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Dominic Cummings says PM was told No 10 garden party ‘broke the rules’ but said it should go aheadEmail sent by ‘very senior official’ will show prime minister ‘lied to parliament’ ex-chief aide claims Dominic Cummings says evidence will show Boris Johnson “lied to parliament” when he denied knowing about the No 10 garden party, plunging his position deeper into jeopardy.An email sent by “a very senior official” warned the “bring your own booze” event broke Covid rules, the exiled former chief aide claims – blowing apart the prime minister’s defence that he thought it was “a work event”.In an explosive blog post, Mr Cummings wrote: “Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time would swear under oath this is what happened.”
Braintree missing cat found after owner hears meow on vet's phoneA cat missing for eight months has been reunited with its owner after she recognised his familiar meow on the other end of the telephone while on a call to her vet.
QuoteStill tricky to believe dodgy Dominic, evidence would substantiate what he's claiming.
Two Downing Street parties are alleged to have been held the night before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral in April last year, while the country was in a period of national mourning and mass indoor social mixing was still barred, The Telegraph reports.It was said that advisers and civil servants gathered after work for two separate events to mark the departure of James Slack, Boris Johnson’s former director of communications, and one of the PM’s personal photographers.The two parties later merged together and had 30 people in attendance, with witnesses saying that alcohol was drunk and guests danced to music.
Boris Johnson has "categorically" denied lying to Parliament when telling MPs he believed he was attending a work event, when he was actually at an organised drinks party."Nobody told me that what we were doing was against the rules, that the event in question was something that ... was not a work event, and as I said in the House of Commons when I went out into that garden I thought that I was attending a work event."
Mass hamster cull in Hong Kong after positive Covid tests at pet shopHong Kong authorities are culling 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several of the rodents tested positive for coronavirus at a pet store where an infected employee was working.
Woman, 76, who grew up in a wealthy family but wanted to escape the UK class system reveals she poured her inheritance into buying a 300-year-old farm house in Greece where she runs an animal rescue centreWhen Ben Fogle visited her for tonight's episode of New Lives in the Wild at 9pm on Channel 5, he discovered that all of Sandy's time and money goes into looking after 25 dogs, 20 cats, eight donkeys, and a horse that live with her on the 300-year-old farm she bought with her savings.
‘World’s largest potato’ to get DNA testing in ScotlandA piece of what is thought to be the world’s biggest potato is set to undergo DNA testing in Scotland.Dug the Potato, as it has been named, weighs 7.9kg and was found on a small farm near Hamilton, New Zealand.
Boris Johnson interrogated by Line of Duty's AC12 in brilliant Led By Donkeys clipJED Mercurio has shared a video that appears to show the cast of Line of Duty interrogating Boris Johnson over Downing Street parties during the Covid pandemic. The video has already been viewed nearly half a million times on Twitter after being posted for just a few hours.