Brexit: Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron in trade talks stand-off

Boris Johnson was locked in a stand-off with Emmanuel Macron last night as Brexit talks teetered on the brink. British officials claimed the French president had pressured European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier to take a hardline stance. A close Macron ally yesterday said he would veto any trade deal that went against French interests. … Read more

Brexit: Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron in trade talks stand-off

Boris Johnson was locked in a stand-off with Emmanuel Macron last night as Brexit talks teetered on the brink. British officials claimed the French president had pressured European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier to take a hardline stance. A close Macron ally yesterday said he would veto any trade deal that went against French interests. … Read more

Stand-off in the housing market: House building plummets by a third in 2020

House building plummets by a third with developers blaming local authority planning delays more than the pandemic Britain’s seven largest house builders have reported housing completions are down, on average, by 35 per cent from a year ago Small and medium sized developers have also warned their housing completions will be down this year – … Read more

Police are called to standoff after migrants REFUSE to get off bus

Police are called to standoff after migrants REFUSE to get off bus taking them to disused Kent army base while their asylum claims are processed Group of migrants refuse to get off bus which had taken them from their hotel They were brought to ex-military base Napier Barracks near Folkestone, Kent  But police were called … Read more

Police are called to standoff after migrants REFUSE to get off bus

Police are called to standoff after migrants REFUSE to get off bus taking them to disused Kent army base while their asylum claims are processed Group of migrants refuse to get off bus which had taken them from their hotel They were brought to ex-military base Napier Barracks near Folkestone, Kent  But police were called … Read more

HS2 activists get caught in a stand-off with security officers at treehouse camp

Call the copse! HS2 activists get caught in a stand-off with security officers at treehouse camp in woodland that inspired Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox Private security guards became involved in a stand-off with environmentalists  Demonstrators have been fighting against the construction of HS2   Nearly half of the ancient Jones’ Hill Wood near Great Missenden, … Read more

HS2 activists get caught in a stand-off with security officers at treehouse camp

Call the copse! HS2 activists get caught in a stand-off with security officers at treehouse camp in woodland that inspired Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox Private security guards became involved in a stand-off with environmentalists  Demonstrators have been fighting against the construction of HS2   Nearly half of the ancient Jones’ Hill Wood near Great Missenden, … Read more

China and India agree troops will ‘quickly disengage’ after standoff

India and China have agreed that their troops should ‘quickly disengage’ from a tense border standoff following a months-long stand off.  The two country’s foreign ministers agreed to maintain proper distance and ease tensions in the Ladakh region where the two nuclear armed countries in June had their deadliest clash in decades. India’s S. Jaishankar … Read more

Standoff as Michel Barnier arrives in London for crunch trade talks

The boss of the UK Government’s legal department has quit his post over Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up parts of the Brexit divorce deal, it was claimed today.  Sir Jonathan Jones is said to have resigned because of disagreements over Number 10’s decision to try to override parts of the agreement struck with the … Read more

BLM protest organizer surrenders after NYPD officers failed to arrest him in six-hour stand-off

An organizer of New York City’s Black Lives Matter protests has turned himself in to police hours after he was besieged inside his apartment by officers seeking to arrest him for attacking a cop.  Derrick Ingram, the founder of social advocacy group Warriors in the Garden, reported to the NYPD’s Midtown North Precinct on Saturday … Read more