Author: Laura Robinson
A Boeing 737 passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after ‘micro-explosions’ caused both engines to catch fire during take-off.The S7 airline plane with 175 passengers was flying from Novosibirsk – Russia’s third largest city – to capital city Moscow.The fires started as the plane was on the runway taking off, passengers said.The small explosions led to fires in both engines of a Boeing 737, resulting in an emergency landing.A video filmed by a passenger shows the alarming sight of engine fire at around 6.30am today. The flames can be seen flickering violently in the passenger windows during…
Speculation rages over what The Crown’s writer Peter Morgan might do next, with rumours circulating that a new show about all the royal scandals left out of the latest series could be next on screen.However, Prince Andrew, Fergie and the younger royals can breathe easy, as I’m told that now he has called cut on the sixth series of the Netflix drama, that really will be it.The first series went out in 2016 and Morgan is said to have earned at least £1 million an episode, meaning a total of £50 million over the decade he has been working on…
There is something rather liberating when a polite technocrat loses his rag. Boy, Rishi Sunak was cross. Normally tolerant to a fault, the Prime Minister called an emergency Downing Street news conference to address the latest Tory infighting. He. Was. Seething.The intention this week had been to follow Monday’s impressive legal migration crackdown with an end-of-week announcement of the ‘toughest anti-illegal immigration law ever’.Robert Jenrick’s departure on Wednesday night threw an almighty spanner in the works. Principled resignation by Mr Jenrick or treacherous attempt to scuttle the Government? Hard to say.Plain to all, however, was Mr Sunak’s exasperation. But for…
By Jessica Clark Updated: 17:01 EST, 7 December 2023 Billionaire hedge fund boss Chris Hohn’s annual dividend has been slashed in half – but he still took home £275million.The tycoon, who runs TCI Fund Management and once employed prime minister Rishi Sunak as an analyst, paid himself a record £550million in the year to February 2022.But his pay for the following year halved as profits fell from £696million to £363million, say accounts filed at Companies house.Nevertheless, the mammoth earnings, which have seen his fortune estimated at £5billion by the Sunday Times Rich List, underline his status as a top investor.Hohn,…
The eight-year Russian hacking campaign targeting the private conversations of British MPs, civil servants and public figures is said to have been orchestrated by a shadowy cyber unit known as ‘Centre 18’. The unit – part of the notorious Federal Security Service (FSB) – was allegedly run by intelligence officer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko and bodybuilder Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. Today the Foreign Office took the unusual move of naming the two men, who they said successfully compromised the private emails and conversations of high-profile politicians and ministers. During ‘sustained’ attempts to interfere in UK politics, which will only increase next year when the country goes to the…
Russia has targeted hundreds of British MPs, civil servants and academics to snoop on private conversations in a devastating eight-year campaign.Hackers linked to the Federal Security Service (FSB) successfully compromised the private emails and conversations of high-profile politicians and ministers. During ‘sustained’ attempts to interfere in UK politics, which will only increase next year when the country goes to the polls, spies stole information from hundreds of politicians, officials, civil servants, NGOs and journalists.Today the Foreign Office took the unusual move of naming and shaming those behind the hacking campaign, which has been ongoing since 2015.Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is a Russian…
By Oliver Price Published: 20:35 EST, 6 December 2023 | Updated: 06:00 EST, 7 December 2023 Bus services across the UK could be set to be brought back under public control after Manchester became the first to take its fleet out of private hands.Following decades of ‘wild west’ privatisation, plans are reportedly in motion to allow local authorities to have power over setting bus routes and fares.Areas which are looking to adopt the changes include West Yorkshire, where a consultation will end in a month – with a decision to be made in March.Greater Manchester was the first English region…
Reports suggested a number of players have grown frustrated with Erik Ten Hag The Red Devils have played four times in the last 12 days winning just twice Manchester United have snakes in their dressing room, players who are not running. Bruce, Robson, Keane would never allow this – It’s All Kicking Off By Dominic Hogan For Mailonline Published: 04:08 EST, 7 December 2023 | Updated: 05:35 EST, 7 December 2023 Scott McTominay was the hero of the day with his double salvo against Chelsea on Wednesday night, but the Scottish international was quick to praise a training tweak from his boss Erik…
A schoolgirl shot dead another student and wounded five others at a Russian school today, before turning the gun on herself.Officials said the 14-year-old opened fire with a pump-action shotgun, with reports saying the attack was carried out inside a classroom at the school.She killed one pupil and injured at least five others, officials said, before killing herself at the school in the Russian city of Bryansk, police said on Thursday.Those injured in the attack at the Gymnasium Number 5 school were rushed to hospital, with one – a boy – reported to be in a serious condition in intensive…
At the start of this supposed great arraignment of an election-smashing former prime minister we had Boris Agonistes. Taking his place at the Covid inquiry, Boris Johnson seemed miserable, deflated, wrung dry.Having sworn the oath, he slumped at the witness table and was wary of the room around him.Who could blame him when one staring, unhappy woman in the public gallery shouted ‘You’re a murderer!’, and when four others (soon ejected) held up signs saying ‘The dead can’t hear your apologies’?The grief of these protesters felt performative and political. Please, we are all victims of that wretched virus. Some of…