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Restaurant blames '100 illegal immigrants' in hotel next door as it shuts down after 20 years​

The popular restaurant has been successful for over 20 years and was rated 4.6 stars on TripAdvisor.

Closing restaurant blames '100 illegal immigrants' in hotel next door

Managers of Ceno Bar and Restaurant in Southampton said illegal migrants have damaged the business and made it almost 'impossible to operate'.

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New Year... same old Keir: Robotic PM reads out 'rousing' note to grim-faced Cabinet urging them to ignore apocalyptic polls and focus on cost of living​

Robotic PM reads out 'rousing' note to grim Cabinet in 2026 relaunch

Gathering his senior team for the first time in 2026, Keir Starmer talked up his action to ease pressure - admitting that will be what the government is judged on come the election.

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This is NOT Justice! Insult to the Victim.​

 

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The usual exemplary competence ‼️❗‼️

Met hired child rapist in bid to boost diversity as force admits it failed to properly vet thousands of officers​

Mitchell and another 24 officers were given a second chance to join the Met who then went on to commit criminal offences or misconduct, including violence, sex attacks and drug use.

More than 130 officers and staff let in due to vetting failures then went on to commit crimes or misconduct.

Met hired child rapist in bid to boost diversity

Cliff Mitchell joined the police after a panel, partly focused on improving diversity, overturned a decision to reject him despite an unproven allegation of child rape

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Thousands of Brits prescribed super-strength CANNABIS for mental health conditions including anxiety and depression - with benefits claimants offered free consultations and discounts on their monthly weed prescription​

Thousand of Britons are being prescribed super-strength cannabis for anxiety and depression.

Despite experts warning of the dangers, private clinics are handing it out after just one video consultation and boast the powerful drug can be 'delivered directly to the patient's door via a next-day service'.

Amid an epidemic of cannabis use on our streets, a Daily Mail audit has found specialist pharmacies are prescribing almost 10,000 different products - including ultra-strong strains imported from Amsterdam with names such as Ghost Train Haze, Dante's Inferno and White Widow.

Benefits claimants signed off work with mental health problems are offered free consultations and up to 20 per cent off the cost of the drug.

NHS prescriptions are tightly controlled, but dozens of private clinics are handing out 99 per cent of the medical cannabis in Britain.

Marijuana - which the NHS warns greatly increases the risk of severe mental health problems - is routinely being prescribed privately for mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, OCD, mood disorders and ADHD.

Illegal smokers of the drug are even encouraged to contact clinics 'to see if your usage could be legitimised' with a prescription.

Thousands of Brits prescribed CANNABIS for mental health conditions

Benefits claimants signed off work with mental health problems are even offered free cannabis consultations and up to 20 per cent off their monthly weed prescription.

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Another exemplary illegal migrant​

Kurdish asylum seeker, 27, raped girl he met online in the grounds of Tamworth Castle just weeks after arriving in the UK on a small boat​

Asylum seeker raped girl just weeks after arriving in UK by small boat

Kurdish national Mehmet Ogur, who was living at the Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth, forced himself on his 18-year-old victim in the grounds of Tamworth Castle.

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Revealed: The secret room hidden beneath China's 'super embassy'​

China is reportedly planning to build a secret underground room that could be used to spy on the UK at the site of its controversial 'super embassy' in London.

Unredacted plans - unveiled by the Telegraph - supposedly shows a hidden room in the north west corner of the building, which is just metres away from a vital cable network connecting some of London's top financial sectors.

The triangular room measures up to 40 metres across and 2-3 metres deep and includes at least two air extraction systems, according to the newspaper, seemingly indicating it could house heat-generating equipment such as high tech computers.

It is part of a network of 208 secret rooms - a majority of which are hidden from the public in planning proposals - beneath Beijing's 'super-embassy', which is set to be built on the site of the Royal Mint pending approval from Sir Keir Starmer.

Downing Street is said to have proposed that the Prime Minister approves the plans before he visits China later this month in a bid to smooth over relations with president Xi Jinping following a series of planning delays.

But there are fears the new embassy could be used as a 'spy centre', with some critics raising concerns that China could tap into the cables and eavesdrop on key information.

Documents also reveal that the outer wall of the chamber, lying directly next to the cables, would be demolished and rebuilt, further fuelling fears they could be tapped.

Security expert Professor Alan Woodward said this was a 'red flag' and having the cables so close to the building would be an 'enormous temptation' for China.

Last year, The Mail On Sunday revealed that planning documents for the embassy included 'spy dungeons' – two suites of basement rooms and a tunnel, with their purpose redacted for security reasons.

Diplomatic sources also revealed that a proposed 'spy campus' will provide on-site accommodation for more than 200 intelligence officers at the embassy.

Revealed: The secret room hidden beneath China's 'super embassy'

Unredacted plans supposedly shows a hidden room in the north west corner of the building, which is just metres away from a vital cable network connecting London's top financial sectors.

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He'll be out of prison in EIGHT years': Husband's fury over lenient sentence for cowboy roofer who mowed down and killed his 'inspirational' wife in 70mph police chase as they played golf​

Husband's fury at golf course killing sentence

Clinton Harrison looked on in court today as the man who robbed him of 'his world', his inspirational wife Suzanne Cherry, was jailed for 13-and-a-half years

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The British justice and penal system: sympathetic - of criminal mentality, sympathetic - by criminal mentality, sympathetic - for criminal mentality.​

Paedophile who snatched six-year-old girl from her bath before raping her and dumping her naked on a road could be released​

Paedophile who raped child and dumped her on a road could be released

A paedophile who snatched a six-year-old girl from her bath before raping her and dumping her naked on a road could be released from prison.

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Nigel Farage in legal bid to block election delays that risk turning Britain into a 'banana republic' where FIVE MILLION people will lose their vote​

Nigel Farage is to launch an immediate legal bid to prevent dozens of councils scrapping elections due to be held in May.

Ministers announced last month that they were inviting councils in areas undergoing local government reorganisation to postpone their elections.

The move triggered an angry backlash, with critics accusing Keir Starmer of 'running scared of voters' ahead of elections in May in which Labour is expected to get a bloody nose.

At least 30 councils, covering a combined population of more than five million people, are thought to have applied for a postponement ahead of Wednesday night's deadline.

Mr Farage – who said the plans were worthy of a 'banana republic' – is expected to launch High Court proceedings today to get the decision overturned.

The Reform UK leader, whose party is likely to be the biggest loser from any delay, said he was 'primed and ready' to seek a judicial review of the Government's plans.

'We're about settling our arguments at the ballot box,' he said. 'We have this so we that we don't have to fight each other. That principle is what generations that went before gave so much to defend and if the others won't fight it, we will.'

He said the delays were 'the actions, not just of a Labour government, but with the connivance of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Denying elections is the behaviour of a banana republic.'

Nigel Farage in legal bid against 'banana republic' election delays

Ministers announced last month that they were inviting councils in areas undergoing local government reorganisation to postpone their elections.

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Labour's rebranding of 'Islamophobia' will deepen 'two-tier policing' crisis and shatter free speech in Britain, warn critics​

Labour proposals for an official definition of 'anti-Muslim hostility' risk making 'two-tier policing' even worse, it has been warned.

The Government is set to scrap its previous plan for an 'Islamophobia' definition in favour of the new phrase in a bid to head off claims that it is creating a blasphemy law by the back door.

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the proposed definition would be used by Islamist extremists to secure police action against their critics.

It comes in the wake of a report by the Policy Exchange think-tank, published earlier this week, that said the 'anti-Muslim hostility' term would actually be 'more dangerous' than Labour's previous proposals.

Mr Philp said: 'The Government's plans risk giving the green light to Islamists who would use this definition to ruthlessly shut down criticism of their extremist views.

'The Government's work is a direct threat to free speech and is likely to lead to even more two-tier policing.

Labour's rebranding of 'Islamophobia' will deepen 'two-tier policing'

The Government is set to scrap plans for an 'Islamophobia' definition in favour of a new phrase - 'anti-Muslim hostility' - in a move that is alarming free speech campaigners and other critics.

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'A victory for common sense': Nurses who sued NHS trust over transgender colleague using female changing rooms succeed in landmark sex discrimination claim​

A group of nurses who sued an NHS trust after a transgender colleague was allowed to use female changing rooms have succeeded in their claim that they were the victims of harassment and sex discrimination.

The seven women took on County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust after nurse Rose Henderson – who was born male but identifies as a woman – shared female changing rooms despite their concerns.

They said the actions of the trust flew in the face of a Supreme Court ruling in April last year which found the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and biological sex.

In a judgement handed down today, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney said that by requiring the nurses to share a changing room with a biological male, the trust 'engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment' which had the effect of 'violating the dignity' of the nurses.

He added it created a 'hostile, humiliating and degrading environment'.

The tribunal concluded that while Henderson had not personally harassed or victimised the nurses, they had been subjected to harassment related to sex and gender reassignment when their concerns were not taken seriously.

The women were also put at a disadvantage by being required to change their clothes in front of a member of the opposite sex, the tribunal concluded.

In evidence, the nurses had claimed Henderson walked around the changing rooms in boxer shorts and stared at women.

Nurses who sued NHS trust over transgender colleague win tribunal

The nurses sued an NHS trust claiming sexual discrimination and sexual harassment because transgender nurse Rose Henderson was able to share female changing rooms.

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All biological women, not just these brave nurses, should be celebrating this victory for common sense​

It may have taken a 16-day trial, 24 witnesses and 4,500 pages of evidence, but finally justice has been served.

This ruling is unequivocal. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust created a 'hostile, humiliating and degrading environment' for female nurses, 'violating the dignity' of these women in their place of work.

To me, this ruling is just common sense. After all, I've been campaigning for more than 40 years to create female-only spaces – women's safety depends on it. Indeed, in 1974, feminists got the right to female-only spaces enshrined in law.

But over the past decade, I've despaired as that right to privacy has been eroded by trans ideologues intent on putting the whims of a tiny number of troubled males above the safety of women.

When the Supreme Court ruled last year that a woman is defined by biological sex – in short, that trans women are men – I hoped the tide might yet turn once again. Thank God, with this judgment, I believe it has.

I grew up in Darlington and the vast majority of my family still live there. Indeed, before he died four years ago, my father was treated with the utmost care by nurses from the Memorial Hospital. He never had a bad word to say about them and some of my old school chums are in their number. What these nurses have endured, however, is scandalous.

We all know nurses are the backbone of the NHS. And yet these women – who go through immense physical and emotional strain every day – were forced to get changed while, according to evidence given at the tribunal, a biological male wandered around in a pair of boxer shorts gawping at them.

JULIE BINDEL: All biological women should be celebrating this victory

It may have taken a 16-day trial, 24 witnesses and 4,500 pages of evidence, but finally justice has been served.

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How the misery of Tunbridge Wells sums up Britain today: Thousands of families without water for days, local businesses in peril... and a useless utility firm whose boss is on £500,000​

There was something utterly depressing about a visit to the emergency water distribution centres dotted around Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead this week.

The hundreds of palettes of two-litre plastic water bottles stacked high. The frozen teams in hi-vis jackets desperately trying to keep warm. The queues of cars patiently navigating the rain, mud and giant potholes for the fifth day on the trot.

And the miserable stories of nearly a week of flannel baths and closed schools, grinding anxiety and dirty hair. ‘It feels like we’re marinating!’ says Jackie Marsh, a retired hairdresser.

But perhaps worst of all, the sense of defeat and deja vu. And the creeping realisation that, for the 30,000 households affected by South East Water’s newest crisis, queueing for bottled water to brush teeth and boil kettles was fast becoming part of daily life in broken Britain.

Nursery manager Scarlet, 27, is nine weeks pregnant with her first child and suffering from extreme morning sickness. But she can’t flush the loo. Or have a shower or a bath. Or even fill the kettle for a soothing ginger tea. According to her mother-in-law Liza Butler, Scarlet is spiralling into anxiety.

‘She’s terribly distraught, really, really frightened,’ Liza told me as she collected bottled water.

Charlie and Lorna welcomed newborn Pip by Caesarean section last week – a brother for their 20-month-old toddler – only to return home to a sporadic water supply in the Hawkenbury area of Tunbridge Wells.

Nothing came out of the taps after late morning and there was so little water pressure that a shower was impossible.

Welcome to Tunbridge Wells: Thousands without water and CEO on £500K

JANE FRYER: There was something utterly depressing about a visit to the emergency water distribution centres dotted around Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead this week.

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A warning to Britain and do good naivety !

Students were raped after being forced to live in complex alongside 125 refugees to 'aid integration': Terrified Dutch youngsters 'were subjected to years of sex assaults and violence'​

Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their 'integration' were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported.

Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis.

A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to 'buddy up' so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.

But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.

One woman said she would regularly see 'fights in the hallway and then again in the shared living room'.

A man told the programme that a refugee threatened him with an eight-inch kitchen knife.

And they claimed they were ignored despite filing multiple reports to authorities.

In one shocking case, a former resident said that a Syrian raped her after inviting her to his room to watch a film then refusing to let her leave.

The woman, identified only as Amanda, said: 'He wanted to learn Dutch, to get an education. I wanted to help him.'

Students raped after being made to live alongside 125 refugees

Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their 'integration' were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported.

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