A police officer has been killed and two others are seriously injured after a gunman who travelled from Belgium into France on train opened fire on a parked police van.
The police men were taken unaware as the gun man immediately started shooting
He then tried to run along the pavement, aiming at other officers and hitting two “very seriously”, a French interior ministry spokesman said.
The Tory MP has announced today that he is quitting as a Member of a Parliament.
The 45-year-old former Chancellor has recently been backlashed for taking other highly paid jobs including the editorship of a news publication while still being an MP. Speaking after announcing his intention to quit, he gave the reasons for his decision in a letter to Conservatives in his Tatton constituency.
“At the age of 45, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life just being an ex-Chancellor. I want new challenges,” He went on further to say, “I will go on fighting for that Britain I love from the editor’s chair of a great newspaper. It’s still too early to be writing my memoirs.”
The UK Prime Minister has made a sharp U-turn from not wanting an election until 2020 to now wanting it to hold as soon as June 8. The PM announced rather unexpectedly his morning that the snap election is imperative for certainty, stability and strong leadership as the UK begins Brexit talks with the EU?
Giving her reasons for the change of mind, Mrs May said: “The country is coming together but Westminster is not.”
Meanwhile opposition parties are delighted with the announcement as it offers them a great chance to dethrone Mrs May early rather than wait till 2020. Jeremy Cobyn has welcomed the idea even though the polls puts his party chances at 25% as against the Conservative party which stands at 45%.
A vote is expected in the House of Commons on Wednesday, all indications shows that the House will back the snap election, although the House of Commons have been divided before now, it appears like all parties will vote in favour of the election giving Mrs May the two thirds majority she needs to have the authority to hold the election?
A woman was sexually assaulted by a man who was said to be in his early sixties, the man touched the woman inappropriately after he stuck his leg out as she walked through the aisle causing her to fall on him, the police are asking for information from anyone who may have witnessed the incident. Please get in touch with the police to get the bad egg off the street.
A British student at the University of Birmingham met her untimely death yesterday 13th April 2017 on a tram in Jerusalem. She was reportedly stabbed several times on the chest in a tram. She was on an exchange programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She was killed by a man who repeatedly stabbed her in the chest on a tram while she was commuting.
Jerusalem police chief Yoram Halevy told the AFP news agency the man was “very mentally disturbed”.
An off-duty policeman travelling on the tram pulled an emergency brake and then tackled the attacker, with the help of another passenger.
He told the AFP news agency: “I was travelling with my family when I heard the cries of ‘attack, attack’.
“I sounded the alarm then rushed to the scene of the attack. We overpowered him.” The attacker is now in police custody for questioning. Another promising life wasted, may her soul rest in peace!
It’s a day many hoped would never come after the bitter campaign in 2014 for an Independent Scotland. Today Nicola Sturgeon has won a key Holyrood vote on her plans for a second independence referendum. The vote was won by a 10-vote majority, no thanks to the Scottish Green Party who played the spoiler. Without the support of the Green Party, Sturgeon does not have a majority to pass the motion. It is expected that the First minister will be writing to Theresa May to formally request the right to hold another referendum in spring of 2019. Do you think Westminster should have done more by lobbying the Green Party not to support the SNP? After all there can’t be talks about indyref2 without a successful motion.
According to The Telegraph, the American airline barred some girls who wore leggings, but after the airline was accused of sexism, the airline responded by saying the girls were relatives of staff and so the “special rule” applies to them because as relatives of staff they indirectly represent the airline
Police say Khalid acted alone and they have no reason to believe there will be follow up attack
A woman will be arraigned in court for the murder of Marie Low, according to STV, the incident happened in September 2016, the 30 year old suspect has denied murdering her victim. Read more here https://stv.tv/news/tayside/1381979-woman-to-stand-trial-over-murder-of-mother-of-three/
Police investigation reveals remains of Kyzer Gayle found in a shed where he was hidden by his mother Victoria Gayle who has now been sentenced to 21 months in jail
