Lawn And Order

A landscape gardener was handed a jail sentence after charging a frail pensioner a staggering £42,000 for a piece of Astroturf.

Michael Gorman attempted to collect more than £40,000 in earnings from the artificial grass, according to police probing his activities.

Over several months, Gorman won the trust of the elderly Roy Wilcox, who he convinced to have gardening chores done at his house—a service for which the landscaper would later overcharge by as much as tens of thousands of pounds.

The 47-year-old charged his elderly client an eye-watering £42,000 for the installation of artificial grass in his garden – when the work was worth less than £2,000.

A judge was informed that Gorman had approached the defendant in November 2021 and that the retiree had been defrauded over many months, from November 2021 to April 2022.

The judge was informed by prosecutor Amber Athill that Mr Wilcox was charged £12,500 by Gorman, of Star Hill, Hook, Hampshire, for the concrete paving of his garden at Caversham, which is close to Reading.

An expert later calculated Gorman’s work was worth £4,068 – meaning he had overcharged the pensioner by over £8,000.

On April 8, 2022, Mr Wilcox wrote the defendant a cheque for £500 which was the deposit for the installation of artificial grass.

The judge was informed that Gorman had put down a £2,300 price for the project in his notebook, but that quote had never been shared with Mr Wilcox.

Gorman installed the artificial grass in Mr Wilcox’s garden on April 19, 2022 – and told the elderly man he was owed £42,000 for his work.

Ms Athill, prosecuting on behalf of Reading Borough Council, said: ‘Although Mr Wilcox thought the price was steep, he trusted the defendant and wrote out a cheque for the full amount.’

An expert later calculated the installation of the artificial grass was only worth £1,880.70 – meaning Gorman had knowingly overcharged the elderly pensioner by some £40,000.

Gorman never offered the victim a receipt or any indication as to what the cost would be.

A statement from the since-deceased Mr Wilcox was read out in court.

He said: ‘I wanted it done and thought I was dealing with a reputable builder.

‘I trusted he would give me a fair price as I did not know the going rate for the work.

‘I did not know or have any way to check whether the cost was reasonable or not, so I trusted him and paid it.’

The intended loss reached over £49,000 whilst the actual loss to the victim was £8,932 after Mr Wilcox’s bank intervened and stopped the payment.

This evil person was ready to give his victim a horrific few years of life, which had to have given him excessive tension and anxiety.

This man did not receive enough jail time which allows people to take advantage of the vulnerable and an automatic minimum of 5 years in prison without parole. Unfortunately, our prisons are full up to the brim, and we seriously need a breakdown of who needs to be in them and who could be paroled early. No room now for the bad ones and they know it! But then there’s always a lawyer on hand to turn a blind eye to conscience and to twist the truth for a fee.

People who take advantage of the goodwill of others are especially unpleasant, and this case is made much worse by the fact that the evil man carefully selected his victim over time, demonstrating his cold-bloodedness and lack of concern for the psychological and financial toll that his actions would exact on his gullible target.

‘Blade Runner’ Cuts Down ULEZ Cameras And Traffic Lights

In the most recent attack against Sadiq Khan’s contentious plan, an anti-ULEZ protester used a power tool to destroy a camera and traffic light.

The group, known as ‘Blade Runners’, opted for their own version of justice this weekend by felling another ULEZ camera using power tools, including a saw. 

The scenes took place during a protest in Southwark, South London, with the group taking out a set of lights at a four-way junction.

As the group filmed their actions, loud horns could be heard in celebration as protestors stood on an island in the middle of the road carrying placards.

Video footage shows the moment that the group fell the lights with a power saw easily cutting through the tubing.

Moments later, the lights come crashing to the ground as the man filming the chaos narrates the ongoing celebrations.

He sarcastically says: ‘The lights have fallen over here, folks, the lights have fallen over, oh dear, oh deary me.

‘What has happened here, oh no, oh no – the lights have fallen over here.’

Whilst the man narrates over the latest felling of traffic lights by the group, traffic begins to spew into the middle of the four lanes as there is no longer a traffic light to instruct motorists.

This excites the man who exclaims: ‘Oh look, the lights have gone out and all the traffic is flowing through here again. We’ve got the traffic running freely here.’

The guy talks about how his organisation has once again blocked ULEZ, the £12.50 fee that Londoners pay to drive their vehicles into specified areas of the city, as several cars zoom by.

He gleefully continues: ‘Oh no ULEZ, no lights, no nothing, have some of that.’

The man then bursts into exaggerated laughter before adding: ‘Carnage at the circus, come on the lights are down, they’ve just fallen over here.’

The scenes were shared to social media in a post with the caption: ‘What do you think – a worthy case in the face of tyranny or just a bunch of vandals?’

Social media users expressed varying opinions about the incident in thousands of comments and over 37,000 likes on the post.

One said: ‘Fair play to them, it’s a complete scam that does nothing.’

Another added: ‘When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.’

A third replied: ‘They are common criminals.’

Another commented: ‘Modern-day Robin Hood with a band of merry men.’

Following Sadiq Khan’s historic victory last month, The Blade Runners went on an enraged rampage throughout the city, spray painting cameras, chopping poles in two, and setting them on fire in one village.

Spy cameras were toppled from Ickenham and Northwood in Hillingdon and Feltham and Hounslow in west London, to the suburban village Yiewsley on the outskirts of London.

People already pay through the nose just to own a car as it is, let alone drive them. They shouldn’t be expected to pay more.

ULEZ was not wanted by the people, but Sadiq Khan enforced it upon them, so there is no way I will condemn these people.

Sadiq Khan has driven white working-class people out of London. Now they have to drive into London for work while Sadiq Khan and his ilk work from home and when they do go into the office they seem to be charging the cost to us taxpayers’.

Some may argue that these individuals can go by rail to London, but do we really think that an electrician, plumber, or other tradesperson can travel by bus, train, or tube to London?

If we don’t oppose it, we doze it!

Sir Ian McKellen, 85, Falls ‘Head First’ Into West End Audience

Sir Ian McKellen lost his balance and went ‘head first’ into an audience before letting out a ‘blood-curdling scream’ during a West End performance last night.

At the London Noël Coward theatre, the 85-year-old actor fell from the front of the stage right before Player Kings’ intermission. He was rushed to the hospital.

Around eight o’clock at night, the audience was cleared out of the theatre while paramedics were dispatched, and patrons were informed that the evening performance had been cancelled.

Show bosses said that Sir Ian ‘will make a speedy and full recovery’ and is in ‘good spirits’ – but tonight’s performance has also been cancelled so he can rest.

While circling a fight scene featuring Henry Percy and the Prince of Wales, Sir Ian, who plays John Falstaff in the play, stumbled and fell off the stage.

As the house lights came up, the actor known for Lord Of The Rings and X-Men cried out in pain as ushers and two medics in the audience rushed to help him.

Charlie Johnson, a journalist for the Kingston Courier who was in the audience, told ITV: ‘As we approached the interval of the play, there was a fight scene going on.

‘There were strobe lights and then it all went dark, at which point you could see the silhouette of Sir Ian come out from the wings. And the way the stage works at the Noel Coward is there’s sort of a step down just as the stage meets the audience.

‘I think what happened was he put his foot too far, sort of went off that initial step, at which point he lost his balance and pretty much just went head first into the audience.

‘And within seconds a blood-curdling scream arose from the actor. He was clearly in a lot of pain, he was screaming ‘Help me’.

Kol Baker, who was watching the show from the second tier, told MailOnline that Sir Ian had been ‘berating the villain and moving around’ during the scene when he ‘tripped over’ some props and fell off the stage ‘in almost a belly flop fashion’.

‘Instantly he screamed and honestly the noises were bone-chilling,’ the 23-year-old added – as he recalled Sir Ian yelling ‘help me, help me’ followed by ‘my arms, my arms’ and ‘help me, help me’ again.

‘The lights were on so quickly the curtains drawn and within seconds they asked to evacuate the whole auditorium. Whilst leaving the theatre within 10 minutes he was in the back of an ambulance speeding down Trafalgar Square.’

Describing what caused the actor to fall, he explained: ‘The scene in question was a warzone so there was broken up bricks and daggers from the battle and the set which was all torn up for that scene.’

He said there was ‘so much concern and shock for Sir Ian’, adding: ‘Everyone I think is just such huge fans of his work and with his age just really empathetic and almost terrified that it could be life-threatening because of his age.’

Mr Baker said that Sir Ian had been ‘performing amazingly with great vigour’ before he fell. 

When asked how the audience reacted, the theatregoer added: ‘Instantly people were standing up, the first two rows completely went to rush to go help Sir Ian and everyone was explaining ‘oh my god’ and ‘that poor man’.

‘It was very sincere and so much concern for his well-being,’ he added. ‘He had made everyone laugh so much this evening.’

A spokesperson for Player Kings told MailOnline: ‘Thank you to our audience and the general public for their well wishes following Ian’s fall during this evening’s performance of Player Kings.

‘Following a scan, the brilliant NHS team have assured us that he will make a speedy and full recovery and Ian is in good spirits.

‘The production has made the decision to cancel the performance on Tuesday 18 June so Ian can rest. Those affected will be contacted by their point of purchase as soon as possible tomorrow.

‘Thank you to doctors Rachel and Lee who were on hand in the audience and to all the venue staff for their support.’

Photographs taken outside the venue showed at least three London ambulances.

I hope that Sir Ian McKellen has a speedy recovery. He is one of the best actors of all time, and he’s an incredible performer. To still be getting up on stage at his age and delivering hours of razor-sharp dialogue night after night is amazing.

That would be a horrifying event for anyone, but considering the potential outcomes at 85 years old, it is not something to consider. What a strong man he is, and I’m delighted he’s on the path to recovery and in good spirits. He should now take his time getting better, making sure to take as much time as necessary. People will gladly wait for his next performance, I’m sure.

Some people might say that he should retire. The man had an accident, it could have happened to anyone. Why should he give up something that he’s very passionate about and very good at? Sir Ian McKellen is iconic and a legend!

Ageism in this country is thriving, and the elderly are told to retire, but then accused of scrounging and that they’re a burden on society, but we should have more respect for these people.

His showmanship is probably what keeps him going, as he’s done this all his life.

Keir Starmer Plans To Use Satellites To Raise Council Tax On Those With Gardens

If Labour is elected, it has been accused of having intentions to employ satellites to spy on the size of homes with larger gardens to increase council taxation on those homes.

Sir Keir Starmer’s party has dismissed the claims as ‘fantasy’, but Housing Secretary Michael Gove is standing firm that Labour will ‘hammer’ families if the party wins the General Election. 

Mr Gove recently accused Labour of ‘using Big Brother tactics’ after it emerged that the Labour-run Welsh Government was using satellites to spy on homeowners living in properties with large gardens or that have undergone renovations and extensions.

As well as aerial and street view photography, data from planning applications, information about energy efficiency, statistics on school performance and crime rates are also being assessed as part of an overhaul of council tax bands being drawn up by the Senedd.

This implies that households may pay more in council taxes if they reside in larger, better-insulated homes, in neighbourhoods with excellent schools, or places with lower crime rates.

Although Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that a Labour government will not raise taxes, he has also described the Welsh Government as a ‘blueprint’ for ‘what Labour can do across the UK’. 

Mr Gove said he believes Labour is looking with interest at the Welsh initiative, which has been postponed until 2028, to ‘road test’ a similar system in England. 

The financial impact of moving a property up even one band can be significant for homeowners.

Bumping a Band D home in England, for example, which currently pays £2,171 a year council tax, into the next Band E would amount to nearly £500 more a year. 

He said: ‘Straight from the same old Labour playbook, these Big Brother tactics will punish families with higher bills simply for having good schools or lower crime.’

In May, it was reported in the Sunday Telegraph that the Valuation Office, an agency of HMRC, has been commissioned to build an ‘automated valuation model’ to update the value of the 1.5 million homes in Wales.

The Welsh Government say higher council tax bands are needed to address ‘property wealth’ and ‘rebalance’ the current system.

Jim McMahon, Sir Keir’s shadow local government minister, has also spoken previously about the need to modernise council tax, describing the current valuation system as ‘unfair.’

However, since millions of homeowners would have to pay more, any attempt to alter council tax bands in Scotland and England—where assessments haven’t been changed in 33 years—would be extremely divisive.

Hard labour is being discriminated against this way, and paying a greater council tax does not equate to better service. Regretfully, taxing the wealthy these days would penalise the working citizen who saves and works.

Income Tax, National Insurance, Council Tax, Fuel Duty, Insurance Tax, Road Tax, Stamp Duty, Inheritance Tax, Savings Tax, Flight Tax, Alcohol Duty, Non-Alcoholic Duty, and Tobacco Tax, et cetera. We are being taxed to the bone by our greedy government.

We’re talking about socialism here, not, in the distant future, Communism.

All that our government does is tax the average working guy, yet we continue to support them! Instead, sack them!

More people living in social housing would be impacted by a levy on larger gardens since homes constructed after World War II typically have larger gardens than those constructed during the 1980s.

It tends to be assumed that larger homes accommodate more people and that higher population densities translate into higher service consumption, and the government will try to overtax anything nailed down or not nailed down, whichever is the case.

‘Inhumane Is All I Can Say!’

A witness said he was ‘disgusted’ at seeing the police ram a terrified calf with their squad car as people called for the officers to be sacked.

Kai Bennetts, 22, said the young cow was left with an ‘open gash’ and ‘loads of grazes where the skin had come off’ after it was hit by the police car and thrown several metres down the road.

He said that on the first strike, the cow ‘tried to get back up, and then they (the police) pushed it back over and blocked it by its neck and top half of his body and so it couldn’t get up.’ Mr Bennetts added: ‘Inhumane is all I can say.’

Calls are growing for the ‘monsters’ who rammed the calf to be sacked after a new video showed the bovine calmly wandering down the street before officers swooped in and said they had to knock the animal down to keep the public safe.

Shocking footage shows police brutally smashing into the calf twice after it escaped from its enclosure as a nearby member of the public in Staines-upon-Thames, west London, shouts: ‘What are you doing that for?’.

Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham, Home Secretary James Cleverly and Deborah Meaden were among those condemning the ‘brutal’ actions of the police force. 

Mr Packham wrote on X: ‘I don’t know where to start with this. But it’s surely illegal and must be investigated and prosecuted. What sort of monster rams a calf? Twice?’

Home Secretary James Cleverly also asked for a ‘full, urgent explanation’ as to why officers appeared to use a police car to hit an escaped cow. He said the police action seemed ‘unnecessarily heavy-handed’.

The RSPCA described the footage as ‘upsetting and distressing’ and said the police ‘action appears disproportionate to the situation’. 

Deborah Meaden also took to X to voice her shock over the incident, writing: ‘Jeez….that is a scared, living, breathing creature and @SurreyPolice show such little compassion they decide ramming it with a vehicle is their only option….come on!!

‘I know it’s not all Police but seriously….this really must have serious consequences.’

Actor James Dreyfus decided not to share the toe-curling footage but expressed his anger at how the officers had treated the ‘terrified cow’.

He posted: I’m not reposting the utterly horrific video taken of these b* running over an escaped terrified cow. Not once. Not twice. But THREE times.

At first, I assumed the police had accidentally run over the calf, but the b**** did it on purpose. The public wasn’t in danger because the calf wasn’t charging at anyone; it could have easily been returned to the farm.

Police who can do this would be the same people who would set off red flags with a psychiatrist. Unfortunately, many appear to get into the police force and clearly have sociopathic traits.

Although many of these characteristics are regrettably prevalent in today’s society as a whole, it is unsettling to see them in someone in a position of perceived power. Fortunately, not all of them are this way.

The police are not being held responsible for their acts; if a member of the public had done this, they would have been arrested.

It’s not complicated; all the police needed to do was summon a veterinarian to tranquillize the animal. It was a calf, not a knife-wielding terrorist, a mad-kicking horse, or even a bull. If the big brave boys in blue can’t usher a calf into a place of safety, then we really are in a vulnerable place.

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.

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