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Litter in the seaThere has been a dramatic rise in the amount of litter found on the seabed around Britain, according to new government data.

An average of 358 litter items were found per square kilometre of seabed in 2016, a 158% rise on the previous year, and 222% higher than the average for 1992-94. Almost 78% of the litter is plastic, 6.3% rubber and 2.7% metal, according to the data published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. The amount of seabed litter has fluctuated over the years..Read more HERE

Published on 03/11/2017 @ 13h46  |

Hashem Abedi, brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, inside the Tripoli-based Special Deterrent anti-terrorism force unit.An extradition request has been made to the Libyan authorities for the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber to return to the UK to face trial for mass murder.

Hashem Abedi, 20, was arrested in Libya shortly after his older brother, Salman Abedi, blew himself up, killing 22 concert goers at the Manchester Arena on 22 May this year. Greater Manchester police (GMP) said that counter-terrorism officers had been granted a warrant for Hashem’s arrest..Read more HERE

Published on 02/11/2017 @ 16h36  |

Image result for David Davis concedes Brexit financial deal will probably favour EUDavid Davis has conceded that Britain’s Brexit withdrawal agreement is likely to favour the European Union in money terms but insisted that the future relationship would favour both sides.

His comments, which could be designed to soften people up to the idea of a hefty multibillion-pound financial settlement, came after the government said it was accelerating domestic preparations by hiring 8,000 new civil servants. Read more HERE.

Published on 01/11/2017 @ 13h26  |

Image result for Eight people killed in New York 'act of terror' after truck drives on to bike pathEight people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a man drove a truck nearly a mile down a bike path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, striking pedestrians, cyclists and a school bus.

New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, said the incident was being treated as “a particularly cowardly act of terror”. He said a police officer assigned to the area stopped the attacker by shooting him in the stomach. Read more HERE.

Published on 01/11/2017 @ 13h18  |

View of Palermo. Mafia boss Pino Scaduto, head of the Bagheria syndicate near the Sicilian capital, tried to have his daughter murdered prosectors say. A Sicilian mafia boss who ordered the assassination of his daughter from behind bars because she was in love with a policeman has been arrested – after his son refused to carry out the hit. Godfather Pino Scaduto began blaming his earlier arrest and conviction on his daughter’s burgeoning relationship with a senior Italian policeman. Investigators scouring his prison correspondence discovered chilling references to a specific “gift” he wanted to give to his daughter. Read more HERE.

Published on 31/10/2017 @ 13h32  |