Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority said on Saturday that a shipping traffic jam of over 400 tankers caused by a giant container vessel getting stuck on the crucial waterway for almost a week has been cleared. Traffic on the canal, a conduit for over 10 percent of world trade, had begun moving again on Monday evening … Read more
A bestselling author who became ‘obsessed’ with freeing a convicted murderer from prison has revealed how the nearly six years she has spent on the case has left her ‘absolutely broke,’ ‘seriously ill,’ and ‘years past deadline’ on her next book. Sara Gruen, whose 2006 novel Water for Elephants sold 10 million copies worldwide, has … Read more
Anything Suez can do… Now 260ft cargo ship blocks river Arun in Sussex after breaking loose from moorings a day after Ever Given was freed in Egypt A 260ft cargo ship, Elise, is wedged across Littlehampton Harbour, West Sussex, partially blocking waterway The ship was sailed into the harbour to unload cargo at 1.15am this … Read more
Anything Suez can do… Now 260ft cargo ship blocks river Arun in Sussex after breaking loose from moorings a day after Ever Given was freed in Egypt A 260ft cargo ship, Elise, is wedged across Littlehampton Harbour, West Sussex, partially blocking waterway The ship was sailed into the harbour to unload cargo at 1.15am this … Read more
The massive container ship blocking the busy Suez Canal has been freed from the bank of the vital trade route in a last-ditch bid to take advantage of the king tide brought on by the supermoon. The Ever Given was freed by salvage teams early on Monday, one week after after the 1,300-foot-long ship ran … Read more
Parole Board meets to decide if notorious child killer Colin Pitchfork can be freed from jail after he raped and murdered two 15-year-old schoolgirls in 1980s Schoolgirl killer Colin Pitchfork could be released early from after parole hearing He was jailed for life after raping and strangling Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth Conservative MP Alberto … Read more
A convicted ‘Essex Boys’ murderer has been released from prison after serving a reduced life sentence of 22 years. Jack Whomes, 59, and his accomplice Michael Steele, 76, were jailed in 1998 over the gangland shooting of three men who were found dead in a Range Rover near a farm in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995. … Read more
A convicted ‘Essex Boys’ murderer has been released from prison after serving a reduced life sentence of 22 years. Jack Whomes, 59, and his accomplice Michael Steele, 76, were jailed in 1998 over the gangland shooting of three men who were found dead in a Range Rover near a farm in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995. … Read more
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday. Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said 317 had been kidnapped. Gunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary … Read more
Pension funds could be given green light to invest hundreds of billions of pounds in building up Britain as part of Chancellor’s Covid recovery plan By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 27 February 2021 Pension funds could be given the green light to invest … Read more