex education curriculum assessed from early next year. Oftsted will comment in their reports if they find that schools fail to teach about LGBT …...Read More
Martin Amis's new book Inside Story tells the story of his life in the form of a novel
INSIDE STORY by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape £20, 576pp) Martin Amis says his latest book — on the boil for almost two decades — grew out of a long-abandoned manuscript called, simply, Life: A Novel. Inside Story is a fit-to-burst ragbag of memoir and musing on all his usual hobbyhorses, …...Read More
Earl Spencer's book The White Ship reveals how Henry I's heir William drowned trying to save sister
HISTORY THE WHITE SHIP by Charles Spencer (William Collins £25, 352 pp) On a cold but clear November night in 1120, almost exactly 900 years ago, a ship sailed out of Barfleur harbour on the Normandy coast, bound for Southampton. Everyone on board was cheerfully drunk but perfectly optimistic. The …...Read More
Ann Getty, Publisher and Bicoastal Arts Patron, Is Dead at 79
Ann Getty, a savvy former California farm girl who married into one of the world’s wealthiest families and transformed herself into a globe-trotting publisher, author, interior designer and philanthropist, died on Monday in San Francisco. She was 79. Her husband, Gordon Getty, said in a statement that she had a …...Read More
