A disabled woman was unable to board a bus after irate mothers with pushchairs refused to give up their space. Because I use a wheelchair, I frequently experience this issue. I am quite fortunate most of the time; in fact, one woman with a stroller actually got off the bus so I could board, butContinue reading “Bus Buggy Row”
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Search For Bodies Of Almost 800 Infants Begins At ‘Mother And Baby’ Home
Expectant women were sent to the Bon Secours ‘mother and baby home’ in Galway between 1925 and 1961. Their illegitimate children were said to be ‘children of sin’, and as such treated with a lack of respect in death, according to the work of historians. Catherine Corless, whose work uncovered what allegedly happened at theContinue reading “Search For Bodies Of Almost 800 Infants Begins At ‘Mother And Baby’ Home”
Rayner Urges Rachel Reeves To Strip Middle-Class Child Benefits
Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to ‘claw back’ the benefit from families where the highest earner’s annual earnings were between £50,000 and £80,000, The Telegraph first reported. If taken forward, the decision would undo an announcement by the Tories in March 2024 thatContinue reading “Rayner Urges Rachel Reeves To Strip Middle-Class Child Benefits”
Countdown To Murder
A new TV documentary about the murder of two sisters has pieced together their final hours and their mother’s suffering after they died in the ‘worst of circumstances’. Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were stabbed while celebrating the latter’s birthday at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, North West London, in June 2020. Their killer,Continue reading “Countdown To Murder”
Swastikas Decorate The Southern Sydney Synagogue At Allawah
A Synagogue in Sydney has been spray-painted with at least a dozen Swastikas in the latest anti-semitic attack to plague the metropolis. The Southern Sydney Synagogue in the suburb of Allawah was the latest target of anti-semitic defacers who smeared an enormous red Swastika symbol at the entrance to the place of worship alongside the words ‘HitlerContinue reading “Swastikas Decorate The Southern Sydney Synagogue At Allawah”
‘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 theContinue reading “‘Inhumane Is All I Can Say!’”
Trans Children, LGBTQ Community: Richard Dreyfuss
An attendee at Richard Dreyfuss’s question and answer session in Massachusetts over Memorial Day weekend told DailyMail.Com the Oscar-winner ‘kept going’ with homophobic and racist comments during his appearance. Dreyfuss, 76, was attending the $300 per person showing of Jaws, the hit movie that began his legendary career in 1975, at The Cabot, a Beverley, Massachusetts, cinema. The renownedContinue reading “Trans Children, LGBTQ Community: Richard Dreyfuss”
Bankrupt Labour-Run Local Authorities Threaten To Hike Council Tax To Balance Their Books By Turning Off Streetlights And Cutting Bin Collections
Residents of Birmingham will see significant increases in council taxes along with reduced services as the “bankrupt” town hall joins a growing number of local governments in their financial crunch. City councillors are set to vote on a ‘devastating’ package that would see taxes rise nearly 10 percent in each of the next two years—aroundContinue reading “Bankrupt Labour-Run Local Authorities Threaten To Hike Council Tax To Balance Their Books By Turning Off Streetlights And Cutting Bin Collections “
Hellhole Island
Residents living on a ‘ghost town’ island claim gangs of youths ‘control’ the streets because they ‘never see police officers’. The angry residents of Sheerness, Kent’s Isle of Sheppey, who “feel abandoned” by the authorities, have called the town “the town that time forgot.” People are leaving the island in the Thames Estuary in searchContinue reading “Hellhole Island”
In Three Years’ Time, Australia May Be Cashless
A finance expert has warned Australia could become a cashless society in as little as three years with thousands of people to be left worse off because of it. Among those who could suffer in a cashless society are people in regional areas, those caught in emergencies, indigenous Australians, new immigrants, sex workers, the elderlyContinue reading “In Three Years’ Time, Australia May Be Cashless”
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