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Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read who put the Kray twins behind bars has died

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Scotland Yard detective Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read who famously put the notorious Kray twins behind bars dies aged 95 Read who was a Detective Superintendent in the Met Police died this morning A statement by the Met police released after Read’s death called him a legend  East end mobsters the Krays were arrested in May 1968 … Read more

A madly flamboyant zookeeper went to war with a female rival, writes TOM LEONARD 

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Strutting around his chaotic zoo with a holstered gun on his hip and an outrageous, bleached mullet haircut hiding under his baseball cap, ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic liked to wrestle with the big cats he bred. He would talk big about what he would do to the animal rights activists who assailed him, blasting off … Read more

TOM LEONARD: Refusal to pick up Harry and Meghan’s tab is Donald Trump’s revenge

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Back in May 2016, Meghan Markle was yet to meet her prince when – as a star of the TV drama Suits – she appeared on an obscure late-night US chat show. The women’s rights firebrand held forth on the awfulness of Donald Trump, then the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the presidency. Not only … Read more

Coronavirus is predicted to spread faster in New York than a bullet train, writes TOM LEONARD 

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The streets are so dead now you can hear the ambulance sirens from a long way off. And you hear them more and more. Yesterday, one came for an old lady at the end of my block, a squad of masked medics milling around the stretcher as she was wheeled into an ambulance and away … Read more

TOM LEONARD on Michael Bloomberg as he is mauled of his non-PC past

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As the world capital of high-stakes gambling, Las Vegas was an entirely fitting location for the richest person ever to run for the U.S. presidency to lay his claim to the White House. No, not Donald Trump — but Michael Bloomberg, the multi-billionaire who tends to snort derisively whenever he hears the current president boast … Read more