Green party byelection winner says ‘you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes’
When Hannah Spencer spoke of her shock that in Westminster “you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes”, she may not have expected such a lively response.
The Green party MP, who won the Gorton and Denton byelection in February, made the comments in an interview with the Joe website, saying she was “really uneasy” about the drinking culture in parliament.
Continue reading...Lawyers for Avara Foods and Freemans of Newent say legal claim backed by 1,300 people is ‘entirely inferential’
Lawyers for one of the country’s biggest producers of industrially farmed chicken have attacked a claim that they are responsible for pollution in the River Wye and River Usk.
More than 1,300 people have signed up to sue Avara Foods, its subsidiary Freemans of Newent and the local sewage company Welsh Water for extensive and widespread pollution in the rivers and their catchment areas.
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One of the most joyous things about football is how miserable it makes almost everyone – Arsenal, for example, are top of the table and in the semi-finals of the Champions League, yet there’s no sense anyone connected with them is enjoying any of it.
Unusually, though, both tonight’s clubs are pretty happy with life. United have near enough secured Champions League football for next season and, since Michael Carrick took over from Ruben Amorim, no side has won more points nor scored more goals. For the first time in a long time, talk of a title challenge doesn’t sound ridiculous.
Continue reading...The monarch must do his best to wrest some diplomatic advantage from an ill-timed trip, which Donald Trump will treat as a personal tribute
When King Charles’s mother became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress in 1991, she spoke in the aftermath of the US-led response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, in which more than 50,000 UK troops participated. Queen Elizabeth II used the occasion to celebrate the role of the transatlantic alliance in upholding the rule of international law: “Some people believe that power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” she told her Capitol Hill audience. “So it can, but history shows that it never grows well nor for very long.”
Different monarch, different times and a very different America. As the king embarks on a four‑day state visit to the United States, a foiled assault by a gunman believed to be targeting members of the Trump administration illustrated the extent to which political violence has become endemic in a deeply polarised country. Globally, Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran (and prior to that the abduction by US special forces of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro) underlines that in the view of the present White House, the possessors of military might have the right to set their own rules.
Continue reading...Man, 57, was watching snake-charming show when reptile crawled into his trousers, say German police
A German tourist has died after a snake crawled into his trousers and bit him as he watched a show in Egypt on a family holiday, police in Germany have said.
The 57-year-old man was watching the snake-charming show at a hotel in Hurghada, a popular beach holiday destination on the Red Sea, in early April.
Continue reading...BIRMINGHAM (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Sieradenketen Claire's verdwijnt uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Ierland. De winkelketen, bekend van oorpiercings en accessoires voor kinderen en tieners, sluit alle 154 winkels en ontslaat meer dan 1300 medewerkers. De Nederlandse tak van Claire's werd vorige zomer failliet verklaard, waarna de negen Nederlandse winkels de deuren moesten sluiten.
De Britse en Ierse tak van Claire's raakte recent voor de tweede keer in korte tijd in financiële problemen. De winkelketen kampt met hevige concurrentie en had last van Amerikaanse invoerheffingen. Claire's vroeg eerder ook al faillissement aan in België en uitstel van betaling in onder meer de Verenigde Staten en Frankrijk.
Claire's werd opgericht in 1974 en richt zich vooral op meisjes tussen 3 en 18 jaar. Behalve sieraden verkoopt de onderneming ook cosmetica en accessoires.
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