Day: 8 October 2019

Internet giants know more about the general public than ‘any intelligence agency ever could or should’, according to a former director of GCHQ. David Omand said people’s personal information was ‘monetised’ and became ‘feedstock’ for political campaigning. He said: ‘This is truly dangerous. It is a major threat to democracy and it is uncontrolled.’ Mr […]

The White House told Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday that Donald Trump and his staff would not be participating in her ‘illegitimate’ impeachment inquiry because it amounted to an illegal attempt to overturn the 2016 election. ‘Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the […]

Ben Stokes’s wife has laughed off claims that the cricketer angrily ‘choked’ her at an awards ceremony last week – saying the couple’s antics were just a way of showing affection.   The Ashes star was seen with his hand on Clare Stokes’s face at the Professional Cricketers’ Association party in London last Wednesday.  A report […]

Jeremy Corbyn lost one of his key backroom fixers today after she was forced into a ‘non-job’ after clashing with senior shadow minister. Karie Murphy, the Labour leader’s chief of staff, is understood to be moving to the party’s headquarters to lead its digital campaigning ahead of the widely anticipated general election. Senior ministers including […]

Failings by Manchester United contributed directly to the death of a lifelong fan at Old Trafford during a derby match in 2017. The grandfather, 80, had supported Manchester United since he was a boy   United stewards were found to be shockingly at fault after John Whale, 80, plunged headfirst down concrete steps in the […]

One UK ticket-holder has won the £170 million EuroMillions jackpot to become the country’s biggest ever winner – instantly making them richer than pop star Ed Sheeran. The excitement was building so much for the blockbuster jackpot that lottery players managed to crash the website earlier this evening in the scramble to get a ticket. […]

Parliament has been prorogued – this time for real – after a ceremony in the House of Lords tonight.  MPs were summoned to the Lords chamber this evening 13 days after they returned to work when Boris Johnson‘s attempted five-week suspension was ruled unlawful.  This time, Parliament is shutting down for just a few days […]

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark looked every inch the belle of the ball as she arrived at Paris town hall on Tuesday evening. Princess Mary, 47, and husband Crown Prince Frederik, 51, who are on the second day of their three-day official visit to France, were joined by his brother Prince Joachim, 50, and his wife Princess […]

Boris Johnson has submitted a response to the London Assembly after it demanded more information about his relationship Jennifer Arcuri. The assembly’s oversight committee launched an investigation into Mr Johnson’s links with the American model turned tech entrepreneur when he was London mayor from amid an ongoing row over her receiving £100,000 in public cash. […]

Europe could face a repeat of the chaotic influx of migrants that caught the continent off guard four years ago, Germany has warned. Greece and Cyprus have both sounded alarms over a resurgence of arrivals from neighbouring Turkey – as European Union ministers meet to discuss the issue. The Mediterranean countries have again become the […]

Edyta Mordel, 33, (pictured with her partner) told the High Court in London she would have terminated her pregnancy if she had known he would be born with Down’s A mother who said she would have aborted her beloved son if she had known he had Down’s Syndrome has won a massive NHS compensation payout […]

An exhausted mother-of-five is forced to spend three hours a day on the school run from hell after a Bristol council rejected her appeal to send her young children to the same schools. Hailey Saunders, 38, from Fishponds in Bristol, was left in despair after her local council rejected her appeal for her five-year-old son […]