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There was a decoy Liverpool bus. That was the one that ended up getting its tyres slashed by Manchester United fans on a side street near Old Trafford. The real Liverpool bus, unmarked and unheralded, sneaked around the back entrance to avoid the hundreds of protesters out front. United also operated a couple of dummy buses to shuttle between the hotel and the stadium. The players themselves travelled in their own cars and arrived six hours in advance. On the concourse, riot vans and police horses jostled to keep the crowds at bay. Two arrests were made. Remind me. Why were we doing all…

CLASSIC car owners face a “huge bill” of up to £650 to drive their historic vehicles just “once a week” in London under new Ultra Low Emissions Zone charges. Classic owners have the choice to either pay the huge bill or could be forced to face “the wrench” of having to sell their historic models. The new Ultra Low Emissions Zone changes will come into force from the end of October this year and could provide a headache for owners. From 25 October 2021, the Ultra Low Emission Zone will be extended to cover everywhere between the A406 North Circular…

GAZA/JERUSALEM—Israel fired artillery and mounted more air strikes from its border on Friday against Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip amid constant rocket fire deep into Israel’s commercial center. As hostilities entered their fifth day, with no sign of abating, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement shortly after midnight that air and ground forces were attacking the Hamas-run enclave. Rocket barrages from Gaza swiftly followed. Israeli military affairs correspondents who are briefed regularly by the armed forces said it was not a ground invasion, and that troops were firing artillery from Israel’s side of the border. Residents of northern…

The arrest of an Alberta pastor and his brother under a new public health order as they were heading home from church has serious implications for people’s rights and freedoms, a political scientist and author-researcher says. Pastor Artur Pawlowski and his brother, Dawid Pawlowski, were arrested on a Calgary highway on May 8 for holding a church service that violated provincial pandemic restrictions. Calgary Police Service said in a statement that the two were in violation of a new Alberta Health Services (AHS) court order “in relation to mandatory compliance of public health orders for gatherings.” The brothers, who were charged with allegedly…

NICOLA STURGEON will “end the UK state pension overnight” with her independence plans, former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson claimed. The Scottish First Minister came closer to her goal of leading Scotland to independence last week after her Scottish National Party (SNP) secured Holyrood in the country’s elections. In the run-up to the ballot, Ms Sturgeon said she would use the victory – and a majority in parliament – as a springboard for holding a second independence referendum. While the SNP fell one short of a majority, many view the result as having given her a mandate to hold a ballot in the future, with Ms…

THE EU’s powergrab of financial firms has sparked a mass exodus of bankers from the City of London due to the lack of financial service provisions in the Brexit deal. Without any specific agreement on financial services, several banks such as Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Goldman Sachs have now moved senior bankers out of London. Instead, these firms have now looked to centres in Frankfurt, Paris and Milan. Due to the “post-Covid phenomenon”, some firms are also looking to relocate masses of workers by 2024. Indeed, Goldman Sachs has now swelled its workforce in Milan from 20 in 2017 to 60 due…

Thomas Tuchel blamed himself for fielding a much-changed lineup that lost narrowly to Arsenal, saying his side received a “wake-up call” that leaves them uncertain of Champions League qualification via the domestic route with two games left. Chelsea were overwhelmingly dominant against Mikel Arteta’s visitors but missed golden chances in both halves and conceded a 16th minute winner to Emile Smith Rowe after a calamitous error from Jorginho. Tuchel bemoaned their lack of intensity and admitted the seven changes he made, with an eye on Saturday’s FA Cup final against Leicester, did not help. “It is our fault, nobody else’s,” he…

BORIS JOHNSON has dragged Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford, and the leaders of the Northern Ireland assembly into a public inquiry into coronavirus as he announced an investigation into the UK’s handling of the pandemic. Addressing MPs in the Commons this afternoon, the Prime Minister committed to setting up a public inquiry with statutory powers to begin in spring 2022. Mr Johnson pledged to work with his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to trash out the exact remits of the inquiry so the country could learn the lessons of the pandemic “as one Team UK”. He outlined the inquiry…

ISRAEL has declared a state of emergency in a city close to Tel Aviv, its former capital, after the country’s Arab minority reacted furiously to airstrikes in Gaza and police raids on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, with at least 40 killed – while a senior United Nations official has voiced concern about the risk of the unrest escalating into a “full-scale war”. Meanwhile, a restaurant in the city of Acre was destroyed in an arson attack, and in Jaffa, also close to Tel Aviv, police used stun grenades to disperse protesters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a state of emergency in Lod, after reports emerged…

The police officer poisoned in the Salisbury novichok attack has lodged papers in the high court suing Wiltshire police over the trauma he continues to suffer three years after being exposed to the nerve agent. Nick Bailey was critically injured after coming into contact with novichok when he entered the house of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in March 2018. Bailey, who was a detective sergeant, spent 17 days in hospital and retired from Wiltshire police in October 2020, explaining that the impact of the ordeal meant he could no longer do the job. Bailey’s lawyer, Patrick Maguire, a partner at the law…