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£10 fine for an NHS no-show, says Rishi SunakTory leadership hopeful vows to act after 15m GP appointments go to wasteRishi Sunak would introduce a £10 fine for missed GP and hospital appointments as part of a "transformative" shake-up of the NHS, the former chancellor has said.
Prince Charles’s charitable foundation received £1m donation from Bin Laden familyPrince Charles was facing further questions about his charity’s donations on Saturday after it emerged that his foundation accepted £1m from the family of Osama bin Laden.Charles allegedly secured the money from Bakr bin Laden and his brother Shafiq, both members of one of the wealthiest families in Saudia Arabia, according to a report in The Sunday Times. However, Clarence House said that the donation was accepted by the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund and not Charles.Both Bakr and Shafiq are half-brothers of the founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, through their late father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.Their father was a Yemeni-born billionaire who made his money through construction. Before his death in 1967, he had 54 children with at least 11 wives. The bin Laden family disavowed Osama, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, decades ago. There is no suggestion that either Bakr or Shafiq bin Laden or any other mentioned family members have sponsored or been involved in acts of terrorism.
Ancient Greece Was a Debauched Disney Trip for RomansThere were guidebooks with reviews, an ancient version of rental cars, luxury island hopping, and plenty of gimmicks. The ancient Romans were just like us!Ages before modern tourists flocked to Greece to enjoy its sun, sea, antiquities, and adventure, people of the Roman Empire descended on Greece for the same reasons. Antony and Cleopatra headed for a romantic island tryst on Samos; the emperor Tiberius preferred Rhodes.Some Romans attended the famous philosophy schools and drenched themselves in Greek history; others came for the Olympic Games; still others were attracted by the sensational—a chance to gawk at the egg hatched by Leda after her affair with Zeus in the guise of a swan, to dip a toe in the spring where Helen had bathed, or to gasp as professional divers jumped off the notorious “Lover’s Leap” of Leucadia, a 200-foot promontory where Sappho was said to have ended her life. And they all lugged home souvenirs: terracotta statuettes, trinkets, pots of Hymettian honey, silk scarves from Cos, gnarled walking sticks from Sparta, copies of racy Milesian love stories, and entire temple columns and thousands of statues.Greek hospitality was renowned long before the Roman sightseers arrived...
Call to manage Britain’s water now or risk needing emergency bottle suppliesWarning follows driest July in over 100 years Ministers must introduce a national hosepipe ban and mandatory water metering to tackle the looming threat of drought following the driest July in over 100 years, infrastructure experts have warned.The National Infrastructure Committee (NIC), a government agency, has said water needs to start being managed better across the whole UK. If it isn’t, they said, the country could face a future of queueing for emergency bottled supplies “from the back of lorries".
Nadine Dorries’s ‘disturbing’ tweets on Sunak condemned by Tory MPsCulture secretary’s post portraying Sunak wielding knife at Boris Johnson denounced in light of MPs’ murdersConservative MPs have condemned “divisive, disingenuous and disturbing” interventions against Rishi Sunak by the culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, including a tweet showing Sunak wielding a knife at Boris Johnson.Other Conservative ministers condemned comments by Dorries, a supporter of Liz Truss, about Sunak’s dress sense – comparing his Savile Row suit to Truss’ earrings from Claire’s.One suggested it was deeply provocative for her to tweet the image of Sunak stabbing Johnson, in a parody of Julius Caesar, given two MPs have recently been murdered.The culture secretary, one of Johnson’s closest allies, retweeted an image depicting him as Julius Caesar about to be stabbed by a knife-wielding Sunak, a parody of his resignation that brought down the prime minister.Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Dorries said... “travelled along a path of treachery, and in doing so is unlikely to win the hearts and minds of Conservative party members because, above all else, they value loyalty and decency.”
Elgin Marbles could be returned to Greece under new 'Parthenon partnership'British Museum executive calls for a deal with Greece to establish greater 'cultural exchange' and to 'change the temperature of the debate'The British Museum has not said it will hand the sculptures back, with Mr Williams arguing they are an "absolutely integral part" of the collection.However, he said that all sides need to "find a way forward around cultural exchange of a level, intensity and dynamism which has not been conceived hitherto".
Man, 22, charged with murder of nine-year-old girl in LincolnshireLincolnshire police said in a statement: “We have this evening charged 22-year-old Deividas Skebas with the murder of nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte.”Lithuanian national Skebas, 22, of Thorold Street, Boston, is due to appear at Lincoln magistrates’ court on Monday, the statement added.
World’s most useless guard dog lies down next to drug gang in police raidThis is the moment a drug gang’s guard dog flops down beside its owners and gives itself up to police during a bust.Footage shows cops arresting the three men yesterday on a ranch in Hortolandia, Sao Paulo state, Brazil.The officers seized 1,176 bricks containing 1.1 tonnes of cannabis from the property.A police video of the raid shows the three suspects lying face-down on the floor with their hands cuffed behind their backs.Clearly their massive Rottweiler decided the gig was up too and decided it’d be best to be compliant with officers.