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A Royal Navy submarine which was fully armed with nuclear missiles aborted a top secret operation after a fire broke out onboard.The £3billion HMS Victorious, which is one of Britain’s four Trident submarines, had been sailing to a base overseas when the electrical fire started six weeks ago. The Home Office is spending millions of pounds on taxis to transport migrants across the UK - with some drivers claiming they were told to drop off passengers at railway stations with no follow up. Officials have paid more than £3.7million in the past year alone for taxis, vans and buses to move asylum seekers, illegal migrants and unaccompanied minors, an analysis of public contracts revealed. Gary Neville, the former Manchester United footballer, 47, sparked a blacklash when he agreed to be a pundit for state broadcaster beIN SPORTS for the World Cup tournament - due to begin later this month. Neville has repeatedly insisted he will 'never shy away' from highlighting controversial issues while working for the broadcaster. Commuters can shell out more on railway station parking than on travelling on the train, campaigners said yesterday. Their research shows that some drivers face bills reaching as high as £3,000.In some cases it costs more to use a car parking space year-round than it does to take the train. Grant Shapps was facing fury last night after saying there ‘wasn’t really much point’ to a long-promised railway across northern England. Bonfire Night across the country erupted into chaos last night as thugs chucked fireworks at passers-by, set alight wheelie bins and threw explosives at police. Scenes of disarray were seen in Leeds and Edinburgh with police in Manchester and Merseyside reporting blockaded roads. Civil servants have spent £500,000 of taxpayer cash on mindfulness apps which have celebrities including Idris Elba and Kate Winslet reading bedtime stories to soothe users to sleep. Fly-tipping has been practically decriminalised across Britain, with fewer than one in 400 offences being prosecuted in the past decade. .A partygoer died after a downing three pints of gin in a drinking game during a 36-hour session, an inquest heard. Shamed inspector Dean Gittoes, 49, of Merthyr Tydfil, who 'throttled' a teenage boy and called him a 'clever little internet freak' because he was filming a police station faces losing his job. Gittoes was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work after 'unlawfully' detaining the 16-year-old outside Merthyr Tydfil police station on August 20 last year.

All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier.A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they were kicked out of their privately-rented home in June. Birmingham City Council could not find a home big enough to accommodate all of the family, with the family members split into two temporary houses instead of one.Emma Lee, who owns The Sutton Arms in Faceby, North Yorkshire, shared a public appeal urging the table of six to do the right thing and pay for their expensive meal. .Angry residents have hit out at late-night music and raucous football tournaments at a Holiday Inn Express that is housing 130 asylum seekers.They claim there has been 'really loud music all night long' at the site in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after refugee families were relocated and young men were housed at the hotel instead.Labour MP Rosie Duffield has slammed the British Transport Police (BTP) after they tweeted an appeal to identify a suspected flasher, referring to the suspect as 'them' rather than stating their gender.A former infant school headteacher has been accused of bullying her colleagues and favouring her husband, who was also a teacher on staff. Nicola Blythin was appointed headteacher at St Asaph VP School in North Wales in 2009 and was initially well liked and respected, a colleague said.Britain is falling further behind targets for its electric car charging infrastructure and a growing disparity in availability of public devices is making EV ownership in London extremely attractive but almost impossible in the north.Incredibly, there are more charging points in London's Westminster than in Birmingham, Liverpool and Greater Manchester combined, according to new data released from the Department for Transport this week.

China is operating dozens of secret police stations in plain view by disguising them as British restaurants, estate agents and other ordinary businesses, a civil liberties watchdog has claimed. A report from human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders warned China was operating more than 50 undeclared police hubs as part of a global network to force dissidents to return to Beijing. Change is at last taking place in the controversial arena of caring for Britain's transgender children.The turn of events is so dramatic it is being hailed by family campaigners as a huge step towards ending what they call a 'massive medical and social experiment' on youngsters who believe they have been born in the wrong body. The Foreign Office has issued a travel warning for Spain following political unrest - as protests are breaking out over the country's spiralling cost of living crisis. Thousands of Spanish residents have been taking part in protests across the country calling for an increase in wages and pensions in line with inflation.A large demonstration took place in Madrid last week, while pro-independence marches have been taking place in Barcelona in which protesters blocked the city's airport and major roads. Valencia council said on Monday, October 31 that some 7,000 panels will be installed across the roofs of all the cemeteries in the city. The Councillor for Cemeteries, Alejandro Ramon, told ElDiario that the installation was part of the city’s roadmap towards a greener and more self-sustaining environment. The implications are horrifying. We now know a foreign power hacked the personal mobile phone of the talkative Liz Truss. The severity of this security breach can hardly be overstated. As a former prime minister, ex-foreign secretary and ex-international trade secretary, Miss Truss was the chief custodian of our national security secrets and the recipient of invaluable MI6 intelligence.Millions of drivers were potentially put at risk during a terrifying near-national outage of life-saving technology on smart motorways.The system controlling hundreds of miles of the controversial carriageways had to be rebooted following a 'glitch' that meant it was out of action for seven hours, including the evening rush hour. 'Old people' who call work meetings on a Friday afternoon, expect staff to make calls as part of their job and make random noises over Zoom have been put on notice by Gen Z. A hotel in East Yorkshire has been told it can no longer house asylum seekers after a council was successful in securing an interim High Court injunction.East Riding of Yorkshire Council today confirmed that it had gone to the High Court to prevent the Hull Humber View Hotel in North Ferriby from being used for asylum seekers temporarily. The King enjoys his brief commute by car up the Mall – waving to crowds – to Buckingham Palace from Clarence House. But he expects his staff to walk or cycle there........

@MIKEPAYNE joined @vincetracy to try and make sense of the happenings in the UK. We discussed #RishiSunak #liztruss #Margaretthatcher #Tories #Labour #immigrants #racism #ecozealots #juststopoil #economy #woke cop27 #MONARCHY #THECROWN #NETFLIX

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All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier. A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they were kicked out of their privately-rented home in June. Birmingham City Council could not find a home big enough to accommodate all of the family, with the family members split into two temporary houses instead of one. Emma Lee, who owns The Sutton Arms in Faceby, North Yorkshire, shared a public appeal urging the table of six to do the right thing and pay for their expensive meal. . Angry residents have hit out at late-night music and raucous football tournaments at a Holiday Inn Express that is housing 130 asylum seekers.They claim there has been 'really loud music all night long' at the site in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after refugee families were relocated and young men were housed at the hotel instead. Labour MP Rosie Duffield has slammed the British Transport Police (BTP) after they tweeted an appeal to identify a suspected flasher, referring to the suspect as 'them' rather than stating their gender. A former infant school headteacher has been accused of bullying her colleagues and favouring her husband, who was also a teacher on staff. Nicola Blythin was appointed headteacher at St Asaph VP School in North Wales in 2009 and was initially well liked and respected, a colleague said. Britain is falling further behind targets for its electric car charging infrastructure and a growing disparity in availability of public devices is making EV ownership in London extremely attractive but almost impossible in the north.Incredibly, there are more charging points in London's Westminster than in Birmingham, Liverpool and Greater Manchester combined, according to new data released from the Department for Transport this week. This is the eye-popping moment a cyclist well and truly got his comeuppance after pushing a wheelie rider out of his way on a cycle lane in east London. A video shows a man wearing a blue helmet and back stretch out his arm and rudely push a young man in the middle of doing a wheelie. Against the odds, the youngster manages to stop from falling by putting his foot on the ground It is instead the aggressor whose bike flops sideways and he embarrassingly ends up falling down. He rolls several times on the pavement before coming to an abrupt stop. Joey Barton has been cleared of assaulting his wife after a judge ruled he could not have a fair trial because prosecutors would not call her to give evidence.The former Premier League midfielder, 40, was accused of pushing Georgia Barton, 36, to the floor before kicking her during a drunken row at their home in in Kew, south-west London on June 2 last year.

The outgoing Prime Minister could leave a lasting mark and controversially lavish her closest aides with gongs despite a disastrously short tenure in Downing Street. Mark Fullbrook , the former premier's chief of staff, is understood to have suggested she reward her outgoing staff and advisers with knighthoods and peerages. https://www.climateemergencyfund.org Just Stop Oil’s disruptive protests, blamed for petrol shortages across parts of England, have been funded by US philanthropists who say they want to incite a global “spring uprising” over climate change. A convicted sex offender has been jailed again after dressing up as a schoolgirl in order to talk to pupils and plying two young boys with booze. Mark Nicholson, 55, sat outside Blessed Trinity school in Burnley, Lancashire, dressed in the uniform of a white tie, blazer and a skirt. Transgender comedian and Labour candidate Eddie Izzard has accused MPs of 'bullying' over their 'transphobic' comments as she urges people to 'join the 21st century' having declared her intention to be 'based in girl mode from now on'. Bakers stop their ovens and declare war on high energy costs: “ There is no one to put up with it ” The sector calls for a national blackout on October 28 to demand solutions from the Government. Its electricity bills have tripled, a problem aggravated by the increase in the cost of raw materials and the lack of generational replacement... Costa Rica Meanwhile, the battle for the tiny silicon brains is not letting up. The US government on Friday announced that US companies will be banned from supplying Chinese customers with certain categories of semiconductors made with US technology, in a move that deals a blow to China’s production of weapons and supercomputers. It is the latest escalation in a bilateral battle that accelerated on August 2 with the surprise visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the world’s leading semiconductor producer, in a trip viewed by China as a provocation in its own backyard.

A new report has suggested that mums who choose to stay at home with their children should be given an extra £8,000 for support. Researchers at the Civitas think tank plan to urge ministers to make an £8,000 childcare allowance available in order to help stay-at-home mums. Labour MP Rosie Duffield has said she will refuse to call Eddie Izzard a woman. The comedian, who is campaigning to stand as a Labour MP, announced two years ago the decision to use 'she/her' pronouns. Parents of children as young as three were fabricating stories that their toddlers were transgender, a former psychiatrist at the Tavistock child gender clinic claims.Dr Az Hakeem worked at the controversial NHS clinic for 12 years until 2012 and said he expressed concerns the procedures followed by staff 'were mad', describing Tavistock as a 'transing factory'. Qatar's emir has raged against an 'unprecedented campaign' of criticism over his country's hosting of this year's football World Cup, saying on Tuesday no other host nation has ever faced the same level of scrutiny Two women have been taken to hospital after they were mauled by a dangerous dog which escaped from a nearby property. A family has revealed how their beloved three-year-old chihuahua was mauled to death by two 'vicious' dogs while out on an early morning walk. A body has been found in a skip outside a major hospital yesterday after police sealed off an area close to an A&E unit. Police made the grim discovery of the man in his 30s at Doncaster Royal Infirmary (DRI), South Yorkshire, just before 8.30am. Robbie Williams has come under fire after it was announced he will be performing in Qatar during the World Cup........And now Eric Cantona has urged suggests Beckham isn't aware of 'what has happened there'. An Australian woman who sparked an online storm after she complained about being wedged between two 'obese people' on a flight has hit back at haters who asked her to 'square up' - saying the only thing their fighting is 'high cholesterol'

Mike Payne joined me to discuss the bizarre series events taking place in the UK after Liz Truss became Prime Minister. How much longer will she remain in office?

Spain will waste €300 million by putting the clocks back by one hour according to calculations by the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE). By abandoning this move from Summer Time to Winter Time, the evenings (when people are more active) would remain lighter for one hour and could ensure a reduction in energy consumption of around 5 per cent. In theory the decision to introduce Summer Time was to give more light to farmers at the height of their sowing and harvesting times but there are two interesting facts about Spain, as during the Civil War, both sides observed different time zones and even today, the Canary Islands are one hour ahead of the rest of Spain. “Car cannibalism” is the latest crime wave to hit England’s streets with parked cars being stripped of components overnight. According to a report by broadcaster LBC, cars are being broken into and then stripped of body and engine parts, with Yorkshire and the Midlands said to be worst hit.Most commonly broken into and stripped are Vauxhall Corsas and Toyota Yaris’ according to information obtained by the broadcaster. The Bank of England was kept in the dark about the contents of the huge 'mini-Budget' that sent the markets into meltdown, it was revealed today. Deputy governor Jon Cunliffe said officials were not 'fully briefed' in advance about the package of £45billion of tax cuts, as would normally happen. Jessica Baker, 20, has avoided jail after she struck her boyfriend's ex in the head with a stiletto shoe-shaped designer perfume bottle during an ugly row in a Poundbury park . A children's home has been ordered to improve after extraordinary failings saw a manager buying a tattoo gun for one child - which they used to permanently ink another – and staff being slow to stop a young resident making a flamethrower. The centre, which cannot be named but is registered in Leicester, was today revealed to be the site of a series of worrying incidents. At one point – just three months ago – staff were threatened by a child who had made his own weapon to menace them. They had used an aerosol can and a cigarette lighter to fashion a homemade flamethrower. In another troubling incident the home manager bought a tattoo gun for one of the children. They then used it to permanently ink another child, despite the fact both were supposed to be under 2:1 supervision. The director of a cryotherapy firm used by elite Premier League football teams has won more than £20,000 at a tribunal - despite being sacked for installing a cryo-chamber that leaked deadly gases which ‘could have led to fatalities’.David Morris stepped in to fit one of the £80,000 chambers as the company’s engineer was unavailable. A lawyer who left a businesswoman feeling suicidal after he sent a video of them having sex to her work colleagues has avoided prison. David West, 38, gained access to the footage when he submitted a digital access request after claiming he was preparing for a defamation case.