Senin, 27 Juni 2022

Birmingham explosion: Woman found dead and man seriously hurt - BBC

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A woman has been found dead at the scene of a major gas explosion that destroyed a house in Birmingham and damaged others.

"We're very sad to confirm that a woman has been found dead at the scene," West Midlands Fire Service said.

A man also suffered life-threatening injuries in the blast in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, which happened just after 20:30 BST on Sunday.

At least three other homes were damaged and properties were evacuated.

The man was rescued from the house by people at the scene but had suffered "very serious" injuries, the ambulance service said.

Four other men suffered more minor injuries and were discharged by paramedics.

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Footage on social media showed flames, damage and debris from a terraced red brick house.

The badly injured man was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment in its major trauma centre.

Residents said they had clambered past flaming debris and through rubble to reach the man.

"Everyone was watching, the house was on fire, nobody was going in, so we could see a way in - so we went in the house, me and about a dozen others," a man, who did not want to be named, told the PA news agency.

He said dust from a loft insulation was burning around them.

"We got him out, he ended up coming out on a mattress," he said.

One resident told the BBC she heard a bang before the house and windows shook.

She the said the whole community had been affected. "I didn't sleep last night, it's so sad," she said.

Another said of the explosion: "I thought it was a bomb, I thought a bomb had gone off."

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West Midlands Fire Service said further investigations were taking place at the scene.

"Good progress has been made, we've scaled down the resources we have at the incident but remain in attendance," the service said.

It sent 25 firefighters to tackle the blaze after the explosion.

Following the blast and fire, which also damaged vehicles, evacuations took place and people were urged to avoid the area.

West Midlands Police said Dulwich Road and surrounding roads were closed and would be "for a very long time".

The force thanked those who had "helped shocked and injured neighbours".

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One man posted on Twitter to praise his cousin, who he said had run into the burning building to rescue someone.

Birmingham councillor Sharon Thompson said her thoughts were with everyone involved in the "horrific explosion".

Six fire crews, three ambulances, five paramedic officers and a national inter-agency liaison officer were among the resources sent to the scene.

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Fire service area commander Steve Ball described the scene as "challenging".

"One house had been completely destroyed and three neighbouring properties had also been quite badly affected," Mr Ball said.

"There are approximately six other houses that have been evacuated and the residents are currently being looked after by the local authority."

Rick Payne, a city councillor, went to the scene to help after hearing a "massive explosion" while watching television.

He spoke to the authority's chief executive who sent emergency planning staff.

"The reason for that was to make sure that if people needed to be accommodated who had been evacuated, that could be done at the earliest opportunity," he said.

Cadent, the gas emergency service for the West Midlands, said its teams were on site as part of the multi-agency response and added its thoughts were with those affected.

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2022-06-27 08:31:26Z
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'Dangerous' and violent man jailed for 'most appalling campaign of abuse' court had ever seen - Sky News

A "dangerous" and violent man who carried out one of the worst campaigns of abuse a court had ever seen has been jailed for 18 and a half years.

Michael Maughan, 27, raped his victim multiple times and threatened to take her to Epping Forest in Essex and kill her, police said.

The vulnerable young woman endured episodes of serious violence in which he would slap and punch her, beat her and throw her to the floor.

Maughan would also take her car keys and prevent her from leaving.

He pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour, multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, causing actual bodily harm and kidnap and false imprisonment.

In April 2021, the pair stayed at hotels in Chiswick and Hammersmith in London when the woman was subjected to abuse and assaults.

Maughan hit her with a chair and threw cough syrup at her, the Metropolitan Police said, but she was too terrified of the repercussions if she dared say that she did not consent to sex.

Fearing for her life, she confided in a friend and a report was made to the police.

Detectives immediately launched an investigation and tried to locate both Maughan and the woman.

She had been trying to hide from Maughan and was reported missing, with him also trying to find her.

In his efforts to track her down he visited a beauty salon he knew she frequented in Edgware, where he launched a tirade of abuse and threats against staff so severe that one long-serving staff member resigned out of sheer fear that he would return.

On 5 May 2021, officers went to an address on Effingham Road in Haringey, following intelligence that Maughan was there.

He was arrested and police also discovered the victim, who had been held against her will and was extremely distressed.

In her summary before sentencing, HHJ Kaul QC called his offending a "campaign of the most appalling treatment many in this court may have seen."

She also stated that she found Maughan to be dangerous, particularly in regards to sexual relationships with women.

He must serve at least two thirds of his sentence before he can be considered for parole.

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Birmingham explosion: Woman found dead and man seriously hurt - BBC

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A woman has been found dead at the scene of a major gas explosion that destroyed a house in Birmingham and damaged others.

"We're very sad to confirm that a woman has been found dead at the scene," West Midlands Fire Service said.

A man also suffered life-threatening injuries in the blast in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, which happened just after 20:30 BST on Sunday.

At least three other homes were damaged and properties were evacuated.

The man was rescued from the house by people at the scene but had suffered "very serious" injuries, the ambulance service said.

Four other men suffered more minor injuries and were discharged by paramedics.

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Footage on social media showed flames, damage and debris from a terraced red brick house.

The badly injured man was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment in its major trauma centre.

Residents said they had clambered past flaming debris and through rubble to reach the man.

"Everyone was watching, the house was on fire, nobody was going in, so we could see a way in - so we went in the house, me and about a dozen others," a man, who did not want to be named, told the PA news agency.

He said dust from a loft insulation was burning around them.

"We got him out, he ended up coming out on a mattress," he said.

One resident told the BBC she heard a bang before the house and windows shook.

She the said the whole community had been affected. "I didn't sleep last night, it's so sad," she said.

Another said of the explosion: "I thought it was a bomb, I thought a bomb had gone off."

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West Midlands Fire Service said further investigations were taking place at the scene.

"Good progress has been made, we've scaled down the resources we have at the incident but remain in attendance," the service said.

It sent 25 firefighters to tackle the blaze after the explosion.

Following the blast and fire, which also damaged vehicles, evacuations took place and people were urged to avoid the area.

West Midlands Police said Dulwich Road and surrounding roads were closed and would be "for a very long time".

The force thanked those who had "helped shocked and injured neighbours".

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One man posted on Twitter to praise his cousin, who he said had run into the burning building to rescue someone.

Birmingham councillor Sharon Thompson said her thoughts were with everyone involved the "horrific explosion".

Six fire crews, three ambulances, five paramedic officers and a national inter-agency liaison officer were among the resources sent to the scene.

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Fire service area commander Steve Ball described the scene as "challenging".

"One house had been completely destroyed and three neighbouring properties had also been quite badly affected," Mr Ball said.

"There are approximately six other houses that have been evacuated and the residents are currently being looked after by the local authority."

Rick Payne, a city councillor, went to the scene to help after hearing a "massive explosion" while watching television.

He spoke to the authority's chief executive who sent emergency planning staff.

"The reason for that was to make sure that if people needed to be accommodated who had been evacuated, that could be done at the earliest opportunity," he said.

Cadent, the gas emergency service for the West Midlands, said its teams were on site as part of the multi-agency response and added its thoughts were with those affected.

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Minggu, 26 Juni 2022

Birmingham: Man suffers 'life-threatening' injuries after house destroyed in explosion - Sky News

One house has been destroyed and several others have been significantly damaged after an explosion in Birmingham.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said a man is in a "life-threatening" condition following the blast in Dulwich Road, in the Kingstanding area of the city.

He said: "A man was helped from the property by people at the scene but had suffered very serious injuries.

"After assessment and treatment at the scene, he was taken on blue lights to the major trauma centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with the MERIT team travelling with the ambulance.

"His condition on arrival at hospital was described as life-threatening."

Four further men were assessed by ambulance crews for minor conditions, but have since been discharged at the scene.

One property has been completely destroyed with three others badly damaged, the spokesman said.

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A number of nearby vehicles were also damaged in the blast.

A total of six fire crews are also at the site, along with responders from Cadent Gas and the National Grid.

Evacuations are taking place and residents have been told to follow first responders "immediately".

Police thanked those who had "helped shocked and injured neighbours".

The cause of the explosion is not yet known.

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Image: The aftermath of the house explosion in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding

Video footage showed huge flames, damaged properties and a large pile of debris from a mid-terraced house.

Police were called to the street at about 8.40pm on Sunday.

"Dulwich Road and surrounding roads are closed and will be for a very long time," the force said in a statement.

"Please help us by avoiding the area."

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A map of Dulwich Road in Kingstanding in Birmingham

Rick Payne, a city councillor for the ward, heard a "massive explosion" while watching television shortly after 8.30pm, and walked across to Dulwich Road to see what had happened.

He said: "I recognised that as probably most likely to be a gas explosion.

"The house itself, where the explosion occurred, has physically been destroyed."

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2022-06-26 22:18:45Z
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Boris Johnson 'right person' to lead Tories into next general election, says cabinet minister Brandon Lewis - Sky News

Boris Johnson is capable of winning the next general election, a cabinet colleague has insisted, as he claimed the ability to look forward is "a good thing" after the prime minister said he was eyeing a third term.

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis threw his support behind the Tory leader, amid fresh criticism and plots to oust him after the Conservatives suffered two by-election defeats.

It comes as Mr Johnson said he was confident of winning the next election and was "thinking actively" about a third term, despite recent political turmoil.

A Downing Street source has suggested he may have been joking.

The last few days alone saw the resignation of cabinet minister Oliver Dowden, after the Tories lost their former stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton to the Liberal Democrats and the red wall seat of Wakefield to Labour.

The electoral beatings have reignited questions within the Conservative Party over Mr Johnson's leadership, following a recent Tory revolt by MPs.

Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, Mr Lewis acknowledged the party had suffered "a bad set of results".

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He said: "That does happen sometimes mid-term. There's no denying it was a set of results we've got to look carefully at and learn from.

"What we've got to do, as has happened before, where we've seen by-election results go one way and then a following general election go a very different way, you can't extrapolate… a by-election result into a general election result.

"It's been proven time and again to not work that way."

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Rallying to the support of Mr Johnson, he said: "One of the things we have seen in the last couple of the days is his zest and enthusiasm to deliver for the country.

"I think Boris Johnson is the right person to take us into the next general election. I think he will do that successfully."

He added: "He's proven that time and again, where people have written him off, both before London elections and before in the 2019 election, and then we've been able to come back and win, and win successfully. And I think he's got the ability to do that."

Mr Lewis argued the PM looking to the long term was an asset.

He said: "What I see is somebody whose got that drive and enthusiasm for what we want to achieve for our country.

"Having that ability to look forward is a good thing.

"This is somebody I think who is capable of winning a general election, delivering for our country."

He added: "What I want is a prime minister who is not thinking about the next few months, but he is thinking about that long term change we need in our country.

"I'm very clear. I want our country to have a Conservative-led government for a very, very long time.

"I want a prime minister who's looking at the long term, and doing so with enthusiasm and focus.

"That's what we've got in Boris Johnson and that's why I support him, and will continue to."

Meanwhile, speaking at the G7 summit in Germany, when asked if he was delusional by talking about being prime minister into the 2030s, Mr Johnson said: "What I'm saying is this is a government that is getting on with delivering for the people of this country and we've got a huge amount to do."

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Labour frontbencher David Lammy told Phillips the by-election defeats had been a "very, very sorry night" for the Tory government.

He said: Labour is on its way back and it's on its way back for two reasons.

"One because we are now the party of change in this country.

"And two because we are winning Tory votes - people who voted Tory now voting Labour.

"That's what we need to do to form the next government. And that is what is happening."

He also played down the possibility of a deal with the Liberal Democrats going into the next general election.

Mr Lammy said: "I don't think the voters of Britain want politicians to stitch up deals in the corridors of power.

"People expect to make their own judgment and decide who they want to vote for."

But Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Daisy Cooper did not rule out a future pact describing it as a "hypothetical situation".

She told Phillips: "Liberal Democrats will continue to try and win seats off the Conservatives in areas where we are the key challengers.

"If you look at the last two years, things have changed so much, nobody has expected the pandemic or anything else, we simply can't work out what will happen in the future."

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Boris Johnson seeks to stay in power until the mid-2030s - Reuters

  • UK's Johnson does not expect fresh leadership challenge
  • Johnson wants three terms to tackle regional inequality
  • British PM pressured by poll losses after leadership vote
  • PM declines comment on 150,000-pound treehouse for son

KIGALI, June 25 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he aims to remain in power until the middle of the next decade, despite calls for him to quit, which would make him the country's longest continuously serving leader in 200 years.

Earlier this month, Johnson survived a vote of confidence by Conservative lawmakers in which 41% of his parliamentary colleagues voted to oust him, and he is under investigation for intentionally misleading parliament.

On Friday Conservative candidates lost two parliamentary by-elections held to replace former Conservative incumbents who had to step down, one after being convicted of sexual assault and the other for watching pornography in the House of Commons.

The by-election defeats suggest the broad voter appeal which helped Johnson win a large parliamentary majority in December 2019 may be fracturing after a scandal over illegal parties held at Downing Street during coronavirus lockdowns.

Under Conservative party rules, its lawmakers cannot formally challenge Johnson for another year, but overwhelming dissatisfaction or resignations by a series of senior ministers could make his position untenable.

Britain is also in the midst of its deepest cost-of-living crisis in decades, with inflation at a 40-year high.

Former party leader Michael Howard said on Friday it was now time for Johnson to go, and Conservative party chairman Oliver Dowden quit after the by-election losses.

However, Johnson said he wanted to serve a third term in office and remain as prime minister until the mid-2030s to give him time to reduce regional economic disparities and make changes to Britain's legal and immigration systems.

"At the moment I am thinking actively about the third term and, you know, what could happen then. But I will review it when I get to it," Johnson told reporters in Rwanda on the final day of a visit for a Commonwealth summit.

Asked what he meant, Johnson said: "About the third term ... this is the mid-2030s."

Johnson must call Britain's next national election by December 2024, and would need a third election victory by 2029.

If he was still in office beyond early 2031, he would beat Margaret Thatcher's record as the longest continuously serving British prime minister since Robert Banks Jenkinson, the Earl of Liverpool, who was in office from 1812 to 1827.

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Johnson told reporters that he did not expect to have to fight another internal challenge from within his party, and blamed the by-election defeats partly on months of media reporting of lockdown parties at the heart of government.

"People were fed up of hearing about things I had stuffed up, or allegedly stuffed up, or whatever, this endless - completely legitimate, but endless - churn of news," he said.

Earlier on Saturday, Johnson told BBC radio he rejected the notion that he should change his behaviour.

"If you're saying you want me to undergo some sort of psychological transformation, I think that our listeners would know that that ... is not going to happen."

Johnson refused to comment on a report in The Times newspaper that he had planned to get a donor to fund a 150,000-pound ($184,000) treehouse for his son at his state-provided country residence.

The story comes months after his party was fined for failing to accurately report a donation which helped fund the refurbishment of his Downing Street apartment.

"I'm not going to comment on non-existent objects," Johnson said when asked if he planned to use a donor's money to build the treehouse.

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Sabtu, 25 Juni 2022

Glastonbury: Greta Thunberg appears at music festival to urge society to take action against climate change crisis - Sky News

Greta Thunberg has urged society to take on its "historic responsibility" to tackle the global climate crisis during an appearance at Glastonbury.

Delivering a speech from the festival's Pyramid Stage, the environmental activist gave the crowd a stark warning that the world is facing a "climate and ecological emergency".

"The biosphere is not just changing, it is destabilising, it is breaking down," the 19-year-old said, before stressing that the "consequences could be catastrophic".

"And no, unfortunately, this is not the new normal," she added.

"This crisis will continue to get worse until we manage to hold the constant destruction of our life-supporting systems, until we prioritise people and planet over profit and greed," she added.

Placing blame on global leaders, Ms Thunberg they have "actively created loopholes" and society has come to "expect" them to lie.

"We should be fighting for people and for nature, but instead we are fighting against those who are set on destroying it," she urged.

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"Today our political leaders are allowed to say one thing and do the exact opposite. They can claim to be climate leaders, while at the same time expand their nation's fossil fuel infrastructure."

Greta Thunberg addresses the crowd at the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

'Together we can do the seemingly impossible'

However, the campaigner went on to say that there is still time for the world to choose a "sustainable" path that "leads to a future for everyone".

Addressing the thousands of festival-goers in the crowd, Ms Thunberg said: "You and I have been given the historic responsibility to set things right.

"Together we can do the seemingly impossible. But make no mistake, no-one else is going to do this for us. This is up to us here and now. You and me."

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Following her speech, Erin Rudkin, a 32-year-old from Manchester, said you could tell the Glastonbury audience was captivated by the speech as you could "hear a pin drop" in the crowd.

Ms Thunberg's address was followed by a set by pop-rock band Haim, with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds taking to the stage after them.

On Saturday evening, Sir Paul McCartney will become Glastonbury Festival's oldest solo headliner a day after Billie Eilish became the youngest ever solo artist.

The former Beatle's headline show will come exactly a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday and after more than 60 years of making music.

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