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UK government ministers did not understand their own Covid lockdown rules, causing confusion and resentment among the police officers tasked with enforcing them, according to a former police chief. Officers were criticised in 2020 and 2021 for their hardline interpretation of the regulations, which involved them monitoring people with drones, fining people going for walks with cups of coffee and handing out leaflets asking why people were outside. Peter Fahy, the former chief constable of Greater Manchester police, said on Friday however that recent revelations in the Telegraph have underlined how difficult it was for officers to enforce the lockdowns. The Telegraph reported…

MATT HANCOCK RESPONDS TO LEAKED MESSAGES – Thousands Of Whatsapp Messages Sent During the height of Lockdowns Former health secretary Matt Hancock has issued a lengthy statement after the leaking of thousands of WhatsApp messages that were sent and received during the height of the COVID pandemic. Matt Hancock has denounced what he said was a “massive betrayal and breach of trust” following the leaking of lockdown WhatsApp messages. The exchanges were published in a UK broadsheet, after he shared them with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who worked with the former health secretary on his Pandemic Diaries book. In a lengthy…

DERAILED TRAIN IN GREECE – Rescuers comb through crushed carriages the Greek Fire Service said that,. the death toll from a head-on collision between two trains in central Greece on Tuesday night has increased to 38, while 57 people are still hospitalized. Six people have been admitted to intensive care, it added. A passenger train with around 350 travelers aboard from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided with a cargo train near Larissa City, causing the first four carriages of the passenger train to derail, with the first two carriages almost destroyed. According to Greek media reports, most…

When the ball dropped on to Alejandro Garnacho’s toes, there were 90 minutes played, and only one thing on the youngster’s mind. What occurred next was executed expertly: first came a touch to make space, then a look up at Alphonse Areola’s goal, followed by a sublime curled finish. Cue pandemonium, Erik ten Hag punching the air, and Alan Keegan, the stadium announcer, saying: “There will be four minutes of added time.” This is how late Manchester United left it after Saïd Benrahma had been en route to being West Ham’s hero with a second-half peach of an opener before, haplessly, Nayef…

Face masks were introduced in schools for the first time after Boris Johnson was told it was “not worth an argument” with Nicola Sturgeon over the issue, the Lockdown Files reveal. Mr Johnson went ahead with the policy despite England’s Chief Medical Officer saying there were “no very strong reasons” to do so. The policy was one of the most controversial of the pandemic and was not finally ended in England until January 2022 – 16 months later. Ms Sturgeon had already announced the compulsory wearing of face masks in corridors and communal areas in Scottish secondary schools and in August 2020 Mr Johnson asked for…

NORD STREAM PIPELINE EXPLOSIONS – Former CIA analyst supports Seymour Hersh’s story A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst has expressed his support for U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh’s report alleging that the Nord Stream blasts were carried out by divers from the U.S. Navy. Last month, a revelatory report by Hersh, a Pulitzer prize-winning American journalist, claimed that U.S. divers installed explosives under the Nord Stream pipelines during last summers’ NATO BALTOPS (Baltic Operations) military exercise before detonating them in late September. Raymond McGovern, a former CIA analyst, supported Hersh’s account when addressing an UN Security Council meeting on…

SAINSBURY’S TO CLOSE TWO ARGOS DEPOTS Leaves 1,400 jobs at risk Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has said it plans to close two Argos depots in a move that will impact 1,400 jobs. It is expected to take place over the next three years as part of a wider shake-up of its general merchandise operations across the group that would see its major warehouses cut from five to three. The company said it was proposing to close its Basildon distribution centre in Essex and depot at Heywood, Greater Manchester. It said the move would also threaten support staff employed by Wincanton. Sainsbury’s…

DJOKOVIC MOVES PAST GRAF FOR MOST WEEKS AS WORLD NO.1 IN HISTORY He moves to 378 weeks to pass the 377 weeks of Steffi Graf Novak Djokovic claimed yet another record in his illustrious tennis career, surpassing former German great Steffi Graf’s mark for most total weeks with the world number one ranking. The Serb, who since March 2021 has held the record for the most total weeks as the men’s world number one, moved onto 378 weeks to pass the 377 weeks of Steffi Graf, a fellow 22-time Grand Slam champion. Djokovic first climbed to the top of the…

BRITAIN’S CORONATION THRONE GETS REVAMP Ahead of King Charles’ Crowning the chair is to get a much needed dose of TLC The historic Coronation Chair on which Henry VIII and other monarchs of England and later Britain have been crowned for some 700 years is getting a makeover ahead of this year’s ceremony for King Charles, London’s Westminster Abbey said. Charles and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, will be formally crowned on May 6 in a solemn religious ceremony at the Abbey where the coronation of kings and queens has taken place for the best part of a thousand years.…

EU’S VON DER LEYEN MEETS KING CHARLES After reaching deal over Northern Ireland Britain’s King Charles III met European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday February 27 after the EU and the UK struck a new deal on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. Stills captured during the meeting at Windsor Castle showed King Charles and von der Leyen shaking hands and speaking with one another. During a news conference on Monday afternoon, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the two sides had agreed to remove “any sense of a border” between Britain and its province – a…