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Police have defended using force during a raid on a gym that refused to close in defiance of coronavirus restrictions after video emerged of the confrontation. Officers swooped on Prophecy Performance Centre in Liverpool on Sunday 7 February after receiving a call from locals. Nathan Deasha, the gym’s owner, said he had defied restrictions to offer people a “safe place” to train in a bid to combat the lockdown’s adverse effect on physical and mental health. Now the 34-year-old has released footage showing him handcuffed and being kicked by police before being tackled to the ground and pepper-sprayed. Further footage shows one…

The rate of self-harm among young children in the UK has doubled over the last six years, according to a new analysis. The number of children aged nine to 12 admitted to hospital having hurt themselves intentionally rose from 221 in 2013-14 to 508 in 2019-20, data analysed for BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 programme has found. This means an average of 10 hospital admissions every week. With population changes taken into account, the rate has doubled over the past six years. The finding comes as experts say the Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on young people’s…

A Jesse Lingard-powered West Ham continued their season of exceeding expectations with a clinical win over a surely-doomed Sheffield United. The hosts climbed above champions Liverpool with 24 games played in this relentless season, and while David Moyes said talk of the top four “makes me feel uneasy”, good performances in the five matches his team face before April could have their fans’ dreams turning into something other than bubbles. Lingard was at the forefront of the win, the loanee rescued from the Manchester United scrapheap turning the match with his energy and incision. He won a penalty late in the first half…

The official relaunch of social media platform Parler carries forward the company’s vision of being a space that protects free speech in a way that is “more firm and entrenched than ever before,” interim Chief Executive Mark Meckler told The Epoch Times. “Parler is back up online, and from our perspective, very healthy and robust. We don’t answer anymore to the Big Tech oligarchy. We run robust, sustainable, totally independent technology from Big Tech,” Meckler said on Feb. 15—the day the platform resumed service, and just over a month after the site was suspended from Amazon Web Services’s servers. Meckler, an attorney and…

A Maine church is asking the Supreme Court to put Maine Gov. Janet Mills’s strict pandemic-related restrictions on places of worship on hold while it appeals an unfavorable ruling from a lower court, arguing the high court has already forced some lower courts to comply with its recent rulings loosening such restrictions. The emergency application in the case, known as Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Mills, asks the high court to stop the Democratic governor’s clampdown on churches, which the church’s lawyers describe as “the most severe restrictions in the nation on places of worship,” and would deal with a Dec. 22, 2020, ruling against the…

London Zoo should be teeming with children released from school by half-term holidays. But instead, the monkeys’ pranks are unobserved, King Cobra is coiled friendless in the reptile house and the future of the world’s oldest scientific zoo is in peril. As the menagerie in Regent’s Park, central London, nurses a multi-million-pound hole in its budget and lockdown keeps visitors away, even during school holidays, the keepers are sad and anxious. “Lockdown here has been really surreal – like with no visitors here, it’s been a really sad time for the zoo,” Kate Sanders, big cats team leader at the…

Manchester United extended the longest unbeaten away run in English top-flight history to 19 games, enhanced their reputation as the masters of the comeback, reclaimed second place from Leicester and scored a candidate for goal of the month. None of which should deflect from the reality that this was another missed opportunity. United have had a sequence of five games in which they have equalled a Premier League record winning margin and yet only claimed six points. After losing to Sheffield United, they experienced more trouble with the stragglers by being held by West Bromwich Albion. Such results will only ease Manchester City’s…

One of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers accused media companies of trying to push a narrative instead of sticking to the facts, saying news outlets are “trying to divide this country.” “What this country wants and this country needs is this country to come together,” Michael T. van der Veen said, adding that the reason why there is so much divisiveness is “because of the media.” “The media wants to tell their narrative rather than just telling it like it is,” he said, adding that corporate media outlets have “to start telling the right story in this country” and that the “media is trying…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday called for a “full accounting” of whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration withheld information about deaths from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus in nursing homes across the state. The alleged coverup of New York’s nursing home deaths was first reported by the New York Post. In an audio recording obtained by the Post, Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo’s chief of staff, told a small group of Democratic lawmakers that the governor’s office “basically froze” when they were asked by the U.S. Department of Justice to turn in the data, because they worried that then-President Donald Trump would use the…

It’s only taken 11 months and three lockdowns, but older football fans have finally got the hang of the iPad and they have boosted the viewing figures for matches in the English Football League to almost three million live streams. The EFL’s streaming service is expected to surpass that landmark figure if enough matches survive the big freeze this weekend. Fans have been mostly banned from grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic since March. ‘It has been a lifesaver,’ said Robbie Cowling, chairman at League Two Colchester United. ‘And it has grown. ‘We have noticed that older people are getting more involved. A lot…