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Jumat, 04 September 2020

Hoo Marina: Huge explosion as fire shoots into sky near holiday park - Metro.co.uk

Hoo Marina explosion — People living close to the marina said they were awoken by loud bangs as the fire broke out (Picture: Lu Frankland/@dunnokev/Twitter)

People have been awoken by loud bangs as a massive fire broke out at an industrial building in Kent, said to be close to a holiday home park.

Ten fire crews are fighting the huge blaze in Vicarage Lane, Hoo, which started at around 5am.

Neighbours took to twitter to report hearing a ‘huge explosion’.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service said: ‘Firefighters are advising the public to avoid the area while the emergency services deal with the incident.

‘A large amount of smoke is also coming from the fire, and so those living or working close to the area of the fire and the smoke plume, which includes the Hoo peninsula, are now being advised to close windows and doors as a precaution.’

A witness speaking to Kent Online said: ‘I’ve seen gas bottles rocketing hundreds of feet high, this is the worse fire I’ve ever seen. It’s two minutes from my house.

‘There is a large holiday home park next door to the fire.’

Others posted pictures and videos of the blaze on social media, with some witnesses claiming flames could be seen 100ft in the air.

Nick Akerman, who said his house ‘shook’ during an explosion, said people were now being evacuated from the area.

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Kamis, 03 September 2020

Extinction Rebellion sparks OUTRAGE as NHS ambulance blocked by demonstrators ‘with glee’ - Express

Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion demonstrators have been arrested just three days into their two-week demonstration. The group has caused havoc across London, with one Twitter user sharing footage of traffic jams caused by the blockade staged by the group on Lambeth Bridge.

In the video, an ambulance flashing its lights is seen in stationary position as the reporter explains the ambulance is “absolutely stuck, stationary”.

A follow-up tweet explains how the ambulance “had to completely U-turn and drive back away from the way to the hospital.

“Extinction Rebellion continue to block the bridge with glee.”

An outraged Twitter user added: “If there was ever in fact any ‘cause’ they may be seeking to promote, they've actively extinguished any potential support from decent citizens.

“Their behaviour is fundamentally immature and destructive.

“A much firmer response should be made in clamping down on these idiots.”

Another user said: “I can see what’s going to happen eventually.

“If the police can’t do their job the decent people of society will end up going down and physically remove the vermin off the roads.”

The protest on London’s Lambeth Bridge is part of a countrywide call to action.

A spokesman for South Wales Police said: “Officers are currently in attendance at a protest in Central Square in Cardiff.

“One person has been arrested on suspicion of committing criminal damage.

“Officers are working to engage with protest organisers and attendees in order to remind them of their obligations under the current Coronavirus legislation and the overarching goal for everyone to take personal responsibility by following Welsh Government regulations to Keep Wales Safe.

“We are duty-bound to take into account all relevant legislation, and South Wales Police has strived to maintain a consistent policing style of engaging, explaining and encouraging, and enforcing as last resort where necessary, throughout this public health emergency - an approach we intend to continue.”

Extinction Rebellion spokeswoman Tamsin Omand said demonstrators wanted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to see and hear what they were demanding.

She said: “The climate and ecological emergency has to be the absolute priority - how we are going to transform society into one that is fit for the crises we are already experiencing and the ones coming down the road.

“We are seeing a Parliament that has failed on every count - Boris Johnson wasn't even around for the first Cobras of the coronavirus pandemic, so if that is the attitude he is going to take to the climate and ecological emergency we are in dire straits.

“Disruption is a core tenet of how XR works and how we have managed to achieve so much in a short period of time.

“We have been outside Downing Street blocking his route on both sides and of course he's encountering us here in the square - I think we are impossible to ignore.”

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2020-09-04 00:41:00Z
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Man found guilty of murdering women and hiding them in freezer - BBC News - BBC News

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2020-09-03 21:33:09Z
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Countryside Alliance say BBC should drop outspoken wildlife presenter Chris Packham - Daily Mail

Countryside Alliance say BBC should drop outspoken wildlife presenter Chris Packham after new boss Tim Davie said 'bias has no place' at the broadcaster

Davie should sack Packham to 'follow through' call for unbiased, Tim Bonner said
Mr Davie had earlier said if staff are to be partisan they 'should not be at the BBC'
His comments widely seen as swipe at woke presenters mouthing off on Twitter
Within hours of the speech, Mr Packham railed against a stag hunt on his Twitter

By James Gant For Mailonline

Published: 22:31 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:33 BST, 3 September 2020

The new BBC Director-General should drop Chris Packham if he is serious about staff being unbiased on social media, the head of the Countryside Alliance has urged.

Tim Davie should sack the Springwatch presenter to 'follow through' with his call for impartiality online, Tim Bonner said.

Quoting a speech Mr Davie made today, Mr Bonner tweeted: '''If you want to be...a partisan campaigner on social media then that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC''.'

He continued: 'New BBC DG Tim Davie echoes exactly what I said about Chris Packham 5 years ago. Will he follow through?

'In 2016 the BBC Trust said ''Packham was a freelancer & did not count as staff or a regular BBC presenter or reporter, nor was he working in news or current affairs, & thus was not bound by strict rules against expressing opinions on public policy issues''.'

The Chief Executive of Countryside Alliance added: 'If that continues to be the BBC's approach then Tim Davie's words are worthless.

'Unless the BBC is going to apply proper impartiality rules to all contributors, regardless of employment status, it might as well not bother.'

Within hours of Mr Davie's speech, Mr Packham (pictured) took to Twitter calling for people to sign a petition and railed against a stag hunt

Tim Bonner (pictured) said Tim Davie should sack the Springwatch presenter to 'follow through' with his call for impartiality online

Mr Davie (pictured) had earlier told staff if they want to be opinionated columnists or a partisan campaigners on social media they 'should not be working at the BBC'

Mr Davie had earlier told staff if they want to be opinionated columnists or a partisan campaigners on social media they 'should not be working at the BBC'.

The new director-general, who took over this week, said the broadcaster needed to 'urgently champion and recommit to impartiality'.

He insisted his drive was 'about being free from political bias, guided by the pursuit of truth, not a particular agenda'.

His latest remarks have widely been seen as a swipe at woke presenters mouthing off on Twitter.

Mr Davie said: 'We urgently need to champion and recommit to impartiality. It is deliverable and it is essential.

'If you work here, nothing should be more exciting than exploring different views, seeking evidence with curiosity and creatively presenting testimony.

Mr Davie's (pictured) latest remarks have widely been seen as a swipe at woke presenters mouthing off on Twitter

'Making use of our own experiences but not driven by our personal agendas. I wonder if some people worry that impartiality could be a little dull.

'To be clear, this is not about abandoning democratic values such as championing fair debate or an abhorrence of racism.

'But it is about being free from political bias, guided by the pursuit of truth, not a particular agenda.

'If you want to be an opinionated columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media then that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC.'

Within hours of the speech, Mr Packham took to Twitter calling for people to sign a petition and railed against a stag hunt.

His first post said: 'Unbelievably there is a loophole that allows people coming into Britain to bring with them 20 kilos of shark fins.'

He added with a link to the petition: 'The petition below thinks we should close that loophole - I do too. #BanSharkFinUK.'

The wildlife campaigner later added another post saying: 'You couldn't make it up... and you don't have to as a stag hunt is handed a taxpayer-backed £50,000 coronavirus loan and £10,000 grant . . . how many testing kits is that?'

Mr Bonner's comments are not the first time the Countryside Alliance and Mr Packham have butted heads.

In 2015 he accused the BBC of letting the Springwatch presenter use the corporation to push his own views.

Mr Packham, an outspoken critic of fox hunting, had written an article for the BBC Wildlife Magazine accusing the RSPB and Wildlife Trusts of failing to oppose the return of fox hunting.

He also claimed conservation charities were 'guilty of fence sitting' when it came to looking after wildlife.

The CA, which campaigns on behalf of hunting, shooting and fishing groups, accused Mr Packham of abusing his position to promote 'political propaganda.'

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2020-09-03 21:31:59Z
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Boris Johnson will NEVER give Nicola Sturgeon a second referendum 'He would not survive!' - Express

Tony Miklinski told Express.co.uk Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party will not give Scotland's First Minister another referendum whilst they have a majority in Westminster. He added Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP should respect that result of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.

Mr Miklinski said: "I do not think that the Conservative Government with a majority in Westminster and with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister will ever give Nicola Sturgeon a second independence referendum.

"It will not happen on his watch, it cannot happen.

"I do not think he would survive if he were to go down that route and that is because there is no moral or legal case for it.

"The referendum in 2014 gave the result, the SNP hate the result and that is why they continually campaign for another one but that does not make it right.

"They have had a referendum they cannot have one every 5 years or every 10 years hoping that you will just catch once the right answer or the right time for your thinking.

"They should respect the result and get on with life."

On Tuesday in a statement at Holyrood Nicola Sturgeon outlined her intention to submit a draft bill setting out the terms and timing of a second Scottish independence referendum.

Nicola Sturgeon told Scottish Parliament in a statement that the UK Government's decision to not seek an extension to the post-Brexit transition period strengthens the case for Scottish independence.

She added: "Brexit and the way in which Brexit is being implemented immeasurably strengthens the case for Scotland becoming an independent country with the ability to shape our own destiny.

"If this was a programme for Government in an independent Scotland, we wouldn’t have to contemplate the damage of Brexit at all.

"That is why before the end of this parliament we will publish a draft bill setting out the proposed terms and timing of an independence referendum as well as the proposed question that people will be asked in that referendum.

"Then at next year’s election we will make the case for Scotland to become an independent country, we will seek a clear endorsement for Scotland’s right to choose its own future."

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2020-09-03 20:35:00Z
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Boris Johnson's independence problem is in England, not Scotland - New Statesman

Vote Leave’s success was simple: it avoided mentioning the initial disruption that Brexit would cause, and talked broadly about all the possible flavours of exit without being pinned down to any single end state, while associating leaving the European Union with a whole host of other, already popular policies (such as spending more on the NHS or lowering immigration). The campaign avoided discussing the sharper choices and no-win scenarios. And it ran, hard, against the record of the incumbent Conservative government.

The question that now occupies an increasing amount of the government’s time is this: how do we stop the SNP doing to us what Vote Leave did to David Cameron? The role of today's government's central players in winning the Brexit referendum brought Cameron’s premiership to an abrupt end, a little over a year after his great electoral triumph. Now they fear that Scottish independence could do the same to them.

“Plan A” is simple: you can’t lose a referendum if you don’t hold one. But the government’s “Save the Union” team (whose de facto head is Michael Gove) and the SNP are united in the realisation that while technically the battle that matters as far holding another referendum is concerned is the 2021 Scottish parliament election, what actually matters is whether it’s politically weatherable to avoid holding one.

Don’t forget that there was a majority in the 2016 Scottish parliament to seek a fresh referendum, and a majority of Scottish voters thought that Brexit was enough to activate the Anglo-Scottish Union for the SNP’s manifesto commitment to hold a fresh vote in the event of a “material change”. Yet voters didn’t really want a referendum, and were happy to have it both ways, telling pollsters that the Scottish parliament ought to be able to hold one if it wanted, while making that scenario less likely by tactically voting against the SNP at the 2017 general election.

Both sides know full well that what matters is not that Nicola Sturgeon will ask for a referendum and that Boris Johnson will say no, but how that event is viewed by the Scottish public. The fear that, in practice, Johnson will be unable to refuse another independence referendum is why thoughts are turning to “Plan B”: how the government would actually win a second vote.

Over at the Spectator, James Forsyth moots one possible option: for England and Scotland to negotiate the terms of divorce first and then hold a referendum. You can see how this works in theory, as almost any political proposition loses, rather than gains, support as it becomes more specific. (See for instance support for “taxes on pollution”, a more popular proposition than, say, fuel duty.)

But it’s not clear to me how this process would command legitimacy or trust. The Scottish government would surely argue that negotiations conducted before an independence vote would have different incentives for the rest of the UK than one afterwards: a pre-referendum negotiation would be about discouraging a Yes vote, while a post-referendum negotiation would be about making a Yes vote workable for both sides.

And, of course, this would be true! It’s also true that a number of very difficult questions and challenges would not go away, and that a vote for Scottish independence would, just as the Brexit vote has, pave the way for a long period of adjustment. (And that this would be harder and longer, because leaving a union in which you have pooled your sovereignty and policy for four decades is less complex than leaving one in which you have done so for three centuries.)

The problem, though, is that landing this message is difficult, to put it mildly, if you have voted in favour of leaving one union. While they are not tasks of equivalent size, the principle (to go through a period of painful adjustment in order to better maximise your sovereignty) is one and the same.

The difficult truth is that, while the battle over Scotland’s future will be decided in Scotland, it is not solely about Scotland. The perception of Sturgeon’s greater competence compared to Boris Johnson, the perception that the choice is between a long but finite period of adjustment to independence as opposed to the endless grinding incompetence of the Tory government in England: these are perceptions that can only be changed by changing how the Conservative government in England operates or by replacing it.

Stephen Bush is political editor of the New Statesman. His daily briefing, Morning Call, provides a quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics.

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2020-09-03 17:59:25Z
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Zahid Younis: 36-year-old found guilty of murdering women and stuffing bodies inside freezer - Evening Standard

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2020-09-03 16:21:09Z
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