Showing posts with label 2017 at 09:29PM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017 at 09:29PM. Show all posts

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Seven White Helmet volunteers shot in the head at base

It is not known if the motive for murder of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated rescue workers was political or criminal.

Seven members of Syria’s White Helmets rescue group have been shot dead in their base by unidentified attackers.

The killings happened in the jihadist-held northwestern town of Sarmin, six miles (9km) east of the city of Idlib.

The group, officially called Syria Civil Defence (SCD), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year for its work pulling civilian victims of bombing in Syria out of rubble.

It was active in rebel-held eastern Aleppo before the territory was seized by forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad.

Source: Seven White Helmet volunteers shot in the head at base


Friday, June 9, 2017

Ex-BBC presenters guilty of indecently assaulting boys

Two former BBC radio presenters have been convicted of indecently assaulting boys and outraging public decency by having sex in woodland.

Husband and wife Tony and Julie Wadsworth were found guilty by a majority verdict of encouraging a string of boys, including a teenager looking for a golf ball, to take part in sexual activity in Warwickshire between 1992 and 1996.

Julie Wadsworth, 60, and her 69-year-old husband told Warwick crown court they engaged in or watched sex acts in an area of parkland, but claimed young men and not boys were involved…

Source: Ex-BBC presenters guilty of indecently assaulting boys | UK news | The Guardian


Monday, May 29, 2017

Hamerton Zoo evacuated as police and air ambulance called to ‘serious incident’

POLICE and an air ambulance have been called to a “serious incident” at Hamerton Zoo Park.

Visitors have been evacuated and the park, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, closed for the day.

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Constabulary said: “We were called around 11.15 to reports of a serious incident at Hamerton Park…

Source: Hamerton Zoo evacuated as police and air ambulance called to ‘serious incident’