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The daredevil who 'freeclimbed' the Shard early this morning has been revealed as a 19-year-old from Oxford who spent months casing the building to discover when lax security would allow him to achieve his 'dream'.

George King told MailOnline he experienced a 'Godlike feeling' at the top of the building saying: 'It’s a totally remarkable experience. Euphoria is an understatement.'

But he also revealed he had scoped out the building - considered one of the capital's most likely targets for terrorist activity - every other day for three months wearing numerous different disguises.

He said: 'It took me four months to plan to get there. I moved to London to plan this climb, so I was close to the Shard.

‘I spent months looking at sensors, looking at cameras, timing security.’

He said he discovered the security, both police and building security, was ‘least active’ around the London Bridge area at around 5am.

Asked about his reconnaissance of the building, he explained: ‘For three months it was every other day, and I’d change my disguises regularly.

‘Sometimes I’d be in a suit, sometimes I’d be on crutches, sometimes I’d be in sporting clothes and I’d lean on the pillars looking like I was stretching but I’d be measuring them against my body’.

At around 5am today Mr King took just 45 minutes to scale the capital's tallest building without the aid of a harness or rope, prompting police to rush to the scene and a review of security by the building's Qatari owners.

He was encouraged in to the building at around the 95th floor after he reached the summit by Scotland Yard officers, whom Mr King said were 'excellent', adding: '‘they didn’t pressure me, I think without sounding arrogant they were very impressed.’

Describing the experience of reaching the top of the 1,017ft-tall building, the largest in western Europe, he said: '‘It’s a totally remarkable experience. Euphoria is an understatement.

'It’s Godlike feeling, when your endorphins and dopamine are all firing at once. It’s indescribable.’

Mr King, who was the first person to freeclimb the tallest climbing walls in both the UK and Europe, said said he did it because it was a 'dream' sparked when he was just 13 on a school trip to Londonb.

'I saw the Shard and thought, "one day I'm going to climb that".'

The young daredevil, who was not arrested, said he had already identified his next climbing challenge but would not reveal the details - saying only it was 'in the UK'.

Earlier today Mr King told Mirror Online: 'When I was 13 I first saw the Shard and thought I have got to climb this. That planted the seed for me.

'I have done a lot of preparing for this, I have just kept on working at it. I am speechless - It is unreal.'

He said the hardest part of the ascent came just before the 95-storey building's tapering peak.

'There are generators near the top of the building and there was a lot of dirt and grease on them, and I had to push on to the next level to get past them,' he said.

In an Instagram post after his climb, Mr King wrote: ' "In the past I’ve been called a daredevil, an adrenaline junkie, a reckless teenager and much more. I’ve always found that these names come from those who are ignorant or misunderstood about what I really do and why.

'It takes years of training and careful preparation to be where I am today, and this practice is achievable only because I see myself as someone who has followed a respectable passion, albeit an unusual one.

"I believe that every single one of us has a gift. Your mission is to find that gift, make it your passion, and then make it your purpose.'

The billionaire Qatari owners of the Shard have today launched a review of security after a 'freeclimber' was able to scale the capital's tallest building unhindered for the second time in two years.

Police officers rushed to the 1,017ft skyscraper overlooking London Bridge at 5.15am with witnesses claiming the daredevil managed to the top without using a harness or a rope.

Scotland Yard has said with the help of Shard staff that they managed to get him inside - but later confirmed he was not arrested and allowed to go free.

The 95-floor skyscraper, which looks like a shard of glass and is owned by the tiny but super-rich Gulf state of Qatar, is considered one of Britain's top targets for terrorists and protests.

Bosses will now be reviewing whether they need to 'tighten security' because of the stunt, the second of its kind since 2017.

Footage taken from below the Shard - western Europe's tallest building - shows the climber near the top as crowds gathered below and were heard gasping as he climbed without any ropes.

David Kevin Williams tweeted video from the ground and said: 'The guy's got to the top and is being spoken to by the police'.

Another witness who watched the drama unfold wrote: 'One person climbing up the outside of the Shard in central London. Two police cars, two ambulances and a drone on the scene'.

The incident raises questions about how the man was able to dodge security and scale one of Britain's most high-profile building unhindered.

A Met spokesman said 'Police were called at 5.15am following reports of a 'freeclimber' on the Shard.

'Emergency services attended and the man went inside the building where he was spoken to by officers. He was not arrested'.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7223611/Daredevil-spotted-scaling-1-000ft-tall-Shard.html

They were lucky this volcano was relatively remote. If Mount Vesuvius erupts then Naples could be in big trouble.

An uninsured Lamborghini has been seized by police after the owner used it to pick up his other car - also confiscated for not being insured.

Greater Manchester Traffic Police tweeted the Lamborghini Aventador - worth more than £290,000 new - seized at Eccles police station was now "on its way to join his other car".

It tweeted if you turn up to reclaim your car check "that the car you turn up in is covered on your policy first".

It added the driver had been reported.

On Sunday, police seized another "flash" Lamborghini - one of a group of cars doing laps around the city centre "revving engines".

The driver was "being erratic with his driving" taking a passenger to a prom.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-48871096

Where are the photos, OP? Ridgecrest was the town most affected, plenty of photos out there.

More photos.

A volcano has erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli, killing one person and sending frightened tourists fleeing.

The victim is a male hiker who was hit by a falling stone, while other people were injured.

The navy has been deployed for a possible mass evacuation, with 70 people already evacuated.

The volcano is one of the most active on the planet and has been under a regular state of eruption since 1932.

"Unfortunately one man is dead, there are a few injured, but none seriously," emergency worker Calogero Foti told Italy's Rai television.

The victim was a 35-year-old man from Sicily who was hiking when the volcano erupted twice. His Brazilian friend was discovered dehydrated and in a state of shock, the AGI news agency reported.

Firefighters are battling flames on the island.

"We saw the explosion from the hotel. There was a loud roar," said Michela Favorito, who works in a hotel on the island.

"We plugged our ears and after this a cloud of ash swept over us. The whole sky is full of ash, a fairly large cloud," she said.

Fiona Carter, a British tourist on the island of Panarea, some 17 miles from Stromboli, heard the eruption.

"We turned around to see a mushroom cloud coming from Stromboli. Everyone was in shock. Then red hot lava started running down the mountain towards the little village of Ginostra," she said.

Holidaymakers were reported to have run into the sea after seeing ash rising from the volcano. The island is a popular location for holiday homes of the rich and famous.

Stromboli is known as the "Lighthouse of the Mediterranean" and has a population of around 500. The last major eruption was in 2002, when a blast destroyed local buildings and piers, injuring six.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48857422

Additional photos: Daily Mail

oalandAgents2:
England ladies now crying, after accusing Cameroon girls of being too emotional. . Karma is wonderful.

The girls who spat and fouled their way through the game? They are given to much credit and misdeeds easily forgotten.

This news is 6 days old. The US also released photos/map coordinates last week.

Clearly he's an enormously talented musician, of that there can be no argument. He had his troubles though, e.g. fondness for oyibo boys...

digitalgeorgy:
I dropped this pix earlier...
the leg of the player labeled 1 was in an offside position...
check it very well..

Posters here will be confused with actual evidence, they are far happier to read the title of the thread and jump to a conclusion that suits their mindset rather than watch the highlights and see that VAR was clearly correct. Embarrassing thread.

Some pics of the airshow would be more interesting.

This is really just an oyibo tourist guide. Can you blame them?

To think, across in Gambia they are bringing their children to beach holidays and boosting their economy.

You only have to look at the Nigeria (below) tourism website to see our problem. We are advertising a place boldly that only a few weeks ago was the scene of the MURDER of a British tourist!!??

A Pakistani politician's live-streamed press conference descended into farce when a cat filter was switched on by mistake.

Shaukat Yousafzai was briefing journalists last Friday when the setting was accidentally turned on.

Facebook users watching the video live commented on the gaffe, but Mr Yousafzai carried on unaware of his feline features.

He later said it was a "mistake" that should not be taken "so seriously".

As Mr Yousafzai spoke, the comical filter superimposed pink ears and whiskers on his face, and that of other officials sitting beside him.

"I wasn't the only one - two officials sitting along me were also hit by the cat filter," Mr Yousafzai told AFP news agency.

The video, posted to the official Facebook page of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was deleted minutes after the press conference.

The blunder was blamed on "human error" by the party, which runs the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan.

"All necessary actions have been taken to avoid such incidents in future," it said.

Unfortunately for Mr Yousafzai, the cat was already out of the bag.

Screen grabs of the live stream have been shared widely on social media, much to the humiliation of Mr Yousafzai and his colleagues.

"You can't beat this! Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt's live presser on Facebook with cat filters," one amused user posted.

Another asked: "Who let the cats out?"

"I propose all parliamentary proceedings around the world to be recorded with Cat Filters. Please start with the British Parliament!," a third joked.




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48663289

It's the Nigerian tax payer who will have to pay for the repair of those cars. More likely that they will get shipped for sale in Nigeria, giving an opportunity for the embassy staff to buy 5 brand new Mercedes to play with.

Those young guys are probably just US Marines on break from their guard duties.

A South Carolina father who killed his five children with his own hands and then drove around with their bodies in his truck for nine days has been sentenced to death.

Timothy Jones Jr., 37, showed no emotion as the jury delivered the unanimous verdict after less than two hours of deliberation on Thursday. Jurors could have also sentenced him to life without parole.

The same Lexington County jury convicted Jones of five counts of murder last week in the deaths of his children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington home in August 2014.

Prosecutors had been pushing for the death penalty but multiple members of Jones' family - including the mother of the five children - had this week urged the jury to spare his life.

Jones' father hung his head in his hands as the verdict was read and other family members appeared to cry.

In his confession to authorities, Jones admitted to killing his six-year-old son Nahtahn by exercising the boy to death as a punishment after he refused to admit he broke an electrical outlet.

Jones didn't call 911 when he found his son dead and chose to watch a prison rape scene from a movie on his cellphone instead.

Several hours later, Jones said he decided to kill the other children, strangling 8-year-old Merah and 7-year-old Elias with his hands and using a belt to choke 2-year-old Gabriel and 1-year-old Abigail because his hands were too big.

He went on the run for several days with the bodies of his children in his SUV before dumping them in garbage bags on a hillside in Alabama.

Prosecutor Rock Hubbard told jurors in his closing argument earlier on Thursday that if any jurors had doubts whether Jones deserved the death penalty, all they had to do is consider the five garbage bags where he dumped their bodies.

But a lawyer for Jones told jurors they alone could show mercy - if not for a father who killed five kids with his own hands, then for a family that has seen so much death and still wants to love Jones, even through prison bars.

Jones is just the second person to be sent to South Carolina's death row in five years. The state has not executed anyone since 2011 because it lacks the drugs to carry out lethal injection.

Hubbard began his closing argument by asking if the jurors had ever heard of a crime more horrendous than what they have listened to over four weeks of testimony.

Jones, 37, has been selfish all his life, trying to break up his father's second marriage because he wasn't getting enough attention and controlling his wife's every decision, prosecutors said.

When she left him, Jones couldn't stand that his control was over. With custody of his children, he mistreated any of them who showed any intention of wanting to be with their mother instead of him, Hubbard said.

Jones first killed 6-year-old son Nahtahn in a 'white hot rage' after the boy confessed on the phone to his mother - but not to his father - to breaking an electrical outlet.

Over the next several hours, Jones went and got cigarettes, taking his oldest daughter so she wouldn't call for help, and leaving the three other kids with their brother's body.

Then he made a decision, the prosecutor said.

'He's done what you folks are going to have to do. He deliberated. 'I am a one man jury and I have before me life or death.' He sentenced his kids to death,' Hubbard said.

In a confession, Jones said he strangled 7-year-old Elias with his hands and chased down 8-year-old Merah before choking her. He then used a belt to choke 2-year-old Gabriel and 1-year-old Abigail.

That deserves death and not life, Hubbard said.

A life sentence 'is just send Timmy to his room, make him think about what he has done' Hubbard said.

After killing the children, Jones loaded their bodies into his SUV and drove around the Southeast U.S. for nine days before dumping them in five black garbage bags on a dirt road near Camden, Alabama. He was arrested hours later after an officer at a traffic checkpoint in Smith County, Mississippi, said he smelled a horrible odor of decomposition.

Hubbard ended his closing argument with those bags. Prosecutors entered photos showing what was inside the bags into evidence, but didn't show them to the jury. Jurors could choose to look at them during deliberations if they wanted.

'If you have any doubt for the appropriate sentence for hat man, look in the bag!' Hubbard said.

The defense focused on what his lawyers called undiagnosed schizophrenia made worse by drug and alcohol use. Jurors last week rejected their arguments that Jones was not guilty by reason of insanity or guilty but mentally ill.

During his closing argument on Thursday, defense lawyer Casey Secor instead focused on how much Jones is loved by his family even after the killings.

His grandmother, father and siblings all asked jurors to spare his life .

'How much more death does the Jones family have to endure? How many more funerals does this family have to go to? How many more tears do they have to shed? How much more heartache to they have to endure?' Secor said.

The children's mother also said she wouldn't choose the death penalty for Jones because she's against capital punishment, but would respect the jury's decision.

Secor said under the law, any juror could decide on life for any reason or for no reason at all.

'You can punish Tim severely with a punishment of life in prison without the possibility of parole and be merciful to the people who still love these children,' Secor said.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7139113/South-Carolina-father-murdered-five-children-sentenced-death.html


Pictures:

"If I could personally rip his face off, I would," says mother Amber Kyzer"

Thanks for update! Love the pictures, what a beautiful stadium.

Short description



What is Meningitis?

Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord (meninges).

It can affect anyone, but is most common in babies, young children, teenagers and young adults.

Meningitis can be very serious if not treated quickly.

It can cause life-threatening blood poisoning (septicaemia) and result in permanent damage to the brain or nerves.

A number of vaccinations are available that offer some protection against meningitis.


What are the symptoms?

Meningitis symptoms can appear in any order. Some may not appear at all. Early symptoms of meningitis can include:

fever
headache
vomiting
diarrhoea
muscle pain
stomach cramps
fever with cold hands and feet



When to get medical help

You should get medical advice as soon as possible if you're concerned that you or your child could have meningitis.

Trust your instincts and do not wait until a rash develops.

Dial an ambulance or go to your nearest hospital immediately if you think you or your child might be seriously ill.



https://www.meningitisnow.org/meningitis-explained/signs-and-symptoms/signs-and-symptoms-children-and-adults/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/meningitis/




Long description


What is meningitis?

Meningitis is a devastating disease and remains a major public health challenge. Meningitis can be caused by many different pathogens including viruses and fungi but the highest global burden is seen with bacterial meningitis. Together with sepsis, meningitis is estimated to cause more deaths in children under 5 years of age than malaria. Survivors can suffer severe sequelae with considerable social and economic costs.

Causes and symptons

Several different bacteria can cause meningitis. Neisseria meningitidis is the one with the potential to cause large epidemics. There are 12 serogroups of N. meningitidis that have been identified, 6 of which (A, B, C, W, X and Y) can cause epidemics. Geographic distribution and epidemic potential differ according to serogroup.

The most common symptoms are a stiff neck, high fever, sensitivity to light, confusion, headaches and vomiting. Even when the disease is diagnosed early and adequate treatment is started, 5% to 10% of patients die, typically within 24 to 48 hours after the onset of symptoms. Bacterial meningitis may result in brain damage, hearing loss or a learning disability in 10% to 20% of survivors. A less common but even more severe (often fatal) form of meningococcal disease is meningococcal septicaemia, which is characterized by a haemorrhagic rash and rapid circulatory collapse.


Transmission

The bacteria are transmitted from person-to-person through droplets of respiratory or throat secretions from carriers. Close and prolonged contact – such as kissing, sneezing or coughing on someone, or living in close quarters (such as a dormitory, sharing eating or drinking utensils) with an infected person facilitates the spread of the disease. The average incubation period is 4 days, but can range between 2 and 10 days.


Diagnosis

Neisseria meningitidis only infects humans; there is no animal reservoir. The bacteria can be carried in the throat and sometimes, for reasons not fully understood, can overwhelm the body's defenses allowing infection to spread through the bloodstream to the brain. It is believed that 10% to 20% of the population carries Neisseria meningitidis in their throat at any given time. However, the carriage rate may be higher in epidemic situations.

Initial diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis can be made by clinical examination followed by a lumbar puncture showing a purulent spinal fluid. The bacteria can sometimes be seen in microscopic examinations of the spinal fluid. The diagnosis is supported or confirmed by growing the bacteria from specimens of spinal fluid or blood, by agglutination tests or by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The identification of the serogroups and susceptibility testing to antibiotics are important to define control measures.

Rapid diagnosis is essential, not only for individual patient management, but also for management of epidemics, in particular in the African meningitis belt. At the beginning of meningitis outbreaks, confirmation of the responsible pathogen is essential to enable the launch of an appropriate response. The development and promotion of heat-stable rapid diagnostic tests which detect a range of common bacterial-causing pathogens (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis) has been recommended as a priority by a group of WHO-convened experts. The most critical diagnostics needed for meningitis outbreak control are being described in the 2018 use cases document.


Treatment

Meningococcal disease is potentially fatal and should always be viewed as a medical emergency. Admission to a hospital or health centre is necessary, although isolation of the patient is not necessary. Appropriate antibiotic treatment must be started as soon as possible, ideally after the lumbar puncture has been carried out if such a puncture can be performed immediately. If treatment is started prior to the lumbar puncture it may be difficult to grow the bacteria from the spinal fluid and confirm the diagnosis. However confirmation of the diagnosis should not delay treatment.

A range of antibiotics can treat the infection, including penicillin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol and ceftriaxone. Under epidemic conditions in Africa in areas with limited health infrastructure and resources, ceftriaxone is the drug of choice.


https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/meningitis/en/

The fact that this disease can kill children even in countries with advanced healthcare in place should make Nigerian parents vigilant. Read the story below. The following post will contain information on the disease and how to spot for tell-tale signs in your children.

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Boy, six, died of meningitis just hours after paramedics told his mother he was 'milking it'



A team of doctors and paramedics rejected a mother's fears that her six-year-old son had meningitis just hours before he died, an inquest heard today.

Primary school teacher Georgie Hall, 38, said paramedic Graham Scott even rolled his eyes at her and claimed that her son Oliver was trying to 'milk' his illness after he was examined at their local GP surgery.

The paramedic also asked her if she had used Google to check her son's symptoms and said he spent much of his time dealing with 'over-anxious mothers'.


Mrs Hall, 38, who is seven months pregnant, told Suffolk Coroner's Court how the doctors who checked her son did not properly look at the rash on his body or take proper note of his symptoms.

She said she repeatedly told the medical professionals that she was worried that he had meningitis, but they insisted that he did not and sent them back to their home in Halesworth.

Mrs Hall said she was slow to react even as her son's condition worsened after returning home because she had been wrongly reassured by the doctors and paramedics.

But she eventually became so worried that she took him back to the Cutlers Hill surgery in Halesworth where a doctor finally began to suspect that he had meningitis and gave him an injection of penicillin.

An ambulance was called for him, but Mrs Hall and her music teacher husband Bryan decided it would be quicker to drive him to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

They carried Oliver, known as Ollie, into the hospital at around 8pm on October 23, 2017, and he was immediately given oxygen and had blood samples taken.

Mr and Mrs Hall were told their son had suspected meningitis and he was taken to the intensive care unit while a specialist team of medics was summoned from London to transfer him to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

Before he could be transferred, he went into cardiac arrest shortly after midnight and had to be resuscitated three times, but then his heart stopped again and he died at just after 2am on October 24.

His likely cause of death was given as meningococcal sepsis, the inquest at Suffolk Coroner's court in Ipswich was told.

Mr and Mrs Hall sat together at the inquest with a framed photograph of their son and one of his cuddly Tiger toys on a desk in front of them.

Mrs Hall who also has a son Charlie, five, said Oliver had first complained of having a headache and a sore jaw on the evening of October 22, and she thought he might have toothache.

The following morning he complained of having a stomach ache and she noticed he had a high temperature so she gave him Calpol

She called the surgery and was told that an appointment was not available until 3.50pm, but during the morning his condition worsened with a rash appearing on his body and his breathing becoming faster and shallower.

Mrs Hall said she rang the NHS 111 helpline to describe her son's symptoms and was told to fetch a glass and press it against his rash to see if his spots disappeared.

When she revealed the spots were still present and that her son did not like the light, the call handler called an ambulance.

Mrs Hall said she told paramedics Mr Scott and Oliver Denby that she was worried her son's rash could be meningitis after they arrived at her home.

She described Mr Scott as being 'quite abrupt' and claimed that he asked her if she had been going on the internet to check her son's symptoms.

The pair told her that it could not be meningitis because the edge of one of his spots was disappearing when they carried out a glass test.

Mrs Hall said that Mr Scott then began 'mimicking' the 'grunting sound' that her son was making.

When she asked him if he was a 'child person', he replied 'not really' and gestured to his colleague, saying: 'I leave paediatrics to him'.

They then decided to take Oliver to the Cutlers Hill surgery with her at around 2.30pm so he could be examined by doctors as a precaution, she said.

Oliver appeared 'vacant and confused' when he was initially seen by Dr Lester Braganza who found his temperature was slightly above normal.

Another GP Dr Robert Treen was also called through to look at the larger mark on Oliver's inner arm.

He decided it looked like it a trauma injury from him hurting himself earlier, and that he also had a 'normal child's virus', she said.

Mrs Hall said she told them that she did not believe the mark was fading when under pressure from the glass.

She said that it was then that Mr Scott made his remark about how they 'mostly dealt with over-anxious mothers'

Mrs Hall said she kept lifting up Oliver's pyjamas to point out the rash in the rest of his body, but she added: 'They didn't seem to look'.

She added that Mr Scott kept interrupting the doctors and trying to persuade them that Oliver was 'fine'

Mrs Hall said: 'I said I was worried about meningitis and they assured me he was well enough to return home. They rejected meningitis out of hand. I was told everything was fine. I was made to feel I had to trust the medical professionals.'

She said that as her son walked from the surgery he appeared to trip on the path, prompting Mr Scott to say: 'Oh, he is going to milk this.'

After returning home, Mrs Hall told her mother that she had been made to feel 'quite silly'.

Her son continued to be lethargic as his temperature rose in the afternoon and she noticed that he was developing a more of a pin prick rash, but she felt reassured by what the doctors had told her.

Eventually at 6.20pm, she said that Oliver had got so poorly that she called the surgery again and was told to bring him back in.

He was seen immediately again by Dr Treen who gave him a penicillin injection after saying that his rash had now become 'typical' of meningitis.

Mr Hall told the inquest said he and his wife both had paediatric training as teachers and fell that Oliver had been ill 'in a way he had never been ill before'.

He added: 'We both suspected meningitis and Georgie was raising this as a potential diagnosis.

'We were made to feel we were over-sensitive parents who did not know what we were talking about.'

Mr Hall described Mr Scott's actions in copying his son's grunts 'to mimic his distress' as being 'very unprofessional.'

He added: 'He asked rather sarcastically whether Georgie had been goggling Oliver's symptoms.'

Mr Hall said that he had also felt reassured when the doctors and paramedics had insisted that Oliver did not have meningitis.

Professor Nigel Klein, a professor of infectious disease at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, said that he believed Oliver could have survived if he had been treated sooner.

He said that even if he had been treated as late as 3pm on October 23, the time of his examination by the doctors, he would still have lived, although he might have been left with scarring or loss of fingers or toes.

But he said that Oliver's death would have been 'inevitable' if he had not been treated by around 3.30pm.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7099809/Paramedic-rolled-eyes-said-six-year-old-trying-milk-illness-hours-died.html#reader-comments

A worthy effort, but there's a reason you won't ever see that car or any design like it. Imagine being a person on the road hit by the pointy end of the bonnet of that car? Useful in a zombie apocalypse, deadly in the real world.

It seems that I'm not the only one wanting more information here? This is a FP article too!

Quick background pics of the club and town for those who are wondering. This football club is actually more famous as a basketball club.

"The Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group (SEG) & United States Secret Service seen escorting President Trump to and from Buckingham Palace as part of his state visit. The first convoy was just vehicles and staff, he arrived in the helicopter seen in the second clip. The second convoy was carrying the President and First Lady, Melania Trump."




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMzeOhBEXs

Larry the Downing Street cat stole the spotlight once again today by taking shelter under Donald Trump's armoured limousine.

Number 10's chief mouser, who has so far outlasted two prime ministers, ran under the £1.2million car during the U.S. President's talks with Theresa May.

The beloved moggy, who moved into the residence in 2011 after being 'recruited' from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, even tried to climb inside the bomb-proof vehicle dubbed 'the Beast'.

Larry's antics meant the car could not be moved - with some joking that it was a 'huge security issue'.

Eventually, the curious cat was picked up and moved along by a Downing Street official.

It seems 12-year-old Larry loves the limelight, with the brown and white tabby perching himself on the windowsill at Downing Street as Mrs May, her husband Philip, Mr Trump and his wife Melania posed for photos.

A parody account dedicated to snaps of the famous feline joked on Twitter: 'Nice picture of the Beast. And the President’s car... #TrumpUKVisit.'

Mr Trump touched down in the UK at Stansted Airport yesterday, and is travelling on the Marine One helicopter as well as the 'Beast' car during his three-day stay.

While here, Mr Trump and his wife Melania will be staying at the US Ambassador's residence in London's Regent's Park.

The Beast is a seven-seat black limousine which is designed to give the President and his family ultimate protection.

The car, which will be surrounded by a 20-strong team of vehicles, watching the President's every move, is equipped with a night-vision camera and reinforced steel plating said to be able to resist bullets, chemical attacks and bombs.

The Cadillac has Kevlar-reinforced tyres and steel rims that can keep the vehicle moving even if the tyres have been destroyed.

It is believed to be equipped with a Duramax diesel engine. The reason it runs on diesel is because the fuel has a low volatility, which reduces the likelihood of it exploding.

Bottles of the president's blood type are carried on board in case of a medical emergency, and a satellite phone enables communication to be maintained from anywhere in the world.

The car itself is burdened with carrying a whopping 20,000lb of Beast. The engine however is far from a rocket and the car's top speed it said to only be able to max out a typical highway speed in the US, which is around 60mph.

The weight of the vehicle means it is likely to be a guzzler when it comes to fuel consumption and it's unlikely it achieves better than 10 miles per gallon.

There are a number of cats in charge of handling mice-related problems in government, including Palmerston at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Gladstone in the Treasury Office and Evie in the Equalities Unit.

According to Larry's profile on the government website, he 'spends his days greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences and testing antique furniture for napping quality'.

The numerous felines have captured the hearts of the nation and regularly hit the headlines - including when Gladstone briefly went missing last year.

Larry last featured in the news when a policeman was spotted knocking on the famous door to let the cat inside out of the cold.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7103979/Larry-Downing-Street-cat-takes-shelter-Donald-Trumps-armoured-limousine.html

I hope it's family drags them under the next time they venture close to the ocean. Braindead cowards.

MrCuteking:

USA POLICE


VS


NIGERIA POLICE

Those are UK police.

TobiAbuja:
Father proud of son, son proud of father. Touching.

Indeed, and what a platform for it.

See Video here:

Look what it means to Jordan Henderson. #LFC #UCLFINAL #Henderson #passion pic.twitter.com/O7tgf7QCQa

— Charlie Gibson (@CharlieMooseCMM) June 1, 2019

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson shared an emotional embrace with his father on the pitch following his side's victory in the Champions League final in Madrid.

Henderson lifted the trophy after Liverpool's 2-0 win against Tottenham, which was secured courtesy of a penalty from Mohamed Salah and a strike from Divock Origi.

After the game Henderson made sure to spend time with his father Brian, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2013.

While he was receiving treatment, Henderson's father asked his son not to see him.

Speaking last year, Henderson said: 'I didn't see my dad much in that time. Very little. He wouldn't let me. Brendan (Rodgers) was very good. He said I could go back home whenever I wanted to see him, so I saw him just before he went in for his first treatment.

'Then I would see him again a few weeks later and it wasn't too bad but, towards the end, it got to a point where he didn't want to see me at all because of how he was.

'He didn't want me to see him like that so I knew it was pretty bad. I was in regular contact but the only thing I could really do was try and perform on a weekend and luckily enough at the time, we started winning every week.'

Henderson played the whole game against Tottenham as Liverpool won the Champions League for the sixth time and their first trophy under Jurgen Klopp.

The victory saw Liverpool bounce back from the disappointment they suffered in last year's final, when they were beaten 3-1 by Real Madrid in Kiev.

Henderson's father recalled that when his son was 10 he told him that he would play in a Champions League final one day.

As reported by the Liverpool Echo, Brian Henderson said: 'When he was 10 I took him to see a Champions League final at Manchester United between the two Milans and he said to us, when they came out to the Champions League music, he said "dad I'm going to play there one day".

'He's done it not once, but twice. And he's won one. I'm absolutely delighted for him.

'I think if he hadn't picked that trophy up today he would have had a bad, bad summer. But now he'll have a fantastic summer with the children.'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7095823/Liverpool-captain-Jordan-Henderson-celebrates-Champions-League-final-victory-dad.html

Originalsly:
Bro...you missed the point. It was reported that the officials were executed.... is the report true?. It is not good to swallow before tasting and chewing.....it is this same kind mentality that cause innocent people to e roasted... someone shouts thief.... and without question... the person is caught and roasted.

North Korea can discredit this by producing the named official who was executed. Not very hard if this is false.

Also it was South Korean media, not American.

The Ukraine team

Trump's bitter feud with McCain

This all goes back to President Trump's hostile relationship with the warship's namesake.

Senator McCain was a military veteran who, during the Vietnam war, was imprisoned and tortured for five-and-a-half years. He also unsuccessfully ran for president twice, most recently against Barack Obama in 2008.

But it was his outspoken criticism of Mr Trump, starting in 2015, that led to a bitter rivalry between them.

During the campaign for the 2016 presidential election, Mr McCain - a fellow Republican - publicly withdrew his support for Mr Trump, accusing him of "firing up the crazies" with his views on immigration.

Less than a month later, President Trump told a campaign event: "He's a 'war hero' because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured."

The divide between them didn't end with Mr Trump's election victory, however.

A year into his presidency, in July 2017, Mr Trump introduced a bill to repeal his presidential predecessor's landmark healthcare legislation, the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare).

The Republicans almost succeeded but, as he battled brain cancer, Mr McCain voted no - scuppering the party's bid to undo the act.

Even after Mr McCain's death in August 2018, President Trump has spoken openly of his dislike of the late senator. In March this year, he said: "I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48456742

The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Senator John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan this week, White House and military officials said Wednesday.

Although Navy officials insisted they did not hide the ship, the John S. McCain, they did give all of the sailors aboard the day off on Tuesday as Mr. Trump visited Yokosuka Naval Base.

Two Navy sailors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the McCain sailors were not invited to hear Mr. Trump speak that day aboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp, while sailors from other American warships at the base were.

A Navy service member based on Yokosuka said that all of the American warships in the harbor were invited to send 60 to 70 sailors to hear Mr. Trump’s address, with the exception of the McCain. When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said.

White House aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly, confirmed the request was made but said that Mr. Trump did not know about it. A United States official said on Wednesday that the White House sent an email to the Navy with the request on May 15.

But the president denied on Twitter on Wednesday night having any involvement: “I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan.”

Mr. McCain, of Arizona, who died last year from brain cancer, was derided repeatedly during his life by Mr. Trump, who once disparaged Mr. McCain’s service because he had been held as a war prisoner in Vietnam, saying, “I like people who weren’t captured.”

The president’s animosity toward the senator did not subside with his death.

Navy officials approached last week by The New York Times about plans for the McCain during Mr. Trump’s visit declined to comment. But one official said on Thursday that sailors aboard the destroyer were told to hide signs that identified that warship during Mr. Trump’s visit.

The White House request to hide the name of Mr. Trump’s rival, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is the second episode to engulf the Navy in Mr. Trump’s single visit to the Wasp.

At least a few service members wore round patches emblazoned with a likeness of Mr. Trump and the words “Make Aircrew Great Again” — a play on the president’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” — on their flight suits while listening to their commander in chief speak.

Images of the patches promptly went viral. “They’re inappropriate & against regulation,” tweeted Mark Hertling, a retired three-star Army general.

Just days later, the Navy was embroiled in the McCain news. “All ships remained in normal configuration during the president’s visit,” said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Navy spokesman.

The acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, denied knowledge of the White House request. “When I read about it this morning, it was the first I’ve heard about it,” he told reporters on Thursday during an appearance with his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta. Asked if he planned to order an investigation into the matter, he said, “I want to find out a little bit more.”

The Wasp, an amphibious assault ship that hosts the new F-35B Lightning fighter jets, had actually been in Sasebo, Japan, and was moved to Yokosuka in time for the president’s visit.

The Chief of Naval Information, the public affairs arm of the Navy, posted on Twitter for the first time in five and a half years over the matter. “The name of the U.S.S. John S. McCain was not obscured during the POTUS visit to Yokosuka on Memorial Day,” the Navy said, using an acronym for president of the United States.


Mr. Shanahan later told reporters aboard his flight to Singapore that he was going to ask his chief of staff to look into what happened.

“I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Senator McCain,” he said. He also added that “I’d never disrespect the young men and women that crew that ship,” a reference to reports that sailors from the McCain who were wearing uniforms with the ship’s insignia were turned away from Mr. Trump’s speech.

The disclosure that the Navy entertained a request to hide a warship named after an American war hero from a president who did not serve is likely to resurface questions about whether Mr. Trump has politicized the military.

Mr. Shanahan, the president’s pick to become defense secretary — and who will soon be visiting Tokyo after his time in Jakarta — has taken pains to go along with White House requests, many of which were delayed by his predecessor, Jim Mattis. But this effort could make Mr. Shanahan’s confirmation fight in Congress more difficult.

The destroyer John S. McCain is named after the senator, as well as his grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., a Navy admiral during World War II, and his father, John S. McCain Jr., an admiral in the Vietnam era.

Meghan McCain, John McCain’s daughter, spoke out on Twitter on Wednesday night against the White House request. Ms. McCain, who has rebuked the president over how he has spoken about her father, wrote that Mr. Trump was “threatened by the greatness of my dads incredible life,” adding that in the “nine months since he passed, Trump won’t let him RIP.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/politics/uss-mccain-navy-ship.html