Trooping The Colour

It was incredible to witness Trooping the Colour in real-time, however, I’m not sure how many people watched it.

Princess Kate grinned broadly at the cheering throng as she stood with her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony. She seemed very happy.

Prince Louis was not amused. The young Prince appeared to be unimpressed with the Red Arrows flypast as he stood on the Buckingham Palace balcony.

Members of the royal family waved to the crowds before the Red Arrows flypast before standing proudly as the national anthem was played.

The King gave the applauding masses another wave before entering the palace.

The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children also waved before following Charles and Camilla from the balcony.

The Royal Family looked to the sky as the RAF flypast took place at this year’s Trooping the Colour where the planes left strips of red, white and blue in the sky.

The Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired 41 guns in honour of the monarch’s birthday from nearby Green Park.

Thousands of people flocked down The Mall towards Buckingham Palace, hoping to see the royal family on the balcony. The King waved to those spectators who dared to stay on The Mall despite the heavy rain.

Even in this terrible British weather, the troops remain impeccable.

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, was seen wiping the fog from her carriage window to wave to royal fans.

In keeping with tradition, the King leads the troops back to Buckingham Palace to finish the ceremony. Crowds cheer even though the rain has started to pour.

Naughty Prince Louis was spotted bopping along to the bagpipes at Trooping the Colour as his big sister Princess Charlotte has a stern word and appears to tell him to stop.

Princess Anne arrived on horseback for today’s event in her no-nonsense way, and Clare Balding, who was presenting the live coverage of Trooping the Colour on BBC, laughs as she watched Prince Louis yawn at the proceedings.

The journalist joked: ‘Ah, Prince Louis – stealing the show as ever.’

As the family watches on from the balcony at the Major General’s Office, the Princess of Wales appears to have a quiet word with Louis – who is known for his antics.

Lady Louise Windsor looked elegant in a tea dress made of white chiffon with blue flowers on it; she wore the same outfit to the King’s Coronation in May.

It’s safe to say that our Kate is the object of much adoration.

While I don’t support royalty, I do appreciate it when others do.

I do wish Kate all the very best, and anyone else who has a cancer diagnosis. It’s a horrible disease that has affected tens of millions of people, their families and friends in one way or another.

I’m not a royalist but the anti-monarchists want to give their heads a wobble. Just because you don’t agree with something doesn’t mean you have to tell the whole world. Just let people enjoy what they want while everybody gets on with their own lives. I can’t understand why people think their opinion is more important than anyone elses. If we were just all accepting of each other’s beliefs and lived our lives the world would be a better place.

The UK Armed Forces are the greatest in the world, and the entire event was spectacular as always. The trouble is, there’s not enough of them.

The Trooping of Colour was a fabulous spectacle. So much hard work and dedication go into the preparation as well as yesterday’s parade, and what parent would be proud of their son or daughter taking part in it?

Remember that these soldiers are not simply for show; they are also active combatants.

In addition to the amazing turnout, what was even more impressive were the large groups that showed up despite the rain and waited for hours on end.

The stunning flypast by our fantastic Red Arrows was something to be proud of, and the 41-gun salute was amazing and executed with excellent accuracy. Of course, seeing our Royal Family happy and smiling on Buckingham Palace’s balcony was the cherry on top.

Children Who Remember Their Past Lives

‘That is the field where I died’, a five-year-old boy tells his parents.

‘I remember because the mud was so deep it went over my gaiters’, he says serenely while pointing across a former historic battlefield in southern England.

In addition to being shocked by their son’s claim to have been reincarnated, his parents were shocked to hear that despite his lack of historical knowledge, he had mentioned his gaiters, which were protective leg coverings worn by troops from 1700 to the conclusion of World War I.

He is not alone. An American university has compiled a database of more than 2,200 children who have been haunted by ‘carry-over of memories’ of past lives since the 1960s.

Opponents contend that these stories are either the product of a child’s active imagination or are based on knowledge from other sources, such as TV, the internet, and family stories.

Yet, a recent research by the University of Virginia School of Medicine discovered that in two-thirds of those cases, there was sufficient information to identify the dead person the youngster thought they could have been.

These children, generally aged between two and six, either had the epiphany of having experienced déjà vu when visiting a certain place – or it came to them in lucid dreams.

Cameron Macaulay, the young child who starred in the 2006 documentary Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Lived Before, was the most well-known example in Britain.

From the age of two, he had perfectly described his home on a beach in the Outer Hebrides – including the death of his father in a car crash and his pet black-and-white sheepdog – despite never visiting the Scottish island and nor had any of his Glaswegian family.

‘I have to go to Barra, I have to go to Barra, my family are missing me’, he would tell his parents.

He recalled swimming in rock pools and playing with friends on the beach where small planes would land.

Cameron’s visions of life there were so real to him that on occasion he would need to be collected from nursery as he was crying for his parents on Barra. Eventually, his family relented and visited, and found a home on the beach there exactly as he described it.

And there are more cases like it. 

In the North East, a father was shocked to hear his two-year-old daughter talking about ‘Her other father who died a long time ago.’

The father told MailOnline: ‘The assumption at the time was that she had an imaginary friend called Charles because she would often be appearing to talk to him or about him.

‘In the end, we asked her more about Charles and she said ‘he was my other father who died a long time ago.

‘Little by little more details started to come out. She said he lived in a house with a black door and described an iron staircase that went upwards in circles.

‘It was a bit creepy but I was intrigued enough to look into whether the houses in our suburb were likely to have had spiral staircases and discovered that it was a fairly common feature of some of the older properties.

‘It was very strange and lasted only a few months, in time she stopped talking about Charles, which I must admit was a relief.’

The family of a little girl on holiday in the UK claimed she had pointed to a pair of graves in a rural church and declared that was where she had buried her parents, even reeling off their names on the stones and the dates they died as well as the epitaph: ‘They were dearly loved and in God’s arms’.

‘I used to come here when I was a boy’, she said and started to describe the inside of the church in great detail. Her parents told her she had a ‘a really good imagination’ but found ‘she was spot on with every single detail’, one family friend said.

A fourth child, aged three, told his parents ‘many times’ that he had drowned in a ‘speedboat accident’ when he was a ‘much older man’.

Focus on these tales has been reignited after an academic study in the US raised the possibility that reincarnation could happen – because hundreds of children have told them so.

These are common occurrences, and it seems that youngsters are more prone than adults to have these déjà vu moments.

When my son was younger I could hide something while he was out and then pretend I couldn’t find it when he got back in, and he would find it straight away. Not quite the same thing as déjà vu, but it did make me wonder how on earth he even knew when he wasn’t even in the same house when I hid the item. As he’s got older and grown up he seems to have lost the ability to do this.

Children are very perceptive but very unaware of themselves.

None of us know the truth about what happens when we die, perhaps we’re not supposed to. I like to keep an open mind because the fact that we’re here at all is a miracle in itself and we should never rule anything out. Perhaps we bring past lives with us when we’re born.

Sadly, not everyone will believe in reincarnation because some people feel threatened by the things they don’t understand. I always retain an open mind because a closed mind learns nothing new.

Could Your Lunch Contain Deadly E.Coli?

A minimum of forty distinct varieties of store-bought sandwiches, wraps, and salads have been removed from the shelves after a watchdog issued a warning not to consume them.

‘Do not eat’ alerts have been slapped on products made by Greencore, who produce 1.7 million sandwiches daily making them the world’s largest manufacturer.

Additionally, a different alert was sent out about sandwiches produced by Samworth Brothers Manton Wood.

It is thought that some batches sold in ten separate stores—Asda, Amazon, Boots, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Tesco, OneStop, Aldi, and The Gym Kitchen—may be tainted with E. coli.

The bug—which can kill—usually causes a fever, sickness and diarrhoea. Its symptoms typically fade naturally within days.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) have said that the recall was a ‘precautionary step’.

Among the goods impacted are the Chicken Fajita Triple Wrap from Aldi, the Smoky Beans, Cheddar Cheese Wrap from Asda, and the Vegan No Duck & Hoisin Wrap from Boots.

Other options include the Prawn Layered Salad from Amazon, the Peri Peri Chicken Wrap, and the Greek Style Wrap from Sainsbury’s.

They are said to include a particular type of salad leaf. The warning affects product date codes through June 14, 15, and 16.

All establishments that sell the product will also have point-of-sale notices up, explaining to customers why it is being recalled, according to the FSA.

It added: ‘If you have bought any of the above products do not eat it.

‘Instead, return it to the store from where it was bought for a full refund.’

The Greencore Group also said: ‘As a precautionary measure, we have voluntarily recalled a number of sandwiches and wraps due to a potential food safety risk.

‘Greencore adheres to the highest standards of food safety, and we are working closely with the FSA and our suppliers to better understand the possible source of any potential issue.’

A Samworth Brothers Manton Wood spokesperson said: ‘The FSA has advised the supplier of a salad ingredient which we use in a small number of products that it should undertake a product withdrawal and recall.

‘Meanwhile, food chain investigations are being carried out, which have not yet reached any conclusions.

‘A small number of sandwich and wrap lines that are made at our Manton Wood site are being recalled as a precautionary measure to ensure a high level of health protection for consumers. 

‘No other Manton Wood products are affected.’

It comes as more than 200 British people have already been diagnosed with the unusual strain of E. coli that causes diarrhoea, known as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), in recent weeks.

The problem with these kinds of recalls on products such as sandwiches is it’s often too late for the consumer. These items are usually consumed on the day for lunch et cetera.

It’s not just about food, but about everything in our nation, the standards have drastically declined in recent years, and it just shows what this country has become. What happened to making our lunches – a sandwich and maybe a bowl of soup, but these days most people want to pay exorbitant prices for something that you could probably make for just under a pound.

What’s wrong with making your own lunch? It’s not hard, but people are just too lazy these days.

We don’t know the origin of the salad that we put into our sandwiches at home, but at least we know we can wash our vegetables before they go in there. Even home-made sandwiches and salads are at risk, and it seems that when eating anything we are playing Russian roulette with our health.

A Squatter Who Took Over A Dead Man’s Home Six Years Ago, Finally Lets His Daughter Collect Decades-Old Family Treasures

A squatter who has lived inside a dead man’s home for the better part of a decade has allowed his former landlord’s daughter inside to reclaim family treasures.

Donna Kent, the rightful owner of the house, inherited the property from her father, who died in 2012, but is just now gaining access to her dad’s treasure trove of once-loved relics, NewsNation reported.

Kyle, the squatter who’s been living in Kent’s home, told the network’s Morning In America team he’s long been awaiting her visit.

He has been residing in the New York residence for the past six years without having to pay rent, but he says he was delighted to let Donna go through her father’s old belongings and disclosed the reason he never threw them away.

When Donna finally reached her father’s old attic, she said: ‘So much stuff everywhere.’

The dusty attic was in semi-disrepair, just like the rest of the home, yet boxes filled with her father’s worldly belongings were piled high.

Kent rummaged through an assortment of vintage family photos, baseball cards, a book with yellowed pages and worn edges, and other mementoes from bygone eras.

‘At this point, I’m just sort of overwhelmed, to be honest,’ said Kent, after nervously climbing up some tenuous stairs to the attic.

In one shocking moment, Kent picks up what appears to be a vessel filled with ashes.

‘We think we found some people’s ashes in containers, but we don’t know who they are,’ she said. 

She ponders for a moment if these may be her father’s or other relatives’ remains.

She then admits that the cans are probably packed with family pets, raising eyebrows again not long after that shocking revelation.

‘Makes me feel a little better that it’s pets and not people up here,’ she said.

Although it’s unclear how Kent and her father interacted, she stated that she had been looking for some closure from the attic excavation.

‘I’ve always felt like there was something in there to give me some information—a glimpse into my dad’s life. It’s nice I was able to get into the house and see it for myself,’  she said.

Kyle told the news crew that despite living in a home that didn’t belong to him, he felt a sense of duty to safe keep what wasn’t his. 

If I were in the position where squatters had taken over my home, I wouldn’t have been waiting six years to collect my items and gain entry to my home. I would have taken the matter to court to have the squatter removed legally. Either that or blunt-force trauma is an option.

Why is squatting even allowed? And what kind of story is this? A man takes someone else’s house and doesn’t throw away their possessions, so everything is good?

If these squatters tried it on the homes of politicians or celebrities, they would be removed in a matter of seconds; this absurd regulation solely affects common people.

This guy must have been a squatter with morals—the feel-good story of the year. Yeah, right!

Stories like this attempt to defend squatting. Just get rid of the vagrant, I say.

These stories of squatters have always baffled me so much. When someone doesn’t own a house, how in the world can they be permitted to live there?

Woke-ism because the existing legal system serves the interests of a certain group of entitled individuals only.

Earthquake On The Island Of Rhodes

British tourists in Rhodes have described ‘the whole airport shaking’ in the wake of a 4.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the Greek island on Wednesday night.

According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the epicentre was detected in the Aegean Sea around 67 km (41 miles) southwest of the island, which is a popular holiday destination for many Brits.

People on the island would have felt the rupture, even though it is believed that structures were not severely damaged because the earthquake only had a magnitude of 4.8.

However, holidaymakers in several locations across the island took to X, formerly Twitter, to share how they witnessed the tremor.

One user shared how they had felt the ‘whole airport shaking, prompting concerns from fellow travellers who had jetted away to other parts of the island.

They continued: ‘Yeah like the whole airport shook so quick outta nowhere, the walls and floor shaking. It felt weird and crazy’.

Another said: ‘Just felt it in Rhodes in our hotel room’.

A third joked: ‘Near Faliraki. The table was shaking on our hotel balcony. Thought I’d had a few too many’.

A further comment read: ‘Felt it in Gennadi! right down south!!’

Another individual on holiday said that they had felt the quake in Lindos.

The Greek media claimed that the tremor was also felt in Turkey, although the EMSC stated that adjacent towns including Gennadi, Lardos, Archangelos, and the island’s capital, Rhodes, may have felt mild shaking.

A spokesperson for the EMSC said: ‘Our monitoring service identified a second report from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) which listed the quake at magnitude 4.9 as well. 

‘Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.’ 

The Greek island is prone to earthquakes; in January 2023, a strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Rhodes.

That earthquake was so strong that it caused vibrations to be felt in Egypt and Lebanon.

The earthquake, with a depth of 16 miles, struck in the Aegean Sea about 36 miles southeast of Lindos. 

It was also felt in Crete and Cyprus, as well as in the adjacent Turkish provinces of Mugla, Izmir, and Antalya.

Amorgos, in the Cyclades archipelago, was struck by the greatest earthquake in Greek history in 1956. The earthquake, which registered a 7.7 on the Richter scale, caused several structures to be demolished on the island.

Europe’s most earthquake-prone nation is Greece. There are frequent earthquakes and tremors; they are unpleasant, but I presume the locals are accustomed to them.

Farage Claims Reform Candidate Said Britain Shouldn’t Have Fought Hitler

Nigel Farage today tried to downplay controversial views held by Reform UK election candidates – including one who backed appeasing Hitler – suggesting it was just ‘ordinary’ pub banter.

Ian Gribbin, one of the party’s presidential candidates, was questioned over comments he made, implying that the UK should not have fought Nazi Germany during World War II.

In a contentious LBC phone-in, he claimed that the inability to thoroughly screen candidates was the fault of his predecessor, Richard Tice, even though Tice had only held the position for nine days.

Asked why they had not been deselected by Reform, Mr Farage said: ‘I can’t, they are legally on the ballot paper. I can disown them, I might well do that… it’s ordinary folk down the pub speak.’

Mr Gribbin, who is standing for Nigel Farage’s party in Bexhill and Battle in Sussex, said that Britain would be better off today if it had taken up the German fascist dictator’s ‘offer of neutrality’.

In comments made in 2022, unearthed shortly after the 80th anniversary of D-Day, he criticised Britain for prioritising ‘weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people’ by staying out of the conflict.

In remarks made on the conservative Unherd website and unearthed by the BBC he said the UK had to ‘exorcise the cult of Churchill and recognize that in both policy and military strategy, he was abysmal’.

Mr Gribbin had previously written on the site that women were the ‘sponging gender’ who ‘only take from society’.

He tonight apologised for his comments, telling the BBC: ‘I apologise for these old comments and withdraw them unreservedly and the upset that they have caused.’

Mr Gribbin said that he himself had been ‘upset at the way these comments were taken out of context especially when my mother was the daughter of Russian Jews fleeing persecution.’

Mr Farage used the phone-in to claim his party was close to a ‘tipping point’ where it would eclipse the Conservative Party.

He cited a Sky News survey in which Reform trailed the Tories by only one point.

‘Do I think I’m capable of leading a national opposition to a Labour Party with a big majority, where I can stand up and hold them to account on issues? Yes.’

He added: ‘I would be prepared to lead the centre-right in this country, a centre-right that stands up for small business, a centre-right that believes in borders, a centre-right that isn’t scared of standing up for the British people.’

People will vote elsewhere if they don’t like the candidate, and that will be that. The fact is that most hate, division and intolerance are currently coming from everywhere.

It is not a good look at all to say that we should have joined the Nazis instead of resisting them! Characters like this guy shouldn’t be on the list in the first place, and I’m wondering why he is.

If they could, I’m sure all of the fallen service members and citizens who lost their lives along with their loved ones would look at the UK differently and they would disagree.

I disagree with this individual since our loved ones gave their all and battled for their life. I wonder whether he visited the concentration camps where innocent people were killed. He ought to keep his thoughts to himself since Hitler would have made it to the UK and killed and massacred everyone if it weren’t for our valiant military forces.

Keir Starmer to unveil manifesto vowing ‘nanny state’ crackdown on junk food, VAT on private school fees and a fudge on tax hikes

Keir Starmer will look to twist the knife on the Tories as he launches an election manifesto pledging to focus on ‘wealth creation’.

The Labour leader is bidding to capitalise after a poll showed he came out on top in a crucial TV showdown with Rishi Sunak.

Sir Keir was roasted during the Sky News programme in Grimsby over claims he will hike taxes and whether he can be ‘trusted’ after previously backing Jeremy Corbyn. He was also criticised for his ‘robotic’ manner.

However, YouGov research found viewers that he outperformed the PM by 64 per cent to 36 per cent – after Mr Sunak suffered an even more brutal 45-minute mauling. The premier was repeatedly battered over leaving D-Day commemorations early and endured mocking laughter as he tried to defend the Tories’ record on issues such as immigration.

In Manchester, Sir Keir Starmer will introduce the manifesto. It will supposedly have 34 shots of the leader, compared to the Tory offering on Tuesday, which contained none at all.

But with polls putting the party on track for a landslide, the content is being billed as ‘safety first’. It will include charging VAT on private school fees and a ‘nanny state’ crackdown on junk food – including banning energy drinks for under-16s.

The document is expected to include a pledge to cap corporation tax at its current rate of 25 per cent to give businesses long-term certainty.

It will not, however, preclude the Tories from reevaluating the council tax or cutting the capital gains tax.

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to say: ‘Wealth creation is our number one priority. Growth is our core business – the end and the means of national renewal.’The mandate we seek at this election is for economic growth. This changed Labour Party has a plan for growth. We are pro-business and pro-worker, the party of wealth creation.’

Labour has already stated that it will not include any tax increases in the platform that have not already been published. This includes hiking the rates of income tax, national insurance, or VAT.

Those increases are charging VAT on private school fees, abolishing the non-dom tax status and closing ‘loopholes’ in the windfall tax on oil and gas firms.

In addition, the party has promised to create GB Energy, eliminate disruptive behaviour, create a Border Security Command, reduce NHS waiting lists by 40,000 new appointments each week, and employ 6,500 teachers as part of its initial initiatives. It is anticipated that the manifesto would pledge to construct 1.5 million new houses and change planning regulations.

I would never in a million years vote for Keir Starmer, but I could never give the Tories my support. But I know who will receive my vote, and it’s not going to be Reform! I want a party that will represent my interests as well as the worries I have for my nation’s future.

No party has a fixation on doing anything. They include things in their platform that they don’t intend to execute, then they accuse the previous administration of not having enough money, and they exclude ideas that would be controversial but yet go ahead and implement them.

They have ways of making us obey with a raised right arm, and feet together with a sharp click of the heels.

We need change, but when everyone seems the same, who should we vote for? I’m not able to advise you on who to vote for, but sadly, humans follow the herd like sheep. Cast your vote for the candidate you wish to support; if you’re unsure, don’t cast a ballot at all!

Pope Francis ‘Repeats Gay Slur’ Just Weeks After Being Forced To Apologise For Saying There Was ‘An Air Of F*****ry’ In The Church

The Pope has again used a homophobic term after apologising last month for saying gay men should not be admitted to church seminaries because ‘there’s already too much f*ry’ in closed-door meetings.

He used the word ‘frociaggine’, a vulgar Italian term roughly translated as ‘f*ness’, on May 20 during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops.

According to Italian news agency ANSA, Pope Francis, 87, repeated the term on Tuesday as he met Roman priests, saying, ‘There is an air of f*ness in the Vatican’.

He added that it was better that young men with a homosexual tendency not be allowed to enter the seminary, a college that trains students to become priests.

The Vatican press office responded to a question about the most recent allegation by citing a statement it had released about the pope’s meeting with the priests on Tuesday, in which he reaffirmed the need to embrace gay individuals inside the Church and urged care when it came to their enrollment as seminarians.

Following the initial reports of him using the slur, anonymous bishops present in the discussion were cited by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as speculating that, as an Argentine, the pope might not have understood the Italian term he used was derogatory.

The Pope had been credited with making substantial moves towards being more welcoming of the LGBT+ community during his 11-year papacy. 

Some Vatican watchers claim that his recent transgressions cast doubt on his beliefs and the reform strategy he has in mind for the Church, undermining his authority.

In May, Italian news agency Adnkronos, citing sources, reported that the Pope said in his speech: ‘Look, there is already an air of f*ry around that is not good. There is today’s culture of homosexuality with respect to those who have a homosexual orientation [who] are better off not being accepted [into the seminary].’

The remark was met with ‘incredulous laughter’, bishops told newspaper Corriere della Sera, but represents a huge step back for campaigners after prolonged efforts to reform the church’s position on LGBTQ+ rights.

The Pope apologised the following week, with the Vatican releasing a statement that said: ‘The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he apologises to those who felt offended by the use of a term reported by others.’

This was directly from his lips; it was not in a confessional. Being a well-known individual, whatever this man does or says is open to criticism.

The church should practice what it preaches, otherwise, they’re in trouble.

Now that the anti-Christ is on the loose and destroying the Catholic Church, all we can do is wait for it to go away or just pass away!

Does God not get to pick and prepare his priests? It appears that he has resumed his gossiping.

We don’t need a wolf in sheep’s clothing pouring acid on the servants of the church, and this is coming from someone who believes in an imaginary person in the sky. Walks around in a frock all day. Doesn’t believe in the sanctity of marriage and belongs to an organisation of deviants.

As A Child, Rishi Sunak Had To Live Without Sky TV

Rishi Sunak says he had to ‘go without’ Sky TV as a child so his parents could pay his expensive private school fees.

The premier said his GP father and pharmacist mother wanted to ‘put everything’ into their children’s education so having no satellite television was one of the things they sacrificed. 

Mr Sunak spent his teenage years at the now £52,000 a year distinguished Winchester College in Hampshire near his home in Southampton.

In the interview with ITV, which he left D-Day commemorations in Normandy early to attend, he is pressed on how he can stay in touch with the struggles of ordinary people when he is ‘wealthier than the king’. 

Journalist Paul Brand asks the PM if he ever had ‘go without something’ when he was a child, to which he replies: ‘I went without lots of things because my parents wanted to put everything into our education and that was a priority.’ 

Mr Sunak squirms and laughs as he is asked what sort of things his parents ‘sacrificed’.

‘Lots of things,’ he says. ‘There would have been all sorts of things I wanted as a kid.’

He appears uncomfortable as he laughs again before adding: ‘Famously Sky TV. That was something we never had growing up, actually. But there are lots of things. But again my experience is obviously going to be what my experience was. 

‘More important are my values and how I was raised. And I was raised in a household where hard work was really important. You had to work really hard. And family was important, service to your community was important.’ 

In another awkward moment, Mr Sunak apologised for keeping Mr Brand waiting explaining the D-Day anniversary event ‘all just ran over’. 

‘Yeah, it all just ran over… it was incredible but it just ran over everything,’ he says, before saying he ‘spoke to almost everyone [of the veterans in Normandy] there, I hope’.

The PM was grilled on a Tuesday BBC Panorama episode, during which he pleaded with the people to pardon him for leaving the D-Day celebration early. The interview with ITV will be shown tonight at 7 p.m.

The Tory leader told Nick Robinson that he hoped people could ‘find it in their hearts’ to forgive his blunder.

Amid rising Tory alarm about the fallout from the D-Day row, Mr Sunak said: ‘Well, the last thing that I wanted to do was cause anyone any hurt or offence or upset, which is why I apologised unreservedly for the mistake that I made.

Desperate times equal desperate measures. Rishi Sunak knows the Conservatives are in big trouble, and there will be many voters not voting for them in the next General Election. The Conservatives have been a disgrace. They promised that they would quell boat people from coming into our country, but that did not happen, and they have wasted hundreds of millions of pounds of hard-working taxpayers’ money.

I know who I will vote for, and it’s not going to be Labour or the Conservatives. Regarding Nigel Farage, he is completely disconnected from reality. He’s a showman, adept at making huge gestures. Heaven forbid that he should ever come in contact with any true power; he would be completely clueless.

Rishi Sunak is a typical money-grabbing banker and got rich at everyone else’s expense. Including his rich wife.

Rishi has become quite the poet. He started his campaign as the ‘Wally with the brolly’, and now he’s ‘Rishi without the dishy.’

The Parents Of A Student Who Went Missing 100 Days Ago Lodge A Formal Complaint

The heartbroken parents of missing 23-year-old student Jack O’Sullivan have lodged a formal complaint against the police force investigating their son’s disappearance.

Catherine and Alan O’Sullivan’s son, who was 22 when he vanished, has not been seen since he went to a house party in Bristol on March 2—some 101 days ago.

The family claims that Avon and Somerset Police have exacerbated their frantic search for answers by overlooking important CCTV and delaying adding Jack to the national Missing People’s Register until after he had been absent for over two months as a result of an administrative error.

Speaking on BBC News, Catherine said: ‘I wouldn’t want anyone on earth to be faced what we have dealt with in last 100 days, because it’s horrific. To think people who you would possibly depend on most in the world have totally let us down.’ 

She added: ‘It is hell; daily, it’s a challenge to get up through the day. We have to somehow keep going and find strength to get to the bottom of this.’

According to Jack’s family, the force erred from the beginning, missing CCTV evidence that showed the student in a different place at a different time.

Catherine didn’t realise it until she was allowed to view a portion of it for herself.

‘To have footage of my son in their possession the day after he was missing and for someone not to see that is just ludicrous,’ she added.

‘And we have to live with that, thinking what would have possibly been different here if, on that second day, the whole world knew that he was there—and we could have appealed to people.’

A GoFundMe fundraiser, set up by a family friend, says that Jack’s family have decided to offer a £20,000 reward for ‘information leading to the discovery of Jack is needed to help spark new leads and reignite the search efforts.’

Jack went to school in Bristol, graduated from Exeter University, and then went back to his hometown to finish his education.

When he disappeared after a night out, he was living again with his parents and close to his older brother Ben.

When Jack departed early in the morning, he had been at a house party with friends from his course.

Hours after he was last spotted on CCTV, the student’s phone was still in use, but his family claims they still don’t have answers.

The law graduate last spoke to a buddy a little after 3:30 in the morning, but according to the police, his phone was still using the Find My Friends app at 6:44 in the morning.

Catherine added: ‘The errors that have cast so much doubt in our mind about what was done, when it was done and whether it continues to be done has caused us untold damage.

‘We have to live with the fact that Jack’s not here, but to find that the people who could have been looking for him haven’t done it properly is just devastating.’ 

Jack was last seen on Saturday, March 2, starting his journey home following a night out with friends in Bristol’s Hotwells neighbourhood.

He had taken the bus from his town, Flax Bourton, to a Wetherspoons bar in the city at 8:20 p.m. on a typical Saturday night out, where he met up with pals.

At 10.45 pm, he texted his mother that they had moved on to a house party and safely arrived at the new location. ‘All good, keys are safe,’ he wrote.

Finally, at 1.52 in the morning, he texted her to let her know he was well.

Then, shortly before 3 am, Jack left the party alone, CCTV captured part of his journey through the city.

At 2.53 in the morning, he is seen crossing the Junction Swing Bridge. At 2.57 in the morning, he turns down Brunel Lock Road. At roughly 2.57 in the morning, he passes a parking lot close to McAdam Way. At 3.08 in the morning, he is seen walking across Plimsol Bridge. At 3.25 in the morning, he is seen walking up Bennett Way.

With the last formally verified sighting of Jack on CCTV being at 3.13 am, Avon and Somerset Police have stated that the final two sightings are “likely” to be of him.

He called a friend who was still at the party at 3.24 am. When the friend returned the call ten minutes later, Jack answered the phone and said ‘hello’ but nothing else. The call lasted for 58 seconds before being disconnected.

Catherine said the friend left the party soon after and added: ‘She tried and tried to get hold of him but couldn’t. She sent messages to him saying, ‘Please let me know where you are, please let me know you’re OK’ and ‘Please let me know when you get home’.

His family have now taken to walking his final route every day and at different times of the day just to try and experience what it might have been like for Jack, and any indication as to what could have happened.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesperson said: ‘We’ve received a formal complaint from the family of missing 23-year-old Jack O’Sullivan to our investigation into his disappearance, which remains ongoing. 

‘The complaint has been recorded by our Professional Standards Department and will now be thoroughly assessed by a trained investigator. We’ll be updating his family as this assessment progresses.

‘Detectives have carried out an extensive investigation over the past 100 days since Jack went missing. He was last seen in the Cumberland Basin area of the city in the early hours of Saturday 2 March after leaving a house party in nearby Hotwells. 

‘This investigation has included reviewing and re-reviewing more than 100 hours of CCTV footage, carrying out expert-led searches by land and water involving multiple teams, including the dog unit, drone unit and specialist dive team, proactively seeking and acting on advice from national policing specialists, and issuing multiple appeals to the public and media for information. 

‘Sadly, despite these efforts, we’ve been unable to find Jack to date. We fully recognise the distress and anguish this has had on Jack’s family and our thoughts remain very much with them. We’re determined to do all that we possibly can to find the answers they so desperately need.

‘We’ll continue to keep them updated on the investigation, as well as on the ongoing assessment being carried out by our Professional Standards Department.

‘We’d like to reiterate our appeal to anyone who was travelling in or walking around Cumberland Basin on Saturday 2 March, anytime between 2.30 am and 5.30 am, to contact us on 101 and give the reference number 5224055172.’

Jack has short brown hair, is Caucasian, is 5 feet 10 inches tall, and has a slender body. When last seen, he was sporting a beige woollen sweater, blue trousers, brown shoes with a white bottom and a quilted Barbour jacket in shades of green and brown.

These days, it is evident that the police force does not hire the best candidates for the position, and as a result of political ideology, all services are rapidly declining.

On the streets, I witness the most inexperienced police officers, both in terms of years of service and common sense, and the private sector is no better, and they think they’ve done well, even with taxpayer subsidies. This is the curse of inclusivity and diversity.

We should never give up hope, but this is a nightmare for any parent. It is terrible for this family that doesn’t feel supported, and it’s crucial to keep missing people in the press and other media outlets. Any knock on the door and every phone call is enough to make them tremble with terror.

When it comes to gathering CCTV footage, the police are blatantly indolent. The police wouldn’t have any interest in gathering information from CCTV footage, even if someone had been assaulted directly in front of one.

Although it is often believed that our police force is professional, this incident serves as a stark reminder that they are not. The days of doing door-to-door inquiries, etc., are long gone. These days, every inquiry is completed while seated at a desk. It is horrifying that the mother was the one who independently discovered important, missing evidence.

How has this not been a major story before now? This is somebody’s child. A young, healthy man with his whole future ahead of him. If this had been an attractive young woman from a certain type of family, it would have hit the headlines immediately, and as a mother, my heart breaks for these parents; they must be frantic.

Jack called a friend who was still at the party at 3.24 am. When the friend returned the call ten minutes later, Jack answered the phone and said ‘hello’ but nothing else. The call lasted for 58 seconds before being disconnected. Did the police not find this suspicious?

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