MUNYAO WINS LONDON MARATHON
Kenya’s Alexander Munyao and Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won the men’s and women’s London Marathon 2024 on Sunday (21 April). In the men’s race, Alexander Mutiso Munyao of Kenya finished first in a time of 2 minutes and four seconds. Kenenisa Bekele, a legendary track star, was beaten by the Continue Reading
Rest in Peace Captain Sir Tom Moore
Captain Sir Tom Moore, who has died aged 100, was a Second World War veteran who became Britain’s national hero and mascot in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, raising millions of pounds for charity on the eve of his 100th birthday and providing a baffled and dismayed nation Continue Reading
Extinction Rebellion threatens action over Terrorist Listing
by Vikram Dodd (Guardian’s Police and crime correspondent) Extinction Rebellion is threatening legal action against counter-terrorism police for what it said was the illegal listing of the group an extremist ideology in a guide designed to help stop terrorist violence. The Guardian revealed on Friday that counter-terrorism police placed the Continue Reading
Operation Buckthorn
Operation Buckthorn was a British special forces operation successfully carried out by men of the Special Boat Service on 21 December 2018 that rescued the crew of the cargo ship Grande Tema who had been taken hostage by four West African stowaways armed with crude melee weapons after the four Continue Reading
Opinion Polls – Leading questions
Opinion polls are often incorrect, history shows this often. They’re mostly conducted on behalf of companies or political concerns who have a vested interest in the result of the opinion poll and questions often formulated with a bias in mind = their use only as indicators for those conducting them Continue Reading
