Historic Windmill To Be Converted Into 12-Bed HMO

A plan to transform a historic Grade II listed windmill into a 12-bed HMO has caused concern.

The redbrick edifice in Preston was constructed in 1760 and is the last of its kind in the Lancashire town.

Since it ceased milling in the late 19th century, it has seen numerous other uses as an overflow prison, garage, piano workshop, World War Two-era cinema and a merchant’s storage warehouse.

However, the Cragg’s Row mill has been abandoned for decades now.

In January 2024, Preston City Council approved plans to convert the landmark, on Cragg’s Row, into a 10-bed house in multiple occupation (HMO) over seven floors.

But now property-firm Simca Investments has submitted new plans requesting 12 bedrooms, sparking worries that the move could see the historic location turned into another crowded rental block.

The property firm is calling for the demolition of an adjoining annexe and the construction of a three-floor extension. 

The Labour leader of Preston Council, Councillor Matthew Brown, said he’d welcome the windmill being brought back into use.

But he added: ‘I’d prefer to have no more HMOs within the ward. We’ve got an oversaturation – that’s the reality of it.

‘As a council, we’ve been looking at introducing a policy to ban any new HMOs, unless there is a very clear planning reason.’

Councillor Pav Akhtar, Labour, who also represents the Plungington ward where the windmill stands, said: ‘The building is an important part of Preston’s industrial heritage.

‘Understandably, there is local concern about its future use, the intensity of the proposed development, and the potential impact on the character of the area.

‘As one of the local ward councillors, my priority is ensuring that any development is appropriate for the community, respects the historic value of the site, and aligns with local planning policy.

‘Residents rightly expect developments in Plungington to contribute positively to the area rather than add to existing pressures around housing density, parking, and community cohesion.’

Previous developers put forward strategies to convert the listed building into holiday homes with 12 en-suite units spread across six floors.

If this project is allowed to go ahead, then the accommodation will likely be given to migrants, but how about spending our money on our citizens, such as veterans, many of whom have been on the front line?

That won’t happen, of course, because our politicians are signalling to the world just how good and woke they are by doing this, and why spoil all their attention because that’s all that they want so that they can get a vote.

Even though many women and children are being raped, killed, and mistreated, our government continues to provide housing for them in our towns. They genuinely don’t care that it’s so repulsive.

Tchéky Karyo Dies Aged 72

Celebrated actor Tchéky Karyo, who starred in the BBC hit drama The Missing and James Bond’s GoldenEye, has died aged 72.

Born in Istanbul but raised in Paris, Karyo acted in films for almost forty years before transitioning to television in his later years.

His wife, actress Valérie Keruzoré, and their children announced he had ‘succumbed to cancer this Friday, October 31’. 

Karyo starred as Dmitri Mishkin in GoldenEye (1995), but numerous Brits will remember his outstanding role as detective Julien Baptiste in The Missing.

The series, which was heralded at the time as ‘hauntingly brilliant television’, followed the search for a five-year-old British boy who disappeared during a family holiday in France.

He starred alongside James Nesbitt, Keeley Hawes, and David Morrissey in two series between 2014 and 2016, before the show’s success led to his own spin-off, Baptiste, in 2019. 

At the time, the beloved actor said about his reprisal: ‘I didn’t expect it, but it’s flattering. This has made me feel young again.’ 

Discussing the joy of playing Baptiste, he told Hello in 2021: ‘It’s fantastic…. It’s a fantastic adventure this, The Missing and Baptiste.’

Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, told the publication: ‘We are so sad to learn of the passing of Tchéky Karyo. 

‘He was a truly brilliant and much-loved actor, and he will be fondly remembered by BBC viewers for his roles in The Missing, Baptiste and most recently Boat Story. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this time.’

Born in 1953, Karyo began in French cinema in the 1980s, earning some early awards and nominations. 

He was the hunter in Jean Jacques Annaud’s 1988 wilderness adventure ‘The Bear’. 

Then, in 1990, he got attention for his turn as the hard-nosed secret agent handling Anne Parillaud’s female assassin Nikita, in Besson’s hit film of the same name. 

He was gifted in several languages, including French, English, and Spanish.

It meant he was soon appearing in international productions, such as Ridley Scott’s historical epic ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’.

He performed regularly in cinema and television in France and abroad, appearing in films as varied as Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 whimsical comedy ‘Amelie’, to Brazilian director Walter Salles’ 1995 thriller ‘Foreign Land’.

Tcheky was also an acclaimed musician and songwriter.

He released an album, Ce lien qui nous unit (English translation, The Link That Binds Us) in 2006, and another titled Credo in 2013 to mark his 60th birthday.

His death comes just seven months after another The Missing star, Emile Dequenne, died aged 43 of a rare cancer.

The celebrated actress who costarred with Karyo died at a hospital outside of Paris in March.

She announced in October 2023 that she was suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal gland.

By April 2024, Dequenne shared the uplifting news of her complete remission, expressing her decision to return to her career and to life as she knew it.

‘I was close to forgetting because I was leaving the hospital today after 13 days… What a tough battle,’ she wrote on social media.

But tragically, her health took a turn for the worse when she suffered a deterioration of her condition at the end of last year.

On December 1, she told French television show TF1 she was focusing on her health, and publicly acknowledged her deteriorating condition.

Death is such a horrible thing. In addition to being a great actor and a charming man, he was exceptionally talented in Baptiste. He had a real talent and was extremely charismatic on screen.

He was a great actor – so good that you felt he wasn’t acting at all – that you were watching a real-life situation evolving before your very eyes.

Remembrance Day Volunteers Are Abused By ‘Left-Wing Idiots’ As They Display Poppies And The Union Jack

Royal British Legion volunteers were abused by ‘left-wing idiots’ while putting up poppies and Union Jack flags in a seaside town.

Volunteers in Penarth, South Wales, were allegedly met with ‘abuse and threats’ as they put poppies and flags on a lamp post ahead of Remembrance Day.

An investigation has been launched by police after volunteers said they were ‘subjected to horrendous abuse by mindless left-wing idiots’.

It’s been claimed on social media that the volunteers were both Royal Navy veterans who are ‘immensely patriotic’ and have been decorating the town for Remembrance Sunday ‘for many years.’

Volunteer Karen Jones said: ‘In a small, friendly town, such as ours, you do not expect poppy appeal volunteers to get abuse when putting up memorial lamp post poppies and flags for the Remembrance period.

‘Our volunteers were approached this morning and met with abuse and threats to come back and take the poppies and flags down.

‘The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal is not political, it is to remember the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that people have “Free Speech”.

‘Please do not hesitate to report any person attempting to take down the flags and poppies to the police.’

Mother-of-two Karen went on to say the abuse had been reported to the police and that officers are now investigating.

Her husband Nick claimed volunteers had been ‘subjected to horrendous abuse by mindless left-wing idiots when putting up lamp post poppies’. 

He added: ‘What is this country coming to?’

Royal British Legion (RBL) volunteers work from a caravan in the town centre where they sell poppies and other commemorative items every autumn to raise money for the charity. 

The Victorian seaside town is often voted the best place to live in Wales, thanks to its coastal location on the Bristol Channel, independent shops, and proximity to Cardiff.

A police spokesperson said: ‘South Wales Police is currently investigating an alleged public order offence which took place on Windsor Road, Penarth, on Sunday, October 26.’ 

At any given moment, the RBL supports more than 7,000 members of the armed forces community with expert guidance and practical assistance.

This year’s appeal, which was launched last week, aspires to raise more than £50 million.

I agree with their efforts on behalf of our dead warriors, but what about those who are still alive and surviving on the streets in sleeping bags as a result of our government’s refusal to assist them?

It’s too late to salvage Britain; thus, it’s not just broken but doomed, but this is how these people display respect to our veterans, and these vile idiots should at least be heavily fined and made to publicly apologise to our living veterans and those that are no longer with us. I’ll definitely be sporting my poppy with respect and pride, and I hope that many others will do the same.

A Woman Raped And Tortured By 3 Afghan Men

A young woman was forced to get her tormentor’s name tattooed across her stomach after being abducted and used as a sex slave by an Afghan man and his three friends.

In 2023, the then 21-year-old was abducted, gagged and raped for several days by her ex-boyfriend, a 33-year-old Afghan man named locally as Jaser A.

Jaser reportedly met up with the victim on August 23 before holding a blade to her throat as his three friends appeared and ambushed her.

The four men then forced the young woman into a tattoo parlour, where she claims she was made to have her ex-boyfriend’s nickname – Elyas – tattooed on her stomach in big, cursive lettering.

Speaking in a Hamburg court on Wednesday, the nurse said she had tried several times to have the ink lasered off. ‘But it’s very deep, they also made it very dark, it can’t be removed. It’s practically a stamp to demonstrate where I belong,’ she said.

She was seen lifting her jumper to show off the enormous tattoo that spans her entire tummy in the courthouse hallway.

After getting the tattoo, the victim said she was taken back to her apartment, where she was abused and raped continuously by Jaser.

‘He repeatedly hit, bit, and kicked me, and filmed me, gagged and half-naked,’ she informed the court.

The ordeal lasted seven days, until a SWAT team stormed her apartment and saved her from her captors. ‘I was lucky enough to get my phone back and contact my parents,’ she said.

‘I want to put everything behind me. Hopefully, time will bring some healing. Life must go on.’

In 2024, Jaser was sentenced to nine years behind bars plus preventive detention for rape, assault, deprivation of liberty, coercion and threats by the Hamburg Regional Court.

The presiding judge of the Hamburg Regional Court said at the time: ‘You treated the woman like a piece of cattle on a Texas ranch. That is simply inhumane!’ 

Jaser had a prior criminal record and had previously served time for other violent offences, according to a Blick report. 

Addressing the victim, the judge concluded the proceedings: ‘She is a strong personality. She dared to report the defendant. Had she been weak, she would have been broken by the act. Thankfully, she is not.’ 

The victim is set to return to court at the start of December, where the next hearing in the tattoo case is scheduled. 

Due to illness, the defendant was unable to appear in court on Wednesday.

This sort of behaviour from migrants is non-stop, and so many go unreported, but our governments continue to offer them shelter. Why, please tell me why?

Their customs and religion are not compatible with Western values, and we need to deport them now!

Our politicians have let us down to unprecedented levels, and they should be jailed for their disloyalty. Of course, these migrants want to come to our countries because their country is the pits and dangerous, and they will do the same to ours.

What have our governments done to their countries, and the UK has become an island full of unwanted foreign criminals.

And the triple stabbing in Uxbridge, London, in broad daylight should have been headline news, but it wasn’t because, sadly, now, this sort of thing is commonplace.

Our government in the UK has turned our country into a criminal free-for-all.

This man only got 9 years, and he mutilated her body as a trophy, and he is a despicable human being, and it appears that our governments are at war with us, and they are using the invaders to terrorise us.

Bus Buggy Row

A disabled woman was unable to board a bus after irate mothers with pushchairs refused to give up their space.

Because I use a wheelchair, I frequently experience this issue. I am quite fortunate most of the time; in fact, one woman with a stroller actually got off the bus so I could board, but that isn’t always the case.

A mother once attempted to enter the bus while I was on it. The driver told her that she couldn’t, and she stood at the door, cursing at me and saying that I didn’t appear to be disabled. Duh – wheelchair user onboard.

Some mothers with buggies are quite impolite and think they have a divinely granted right to be there.

I don’t mind so much if it’s a nice sunny day and I’m not in a hurry, then I’m content to wait my turn, but some are in a rush to get to hospital appointments, and if they miss them, they will then have to wait months to get another appointment, and this is precisely what happened to this lady.

Maria Whitefield had been travelling to a hospital appointment on October 17 but found herself in a 20-minute standoff with two passengers.

The audibly distraught 38-year-old tried to embark on the 432 Arriva bus, but she was late for her appointment after being forced to wait almost 20 minutes for the next one.

In footage of the tense encounter, Ms Whitefield can be heard saying ‘wheelchairs are a priority’ – however, her pleas fall on deaf ears.

One mother snaps back, ‘he’s a priority too’ and refuses to budge, prompting the vulnerable wheelchair-user to say, ‘these people are being selfish and will not fold up their buggies’.

She points out that it is ‘not a newborn baby’ in the pushchairs. 

Ms Whitefield said other passengers acknowledged she had priority but asked her to get off as she was seemingly holding up the bus.

By law, wheelchair users have first access to the area, as it is the only place in which they can travel safely.

TfL (Transport for London) has since apologised to Ms Whitefield and reiterated that wheelchair users have first access to the priority area.

The problem is, people who are not disabled don’t appear to comprehend that one day they could be in the same position as this lady, and believe me, it’s not very nice. Not only is it frustrating for the wheelchair user, but it’s also extremely demeaning that another human being should find them problematic.

No one seems to want to assist you. You suddenly become invisible, as if you don’t belong in society, or people just look you up and down like you’re some kind of pariah. It’s like they’ve never seen a wheelchair before or a disabled person before – I’m not intimidated by them, I just feel sorry for them.

The bus driver should have intervened and asked the woman to fold up her buggy or asked her to leave the bus and get the next one, then she might have known what it was like to be late for an appointment.

Christ and our government want us disabled people to go back to work. Can you envision being late for work with all these buggies?

If I had been an able-bodied passenger, I would have pushed the prams out of the way and helped her, but the problem is our younger generation seems so entitled.

In my day, if you had a double buggy, you couldn’t even board a bus, but now we have entitled parents who believe that if they have a child, they’re entitled to be first, have the best, have the most and that everyone else is second class compared to them. Move over, love, be compassionate, and more importantly, just be courteous.

THE NATURE OF THE CAGE THAT WE LIVE IN

Hannah Arendt cautioned us seventy years ago that the greatest threat was not persuading people to believe the lies, but rather making them completely give up on the truth.

Hannah was a German-born political philosopher who fled Nazi Germany and spent her entire life trying to understand how civilised societies could descend into totalitarian darkness.

She made the point that these systems succeed by impairing people’s capacity for rational thought rather than by persuading them of an ideology.

She actually summed it up perfectly. She said that the ideal matter of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false, no longer exists.

The goal my friends is not the belief, but the confusion.

The idea is to make people so overwhelmed by conflicting information and endless lies that, ultimately, people just give up trying to figure out what’s actually true because when truth and lies muddy together, right and wrong start to blur too, and once this occurs, people are easy to control.

This is not because they’ve been convinced, but because they stop thinking for themselves, and totalitarian education isn’t about teaching people what to believe, it’s about eliminating their ability to believe in anything at all.

People will cease resisting when they stop caring, trusting, and asking questions. As the world around them turns darker, they simply drift along, numb and distant.

Lies corrode society within, and persistent lying doesn’t just spread misinformation; it eats away at the very idea of truth itself.

When every fact is treated as debatable. When everything becomes just someone’s opinion, then truth loses its power, and when truth has no power, neither does justice or morality.

As Nazi Germany unfolded, the lies became so constant and overwhelming that people simply stopped caring about what was true, and that space made for unimaginable atrocities.

I am not assigning blame, but this is a warning because this can happen anywhere and to any society when people give up on truth.

Violence isn’t usually the first step. It begins with bewilderment, scepticism, and mental tiredness, and we are lost as soon as we cease to critically analyse, even about our own beliefs.

However, totalitarianism doesn’t appear out of nowhere. It begins quietly, in the erosion of truth and the rise of apathy. It flourishes when people just shrug and say, ‘You can’t trust anyone,’ or ‘who even knows the truth anymore.’

We must safeguard our capacity for thought. We must demand proof. We must continue to be curious. When the truth ceases to matter, all else collapses; therefore, don’t let the lies, uncertainty, or exhaustion drive you to lose interest in what is true.

Hurricane Melissa, With CROCODILES

Following Hurricane Melissa, thousands of British visitors are still stuck in Jamaica amid concerns that crocodiles could be swimming in flooded streets.

As many as 8,000 British citizens are on the Caribbean island, which last night was struck by one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in history that left ‘catastrophic winds’ and ‘flash flooding’ in its path. 

Melissa tore through parts of Jamaica with winds of up to 185mph and torrential rain. Heavy floodwaters swept across the region as wind ripped roofs off buildings and boulders plunged into roads, with landslides, fallen trees and multiple power outages reported.

But in the capital, Kingston, officials warned those in the surrounding area to watch out for crocodiles that may be displaced from their natural river habitat due to severe flooding.

In a post on X, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned that it is an ‘extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation’ and that ‘catastrophic winds, flash flooding and storm surge’ were ongoing in the country. 

Mike Brennan, director of the NHC, told BBC News that heavy rainfall and damaging winds will continue to affect the majority of the island overnight on Tuesday and that an additional six to 12 inches of rain was possible.

He added that even after the storm passed over the island, the ‘flooding risk, and just the post-storm environment in Jamaica, is going to be extremely dangerous with widespread trees and power lines down, significant structural damage’ and that it will remain a dangerous environment, particularly in the west and in the mountains, ‘for days, if not weeks to come’.

The Jamaican government previously ordered evacuations from high-risk places, and all the country’s airports are closed, while the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) urged British nationals in Jamaica to register their presence through the Government website to obtain updates from the FCDO on the hurricane.

Speaking in the Commons, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said: ‘The FCDO stands ready to help British nationals 24/7.

‘We have set up a crisis centre in the Foreign Office, including with support from the (Ministry of Defence), and also we are positioning specialist rapid deployment teams to provide consular assistance to British nationals in the region.

‘Any British nationals who are there should follow our travel advice and the advice of the Jamaican authorities.

‘There are 50,000 dual nationals who live in Jamaica, up to 8,000 British citizens who may be travelling there or may be on holiday there.’

The NHC said those on the island should remain in their shelter overnight and advised that an interior room without windows, where falling trees can also be avoided, was the safest place within a building.

A British man who cut his holiday in Jamaica short and paid £3,500 for last-minute flights home for his family before the airports shut said he felt ‘completely let down’ by the UK Government’s response to the hurricane.

David Rowe, who is from Hertfordshire and spent ten days in Jamaica before flying home on Saturday because of the storm, said of the FCDO’s response: ‘The advice should have been last week, like on the Saturday – don’t travel – because a lot of the travel companies use the FCDO guidance on travel (for) all their planning and what decisions they make as an organisation.’

The IT manager, 47, continued: ‘There should have been something done much sooner than this and a lot of the UK nationals and people on holiday there are stranded.

‘This could have been prevented with better action from the UK Government.’

Kyle Holmes, who is from Bolton and visiting Jamaica for a wedding with his wife and three daughters, told BBC Manchester that his hotel in the town of Lucea now looks like a ‘disaster zone’.

Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Holmes told the BBC his family are now safe after the ‘worst experience ever’ and barricading the windows of the family’s room with furniture.

According to reports, seven individuals have already died across the Caribbean, including one in the Dominican Republic, three in Jamaica, and three in Haiti.

Briton Shantell Nova Rochester and her Jamaican fiancé Denva Wray told Sky News they were ‘as safe as they can possibly be’ in St Elizabeth.

Mr Wray said: ‘Where we are is quite strong, sturdy, but you can hear a lot of wind. It is a bit scary, but we’ve got each other, so we are strong.’

Web outage monitoring service Netblocks posted on X that connectivity dropped to just 30 per cent of normal levels due to the storm.

The NHC downgraded the storm to a Category 3 just before 6 am UK time on Wednesday, warning it was expected to make landfall in Cuba ‘soon’ as an ‘extremely dangerous major hurricane’.

It had earlier warned that some mountainous regions of Jamaica were predicted to receive up to 30 inches of rain.

In an X post early on Wednesday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stated that more than 735,000 people across the country had been evacuated.

The Jamaican government stated that it had done all it could to prepare and warned of potentially devastating damage from the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record-keeping began 174 years ago.

Jamaican-born Ambrosine Townsend, who lives in Kent, said she was waiting for news of family and friends.

‘I’m very confident she’s well prepared,’ Ms Townsend told the BBC about her sister, having endeavoured to persuade her to stay with friends further down the coast.

‘Even though I trust her, I tried to persuade her. Because I know that things can change. But she was adamant that she would be OK.’

Travel company Tui urged its customers to follow the advice of local authorities, while UK travel trade organisation Abta warned British tourists in Jamaica to do the same, as well as to monitor local news and follow advice from their accommodation and travel providers.

On Tuesday night, Ms Cooper urged British nationals to register their presence in Jamaica so consular support could be provided.

‘We stand ready to support Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa hits the island,’ she said in a post on X.

An FCDO spokesperson said: ‘We understand how worrying developments in Jamaica are for British nationals and their families.

‘Our travel advice includes information about hurricane season, which runs from June to November. Last Thursday, we updated our travel advice for Jamaica to include a warning about Tropical Storm Melissa and that it was expected to intensify over the coming days.

‘The safety and security of British nationals is our top priority, and that is why we are urging any British nationals in Jamaica to follow the guidance of the local authorities.’

The storm is heading towards Cuba, where it is anticipated to make landfall as a major hurricane early on Wednesday.

To be honest, I think that local Jamaicans who have now lost their homes and jobs are the ones to worry about, but a note to those who want to holiday in Jamaica, don’t go during hurricane season.

It’s shocking and frightening what’s happened in Jamaica, and I do feel extremely sad for the people who live there, but nobody ever mentions the wildlife that would have been destroyed in the floods, and food is going to be extremely scarce now.

I do fear for the Jamaican people who would have lost their homes, livelihoods and possessions. The tourists will soon be flown back home, but the people of Jamaica will have to cope with the aftermath for an extremely long time to come.

It actually doesn’t pay to holiday abroad – too much can go wrong, and what’s wrong with holidaying in the UK? We have some beautiful places that people can visit – it saves on costly flights, plus destroying the ozone layer.

One-In-One-Out Migrant Still In UK After Returning From France

The migrant who re-entered the UK via a small boat after being deported under the ‘one-in, one-out’ deal with France is still in the country, the border security minister has said.

The Iranian man’s second dinghy crossing took place just 29 days after he was kicked out of Britain under Sir Keir Starmer’s flagship borders policy.

The Conservatives previously said the debacle showed the Government’s return deal with France was ‘descending into farce’.

Alex Norris today confirmed the migrant is yet to be removed, but rejected suggestions that the situation proves Labour’s scheme is not fit for purpose.

Speaking to Sky News, the minister said: ‘He’s wasting a lot of his own time. He’s come through; he was detected immediately at the front door, he was detained, and he will be removed from this country.

‘He hasn’t gone yet, but he will be removed.’

Asked when the migrant would be deported, the minister said: ‘I wouldn’t want to give a specific timeline, but we are removing him as soon as possible.’

Questioned whether the case suggested the returns deal is not fit for purpose, Mr Norris said: ‘No, not at all.

‘The reality is people are always going to test your front door, test your boundaries. This person’s done that, and totally wasted their time in doing so.’

It comes after other migrants who were deported to France under Labour’s scheme escaped their asylum centre and vowed to return to Britain via a small boat, it emerged yesterday. 

Several deportees are understood to have already fled their accommodation in Paris, with their sights set on re-entering the UK. 

‘Abdul’ and ‘Ali’ complained of a lack of support offered to migrants in France compared to the UK, saying there is homelessness and a lack of housing.

‘Ali’ went on to claim his future had been ‘destroyed because of the UK government’.

Speaking to Channel 4 News, the pair said: ‘We are just looking for a safe [place]. If we have a chance to go back legally, we would. I will try my best again to go to the UK.

‘I don’t have any choice. If I go [back] to my country, the government will kill me. I think I’ll be (only) safe in the UK.’

The pair added they are now considering another Channel crossing after claiming officials sent them to France without a clear reason or support. 

Several deportees in their group have also absconded from the accommodation and have not been seen for several days, it is understood, with some likely to attempt to re-enter the UK. 

The Iranian national who returned to Britain via a small boat despite being part of the scheme had first arrived in the UK on August 6. 

He was initially removed on September 19 but skipped a migrant shelter in Paris, where he had been accommodated, and headed back to the northern French coast. 

There, he boarded a dinghy back to the UK, arriving on Saturday, less than a month after he was booted out.

He is currently being detained in a British immigration detention facility after border authorities used biometric checks to identify him as a returned migrant.

The total number of small boat migrants to have arrived since Labour came to power has skyrocketed past 60,000.

This year has seen the second-highest annual number of small boat migrants since the problem began almost seven years ago, topping the 36,816 witnessed last year, but welcome to the UK, the laughing stock of the world.

Keir Starmer needs to resign; he’s not up to the job, but then neither were his predecessors either.

Where is the proof that these migrants will be killed if they go back to their country of origin? If their lives were in so much peril, wouldn’t they just use the legal route as an asylum seeker?

No, this lot wants the freebies that they know they will get when they get here, and nothing more, unless you include raping and assaulting our women. Some of them even go back home to their country of origin for holidays, but when you have clowns running our country, it will always be a comedy show – perhaps we should have Keir Starmer on Open Mic Night!

Hadush Kebatu Was Set Free From HMP Chelmsford By Mistake

The government was forced to issue a frantic plea to the public to help them hunt down a migrant sex offender who was accidentally freed from prison. The man has now been located.

Hadush Kebatu was set free from HMP Chelmsford by mistake on Friday, just four weeks after being convicted for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, while being accommodated at an asylum seeker hotel.

The 38-year-old Ethiopian, whose crimes sparked demonstrations outside The Bell Hotel in Epping and around the country, was awaiting transfer to an immigration detention centre ahead of his planned deportation, but bumbling prison staff released him instead.

To further embarrassment, it emerged that prison staff directed him away from the prison towards the train station, and that Kebatu even tried to return to the prison, but was turned away.

The convicted sex offender was filmed in Chelmsford talking to members of the public before boarding a 12.41 pm train to London Liverpool Street.

The Metropolitan Police released CCTV footage of Kebatu in the Dalston area of Hackney just before 8 pm. He was also picked up on CCTV at a library in Dalston Square two hours earlier. He was still wearing his prison-issue grey tracksuit while clutching his white tote bag with avocados on it.

This man was behind bars because he had committed several serious sex crimes, and he was not meant to be in this country. Instead of being released, he should have been taken to a deportation centre. Many blunders have been made here, and whoever is responsible for this needs to be sacked immediately.

It has now emerged that the prison officers told Kebatu that he had to make his own way to the removal centre on his own.

A delivery driver told Sky News: ‘I heard one of the officers saying, ‘This is how you get to the station, you go down here…’ [he] directed him to the station and said he had to get on a train to get to this place… This conversation was at the front of the prison.’

In what caused further disbelief is that Kebatu spent more than 90 minutes hanging around outside the prison because he just didn’t know where to go or what to do.

The driver, who was delivering equipment to the prison, said: ‘[The officers] were basically sending him away, saying, ‘Go, you’ve been released, you go’.

Labour’s handling of the immigration situation is now under scrutiny due to the fiasco.

It comes amid a backlash against measures to tackle illegal migration after a man who was deported under the ‘one in, one out’ scheme with France reappeared on UK shores, having crossed the Channel again in a small boat.

Tory MP for Epping Forest, Neil Hudson, called Kebatu’s release a ‘catastrophic mistake’ which had ‘deeply distressed, upset and angered’ the whole community, adding that ‘accountability must go right to the top’.

Even after being set free, Kebatu kept going ‘back and forth’ into the prison reception area seeking help and showing staff a wad of paperwork about his case, according to the driver.

‘I’m not sticking up for the guy, but in my eyes he wanted to do the right thing and go to the right place,’ he said.

‘He knew he was getting deported, but he didn’t know where to go or how he should get there. He kept scratching his head and saying, ‘Where do I go, where do I go?’

He added that the officers had no interest in helping him, saying, ‘You’re released, you’re released’.

Kebatu was jailed for a year last month after assaulting his 14-year-old victim. During his trial, Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard that he acted ‘ignorantly and repulsively’. 

The migrant became aroused as he put his hand on the girl’s thighs and stroked her hair despite knowing ‘full well she was only 14’. He said he wanted to have a baby with her and asked her back to The Bell Hotel, where he was living.

Then, when a woman tried to stop him, Kebatu put his hand on her leg and complimented her appearance before attempting to kiss her.

The asylum seeker gave his age as 38 during a court appearance, but a judge said he had witnessed information revealing he was 41. 

Met Police Commander James Conway advised Kebatu to give himself up, saying: ‘We want to locate you in a safe and controlled way. You had already indicated a desire to return to Ethiopia when speaking to immigration staff. The best outcome for you is to make contact directly with us.’

He said the asylum seeker had taken ‘a number of journeys’ across London since his release on Friday and had ‘access to funds’.

It’s obvious that total idiots are in charge of our country, but then if they weren’t permitted into the UK in the first place, we wouldn’t have to have our police force running about like headless chickens trying to locate this man.

Our government are so inept that he will likely end up back in the same prison he came from, and no one would have noticed!

Was this man genuinely let out of prison by error, or was it done on purpose? You just have to ask yourself the question.

How Labour have betrayed us and put our well-being and safety at risk is indeed criminal and beggars belief.

If it weren’t so tragic and dangerous, it would be laughable. The first obligation of our government is to keep people safe. Can anyone truthfully say Labour has done this since taking power?

Fawlty Towers Star Prunella Scales Dies Aged 93

Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales has passed away aged 93 after a years-long battle with dementia.

The renowned actress was best known for her role as the overbearing Sybil Fawlty, wife of John Cleese’s Basil, in the BBC satire Fawlty Towers.

Although the programme ran for just 12 episodes across two seasons, Prunella’s performance cemented her standing as a household name.

Her death comes just under a year after her husband, the legendary performer Timothy West, passed away aged 90.

As seen on their TV programme Great Canal Journeys, Prunella endeared themselves to millions of fans with her endurance in the face of her illness, which she was diagnosed with in 2013 after years of symptoms. 

It was in 2001 that Timothy first noticed signs of his wife’s condition, when he saw her perform in a play and realised she was ‘not completely in character’.

Timothy movingly told in his 2023 memoir: ‘One thought in particular almost floored me: what if it’s Alzheimer’s?’

Prunella appeared in hundreds of television, stage, cinema, and radio productions in addition to her most well-known role.

She obtained a Bafta nomination for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the BBC’s 1991 TV adaptation of playwright Alan Bennett’s A Question of Attribution.

She co-starred in the movie Howards End with her son, Sam.

Additionally, she received two Olivier Award nominations for her performances in the Bennett productions Make and Break and Single Spies.

She also had a notable one-woman show, “An Evening with Queen Victoria,” which ran for over 20 years. 

The star was born in Surrey in 1932. Her father, a cotton salesman, brought his family up in a rented farmhouse that had no electricity or mains water.

After attending an Eastbourne boarding school, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Old Vic drama school.

Her first position was at the Bristol Old Vic as an assistant stage manager.

Acting roles came in abundance after that.

However, Prunella’s reputation in British comedic folklore would be solidified during her time in Fawlty Towers.

The sitcom, which told the story of hapless Basil Fawlty’s endeavours to run a hotel while being reprimanded by his shrieking wife, remains one of the country’s best-loved creations.

This is even though the programme ran for just two series, in 1975 and 1979.

Prunella told The Mail in 2000, the year that Fawlty Towers was named the greatest British TV programme in a poll: ‘It is wonderful how it has not dated.

‘I am very proud of Sybil and grateful to her. I still get the odd repeat cheque, which helps to pay for my work in the theatre.’ 

The star met Timothy in 1961, when they were both working on the television play She Died Young, which West later described as ‘terrible’.

Prunella later said that her future husband was ‘charming’.

‘He wore a different waistcoat every day and a variety of decoratives,’ she added. 

At first, the two were merely friends because Timothy was still married to his first wife, actress Jacqueline Boyer.

Boyer, a manic depressive, left West unsure ‘what I would come home to’, he wrote in the Daily Mail in 2003. 

Before their marriage failed, the couple had a daughter named Juliet.

Timothy claimed his first wife was having an affair with ‘Rodger the lodger’, while he and Scales had ended up starting to see each other romantically.

Prunella’s letters to West were revealed in Teresa Ransom’s 2005 biography.

In one, written before the actor and his wife had divorced, Scales said: ‘Rehearsing this Monday, so I suppose lunch would be possible though wildly frustrating.

‘Bless you for sweet letter… Refuse to apologise for my writing. God bless you, too. Love, I think, P.’ 

Timothy and his first wife decided to get a divorce in 1963, and he and Prunella married rapidly afterwards, in October that year. 

They spent their honeymoon in Buckinghamshire at what Prunella later said she discovered was a ‘dirty weekend place’.

Timothy admitted that the couple used to have fierce rows, including one which led to the actor pulling out some of his wife’s hair. 

Prunella then kept the clump in an envelope. ‘I felt a bit cross that she was making so much of it,’ Timothy said.

But he touchingly added: ‘Whoever is left when one of us dies will be absolutely devastated.’

On the flipside, their marriage remained romantically lively in their later years and survived even though both stars were often away for long periods due to work.

In 2000, Prunella spoke of her raunchy romantic life with her husband, saying: ‘We still have quite a lively sex life, thank you very much.

‘And it gets, you know, better as the years go by.’  

The couple’s first son, Sam, was born in 1966. His birth was followed by that of his youngest son, Joseph, on New Year’s Day in 1969.

While his brother has avoided the spotlight, Sam followed in his parents’ footsteps and is now a big star in his own right.

Tragically, the last 20 years of Prunella’s life were shaped by the advance of her dementia. 

Despite her sickness, she managed to work well into her later years.

And her appearance in Great Canal Journeys alongside her husband lasted for seven years, from 2014 until 2021.

West discussed his wife’s health in his biography, Pru & Me.

He said: ‘What I miss most of all, I think, is us no longer being able to share our hopes and fears with one another.

‘You can have a conversation or go to the theatre with anybody, but you cannot bare your soul to just anyone.

‘Still, my regrets are tempered by the fact that Pru is happy and knows she is loved.

‘We also have a large and caring family, plenty of friends and a house and garden that Pru feels safe in and adores. Most of all, we have each other.’

Prunella Scales was a beautiful, talented and classy lady and has now been reunited with her darling husband.

It is extremely sad that we hear of her passing, but she has left a legacy that we will continue viewing on our televisions for numerous years to come.

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