Jumat, 08 Oktober 2021
BREAKING: Conservative MP James Brokenshire dies aged 53 - Sky News
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2021-10-08 11:02:26Z
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COVID-19: Lateral flow tests should replace PCRs for returning travellers by half-term - Sky News
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2021-10-08 08:45:41Z
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Kamis, 07 Oktober 2021
PCR tests for travellers ditched before half-term - The Times
The cost of a family holiday will fall by about £200 after ministers announced that PCR tests for foreign travel are to be scrapped by half-term and reduced the red list to seven countries.
The tests, costing about £75 each on average, will be replaced by lateral flow tests, which cost as little as £25. Passengers will have to send a photo of their negative result two days after arriving in Britain.
Popular winter destinations such as Mexico, South Africa and Brazil were given a boost after the Department for Transport said that the toughest travel restrictions would be dropped for 47 countries and territories from 4am on Monday.
Boris Johnson overruled Sajid Javid, the health secretary, who wanted travellers to film themselves taking a
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2021-10-07 17:45:00Z
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Jilted student disguised himself in fat suit before throwing acid in ex’s face - Metro.co.uk
A ‘cruel and jealous’ medical student disguised himself in a fat suit and threw sulphuric acid in his ex-girlfriend’s face in a ‘premeditated, malicious and harrowing’ attack on her doorstep.
Talented junior doctor Rym Alaoui suffered ‘unimaginable’ and life-changing injuries to her face, neck and chest when Milad Rouf hurled the corrosive substance at her in Brighton earlier this year.
The 25-year-old wore padded clothing, make-up and sunglasses to make himself look like a black woman of larger build before knocking on her door.
Lewes Crown Court heard the disguise proved effective, and Dr Alaoui, also 25, did not recognise him as she opened it moments before he launched the assault.
She was rushed to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, where she worked, and treated by shocked colleagues.
In a statement, Dr Alaoui said: ‘Since the day I was subject to this horrific attack, my life has changed tremendously, whereby I live in constant physical and psychological pain, fear of my future wellbeing and socioeconomic hardship.
‘I have been robbed of years of my career and young adult life. I cannot begin to imagine how or why someone could commit such a horrible, premeditated attack.’
She said she fears her career as a doctor may no longer be open to her.
Rouf pleaded guilty to maliciously throwing sulphuric acid at his former girlfriend with the intent to maim and disfigure her. He was handed an 11-year extended sentence.
Prosecutor Flora Page told the court that Rouf and Dr Alaoui had dated briefly while studying together in Cardiff, but she had ended the relationship and moved to the East Sussex city where she began working as a junior doctor.
Instead of moving on, Rouf spent weeks planning his attack before travelling to Brighton on May 20.
Pictures released by police show handwritten shopping lists for different costumes found at his flat.
Ms Page said: ‘Using padded clothing and make-up, he made himself appear to be a black woman of large build.
‘By the time of the attack at 4.15pm, he was dressed all in black and he was wearing a face mask, sunglasses and a face visor.’
Rouf showed her a threatening note written on a pad – taking care not to speak and give himself away – before throwing 60% concentrate sulphuric acid in her face as she bent to read it.
Despite her quick-thinking in going straight to the shower to wash it off, and the actions of medical staff, she has been left with devastating injuries.
Sentencing him, Judge Christine Laing QC said the trauma suffered by Dr Alaoui was ‘unimaginable’.
She added: ‘You bought sulphuric acid, as a trainee doctor you would know far better than most people the devastating consequences that has when applied to the human body.’
Judge Laing said Rouf acted out of ‘simple jealousy and anger at being rejected’.
After the hearing, investigating officer Rose Horan said: ‘This was a premeditated, malicious and harrowing incident and I’d like to thank the victim for showing such incredible bravery and dignity throughout. She has been inspirational, and we continue to support her during this difficult time.
‘The evidence we were able to uncover in this case showed that Rouf spent considerable time planning this calculated attack.
‘He changed his entire appearance in a convoluted attempt to get away with this cruel act.’
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2021-10-07 22:51:00Z
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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: 'Bullying' couple 'poisoned' boy, 6, with salt - BBC News
A "bullying" father and stepmother "poisoned" a six-year-old boy with salt and exposed him to months of "cruel" abuse, a court has heard.
Thomas Hughes and his girlfriend Emma Tustin are jointly accused of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at her home in Shirley, Solihull, on 17 June 2020.
Prosecutors said his head was "banged repeatedly against a hard surface" causing an "unsurvivable brain injury".
The couple are also accused of multiple counts of child cruelty.
It is alleged Ms Tustin, 32, of Cranmore Road, carried out the fatal assault while in sole care of Arthur and fetched her mobile phone immediately afterwards to take a photograph of the youngster as he lay dying in the hallway.
Prosecutors said despite having her phone, she took 12 minutes to call 999, telling medics Arthur "fell and banged his head and while on the floor banged his head another five times".
Jonas Hankin QC, for the prosecution, told jurors at Coventry Crown Court that Ms Tustin's account included the suggestion "Arthur had headbutted her during the incident" and had treated the couple badly.
Mr Hughes, 29, of Stroud Road, and Ms Tustin allegedly forced Arthur to endure "systematic, cruel behaviour", both "physical and psychological" in the weeks before he died.
One witness said the previously happy and healthy boy looked "as though he were broken" on the day of his death.
The same witness said that when Arthur "secretly" asked him for a drink of water, while Mr Hughes and Ms Tustin were out of the room, "he had to hold [the glass] to Arthur's mouth" because he was "too weak to hold it himself".
Opening the case on Thursday, Mr Hankin said: "His clothes looked dirty, his lips cracked, he could barely open his mouth to speak, his hair was dirty, his nails were dirty and he looked malnourished, gaunt and worn-out."
Arthur was "segregated and isolated" for "up to 14 hours a day", the court was told, often made to stay on the step next to the hallway by the front door, and prevented from having food and drink.
Mr Hankin said the evidence indicated Arthur was isolated and "physically and verbally abused", while access to food and drink were "controlled or restricted".
He told the jury "Arthur was made to sleep on the living room floor" at Ms Tustin's home in Solihull and after his death, "a duvet was found in a cupboard under the stairs".
'Put him out with the rubbish'
The jury was told medical evidence revealed the boy died from "head trauma inflicted on him by an adult" and the most likely cause was that he had been "vigorously shaken and his head banged repeatedly against a hard surface".
Notes from hospital doctors who treated him after his collapse revealed he had also been "poisoned with salt" and had suffered extensive bruising.
Ms Tustin took pictures and recorded audio clips and videos of Arthur being punished, sending them to Mr Hughes, jurors were told.
On 6 May 2020, Mr Hughes texted Ms Tustin, telling her: "Tell him not to move a muscle - put him by the fridge, put him outside or wherever, give him away.
"Put him out with the rubbish."
The prosecutor said Ms Tustin recorded more than 200 audio files of Arthur in "various stages of distress".
In some of the recordings he was heard saying: "Please help me, help me uncle, they're not feeding me, I need some food and a drink."
The court was told that in June last year, Mr Hughes told a neighbour: "If you hear anyone saying 'don't kill me', ignore it, I'm not hurting him."
Mr Hankin said emergency services were called to reports Arthur had "sustained a self-inflicted head injury at his stepmother's home address", with paramedics noting a "large bruise" on his forehead.
He suffered a cardiac arrest, but medics got his heart beating and rushed him to Birmingham Children's Hospital.
His head injuries were said to be unsurvivable and Arthur died shortly before 01:00 BST on 17 June.
The jury was told that Arthur had been in the sole care of his father after his natural mother, Olivia Labinjo, was convicted of a killing in February 2019.
On the first day of the trial, Ms Tustin admitted child cruelty by ill-treating, while Mr Hughes denies a similar charge. They each deny murder.
The pair also face an allegation of child cruelty by administering salt to Arthur between 1 and 17 June last year.
Both are also accused of two counts of child cruelty by assault on multiple occasions and also by withholding food and/or drink.
The trial continues.
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2021-10-07 16:11:57Z
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Brexit: New NI Protocol proposals to be brought by EU - BBC News
The EU will bring forward new proposals for the Northern Ireland Protocol next week, European Commission Vice President Maros Šefčovič has said.
He said he hopes they would form the basis for intensive talks with the UK.
The protocol avoids a hard border on the island of Ireland by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.
But unionists argue it creates a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
They say it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position as part of the UK.
Mr Šefčovič told an event in Dublin that he hoped talks would begin before the end of October.
He said his proposals would be "very far reaching" and that he hoped they would be seen as such.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - Northern Ireland's largest unionist party - had warned that it may quit Stormont if its demands over the protocol were not met.
Mr Šefčovič said the EU was going to "enormous lengths".
"I believe the package of practical solutions that we are putting on the table would be attractive for Northern Ireland and would be, I hope, supported by a majority of stakeholders in Northern Ireland," he told the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin.
He said the commitment of the EU to the Good Friday Agreement was "absolute" and that the avoidance of a hard border on the island was a "prerequisite".
He told the Conservative party conference that the protocol was "not working and needs to change".
In July, Lord Frost put forward radical proposals for changes to the protocol.
Triggering Article 16, which would suspend part of the deal, may end up as "the only way" forward, he warned.
Mr Šefčovič said threats to trigger Article 16 were not helpful.
He said his proposals were not presented on a "take it or leave it" basis and that both the UK and EU would need to get out of their comfort zones.
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2021-10-07 10:08:44Z
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Gofundme started for MP who spoke of tragedy of £82,000 a year salary - Metro.co.uk
The British public has taken pity on a hard-done-by MP and set up fundraising pages after he revealed the struggles of getting by on his generous annual salary.
Sir Peter Bottomley, the ‘Father of the House’ as the MP in the Commons with the longest continuous service, hit headlines yesterday after saying parliamentarians should be given a pay rise.
He thinks MPs, who are paid £81,932 annually, should be paid the same amount as GPs – whose average salary in England is £100,700. The average salary across the UK was £31,461, as of last year.
His comments in the New Statesman came on the day Universal Credit was cut by £20 a week for the country’s most vulnerable people.
Although Sir Peter said he currently is not struggling financially, he believes the situation is ‘desperately difficult’ for his newer colleagues.
The representative, for Worthing West in West Sussex, added: ‘I don’t know how they manage. It’s really grim.’
The MP was taken to task and ridiculed online, with social media users saying he needed to ‘get a grip’ with reality.
Many pointed out his salary does not include an MP’s generous expenses allowance, and others suggested if he had his wages cut by the equivalent of the Universal Credit cuts he would lose out on more than £17,000 a year.
Satirical website The Poke suggested his comments sparked ‘panic-buying of tiny violins’.
Others, ironically referencing Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party conference keynote speech yesterday, suggested Sir Peter ‘level up’ and get a better-paid job.
But some people took it even further and suggested Brits do a ‘whip round’ for the MP.
One JustGiving page pleads: ‘Please help feed struggling Sir Peter Bottomley!’
The proceeds are going to The Trussell Trust – a charity working to end the need for food banks in the UK.
It said: ‘In light of Sir Peter Bottomley making the stark revelation yesterday that he finds it incredibly hard to live on his MPs salary of £82,000 a year, I’ve decided to try and raise some money so that he and others that are so in need of financial support to feed themselves and their families don’t go hungry.
‘My heart quite honestly bled for him when I heard of the struggles of him and his colleagues, on the same day that they implemented a £20 cut to Universal Credit, affecting hundreds of thousands of families across the UK.
‘I’m sure with the struggles these MPs are experiencing themselves, they must rely heavily on The Trussell Trust and the other charities that offer similar services to those facing hardship.
‘We should take it as an absolute blessing that these food banks exist under the Government of a well-developed country, who due to their careful and diligent spending throughout Covid and Brexit have made these services more necessary and critical than ever.’
Another GoFundMe page with the title ‘support struggling Tories’ is raising £20,000 for food banks – the amount which would make up the difference between an MP’s salary and the average annual wage of a GP.
Simon Harris, who launched the page, wrote: ‘I am raising £20,000 for the Tory MP Sir Peter Bottomley who has courageously admitted that he is “struggling” on the current MP’s salary of £80,000 per year.
‘This amount will bring his pay in line with a GP, as he has pointed out in the media.
‘Personally I think that the £20 Universal Credit uplift funding should be immediately redirected to MP’s like Sir Peter who are clearly in dire straits, and I will even present him with a giant novelty cheque when we reach the total.
‘The fact that some of these people could be forced to switch from Waitrose to Sainsbury’s has forced my hand – it’s time to step up and help those who are genuinely in need.
‘Or I’ll just give the money to food banks because that’s where a lot of these WORKING Universal Credit claimants are going to end up, and I don’t have the empathy level of a service station pasty.’
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