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The Sky News presenter told Anderson - who anchors a show on GB News as well as being an MP - he should have “stuck to the autocue”.He said “Islamists” have “got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London”.Khan described the remarks as “Islamophobic, anti-Muslim and racist”, while senior Tories also condemned them.In a monologue at the start of Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News, the presenter said: “My fellow television presenter Lee Anderson seems to have accepted that his side hustle as MP for Ashfield may be coming to an end after the Conservative Party...

The parents of murdered mum Claire Inglis have been given “fresh hope” after the First Minister promised to review their plea to hold a public inquiry into her death. Christopher McGowan, who had 39 previous convictions, was released on bail to Claire’s home which she shared with her young son. Six weeks later he murdered the 28-year-old in November 2021. Christopher McGowan, who had 39 previous convictions, was released on bail to Claire’s home which she shared with her young son. Read More Related Articles Read More Related Articles Claire’s parents Ian, 60, and Fiona, 62, have repeatedly pleaded for...

Three men charged after gardaí intercepted a van carrying €2 million of cannabis and uncovered another €1 million of various drugs in an apartment in Dublin have been remanded in custody.Gary Hanley, 35, Sean Mackey, 53, and Jie Liu, 39, were arrested following an operation by officers attached to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) on Thursday.The three men appeared before a late sitting of Dublin District Court on Saturday, charged with unlawful possession of 100 kilos of cannabis and having the drugs for sale or supply.Det Gda Dean Healy said they could face more serious charges...

With Sir Jim Ratcliffe making ambitious statements off the field this week, the tide does at last appear to be turning for United. Still, it’s hard to fully trust a team who operate with such chaos, as they did when squeezing past Luton at Kenilworth Road last weekend. The fact that in-form striker Rasmus Hojlund is missing through injury, along with Luke Shaw, does weaken the hosts somewhat, with Ten Hag handing young Omari Forson his first start instead as Victor Lindelof also comes in. Source link

The ‘greedy’ former solicitor who robbed €18m from the banksFORMER solicitor Michael Lynn was transferred to Mountjoy prison’s Progression Unit following sentencing last week, where he enjoys a slightly more relaxed regime as a “model” prisoner.On Monday the Mayo man was found guilty of stealing just over €18 million from six financial institutions during the Celtic Tiger era and was been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Source link

I was elated to become a first-time mother at the age of 40, but afterward I was quite certain I was “one and done.” I even began a Medium blog of the same name. Though my first birth experience was exhilarating in some ways, and I was thrilled to become a mother, my unexpected emergency C-section had left me feeling raw and confused, as well as a lengthy bout of postpartum depression that took me over a year to climb out of. Cut to 2019, with the world at the cusp of the pandemic. My husband and I found ourselves...

A super-fit husband and wife team are limbering up for their toughest charity fundraiser to date - a 100-mile ultra marathon around Ayrshire. Jill Wyllie, 48, and William Wyllie, 56, a chartered accountant with RA Clement & Co in Kilmarnock, are hoping to raise as much money as possible for Diabetes UK and will take on their mammoth challenge on Thursday, March 7. The pair will run between Mauchline and Ayr for a 24-hour period and they’ll have the entire family there to support them all the way. The couple are no strangers to charity fundraisers. Jill and William, from...

Dance and music star Michael Flatley has said if an insurance company is allowed to cancel his insurance policy on his Co Cork mansion, the protected structure, Castlehyde House may be in jeopardy.A High Court judge will next week give her decision after Michael Flatley’s legal team on Friday applied for an order restraining his insurance company from cancelling the house insurance policy for the luxury country mansion on the River Blackwater outside Fermoy.Michael Flatley in an affidavit to the court said if the insurance policy is allowed to be cancelled, Castlehyde House which dates back to 1790 may be...

This article was first published in our email newsletter Something Good, which every fortnight brings you a summary of the best things to watch, visit and read, as recommended and analysed by academic experts. Click hereto receive the newsletter direct to your inbox I am very particular about horror films. I want films with a meaty story that haunts, unnerves and, of course, scares me but is not a total gore fest. I don’t like to see people slashed to pieces, especially if there’s no real plot. I enjoy horror films like The Shining, The VVitch, It Follows, Tale of...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced it will dispose of 100 Starlink satellites over the next six months, after it discovered a design flaw that may cause them to fail. Rather than risk posing a threat to other spacecraft, SpaceX will “de-orbit” these satellites to burn up in the atmosphere. But atmospheric scientists are increasingly concerned that this sort of apparent fly-tipping by the space sector will cause further climate change down on Earth. One team recently, and unexpectedly, found potential ozone-depleting metals from spacecraft in the stratosphere, the atmospheric layer where the ozone layer is formed. The relative “low earth...