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Hundreds of anti-establishment activists have clashed with police in central London on Bonfire Night.
Eight officers were injured and 12 people arrested on Friday, the Metropolitan Police said.
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks gathered at Trafalgar Square, with some throwing fireworks at police.
A crowd watched an effigy of Prime Minister Boris Johnson being burned, with one member shouting "burn, Boris, burn".
The rally, which is known as the Million Mask March, then moved to Parliament Square where they faced police wearing protective gear.
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Many of the demonstrators held signs protesting against the coronavirus lockdown, while some were seen setting off fireworks and using laser pointers.
One, who gave his name only as Richard, from London, said the protest, which has taken place on 5 November for several years, was a "continuation" of the "anti-Covid" marches.
"It's basically a continuation of the anti-Covid marches that we've been on since the beginning of the year," he said.
"It's a couple of fingers in the direction of the establishment."
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The Metropolitan Police said on Twitter that a dispersal order was in place for "a number of areas" across Westminster, including Parliament Square.
"A total of 12 arrests were made while policing tonight's demonstrations across London," the force said. "Those arrests were for a variety of offences.
"Eight of our officers were injured. This is unacceptable."
In a separate tweet, the Met said: "A crowd in Parliament Square have been dangerously lighting fireworks and rockets. Some have struck people or exploded near to the crowd, this could cause very serious injury.
"We have moved into the crowd to remove any fireworks and prevent people coming to harm."
Ahead of the protest, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Jane Connors said: "Groups of course have the right to protest. But I am particularly concerned that some groups are specifically intending to travel into London to deliberately cause violence and disorder including targeting police officers.
"This will not be tolerated and our policing plan has been developed with this potential risk in mind."
The seemingly normal life of the hospital electrician masked ‘unprecedented’ crimes (Picture: PA/Kent Police)
The wife of monster David Fuller has been left ‘distraught’ after her husband’s crimes were revealed.
Forensic evidence led police to the 67-year-old who murdered Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in 1987.
But it was only when his house was searched that the full depravity of his offending become clear.
While working as an electrician in hospitals in Kent and Sussex, Fuller abused the corpses of dozens of women and girls.
For 20 years he hid his vile secrets while sharing a home in Heathfield, East Sussex with Mala Fuller.
She left several months ago during the investigation into her husband’s shocking crimes.
Speaking to Mail Online, she said: ‘I’m not with him. I couldn’t carry on in that relationship. I’m too upset to even think about what was going on, I couldn’t live with it. You can’t imagine how distraught I am.’
Mala added: ‘I could not stay in that house knowing what he did and what went on in there. I wanted to be alone and want to live my life alone.’
When police officers arrested Fuller on suspicion of two murders last year, they had no clue about his abuse of dead bodies (Picture: Kent Police)
Fuller sexually assaulted and killed his victims in crimes which went unsolved for decades and became known as the ‘Bedsit Murders’.
A search of his home office revealed hard drives containing videos of himself performing the disturbing acts and notebooks documenting the names and details of those he desecrated.
Senior Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor Libby Clark said Fuller had been a ‘prowler, Peeping Tom’ with a history of domestic burglaries in the 1970s, who went on to live a very ordinary life in Kent.
He worked for the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust from 1989 before being transferred to a contractor which works with the health service.
But she added: ‘This was a man with a very, very dark secret.’
Fuller was still employed when police knocked on his door and arrested him for the 1987 murder in December 2020.
Caroline Pierce from Tunbridge Wells was just 20-years-old when she was brutally killed by Fuller (Picture: PA)
He also killed Wendy Knell, 25, and the two crimes became known as the ‘Bedsit murders’ (Picture: PA)
His security pass gave him access to the entire hospital, including the mortuary, and his late shift of 11pm and 7am meant he could access the facility when other staff had gone home.
Evidence documenting the offending dates back to at least 2008 but detectives fear it may have been going on for much longer.
Very old people and children were among Fuller’s victims and the true extent of his crime may never be known.
Ms Clark said Fuller is ‘clearly a danger to women’, adding: ‘The offending is incomprehensible, it’s so off the scale and not what you think people in hospital are going to be doing.
‘It’s just incomprehensible the scale and depravity of what he’s done.’
He has pleaded guilty to a catalogue of serious offences and will be sentenced at a later date.
Greta Thunberg has joined thousands of youth activists marching through the streets of Glasgow to demand action on climate change.
Hundreds of people joined the protest in Kelvingrove Park, organised by Fridays for Future Scotland which will see more than 8,000 people walk to George Square in the city centre.
Greta Thunberg on the march (Image: Tony Nicoletti Daily Record)
Teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg joined the crowds through the streets, while holding a sign reading: 'Fridays for Future'.
The youngster, activist Vanessa Nakate and other youth campaigners will speak to the crowds at the end of the march through the city.
5/11/21.....Youth and Public Empowerment Day march from Kelvingrove to George Square. Lots of families took part in the march starting on Kelvin way. Pic Victoria Stewart, Reach plc. (Image: Victoria Stewart, Reach plc.)
The climate strike participants are demanding change from leaders and politicians as Cop26 continues in the city.
5/11/21.....Youth and Public Empowerment Day march from Kelvingrove to George Square. Lots of families took part in the march starting on Kelvin way. Pic Victoria Stewart, Reach plc. (Image: Victoria Stewart, Reach plc.)
World leaders and celebrities travelled to the climate change summit on Monday.
18-year-old activist Greta Thunberg has been vocal in her scrutiny of the event, demanding no more 'blah, blah, blah'.
The teenager met campaigners at Festival Park in the Govan area of the city on Monday afternoon during the first day of the COP26 summit.
Cop26 UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow. Youth and Public Empowerment Day. The March organised by Friday's for Future Scotland will see Actavist Greta Thungberg joint the event. (Image: Tony Nicoletti Daily Record)
She lead a sweary rendition of “you can shove yer climate crisis up yer a***” during a rally at the Glasgow park.
She previous said at the gathering: ”This COP26 is just like the previous ones. It is leading us nowhere.
Cop26 UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow. Youth and Public Empowerment Day. The March organised by Friday's for Future Scotland will see Actavist Greta Thungberg joint the event. (Image: Tony Nicoletti Daily Record)
“Inside COP26 politicians and people in power are pretending to take our future seriously but they are lying.
"Change is not going to come from inside there. They are not the leadership, this here is leadership.”
Elie Street Nursery kids March for Cop26 in Glasgow's West End. (Image: Tony Nicoletti Daily Record)
The crowd cheered as she rallied them in a call of “ no more blah, blah”.
In a series of stinging claims, the she wrote young people around the world feel betrayed by the failure across all Governments to cut carbon emissions, and claimed the young fear a terrifying future.
Cop26 UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow. Youth and Public Empowerment Day. The March organised by Friday's for Future Scotland will see Actavist Greta Thungberg joint the event. (Image: Tony Nicoletti Daily Record)
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The letter from Greta, Vanessa Nakate, Dominika Lasota, and Mitzi Tan, has now been signed by more than 1.7 million people.
To read the full letter or sign your support click here.
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TV star Bear Grylls has said COP26 delegates will be able to tell their grandchildren about success at the climate summit.
Speaking at an event in the UK pavilion at the event, the survivalist urged those in positions of power to use their influence for good.
Grylls, speaking in his capacity as the Chief Scout of the United Kingdom, said delegates could tell their grandchildren they fought for the climate at the Glasgow summit and be proud of their achievement.
"Many of you work in government and NGOs, you guys have the power - use it," he said.
"Use if for the good.
"Be the person who can tell their grandchildren that in 2021 at COP26: 'It was epic... I made some huge decisions, in fact I almost put my job on the line for it.'
"'They all thought I was crazy but I told them to do the right thing."'
He added: "It's not easy for you guys as leaders - none of us like to take risks, especially with our jobs.
"But the pioneers - that's how you effect great change, isn't it?"
An essence of outrage around the climate crisis, Grylls said, was a good thing as long as it was channelled correctly.
"Obviously, we don't want all the bad stuff, but an essence of outrage, an essence of the 'no more blah, blah, blah' stuff is important, because it's the voice of experience - it's called righteous anger," he said.
"I do think that optimism is key... because, as they say, nobody ever raised a statue to a critic, it's easy to criticise, it's easy to point the finger, especially at other people.
"I think an element of righteous anger is a good thing and an even better element of optimism, and even more importantly, determination to make stuff happen."
The Yorkshire chairman Roger Hutton has resigned this morning over the club’s disastrous handling of racism allegations made by former player Azeem Rafiq, but in a parting shot claimed that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had refused to help with the case.
Hutton, a Leeds-based lawyer who has been chairman of the county since last April, apologised “unreservedly” to Rafiq and said that he will co-operate with the the ECB’s investigations and appear at the DCMS select committee hearing on November 16.
This is the latest escalation in the crisis engulfing the club. Yesterday:
•Former England captain and BBC Test Match Special pundit Michael Vaughan, who played his entire county career at the club, denied allegations of racism made by Rafiq
A cabinet minister has admitted it was "a mistake" for the government to attempt to overhaul parliament's disciplinary processes in combination with saving a Conservative MP from immediate suspension.
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News that ministers had reflected on the "conflation" of ripping up the current standards system with the case of Owen Paterson.
Image:Owen Paterson has quit as an MP following the row over his suspension
"It was right to separate the two things out, that was the mistake and I think it was right to reflect and return to parliament and correct that," he said of the bitter row in Westminster this week.
But a Labour frontbencher immediately dismissed the government's suggestion of a "mistake" and said ministers had intended to "bring the whole system down in order to protect one of their own".
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Conservative MPs to pass a motion in favour of blocking a recommended 30-day suspension for Mr Paterson, who had been found to have broken lobbying rules, while the standards system was reformed.
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But, following a huge backlash that saw the government accused of "corruption", Number 10 performed a U-turn less than 24 hours later with the promise of a new vote on Mr Paterson's suspension.
Mr Zahawi told Sky News: "I think the mistake... is the conflation of creating a fairer system, with the right of appeal for parliamentarians to be able to put forward effectively an appeal process, and then conflating that with a particular case of Owen Paterson was a mistake.
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"Upon reflection, yes it was a mistake and I think it was right to come back very quickly to the House and say 'look we need to separate those two things out'.
"We should work on a cross-party basis to create a fairer system, I think that's a good thing.
"And my appeal to my fellow parliamentarians from all parties is, look, let's come together and create a better system with the right of appeal."
The 65-year-old, who has been an MP for 24 years, was last month found by parliament's independent sleaze investigator to have broken lobbying rules during his £110,000-a-year private sector work.
But Mr Paterson vehemently disputed the findings and declared himself "not guilty".
His resignation will now trigger a by-election in his North Shropshire seat, which he won for the Conservatives with a near-23,000 majority at the 2019 general election.
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Asked by Sky News if he accepted Mr Paterson had acted wrongly in his work for Randox, a clinical diagnostics company, and Lynn's Country Foods, a meat processor and distributor, Mr Zahawi said: "The [parliamentary standards] commissioner had investigated and come back on the investigation around what Owen Paterson was doing in terms of his work for two companies.
"The prime minister has always been clear paid lobbying is wrong. We need to separate those two things out, as I say.
"The thing to focus on is not the particular case but to focus on creating a fairer system with the right of appeal for all parliamentarians."
Mr Zahawi pointed to his "collective responsibility" as a cabinet minister for voting in favour of blocking Mr Paterson's immediate suspension this week.
"We voted because I thought actually improving the system and introducing the right of appeal, as you would have in many sectors of the economy, in many professions people have a right of appeal, I think your viewers would understand there is a fairness argument here," he said.
Mr Paterson has previously said the investigation into his private sector work "undoubtedly played a major role" in his wife, Rose Paterson, taking her own life in June last year.
In his resignation statement, the former environment secretary revealed his children had asked him to leave politics in order to prevent his wife's memory from becoming "a political football".
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Mr Zahawi said the public would "make their own judgement" on Mr Paterson, adding: "All I would say is that its worth remembering there is a family here concerned who have just lost a mother, there are children and of course Owen himself, but the public will make up their own mind on this."
Labour's shadow Scotland secretary, Ian Murray, played down suggestions that his party and other opposition parties might field a single "unity candidate" in the North Shropshire by-election against the Tories.
"We [Labour] finished second there at the last election and we will do everything we can to show we are the anti-sleaze party, that Keir Starmer is the anti-sleaze candidate for prime minister," he told Sky News.
Of the government's actions this week, Mr Murray added: "They've decided they would try and change the rules, bring the standards commissioner to her knees, bring the whole system down in order to protect one of their own.
"I don't think the public will be looking at this today and thinking the government has made a 'mistake' and conflated two issues.
"What they've tried to do is use the system, bring the system down in order to make sure they could protect someone who had been found guilty of a pretty egregious breaking of the parliamentary rules."
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Greta Thunberg has denounced the COP26 summit in Glasgow for being the ‘most excluding COP ever’ and called the international conference a ‘greenwash festival’.
The 18-year-old climate change activist, who arrived in Glasgow by train on Sunday, slammed world leaders attending COP26 and said it was instead ‘a two week celebration of business as usual’.
The Swede walked out of a panel discussion with former governor of the Bank of England and UN climate envoy Mark Carney.
Greta shouted “this is greenwashing” as she left early.
In a post on Twitter yesterday the young campaigner wrote: “#COP26 has been named the must excluding COP ever. This is no longer a climate conference. This is a Global North greenwash festival. A two week celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah.”
The climate change activist denounced the summit in Glasgow (Image: REUTERS)
Her comments come just days after she criticised world leaders for ‘whatever the f*** they are doing in there’ during a demonstration at Festival Park in Glasgow.
On Monday Greta said heads of government were not doing enough to save the planet from disaster at a demonstration on the first day of the Cop26 summit.
She said: “No more blah blah blah, no more whatever the f*** they are doing inside there.
“Inside Cop, there are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously, pretending to take the present seriously.
“Change is not going to come from inside there, that is not leadership - this is leadership... We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and the planet.”
She then led a chant of: ‘You can shove your climate crisis up your a***’.
On Monday morning, Greta along with fellow campaigner Vanessa Nakate, from Uganda, met with Nicola Sturgeon.
The First Minister tweeted: ‘The voices of young people like @GretaThunberg and @vanessa-vash must be heard loudly and clearly at Cop26 - the next few days should not be comfortable for leaders, the responsibility to act must be felt.’
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Greta has previously been critical of the Scottish Government’s climate policy, saying the country was ‘not a leader on climate change’, as the First Minister had previously stated.
Announcing her pledge to her five million followers on Twitter, the 18-year-old said: “I am pleased to announce that I’ve decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language.
“In the event that I should say something inappropriate, I pledge to compensate that by saying something nice.”
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