Two police officers and a solicitor changed their statements about the Hillsborough disaster to ‘minimise the blame’ on South Yorkshire Police, a court heard today. Retired chief superintendent Donald Denton, 83, retired detective chief inspector Alan Foster, 74, and former lawyer Peter Metcalf, 71, deny perverting the course of justice in the wake of the 1989 tragedy in … Read more
Ray Fisher has been speaking out against Justice League reshoots director Joss Whedon for months, leading to an investigation of the filmmaker’s work, and now the actor has dropped another bombshell. Fisher, 33, who made his feature film debut in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Victor Stone/Cyborg, before 2017’s Justice League, shed … Read more
Venus is a hellish world with clouds of sulfuric acid, but new research suggests it was an Earth-like oasis billions of years ago – and it would still be habitable if not for Jupiter. Jupiter, which is more than 2.5 times the mass of all other planets in the solar system, may have disrupted Venus’s … Read more
A portrait of a Battle of Waterloo hero the Queen has hanging in Windsor Castle has had its’ description changed to include his links to slavery. Historical details of the painting of Sir Thomas Picton have now been altered to include a reference to torturing a slave girl when he was the ‘Tyrant of Trinidad’. … Read more
The Queen’s portrait of a Battle of Waterloo hero that she has hanging in Windsor Castle has been changed to include his links to slavery. Historical details of the painting of Sir Thomas Picton have now been altered to include a link to his torturing of a slave girl when he was the ‘Tyrant of … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg has bent Facebook’s guiding principles in order to keep Donald Trump’s posts on the site, according to documents and interviews obtained by a newspaper. The Facebook CEO is confronting a company in crisis, as employees publicly protest against his failure to challenge Trump and advertisers boycott the firm in response. On Sunday Starbucks … Read more
Devon Police sergeant is under criminal investigation for ‘sharing racist “altered image” of George Floyd’s arrest on WhatsApp’ Sergeant is being investigated for gross misconduct over the offensive image Other members of group who are officers are also being investigated by IOPC Sergeant has been suspended by Devon and Cornwall Police during the probe By … Read more
Pints of Guinness, cinema popcorn, haircuts and airport parking were all stripped out of Britain’s latest inflation basket as statisticians tried to calculate price changes in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown. In the first inflation reading since the country went into lockdown on 23 March, the Office for National Statistics said the prices of … Read more