I Got The Golden Buzzer On BGT

When I first heard Sarah Ikumu sing ‘I’m Telling You’ on Britain’s Got Talent, I was blown away.

In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie in the original Broadway show, released the song as a single. It was her first single release, and it met with tremendous success, topping the Billboard R&B charts and reaching top forty positions on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart.

But when Sarah Ikumu sang it on BGT at the gentle age of 15 years old, she put an entirely distinct brilliance on it – she was spectacular. However, she never obtained the acclaim that she deserved.

Sarah belted that song out with unlimited conviction, and how she didn’t win BGT is beyond me. The judges evidently didn’t see the talent when it was right in front of their eyes.

Simon Cowell should be ashamed of himself. He’s been in the music industry long enough to know talent when he sees it.

There is no public record of Sarah Ikumu having a formal record deal, although she continues to release music independently and has collaborated with other artists and labels, such as the dance track ‘Spotlight’ on Defected Records in 2022.

However, she is a promising newcomer in the R&B genre and has performed for high-end brands.

She is seen as a promising new artist with a profound voice in the R&B and contemporary R&B scene, and she actively shares her work and updates with fans through her Instagram account, but she deserves more acclaim.

When Sarah came out onto the stage at BGT, and she sang, after Simon said it was the best audition he had ever heard, and she was given the Golden Buzzer, but it wasn’t enough for her to win BGT, although she said that she has so much to be grateful to Simon Cowell and she said that meeting him was scarier than meeting the King. She also said that his reputation is terrifying, but she also thought he was a sweetheart – others might disagree!

Patient Left On The Table By A 44-Year-Old Surgeon

A senior surgeon has been allowed to return to practice medicine after abandoning a patient on an operating table during surgery to engage in sexual relations with a nurse in a nearby operating room.

Consultant anaesthetist Suhail Anjum, 44, was discovered ‘in a compromising position’ with another nurse at Tameside General Hospital in 2023.

The father-of-three was caught tying up the cord of his trousers, while his colleague had her undergarments on display, when the pair were surprised by another nurse.

A disciplinary panel has now found that Dr Anjum’s ‘deplorable’ actions amounted to serious misconduct, but concluded that as there was a ‘very low risk’ of them being repeated.

It ruled that a written warning should remain on the doctor’s registration for two years, saying his fitness to practise medicine was not impaired.

Married Dr Anjum – who said he felt ‘shame and guilt at this horribly embarrassing incident’ – is now back working in his native Pakistan.

However, he has expressed hopes of returning to the UK to work in the NHS again.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester was told that Dr Anjum left the patient, who was having keyhole surgery to remove a gall bladder, because he knew that his colleague – referred to as Nurse C – was likely to be nearby’.

He told colleagues he needed a ‘comfort break’, the panel was told.

But a second nurse who went to prepare medical equipment in a different operating theatre was ‘shocked’ to come across the pair engaging in ‘sexual activity’.

Dr Anjum admitted all the allegations, saying the incident occurred during a period when he and his wife ‘were not connecting as a couple’.

‘I have let down everybody,’ he said.

‘It was the lowest point of my career.

‘I am genuinely sorry and shamed and fully recognise the seriousness of my behaviour.

‘It was a one-off error and I will never repeat this behaviour.

‘I would like to ensure the panel that it will not happen again, but that does not take away the guilt and embarrassment.

‘I have only myself to blame.’

Panel chair Rebecca Miller said Dr Anjum had ‘engaged in sexual activity within a public workplace setting, whilst on duty, in the middle of an operation’, thereby breaching good medical practice.

He had ‘left a vulnerable patient unattended in the middle of an operation and placed his own interests before those of his patient and colleagues’, as well as harming the reputation of the medical profession.

But the panel accepted it had been ‘a momentary lapse of judgement rather than a sustained pattern of behaviour’.

The patient was unharmed, while Dr Anjum had been ‘honest’ and ‘shown genuine remorse’.

Mrs Miller said a public warning was necessary ‘to ensure that public confidence is maintained in the profession and the regulatory system’, as well as acting ‘as a deterrent’.

Dr Anjum qualified in Lahore in 2004 and began working in the UK in 2011, holding positions in Bristol, Milton Keynes, and Dartford before moving to the Tameside and Glossop Integrated Trust in 2015.

He left the Trust in 2024 and worked in Liverpool before returning to Pakistan.

So, this man commits grave wrongdoing but maintains his job – what a farce, but then doctors look after their own, and he would have had to kill someone in a way that couldn’t be construed as a mistake before they took away his licence.

And what about the nurse? What it boils down to is that they both wanted a quickie without being found out. Hopefully, she will now be advised to keep her knickers on at work at all times.

More suction, please, nurse!

Charlie Kirk Suspect Tyler Robinson Will Face A Capital Murder Charge

Prosecutors are getting ready to charge Tyler Robinson, the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin, with capital murder, which could result in his execution by firing squad.

Charges against Robinson, 22, are expected to come ahead of the first court hearing since he was accused last week of shooting Kirk, sources close to prosecutors told the Associated Press.

Kirk, 31, was a conservative activist credited with energising the Republican youth movement and helping President Donald Trump win back the White House in 2024.

Authorities say Robinson held a ‘leftist ideology’ and may have been ‘radicalised’ online before he was arrested for killing the MAGA influencer.

The most serious allegation that Utah County prosecutors are pursuing against Robinson is aggravated murder, which carries the possibility of the death penalty in the event of a conviction.

Utah is one of five states that still allow the firing squad as a form of death punishment, even though lethal injection is the most common method of execution in the United States.

Robinson is expected to appear on video for a virtual court session following the filing of charges. Since his arrest, he has been detained without being granted bail, and it is unknown if he has legal representation.

Investigators have been piecing together evidence, including a rifle and ammunition branded with anti-fascist and meme culture messaging, discovered after the shooting on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem.

Kirk was speaking there on one of his numerous campus visits, where he enjoyed debating just about everyone.

While authorities say Robinson hasn’t been cooperating with investigators, they do say his family and friends have been talking.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said over the weekend that those who know Robinson say his politics shifted left in recent years and that he spent a lot of time in the ‘dark corners of the internet’.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that DNA evidence has linked Robinson to a towel wrapped around a rifle found near the Utah Valley campus and a screwdriver recovered from the rooftop where the fatal shot was fired.

Before the shooting, Robinson wrote in a note that he had an opportunity to take out Kirk and was going to do it, according to Patel.

Investigators are working on finding a motive for the attack, Utah’s governor said Sunday, adding that more information may come out once Robinson appears for his initial court hearing.

Cox said Robinson’s romantic partner was transgender, which some politicians have pointed to as a sign the suspect was targeting Kirk for his anti-transgender views. But authorities have not yet said whether that played a role. 

Kirk was shot while taking a question that touched on mass shootings, gun violence and transgender people.

Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said Monday that Robinson’s partner has been cooperative. 

He said investigators believe Robinson acted alone during the shooting, but they also are looking at whether anyone knew of his plans beforehand.

Robinson justified his actions by saying, ‘Some hatred cannot be negotiated with,’ Patel added.

The embattled head of the bureau, who faces a Senate grilling over his handling of the investigation, revealed the shocking motive of Tyler Robinson.

Patel added that when Robinson was questioned why he would kill the conservative influencer, he responded: ‘Some hatred cannot be negotiated with.’

The investigation, according to Patel, has featured witness interviews between both the FBI and local and regional law enforcement, where they found Robinson ‘essentially admitted’ to killing Kirk.

The director also tempered concerns about how long details pertaining to the investigation were taking, saying that he ‘won’t stylise the evidence’ but that ‘information will come out’. 

Robinson was taken into custody after a high-profile manhunt following the fatal shooting of the 31-year-old conservative influencer at a demonstration last week.

When the perpetrator of the deadly shooting was eventually caught by police, Cox had earlier promised to execute them.

Among the few states that still use firing squad executions are Utah, along with Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

Historically, the use of the firing squad was mostly restricted to the state of Utah, when legislators in 1851 established three likely punishments for murder: shooting, hanging or beheading. 

Since 1608, at least 144 civilian prisoners have been executed by shooting in the US, nearly all in Utah.

Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, only four executions of this kind have happened, with the most recent being Brad Sigmon in March. 

He was convicted of bludgeoning his ex-girlfriend’s parents to death and was executed at South Carolina’s Broad River Correctional Institution, making him the first person to die by the firing squad in the state for 15 years.

I don’t agree with the death penalty. Never have and never will. A life sentence with no parole, but to take a life for a life is not a deterrent, and makes the person conducting the execution no better than the person they are killing. As they say, ‘An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.’

If it were a deterrent, why is there so much knife and gun crime in the US?

Robinson is a 22-year-old man who chose to kill another human being. He knew that he would be executed. Perhaps he didn’t value his life that much, or perhaps he was brainwashed by somebody else – it happens all the time, but ultimately it was a violent crime that will end his life – his family must be devastated.

This is a pointless waste of two lives, and for what exactly? This is such a sad example of the madness in today’s world, but let’s not fall into the trap that life is cheap; it’s not. Our lives are valuable, and we must all strive to live our best lives, not just for ourselves but for others as well.

Sumo: Florida Mum Delivers Record-Breaking Baby

A Florida mum stunned the maternity ward after delivering a record-breaking baby boy weighing twice the average newborn’s size.

Daniella Hines, 40, welcomed her son Annan on September 3 at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South in Riverview.

Nurses on the ward were left stunned after weighing him at a whopping 13 pounds, 15 ounces, which broke a hospital record.

‘He was the talk of the maternity ward,’ Hines told TODAY. 

At just eight days old, Annan was already wearing clothes designed for a nine-month-old baby and had earned the nickname ‘Sumo’.

 

Annan is Hines and her husband Andre Sr.’s second child, with their first, Andre Jr., born weighing 12 pounds, 11 ounces.

But Hines was still shocked when her baby was handed to her, as she recalled how different the birth of her second felt.

 

‘I remember thinking, “What are they pulling out of me? What is going on here?” I felt so much pressure,’ she told the outlet.

Her confusion subsided when she saw Annan for the first time, and she added, ‘He was so big. I was like, “Whose baby is this? He came out of me?”

Hines stands at six feet, while her husband is six feet two inches tall. She believes their height played an enormous part in determining their children’s size.

Because hospital personnel thought Annan was the largest baby ever delivered to their ward, the not-so-little baby became the talk of the ward.

‘Everybody starts coming in because it’s not every day you see an almost 14-pound baby pop out,’ Hines continued. ‘He was like a little celebrity.’

St. Joseph’s Hospital-South called Annan a ‘big miracle.’

‘Annan is believed to be among the biggest babies, if not the biggest baby, ever born at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South,’ staff wrote on Facebook.

Hines responded on the post with great thanks for ‘such great hospitality,’ and added that Annan’s ‘weight came as a surprise to us as well.’

‘He is such a big, beautiful blessing,’ she wrote, adding with laughter to the comment section, ‘yes, I had a C-Section.’ 

Hines’ husband, Andre Sr., shared on social media that their baby boy had already donned the nickname ‘Sumo.’

On Monday, Hines wrote: ‘It’s been almost a week since our little, or should I say BIG bundle of joy made his debut into this world.’

‘Who knew he would be a baby celebrity,’ she continued. 

Annan was doing ‘fine’ after his first week at home, and Hines was continuing her recovery from her second C-Section birth ‘due to high risk and weight’.

‘I’m still in awe, he was estimated to weigh around 11lbs (which is still big) and here we are,’ she wrote.

‘Now the focus is on making sure he stays healthy and taking back all these small clothes and size newborn/number 1 diapers that won’t fit.’

On Thursday, Hines shared more images of baby Annan, who was sleeping peacefully with a little smile on his face.

‘We are so in love with the newest addition to the family,’ she wrote. 

‘Annan is eight days old and wearing 6-9 months in clothes and size 2 diapers! Look at those squishy cheeks and juicy rolls!’

Annan’s mother told TODAY that her newborn has been ‘really chill,’ except for when it’s time to eat. 

‘We didn’t expect such a big blessing, but it’s just more to love!’ Hines said. ‘I can’t wait to show him when he gets older: “Look, you were in the news!”

In March, a mother in Alabama gave birth to a baby girl who was the size of a three-month-old, weighing 13 pounds, 4 ounces.

In 2019, a New York woman named Joy Buckley gave birth to a baby girl who weighed 15 pounds, 5 ounces.

‘I felt like I had been hit by two tractor-trailers simultaneously,’ she told the Washington Post the day after the birth.

A baby boy born in September 1955 in Aversa, Italy, now holds the Guinness World record for the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother.

The boy weighed in at a whopping 22 pounds, eight ounces.

It’s good to see some happiness in the world because this is a very positive story for once.

The parents are so happy, and the baby is doing well. This is what we need to see more of.

For whatever reason, some mums simply give birth to large infants, and this one is gorgeous.

Protesters Clash With Police In London, Tommy Robinson Takes To The Stage

The Met Police were on high alert with more than a thousand officers drafted in as two large-scale demonstrations were underway in London. An estimated 110,000 people were taking part in the right-wing ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protest, police say.

Footage showed Robinson supporters draped in flags fighting with the police, with some ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protesters climbing on the fence outside Portcullis House, where MPs have their offices.

Witnesses informed Metro that during the Stand Up To Racism march, there were also some altercations between demonstrators and police.

Met Police said: ‘A crowd of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protesters attempted to enter the sterile area on Whitehall, that is a place to keep the two protests apart. Officers were attacked with projectiles and had to use force to avoid their cordon being breached.’

Tommy Robinson supporters and Stand Up to Racism protesters have stared each other down at different protests in Whitehall.

The two groups were separated by a line of police officers on Whitehall Place, one side waving placards that said ‘refugees welcome. Stop the far right’ and the other flying Union and St George’s flags.

Anti-fascist protesters yelled ‘Tommy Robinson’s a wanker’ and ‘whose streets, our streets’.

A speaker said the Tommy Robinson demonstration was ‘so boring, they’ve come round to listen to us’.

Stand Up to Racism protesters were yelling ‘fascist scum’, metres from a group of Tommy Robinson protesters who were behind police holding riot protection gear.

The Robinson protesters were at the edge of Horse Guards Avenue, while the anti-fascist protesters were assembled on Whitehall. The two streets are perpendicular.

The Robinson protesters waved Union flags and a metre-wide St George’s flag that said ‘stop the boats’.

They could be seen screaming at the line of officers and towards the anti-fascist gathering.

In the heart of London, Tommy Robinson took the stage.

Addressing the cheering masses, he said: ‘Look around you. Feel your strength. You are part of a tidal wave of patriotism that is sweeping across this country.

‘This is the biggest demonstration in British history.

‘Turn to the person next to you. Shake their hand, greet them, give them a hug – this is your community.

‘These are your brothers and sisters.

‘We today are united.

‘Today is the spark of a cultural revolution in Great Britain.

‘This is our moment.

‘The traitors in Westminster are watching right now.

‘They are cowering, they are trembling. Keir Starmer, the Labour Party – the revolution has started.’

The Metropolitan Police estimated that the number of people at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally was about 110,000.

It put the number at the counter ‘Stand Up To Racism’ rally at around 5,000.

A force spokesman said estimates were difficult but that it used CCTV and police helicopter footage to calculate the figures, and they conceded that there would be differences between their estimates and that of the organisers.

From Russell Square, hundreds of Stand Up to Racism demonstrators began their march towards Whitehall, and the gathering chanted ‘stand up, fight back’ and ‘we are the women, we won’t be silenced, stop the fascists now, now, now, now.’

On their way to Whitehall, thousands of demonstrators crossed Westminster Bridge after leaving Waterloo.

Robinson said, ‘patriotism is the future, borders are the future’ as he reiterated his claim that it was the ‘biggest demonstration in British history’.

In a video from the rally, the activist added that ‘Britain has finally awoken’ and that ‘this is never going away’.

All of the flags were great to see, but we are all so easily divided now.

As usual, Tommy Robinson’s supporters had different intentions despite his request for a nonviolent demonstration.

However, stand tall and proud. We are not fascists, we are true Britons standing up for our country. The real fascists are screaming for violence, dancing over the graves of the honourable dead men who battled for our country.

Simply said, we don’t want to finance illegal migrants and make our nation a haven for terrorists.

These people are just regular citizens fed up with this migrant madness wreaking havoc on our country. It’s got nothing to do with racism. We just want to end this migrant madness, and what benefit do they actually bring to this country?

POLL OF THE DAY: Should Keir Starmer Be Ousted As Prime Minister?

Following the humiliating dismissal of Lord Mandelson, Keir Starmer is dealing with growing discontent from both political rivals and members of the Labour Party.

New Labour architect Mandelson was dramatically sacked from his position as US ambassador on Thursday after the emergence of emails to notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, describing him as his ‘best pal’.

Many Members of Parliament are incensed about the incident and the fact that Sir Keir chose Lord Mandelson for the position in the first place.

Left-wing MP Clive Lewis became the first to call for the PM to go, telling the BBC’s The Week in Westminster that the atmosphere in the Parliamentary Labour Party had become ‘very, very dangerous’.

And it has since emerged that Manchester mayor Andy Burnham could be planning to oust Sir Keir, with a sitting MP allegedly prepared to stand down to let Mr Burnham back into the House of Commons.

You can now cast your vote in the Daily Mail poll on whether Sir Keir should be removed from Downing Street as the Labour Party’s terrible week comes to a close and more rage is on the horizon.

Not only should Keir Starmer be ousted, but an election should be called – Labour are not fit for purpose.

Both Labour and Conservatives need to be closed to all elections. They’ve had their time in office, and they were equally ineffective, and mark my words, Reform will not be any more useful – we need totally fresh blood, not something that has sat in a test tube for over 50 years.

The Tories are finished, Labour are hopeless, and even Reform have admitted they are not electable, so who do we vote for?

At the moment, there is not one politician in the UK who has what is needed to run the country!

Thankfully, I’m not one of the number one idiots who voted for this shambles of a government – I wouldn’t vote for the Conservatives either, and before you criticise, I did vote, just not for them.

We need a fixed term for a Prime Minister to be in office, and once they are in office, there needs to be a 14-month cooling-off period, not for the Prime Minister who has been elected, but for the people, especially if that PM pledged something they did not deliver, and then there needs to be another General Election.

If you pledge or promise something, that is deemed a verbal contract and is essentially a legally binding contract in the UK, especially if it’s an intent to do something, but that can be difficult to argue if it is not in writing, so from now on any Prime Minister who says that he will do something for the British people needs to put it writing, otherwise people are not going to believe what they say, not after Starmer anyway.

They should therefore be removed from office right away if they fail to fulfil the aforementioned vow or promise, because they all promise us the earth before they get in, but once they’re in, it’s a different story.

Prince Harry Makes Surprise Visit To Kyiv

In support of Ukraine’s tens of thousands of wounded veterans and as part of his efforts for the Invictus Games, Prince Harry paid an unexpected visit to Kyiv.

The Duke of Sussex flew to Poland and then caught a train to the Ukrainian capital, arriving on Friday morning.

He is making his maiden trip to Kyiv, which was struck by Russian cruise missiles two days ago. That same evening, a large number of Russian attack drones broke into Polish airspace and were shot down.

‘I had to check with my wife and the British government to make sure it was OK’, he said today. 

Harry, who has enjoyed a triumphant trip to the UK to support his charities and meet his father, King Charles, has said he will do ‘everything possible’ to help Ukrainian soldiers and service personnel injured in the three-year war with Russia.

‘We cannot stop the war, but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process,’ he said.

‘We can continue to humanise the people involved in this war and what they are going through. We have to keep it in the forefront of people’s minds. I hope this trip will help to bring it home to people because it’s easy to become desensitised to what has been going on.’

He will meet hundreds of veterans, visit the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, and have a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko while in Kyiv.

Harry told The Guardian that he was invited by Olga Rudnieva, the boss of the Superhumans Trauma Centre in Lviv.

He said: ‘I bumped into Olga in New York. It was a chance meeting, and I asked her what I could do to help. She said, “The biggest impact you have is coming to Kyiv”.

‘I had to check with my wife and the British government to make sure it was OK. Then the official invitation came.

‘In Lviv, you don’t see much of the war. It is so far west. This is the first time we will see the real destruction of the war’.

Harry, who served 10 years in the British Army, has long made supporting wounded soldiers one of his most prominent causes – founding the Invictus Games in 2014 to offer wounded veterans the opportunity to compete in sports events similar to the Paralympics.

Ukraine has taken part since 2017 and talked about how moved he was when he met the team in The Hague two years ago.

He said: ‘It was remarkable. Every one of the participants had a journey to get to those games, but nobody from any of the other competing nations was going back to war. That is why the Ukrainians stood out. Everyone felt an immense connection to them. Some of the competitors were being pulled off the battlefield and were going back to the battlefield. It means so much to us, because it means so much to them’.

Harry visited Ukraine for the first time in April, this time to Lviv, where he met with war victims.

Images showed the royal with a smile ear-to-ear, posing with dozens of wounded soldiers.

One photograph showed the Duke with a solemn expression as he spoke to a visibly injured youngster. 

Only after Harry had left the country was the visit to the region in western Ukraine that has been regularly struck by Russian missiles announced.

The prince was joined in Ukraine by a contingent from the Invictus Games Foundation, including four veterans who have been through similar rehabilitation experiences.

The centre offers prosthetics, reconstructive surgery and psychological help free of charge.

Prince Harry ‘loved’ being back in the UK and ‘catching up with old friends’ this week, his aide revealed.

Completing his four-day trip with an event to spotlight The Diana Award yesterday, a spokesman for the Duke of Sussex suggested he saw it as a success.

On Wednesday night, the prodigal prince managed to secure himself a 54-minute meeting with his father, King Charles, the first in 19 months. But his choice of final engagement – a charity both he and his estranged brother, Prince William, have been involved with over the years – only served to highlight the gulf that remains between them.

Tessy Ojo, chief executive of The Diana Award, indicated she didn’t expect a joint engagement from them any time soon, saying: ‘You know what, people are fascinated about seeing them together. I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside them for 25 years, and they’ve always done things separately.

‘The one time we brought them together was the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death.’

Harry, she said, has been having monthly meetings via Zoom with Diana Award staff and has attended events in America. It was one of five events packed into what was dubbed a ‘pseudo royal tour’ for the Prince – and one clearly aimed at trying to reset his relationship with the British people.

The icing on the cake, however, was being driven into Clarence House for a nearly hour-long meeting with his father. While those in royal circles say it was not a reunion per se, it is being deemed a positive step forward.

Relations with his brother, who had taken the brunt of many of Harry’s most savage attacks on his family in recent years, do not appear to be thawing in any way.

It’s unclear if he intends to visit Britain anytime soon.

However, his spokesman strongly indicated he was buoyed by how well he felt this one had gone, saying: ‘He’s obviously loved being back in the UK, catching up with old friends and just generally being able to support the incredible causes that mean so much to him.’

Harry spent about an hour yesterday at what seemed to be a specially created event for him, talking to young people about mental health and social action. In an impromptu address, he spoke about how young people can feel isolated if ‘lost and separated from a group’.

Harry also gave a warm hug to his father’s former press secretary, Colleen Harris, who worked for Charles when he was the Prince of Wales, from 1998 until 2003.

She currently serves as one of the King’s Charitable Fund’s trustees.

The Duke then proceeded directly to the airport, and it has since come to light that he travelled to Ukraine rather than returning to Los Angeles.

Some would say that this was a publicity stunt with Harry – Look at me, I’ve visited my Grandmother’s resting place. Look at me, I have visited a hospital. Look at me, I’ve donated millions of pounds to charity, and now I’ve been to Ukraine.

I don’t think the British people will ever forgive him, but maybe he’s attempting to win them over, and why is he still pretending to be a Royal? He forfeited that right when he left the Royal Family and moved to the States.

Harry has said many times that he does not want to move back to the UK, and I don’t think he ever will. He said that he loves California and does not want to return to the UK to live, and that his children are happy and are able to live a normal life, which is something he never had, and who can condemn him for that?

No, he is no longer a diplomat or a working Royal, but when celebrities take part in humanitarian endeavours, the mainstream media covers it extensively. Regretfully, Harry is now a sinking ship in the United Kingdom. In addition to it being safer for Harry and his family, he will do far better in the United States.

Threat To Turn Dambusters HQ RAF Scampton Into Migrant Detention Centre

Families living in a historical village have been left furious amid new plans to house migrants at the former Dambusters base.

The iconic World War II mission to destroy German dams with ‘bouncing bombs’ was launched at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire in 1943 and altered the course of the war.

However, after widespread criticism nationwide, the crucial base has now been promoted once more as a detention facility for asylum seekers as the Labour administration seeks to cease housing newcomers in hotels.

It was formerly part of a £50 million Conservative plan to house 2,000 migrants at the site, which was subsequently lowered to 800 and ultimately scrapped by Labour in 2024, as it did not provide ‘value for money’.

Additionally, Defence Minister Luke Pollard stated this week that housing camps might be established on Ministry of Defence territory, perhaps including Scampton, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer tries to control the immigration problem.

Locals have, in turn, pledged to overthrow the plans once and for all, fearing the scenic village will become overwhelmed by asylum seekers.

Steve Plews, landlord of Scampton’s only pub, The Dambuster’s Arms, said: ‘They spent £62 million up there last year. They said it had to be “liveable” for the asylum seekers.

‘But it was alright for our lads to live there when it was an RAF base.’

He added that it was just as well the village had kept its Save Our Scampton flags up from the previous battle over the base’s future.

It was hoped that the Conservatives’ aborted plans would pave the way for the site to become a hub for aviation history, complete with a hotel and world-class attractions like the Red Arrows, but these ambitions are now in jeopardy.

‘I cannot say we are surprised, though,’ Mr Plews said. ‘It is a typical Labour U-turn. They could not lie straight in bed.

‘The fight starts again – even though we thought we had won it.’

Nodding in agreement, ex-RAF man Andy Pickett, 63, was nursing a pint of Dambuster Pilsner while admiring the pub’s display of memorabilia to the raid.

The local, who spent 37 years in the air force and seven more as a consultant engineer to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, said: ‘I don’t think it is financially viable. 

‘The politicians are being poorly advised by the civil servants who wrongly assumed, because it was an operational RAF base until two years ago, that the buildings are still structurally sound, and they are not.

‘Only 10 per cent of the estate was utilised by the RAF. Thirty years ago, the camp was shut. The officers’ mess and most of the barracks blocks were boarded up.

‘Internally, the ceilings have collapsed, and asbestos has been exposed. To bring those buildings back into use would cost an absolute fortune.’

In his announcement this week, Mr Pollard said MoD military planners were now reviewing all sites, including Scampton, as part of a new government push to close down migrant hotels.

He said: ‘The Home Office has decided against accommodation that the Ministry of Defence offered in the past. But we’re looking at all of them again at the moment.

‘The Prime Minister wants all asylum hotels closed, as do I, as does the British public.

‘And by standing up temporary accommodation on those sites, we can support the closure of those asylum hotels even faster.’ 

Mr Pollard added: ‘We’ve deployed a military planning team into Border Security Command and the Home Office to look at military and non-military sites, about where we can help build temporary but adequate accommodation that enables us to transfer those folks from asylum hotels into that temporary accommodation so we can close even more hotels.’

Edy Hammonds, originally from South America, has lived in Scampton for 38 years. 

He said: ‘I suppose I am an immigrant myself. But I have lived here longer than my own country.

‘As soon as I heard the news, I thought “It can’t be true. We are not going to have to start all over again for goodness sake”.

‘I cannot see it happening, but they are going to have a lot of trouble because we will fight even harder this time. I will fight.

‘I hope it doesn’t happen. We went through a stage last year when people were not coming into the village, and we were scared to walk the dogs near the air base.

‘The whole thing is ridiculous.’

In August, it was revealed that the previous failed effort to use Scampton as accommodation for migrants had cost the Home Office at least £48 million.

A Ministry of Defence representative did not rule out revisiting these plans and said the department would issue an update when a final decision had been made.

Pete Sherwood, 62, said: ‘It is Labour going back on their word again as soon as they got back into Government.

‘All the MPs need to do is send the migrants back as soon as their boats land.

‘I do not agree with this at all, especially if they are talking about thousands in there.

‘They are going to get bused into Lincoln, and Lincoln will be affected quite a lot. People will just stop going out because they have seen what has happened down in Essex.’

Fury down in Epping, Essex, developed after the Home Office won an appeal against the closure of their local migrant hotel – the Bell.

The Court of Appeal set aside an injunction granted earlier this month, which would have prevented 138 asylum seekers from being accommodated at the hotel beyond September 12. 

Lawyers for the then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper had claimed that closing the hotel would set a ‘dangerous precedent’ that would have encouraged similar litigation by other councils.

Residents of Essex have been demonstrating outside the hotel for weeks in protest of the decision. They participated in anti-immigration demonstrations last week in Chichester, Cheshunt, and Bournemouth, as well as in other cities.

Visiting Scampton from nearby Lincoln, Mark Jauncey, 35, said: ‘I am surprised this has all come back again. It will affect the whole area if this goes ahead.

‘It won’t be just this village that is affected. But the publicity worked last time, so I suspect the locals will be all out protesting again.’

As a life-long engineer, villager Colin Wilson, 79, reckoned the whole scheme would be doomed before any work even started.

He said: ‘It has proved a bad idea in the past. They invested all that money last year when they rushed into this without knowing what they are doing.

‘I would imagine the land is contaminated, there is not adequate sewage, water or drainage systems. They went into it half-a***d in the first place.

‘I have been in engineering and construction all my life. I know all about ck ups, and this is set to be a major ck up.

‘The whole subject of immigration is a disaster. The old buildings are full of asbestos and would cost a fortune to put right.’

Mr Wilson added that an influx of asylum seekers would lead to disruption in the sleepy village. 

‘If it does go ahead, crime will go up,’ he said. ‘I understand they are coming from poverty as economic migrants.

‘I have worked in the Middle East and have seen poverty, so of course it looks better over here.’

Steve Hanks, 47, had built two houses for sale in the village when the bomb shell announcement was originally made last year.

He said: ‘It has caused me all sorts of problems already. When it was announced, all the viewings I had and the interest was killed off overnight.

‘Using the base is not even a solution. It is just pushing the problem further down the road.’

Meanwhile, Tom said, ‘It is not good for the people who live around here. Everyone thought this idea was done and dusted, but now we have this U-turn.

‘There is nothing here for any of them to do. We have not even got a shop. There is a pub, and that is it. It will affect some people’s house prices too.

‘I know they have got a lot of people coming in and they have to put them somewhere. But it always has to be in the neighbourhood of someone not making the decisions.

‘They would not put them in Keir Starmer’s back yard.’

Sir Edward Leigh, the MP for Gainsborough, has previously maintained that Scampton should not be taken into consideration as a place to settle migrants.

A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘We have committed to close all asylum hotels and to achieve this, we will look at a range of cheaper, more appropriate sites like disused accommodation, industrial and ex-military sites so that we can reduce the impact on communities.

‘We are working closely with local authorities, property partners and across-government so that we can accelerate delivery and more detail will be set out in due course.’

Sally Grindrod-Smith, Director of Planning, Regeneration and Communities at the council, said: ‘West Lindsey District Council remains clear in our position that RAF Scampton is wholly unsuitable as a site for asylum accommodation.

‘The location presents significant challenges, including the protection of nationally important heritage, the limitations of local rural infrastructure, unresolved contamination issues, and the sheer scale of disruption such a proposal would cause to our communities.’

‘The Home Office officially abandoned its plans for the site a year ago this month, acknowledging its unsuitability and being found not being value for money.

‘Sally explained that should any future proposals be revisited, the Council will continue to insist on full transparency, robust planning scrutiny, and meaningful consultation with residents.

She added: ‘Working with our Development Partner Sampton Holdings Limited, we are committed to securing a positive future for RAF Scampton. We have already submitted an Expression of Interest to acquire the site and remain ready to deliver our ambitious £300 million regeneration plan.

‘This plan would protect the site’s heritage, create jobs, attract investment, and provide long-term benefits for West Lindsey and beyond. RAF Scampton’s future is too important to be jeopardised by short-term or unsuitable proposals.’

Any person who is coming over by dinghy and not by the appropriate channels should be considered a terrorist. Blast them out of the water as invaders, and no more will come – harsh but effective, because while our government are letting them into the country, our once great country is turning into a third world cesspit.

These people are not migrants; they are illegal immigrants who have no right to be accommodated anywhere by us!

Moving them from hotels to barracks or anywhere will cost the UK millions of pounds to provide them with more facilities.

Tents in fields – they are illegal – treat them as such. The UK owes them nothing.

Also, we need to put armed soldiers around the perimeters, making them as uncomfortable as possible; they might then go home.

They offer nothing beneficial to our nation, but as soon as they are here, they are treated like royalty, whereas destitute British citizens are simply ignored.

Taxpayers’ own government money – the government doesn’t have its own money; it belongs to the taxpayers. Starmer and his buddies must leave office immediately because the British people have had enough of them destroying our country.

And to think, just 80 years after World War II, the UK is totally unrecognisable thanks to subsequent governments. They are supposed to protect the British people, and that just isn’t happening.

The Naughtiest Royal Child Revealed

Prince William has shared a rare insight into the different personalities of his three children, while revealing the real cheeky monkey behind closed doors.

The Prince of Wales made the surprisingly frank comments as he visited the national federation of the Women’s Institute (WI) in Sunningdale, Ascot, alongside his wife, Princess Kate. The royal couple journeyed to the WI to mark the third anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Before his children returned to Lambrook school last week, William talked warmly about his children and their summertime activities while sharing some more recent recollections of his family life and hearing anecdotes about the late Queen over tea and cake.

When questioned if his children were back at school, William jokingly responded: “Thankfully, yes” before saying he had “got them off” for the new school year after completing the school run.

Nina Derrick asked, “Is Louis a bit of a handful?” to which William seemed to defend his youngest son, saying that Louis was “a very good boy”.

When it was pointed out that George seemed to be the sensible one, whereas Louis was “a bit of a character”, William said that there was “five years between them” and quipped that while George knew how to behave in public, “behind closed doors it’s a different story”.

Kate said that she and the children had been crafting in every corner of the house” over the summer holidays, and spoke to the women about her bee-keeping, and the importance of “making and crafting” and “community”.

Talking to one group, William acknowledged that it was his grandmother’s anniversary. “I can’t quite believe it has been three years already,” he said, before adding that the time has “gone quite quick”.

He said that the late Queen, who had been a member for more than 80 years, had “loved” the WI.

Acknowledging his closeness to the Ascot racecourse, which hosts Royal Ascot each year, he added, “I think she would have loved a few more wins. She was very upset that she couldn’t win a few more times.

“She used to have an iPad so that she could watch all the foals being born, so wherever she was in the country, she could see. She was very dedicated.”

The WI has a close connection with Elizabeth II as she was a member for 80 years, joining in 1943 and acting as president of the Sandringham WI from 2003 until she died in 2022 at Balmoral, aged 96, after a rule lasting 70 years.

Kate and William have one strict rule for their children, and one way to deal with their poor manners.

Kate and William, the Prince and Princess of Wales, have regularly been seen out in public with their children as the young royals grow and take a more involved role in public life.

The youngest are often seen having fun at major events – from pulling faces to blowing out candles.

However, insiders have revealed that there are some strict rules the children have to follow, and although they do have the help of a nanny, the royal couple are still extremely hands-on with their children, who are said to love taking part in activities such as bike riding and baking.

At their Windsor home, Adelaide Cottage, William and Kate apparently have a set of rules that must be followed at all times, so it’s not all fun and games for George, Charlotte, and Louis.

According to a source, this rule is one they are strict on following – there is to be no shouting in the house. Shouting is completely off limits for the children, and any inkling of shouting at each other is dealt with by removal.

But rather than be sent off to their bedrooms or to the naughty step when they act up, the royal couple have a different approach – the sofa chat.

The source added: “The naughty child is taken away from the scene of the row or disruption and talked to calmly by either Kate or William. Things are explained and consequences outlined, and they never shout at them.”

Don’t be deceived by their royal status – they’re parents too, and when they see behaviour that isn’t acceptable, they clamp down on it like anyone else would.

The pair have been raising their three children to be outstanding Royals, and Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, have been known to be extremely well behaved in the public eye. But what about at home?

It seems that the two steer clear of more conventional forms of discipline, such as the naughty step method.

The step is often a technique where parents send their children to sit alone apart from the family so they may reflect on their actions and return with an apology.

It is generally condemned as a poor approach to assist your child learn from their mistakes, and to be honest, it is not an effective technique.

Instead, many choose to talk to their child about their mistake and work through it together instead of isolating them.

For William and Kate they too like to talk it out. There’s no ‘naughty step’ but there is a ‘chat sofa.’

William and Kate explained that the naughty child is taken away from the scene of the row or disruption and talked to calmly by either one of them.

“Things are explained and consequences outlined, and they never shout at them.”

When it comes to making choices involving the kids, their nanny, Maria Borrallo, works hand in hand with William and Kate.

You would never suspect that it’s a military operation since they put a great deal of effort into raising their three children while maintaining a calm and joyful environment.

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