A company which made a faulty cooker that killed up to 18 people failed to test it with the grill door closed, an inquest heard today. Maureen Cook, 47, and her parents Audrey, 86, and Alfred Cook, 90, died in their static caravan home in Camborne, Cornwall, in 2013. Kevin Branton, 32, and Richard Smith, 30, … Read more
Skripal probe hackers unmasked: Six Russians accused of trying to infiltrate Salisbury poisoning probe are named Hackers who tried to infiltrate Salisbury investigation have been unmasked They were charged in the US over a series of cyber-attacks across the world Indictment accuses group of trying to undermine UK efforts to hold Moscow to account By … Read more
‘Vladimir Putin’s chef’ is given travel ban as senior Kremlin officials are hit with sanctions by Britain and the EU after Alexei Navalny poisoning ‘Putin’s chef’ Yevgeniy Prigozhin has been hit with sanctions by Britain and EU Prigozhin was sanctioned over ‘significant foreign mercenary activity’ in Libya Six other Russians with links to Alexei Navalny’s poisoning … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shown his shaking hands as he continues to recover from a suspected novichok poisoning in August. Navalny made the comments during his first video appearance since being discharged from a Berlin hospital, recorded just six days after he was released. ‘My hands shake. If I were to drink water from … Read more
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is back up and walking after treatment for novichok nerve agent poisoning at Berlin hospital Vladimir Putin’s political opponent shared a photo walking down hospital stairs He can now breathe independently after being taken off a ventilator this week Navalny gave an update on his recovery: ‘This is a clear … Read more
Mother-of-three, 33, found on the loo beside empty bottle of wine in Pontin’s chalet had died of alcohol poisoning – hours after police were called out due to her drinking Police called to chalet of Gwynedd mother-of-three thought to be drunk just hours before she died of alcohol abuse Sioned Catherine Evans, 33, found with four … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more
The West is demanding answers from Moscow today after the ‘despicable and cowardly’ nerve agent attack on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. Britain said the Kremlin ‘has a clear case to answer’ while NATO demanded a ‘full and transparent’ investigation after a German military lab found that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the Soviet-era weapon used … Read more
A thorn in the finger is an everyday injury for most gardeners — and for tree surgeon Lindsay MacPherson it’s more routine than most. So when he snagged his finger on a blackthorn tree he was chopping, he naturally thought little of it. But that little thorn caused an infection that left him in hospital … Read more