An incident occurred at around 4am in the southern Belgium village of Strepy-
Bracquegnies, a district in the former coal-mining town of La Louviere which is 30 miles
south of Brussels.
Video footage shows the moment when a self-styled ‘Lord’ smuggled Albanian migrants
into the UK on a 72ft yacht – as he and two other people smugglers have been jailed for
16 years in total.
A Dorset school has apologised after sending an email threatening students with
detention if they did not donate to Comic Relief. Parents were told their children were
expected to pay £1 to turn up to the Livingstone Academy in Bournemouth in non-uniform
on Red Nose Day, and that those who wore casual clothes without donating would be
held back when classes ended.........
Charles Leclerc won the opening Formula One race of the new era by taking victory at the
Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position - and Lewis Hamilton took a shock podium place as
Red Bull imploded.
Drone footage has revealed the damage wreaked by a fire that ravaged a large
marshland site in Parkgate, the Wirral, yesterday evening - with the inferno requiring six
fire engines to be extinguished.
Gucci's creative director has claimed men are turning to 'flamboyant and feminine' outfits
to express their 'freedom' and crush gender stereotypes. Alessandro Michele, 49, has
been credited for bringing gender fluid fashion to the catwalk since he started
spearheading Gucci's revamp in 2015.
A pair of £960 trainers designed by luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has been compared
to a £12.99 pair from budget supermarket Lidl with fashion fans saying the shoes look
very similar. According to the luxury brand, the LV Trainer sneaker, which it describes as
an 'icon of the Louis Vuitton shoe collection', is made in Italy, and hand stitched, with
every pair taking seven hours to make.
Bosses at P&O Ferries have been accused of hiring £1.82-an-hour foreign agency
workers to replace 800 sacked staff - with some of the temps living in tents to save cash.
Labour MP Karl Turner said they were expected to work mammoth 12-hour shifts for eight
weeks at a time.
A property, believed to be a holiday home, in St Agnes, Cornwall, has been vandalised
with graffiti protesting second home owners in the popular tourist county. The graffiti says:
'Second home owners give something back: Rent or sell your empty houses to local
people at a fair price.'
A mother-of-five who became Britain's youngest grandmother after her 14-year-old
daughter gave birth has revealed it 'doesn't feel right being a granny'. Kelly Healey was
only 30 when her teenage daughter Skye Salter gave birth to Bailey, now three, in August
2018.
