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A money-obsessed husband stabbed his estranged wife to death after she refused to sign up to his plans to divide their £1million fortune, a court heard today. Ray Hoadley, 62, is accused of murdering 58-year-old Jackie Hoadley at their family home in Eastbourne, East Sussex, last summer. Ms Hoadley was discovered with seven stab wounds … Read more
Boris Johnson takes time out of his busy schedule juggling Covid and Brexit deal to join fiancee Carrie Symonds in phone call to Christmas Eve bell-ringing campaigner PM told Mary Beggs-Reid he, Ms Symonds and Wilfred ‘will be out ringing bells’ The event on December 24 is designed to combat loneliness over Christmas Discussion comes … Read more
Green campaigner loses High Court fight against two-decade extension of oil drilling near Gatwick airport Sarah Finch objected to extension of oil drilling by Surrey County Council She said council had failed to assess ‘the indirect greenhouse gas impacts’ Judge dismissed her claim and indicated that the council had behaved lawfully By Bhvishya Patel For … Read more
A campaigner who worked to make upskirting illegal has turned down an OBE from the Queen after saying the British Empire has ‘deep and unsettling race issues’. Gina Martin, 27, posted a letter on social media revealing she had refused to accept the honour because it would be ‘deeply hypocritical’ while ‘continuing to be vocal about … Read more
Boris Johnson is planning to set up a new ‘policy board’ as he scrambles to reconnect with increasingly mutinous Tory MPs Ministers swiped at Dominic Cummings today as the government desperately tried to draw a line under the extraordinary coup in Downing Street. Environment Secretary George Eustice branded the maverick former chief aide a ‘campaign’ … Read more
Nigella Lawson apologises for column she wrote 27 years ago which said gender re-assignment surgery was ‘self-mutilation’ – after campaigner tweets ‘she’s no trans ally’ Campaigner for non-gendered people, Christie Elan-Cane, has spent 27 years waiting for an apology over the comments made by Lawson, 60, in 1993 In her then Evening Standard column, the … Read more
Are patterned masks making coronavirus trendy? Wearing funky face coverings could make them fashionable and the new normal, campaigner warns Patterned masks may make coronavirus trendy, Dame Helena Morrissey claimed The financier and campaigner said she has stopped wearing ‘fashionable’ masks She believes it will make the ‘unusual’ pandemic times become the new normal Celebrities … Read more
Together against all odds: Charity campaigner and son, three, have survived life-saving organ transplants – while the mother has also battled against lymphoma cancer Mother Alexe Deane survived a heart transplant and also battled against cancer Her son Khari had to have his gall bladder removed and have a liver transplant Miss Deane, 27, has … Read more
Windrush campaigner Paulette WIlson who was nearly deported despite living in the UK for nearly 50 years has died aged 64 Paulette Wilson, 64, was found dead by daughter Natalie Barnes on Thursday The Windrush campaigner had delivered a petition to Downing Street last month She had spent 50 years in the UK before being … Read more
Husband of disabled rights campaigner who adopted two children with disabilities will go on trial next year charged with her murder after 58-year-old was found dead in her home Jackie Hoadley, 58, was found bludgeoned to death at her home in Eastbourne She was found unconscious by officers after a friend raised concerns with police … Read more