Day: December 1, 2025
Inmate smuggles Chicken Cottage takeaway at scandal-hit prison
December 1, 2025Sarah Hooper Published December 1, 2025 12:50pm Updated December 1, 2025 2:42pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video One of London’s most scandal-hit prisons is facing another investigation after an inmate posted a video of a smuggled takeaway on TikTok. The unnamed prisoner […]
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Right wingers try to bring curtain down on panto because it stars a drag queen
December 1, 2025Luke Alsford Published December 1, 2025 11:47am Updated December 1, 2025 2:08pm Watching Window Twankey or Dame Trott making veiled innuendos in a room with screaming toddlers is a staple of British family life. We all remember yelling ‘he’s behind you’ at a pantomime dame when life was simpler and all that mattered was the […]
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Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia
December 1, 2025A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina. In a ruling on Monday, a judge found Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, guilty of […]
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What led to Bangladesh trial of former UK minister Tulip Siddiq in her absence?
December 1, 2025Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, has been sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Bangladesh, over allegations of corruption linked to her aunt, the country’s ousted former prime minister. Siddiq denies all the allegations and says she has not been informed of the charges against her or given […]
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‘I thought HIV was a death sentence – but 43 years later I’m still here’
December 1, 2025In October 1982, Jonathan Blake was told he would be dead in three months. He had just been diagnosed with HIV, and was one of the very first people in Britain to be given the diagnosis. ‘I was told I had a virus and there was no cure,’ Jonathan, now 76, told Metro. ‘It was […]
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