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A Christian chaplain was dismissed after refusing to chant 'smash heteronormativity' at inclusion training at a fee-paying boarding school, an employment tribunal was told. Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, 49, from Long Eaton, Derbyshire, did not join in the 'chant' when urged to do so by the leader of Educate and Celebrate Dr Elly Barnes during an inset session at the independent Trent College, Long Eaton. Extremist groups are using blasphemy to silence free speech, a counter-terrorism expert has warned. William Shawcross, who was appointed by the British government to lead the review of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy, said the Batley row was an example of how some groups were using blasphemy as a way to curtail free speech. Enoch Burke was arrested yesterday morning for breaching a court order not to teach at his Westmeath school, or be physically present there. After Judge Michael Quinn made his ruling, Mr Burke said: 'It is insanity that I will be led from this courtroom to a place of incarceration, but I will not give up my Christian beliefs.'

A 78-year-old coach driver died in a crash on the M25 after suffering 'a medical episode'and veering across three lanes into the central reservation today. Six teenage girls were also injured but did not require hospital treatment. A 19-year-old woman has said she is too 'afraid to leave the house at night' after she was beaten by a mob of youths shouting 'get her phone'. Chloe Miller had been on her way to her local corner shop with her mother and sister on August 27 when she was attacked on a street in South Norwood, London, leaving her concussed and with heavy bruising all over her body. The father of a 13-year-old girl forced to wait almost three years for her case to be heard has castigated Justice Secretary Dominic Raab after he received a mealy-mouthed letter following media interest in his daughter's case. A young woman drowned in the sea after being swept away by waves as she and her boyfriend took photos of a famous lighthouse near Beachy Head in Eastbourne, an inquest has heard. Pharmacist Dora Mango, 26, was found floating face-down in the sea off the beach in the East Sussex town. Ms Mango and her boyfriend Jerry had travelled down to the coast on a sightseeing trip from their home in Redhill, Surrey. A luxury £200,000 Bentley that was allegedly stolen in London has been found five thousand miles away in Pakistan, according to Pakistani police. The Bentley Mulsanne V8 Automatic was recovered by Customs Enforcement agents following a tip-off which came from a 'friendly nation' the agency said, with local media suggesting it was British intelligence who helped. The man who was spotted scaling The Shard in London this morning is a notorious free climber who has ascended some of the world's tallest buildings. Daredevil Adam Lockwood, 21, is believed to have successfully scaled the UK's tallest building this morning around 5am, before taking a selfie at the skyscrapers summit. Four long-standing Radio 2 stars are set to be replaced by presenters who are on average 25 years younger. The BBC has been accused of ‘rank ageism’ after Vanessa Feltz, Paul O’Grady, Craig Charles and Steve Wright – whose ages range from 58 to 68 – announced their departures.

A police force has been praised for its 'fantastic decision' to bring back traditional headwear - just six years after switching to 'more practical' US-style baseball caps. Lancashire Police announced the U-turn on social media, saying it would be ditching the gender-neutral headgear for all its officers, before re-introducing bowler hats for females and white flat caps for males. The move was welcomed by many on social media, as one suggested: 'Just need to see the custodians return now', referring to the traditional police officer's helmet After Just Stop Oil activists dug two tunnels underneath entrances to the Navigator oil terminal at Saint Clements Way and Stoneness Road in Essex, they warned the decision to partially reopen the roads was dangerous and could 'risk their collapse'. Essex Police assistant chief constable Glen Pavelin rejected the idea, saying it was up to the protestors to remove themselves from the tunnels they had climbed into to avoid endangering themselves and others. Gabriel Callero, 57, was viciously assaulted by two British holidaymakers on the Spanish island of Majorca in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident began when an 'intoxicated' tourist, who was walking down a street accompanied by two other men, climbed onto the hood of the taxi at around 2am. Information has been revealed today, Monday, August 22, about a driver who was arrested yesterday, Sunday, August 21, for fatally running over two cyclists and leaving another critical in the Barcelona municipality of Castellbisbaç An alarming incident occurred on Monday, August 15 aboard a Boeing 737-800 on flight ET-343, operated by Ethiopian Airlines airline. It was travelling on the route between the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, and Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. While flying on autopilot at 37,000 feet (11,000m) both pilots fell asleep. – Speaking to Finnish news outlet, YLE, the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, spoke about the leaked video of her partying which led people to question her leadership of the country. “I’m disappointed that it has become public. I spent the evening with friends. Partied, pretty wild, yes. Danced and sang,” she told the broadcaster.

Police officers faced a backlash over the weekend for joining in with a performance of the Macarena at a Pride festival, as critics accused them of not taking their job seriously enough. Locals reacted with fury after multiple posts were made showing on-duty officers having fun on Lincolnshire Police's social media accounts from the festival, including the video of officers dancing.

I use a bit of social media but don’t use TikTok. For me, it’s always been one for the youngsters. I can’t dance, sing or do backward somersaults or forward ones come to that.TikTok have strict rules too, or so I thought. The number of passports lost by the Home Office in 2021 amidst the covid catch-up battle has tripled the amount seen in the previous year. It has been revealed that HGV driver Craig Heal, who was involved in a traffic accident last March, had traces of cocaine in his system. A few weeks ago we were shaken by the alarming figures of hunger in the world. There have been many headlines warning that hunger now affects 828 million people, anincrease of 150 million since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.This is even more worrying for Latin America and the Caribbean, the region that has suffered the greatest increase in food insecurity, and in which 60 million people do not have enough food to eat. Hunger is a gender issue. Globally, about 32% of women are moderately or severely food insecure, compared to 27.6% of men. I’m so pleased Boris has been kicked out as Prime Minister. What amazes me is how he got the job in the first place. The man has cheated and lied through every single job. He cheats on his wife, has been nicked for breaking covid rules that he put in place – the list is endless.

@vincetracy and @neilcolbourne discuss UK news #water supply #Tikok #GrantShapps #Cycling #Parenting #Education

Taiwan, Inflation and Prince Charles 4th August 2022 ..... Moreover, Britain goes into the cost-of-living crisis with nearly full employment. The more people in work ,the more National Insurance and income tax contributions flow into the nation's coffers and the more there is to spend, pushing up VAT receipts. Prince Charles was accused of a 'serious lack of judgment' yesterday after it emerged his charity accepted £1million from the family of Osama bin Laden. It received the donation after Charles had a private meeting with the terrorist's half-brother Bakr bin Laden in 2013 – two years after the Al Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces. Iván’s parents and friends described him as a normal 17-year-old. He went to high school, played soccer, took piano lessons and hung out with his buddies. He wanted to become a member of the riot police. One day, he logged onto a dating site and started talking to a man almost 40 years older than him. The massacre on the Faroe Islands was so bloody it turned the sea dark red as the bottlenose dolphins were stabbed with spears and hauled onto the shore . Residents of Skálafjörður herded the dolphins into a bay and penned them in before wading into the shallows to stab them with spears, hooks and knives. The 'hunt' comes just weeks after the Faroe government set an annual catch limit of dolphins to 500 a year, and less than a year after 1400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed in one weekend. Residents claim the mass-killing of dolphins is an important part of their tradition and history, and supplements the islanders' diet.

A study has revealed that Chester, the walled cathedral city, in the northwest of England, has the highest percentage of buildings - 83.7 per cent - that align with the 'golden ratio'.Using this ratio as a guide, researchers drew up a ranking of the most eye-catching cities on the planet, with Venice coming second. It has a 'beauty score' of 83.3 per cent. In third place, meanwhile, it's London (83 per cent). Fourth place is scooped up by Belfast (82.9 per cent), while Rome slides into fifth place at 82 per cent.  Birmingham has long had a special place in my heart. I fell deeply in love there and visited dozens of times for work enjoying the pubs and the people. Then, for nearly two decades, I went regularly to see a close family friend. So it was with much anticipation I sat down to watch the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games....................................................Sir Keir Starmer is facing a major crisis as trade unions threaten to stop funding Labour over his lack of support for strikes.Unite, the Opposition's main financial backer, called on Sir Keir to decide which side he was on and warned there was 'no point' giving money to a party that no longer supports workers........................................The burglar climbed over the high garden fence, creeping into my house through French windows early one morning, as I sat a few feet away from him in the kitchen. When people decry the evils of Western capitalism, Konstantin Kisin remembers the words of his grandmother who told him people were jailed for inadvertently having their chips wrapped in a newspaper with Stalin's face on it When people decry the evils of Western capitalism, Konstantin Kisin remembers the words of his grandmother.For while the MeToo movement and Everyone’s Invited — a site that has hit the headlines for exposing ‘rape culture’ in schools and universities through anonymous testimonies, usually from girls — have undoubtedly helped unmask disturbing predatory male behaviour, they have also helped breed a generation of young women and girls who see all boys as predators.

hree died after the traditional bous al carrer ..........56 yr old in Picassent, 50 years old in Meliana and 64 years old Frenchman in Pedreguer in this year's fiestas. According to the Donetsk People’s Republic’s Deputy Head of the Ministry of information, the republic will be freed from Ukraine Armed Forces by the end of August. The new Science, Technology and Innovation Law in the Balearic Islands will mean more funds for research and better working conditions for researchers.On July 26, the Parliament of the Balearic Islands approved the new Law on Science, Technology and Innovation of the Balearic Islands (LCTIIB) with the support of all the parliamentary groups, except Vox. The scientific community was represented by the main institutes and organisations dedicated to research in the Balearic Islands. If there’s one thing Elon Musk does on Twitter even more often than posting dodgy memes, it’s talking about ‘population collapse’.The Tesla CEO and billionaire has been very vocal over recent times about the threat of a reduction in the human population size. British Gas owner Centrica sparked fury today after announcing profits had risen five fold to £1.34billion - just as it emerged UK household energy bills could rocket to £500 a month amid Russian threats to cut Europe's gas supplies. The bumper operating profit for the six months to the end of June compared to the £262m recorded in the same period last year. CARP-R-US fished the Rio Segura at Bigastro for the first time in two months for Round Seven of the Summer-Autumn Series. “And how it had changed!” exclaimed club secretary Steve Fell. “The bankside vegetation, so carefully cleared after 2019 storms is now back to head height in many places.” The river itself was down about half a metre from the previous visit, Steve said, and fell a further 15 centimetres during the match. “Another tough day at the office was expected,” he added. Winner of the match with 2.8 kilos from Peg 2 was Richard Crawshaw, now fishing more regularly after almost a year spent renovating his house. Steve Fell, next door on Peg 1, managed 1.3 kilos with a catch that included two small barbel. “That was to see,” he said. Third was Tony Flett with 1 kilo and Jeremy Fardoe was fourth with 280 grammes. “It is worth mentioning that over 20 terrapins were caught during the match,” Steve said. Further information about the club can be found on its www.carp-r-us.weebly.com website or on the Carp-R-Us Fishing Costa Blanca Facebook page. JUST when you thought you heard it all, up pops an organisation that has recently suggested we should ‘off’ old people as a ‘favour to our children’! Yep, you ‘eard. ‘The World Economic Forum’ is an extremely well-financed outfit which has its finger in a positive global pie shop. It is also a somewhat shady union of powerful left thinking people who want to change the world

Proof of having enough cash is not the only new requirement, with Spain saying British entrants may have to provide a range of documents when entering the country under new rules introduced because of Brexit. I Striking rail workers were yesterday accused of demanding pay rises ‘at the point of a gun’ amid claims that some drivers already earn over £100,000 a year.Ahead of yet more stoppages this week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps angrily insisted that drivers and other rail workers already had ‘generous salaries … paid for by the public’.But union leaders were prepared to ‘punish commuters’ and stoke inflation by demanding even more, he added. A writer and coach has revealed how she faced a backlash over a viral letter in which she said: 'I'm not oppressed because I'm black'.Africa Brooke, 29, who lives in London, spoke to the Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett about her views on race, and what it really means to be oppressed for his popular podcast. The Southern Co-Op chain is facing a legal challenge to its 'Orwellian' and 'unlawful' use of facial recognition cameras.Privacy rights group Big Brother Watch claimed supermarket staff could add people to a secret 'blacklist' without them knowing. Stonewall has been criticised for claiming that children as young as two can recognise if they are transgender and that nurseries should teach that idea.The row was triggered when the LGBT charit y shared an article on social media headlined ‘My 4-year-old is gender nonconforming – but her nursery doesn’t respect that.