NIGEL Farage will embark on a “double or quits” £5 million spending spree to win over voters in the build-up to May’s local elections. The Reform UK leader has so far sent out five million leaflets to outer London and every home in Scotland and Wales in a major push for support. Sign up for…
LABOUR’S ban on new oil and gas drilling has been criticised by America’s top man in London, who claims UK energy bills are “four times higher” than in the US. America’s Ambassador Warren Stephens urged the PM to “allow for more drilling” and stop relying on imports. Sign up for the Politics newsletter Thank you!…
A DONKEY charity was left more money in wills than the Royal British Legion last year, figures show. There were £37.8million-worth of legacy donations to the Donkey Sanctuary. 2 Royal British Legion will donations lagged behind those made to leading animal charitiesCredit: SWNS:South West News Service The sum exceeds the £27.5million left to Britain’s leading…
THE BOSS of the cash-strapped Police Federation earned £600,000 in salary and bonuses last year. It means the head of the rank and file officers’ “union” Mukund Krishna earned twice as much as Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley. Mr Krishna’s vast pay award was revealed to Parliament by Labour MP and former Met Police…
A SPECIAL forces soldier shot a comrade seven times by accident after using live ammo instead of blanks during a training exercise. Shocking details emerged as the elite serviceman got a suspended jail term at a military court in Wiltshire — which said there were multiple safety failures. 4 A special forces soldier was accidentally…
JEFF Bezos’s wife Lauren Sanchez and Cristiano Ronaldo’s fiancée Georgina Rodriguez show off their many facets — as they pose in their £9million diamond rings. Amazon boss Jeff gave Lauren a £5million sparkler at their three-day Venice wedding in June. 5 Georgina Rodriguez and Lauren Sanchez dazzle at a New York dinner, showing off their…
HE was a pioneer of fashion who empowered women to wear suits in the boardroom and dressed Hollywood’s elite. Tributes last night poured in for style icon Giorgio Armani, who died “peacefully, surrounded by loved ones” yesterday, aged 91. 21 Giorgio Armani at the height of his success in 1992Credit: Camera Press 21 Lady Gaga…
PRISON bosses are seizing almost 30 illegal mobile phones from inmates every day. Figures show more than 10,000 were uncovered in jails last year — with the gadgets increasingly smuggled in by drones. 2 Zombie knife thug Robbie Scott, 22, had shared a rap video from his prison cell in HMP ManchesterCredit: TikTok 2 Over…
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL said: “Courage is rightly regarded as the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all the others depend.” The truth of those words is highlighted by the heroics of RAF Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank, who has died at the age 105. 5 RAF Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank has died at the age…
BRITAIN’S Chagos Islands handover will cost taxpayers ten times more than Sir Keir Starmer let on, newly unearthed figures claim. Official estimates reveal the bill for giving the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius is not £3.4billion as promised, but actually close to £35billion. 2 The Chagos Islands is an overseas territory of the United…