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Bystanders reportedly used a whale tusk and a fire extinguisher to subdue the attacker in Friday’s stabbing attack in London. Footage has emerged of three bystanders, including one wielding a fire extinguisher and another with a 5-foot narwhal tusk, tacking 28-year-old Usman Khan, the suspect in the attack. Khan was ultimately shot dead by police. It is believed the tusk was removed from the wall of Fishmongers’ Hall near London Bridge. SNIP Friday’s stabbing attack killed two people and wounded three others before authorities intervened, with three officers seen in footage circulated on social media surrounding Khan as he grappled...

Police shot dead a man wearing a hoax device in central London after a terrorist attack in which a number of people were stabbed, forcing authorities to put an area on the edge of the U.K. capital’s financial district on lockdown.

An Uber Eats driver trying to protect his moped from being stolen was beaten and kicked to death by a gang, the Old Bailey has heard. Iderval Da Silva, 46, rushed over to his vehicle when he saw a 16-year-old boy attempting to steal it outside the Primo cafe in Battersea on 25 May this year, jurors were told. After Mr Da Silva pushed the teenager away, the boy allegedly fought back with Jasire Frazer, 18, Jaden Richards, 19, and three others who cannot be named. Brazilian-born Mr Da Silva, who served in his country’s army and taught martial arts,...

While they’re at it, the Democrats ought to impeach Prince Andrew, too. That way they could at least improve their television ratings even though the prince, like President Trump, has denied any wrongdoing. British television ratings went through the roof when Andrew, the Duke of York, gave his first interview to the BBC last week regarding his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Even though the interview was considered a bust for Andrew — one critic described it as “a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion” — it was a boom for UK...

PRINCE ANDREW was pulled out from his first official engagement since the “car crash” Newsnight interview on Saturday and attended yesterday a “crisis summit” at Buckingham Palace, a royal source said. The Duke of York was scheduled to visit flood-hit South Yorkshire yesterday, where he would have witnessed the Army operations and a clear-up in Stainforth and Fishlake. But he was terrified of becoming the target of the public’s mockery, according to unnamed friends of Prince Andrew who spoke to The Sun, and his engagement was eventually cancelled. Instead of heading to South Yorkshire, Andrew left his Windsor home, the...

What could possibly go wrong? A National Health Service (NHS) trust in the UK has announced that it will deny treatment to patients it deems are ‘racists’ or ‘sexists’. No, this is not the Onion. The North Bristol NHS Trust said that “threatening and offensive language,” as well as “racist or sexist language, gestures or behaviour” and “malicious allegations” would all be punishable offenses. Patients who commit such an infraction will be subject to a “sports-style disciplinary yellow card and then final red card in which treatment would be withdrawn as soon as is safe.” “We have staff from many...

ENGLAND, November 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic diocese of Salford in north-west England has become the latest of multiple Catholic dioceses around the United Kingdom to begin hosting “LGBT+ Masses.” In Salford, as in the other dioceses, the LGBT+ Masses enjoy the support of their respective local bishops. Advertisements for the Masses have become widely available in churches and on various official parish and diocesan websites. Many of these advertisements are emblazoned with the rainbow flag or popular Catholic images such as crosses or the Sacred Heart filled with the rainbow colours. Several of the groups involved in organizing...

'Mischief Night' has seen vandals trash building sites, smash the windows of family homes and set fire to mattresses in the street. Emergency services in north west England said they were scrambled to 34 deliberate fires and three firework incidents, while three groups of officers were attacked. Police officers and fire crews were also pelted with eggs as they rushed to deal with incidents across Merseyside and Lancashire last night. One video shows the moment masked youths attack a house in Stockbridge Village, Merseyside by hurling stones and eggs. Another attack on a building site in Garston where workers are...

President Trump is no longer the only politician who has been accused of Russian collusion by liberal lawmakers. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is feeling the heat weeks ahead of a snap general election. A series of Thursday reports claimed Johnson’s cabinet withheld an Intelligence report, which details alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 Brexit vote. Russian accounts reportedly shared 24 thousand posts on Twitter at the time. Anti-Brexit MPs are blasting Johnson for his push to deliver Brexit. “The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament…has been investigating a threat posed to this country by Russia,” stated MP Dominic Grieve....

Prince Harry and his renegade wife, Meghan, threw a tantrum and reportedly threatened to quit the Royal Family during a bitter confrontation with the Queen, insiders said. But if the pair were hoping the 93-year-old monarch would beg them to stay, they were flat-out wrong, RadarOnline.com has learned. “Her Majesty called their bluff. She told them that she was delighted with their decision and couldn’t wait for them to leave,” a high-level palace courtier told Radar. But that wasn’t the Queen’s only payback for the “divisive” couple, who committed the cardinal sin of dissing royal life in public. The source...

CITIZEN WARRIOR Our goal is to oppose Islamization by exposing, marginalizing, and disempowering orthodox Islam. Demoting Islam's Religion Status The following article is written by Martel Sobieskey and is reprinted here with his permission. ONE THING is certain, Islam is not a religion by anything Americans believe one to be -- not even close. In fact, Islam is the antithesis of what we deem to be religious. Above all, Islam is a totalitarian political machine of bloodthirsty conquest which zealously advocates the downfall of the U.S. government. Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. . ." because he...

Extinction Rebellion is planning to bring more chaos to London with another two weeks of disruption in the run-up to Christmas. Climate change protestors claim they will target busy shopping and tourist hubs in the capital, including Oxford Circus and Trafalgar Square, over the festive period. Organisers are plotting another fortnight of disorder over encrypted messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram. It comes after the group's 'Autumn Uprising' brought London to a standstill, with Tube protests at Canning Town, a camp out at Smithfield meat market and blockades at City Airport.

A 20-strong gang set upon four tree surgeons in Rochdale, England, calling them “white bastards” and cutting off a teenage worker’s hand with an axe. 27-year-old Habibur Rahman gathered the mob after the workers had stopped him from abusing an elderly woman. Rahman, incensed he had been “disrespected” on his “territory”, tracked the four workers to the property they were working on in the rape gang blighted city, blocking them by parking his car across the driveway while the mob approached armed with a claw hammer, knives, machetes, a knuckle-duster — and the fateful axe. “I am not going to...

The family of a British teenager who was killed by the wife of a U.S. diplomat driving the wrong way will meet with members of the Trump administration on Tuesday, a White House official said. White House officials to meet with parents of teen killed by U.S. diplomat's wife Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles will meet with senior administration officials at the White House, the official said. It's unclear if they will meet with President Trump. Harry Dunn, 19, was killed in August in an accident near RAF Croughton, a British military base used by the U.S. Air Force. Dunn...

A Christian school governor with decades of service has been suspended after saying that she would not have wanted her two sons to read books with LGBT themes. Maureen Griffith, 73, who worked as an NHS nurse for 40 years, was a governor at Alperton Community School in Brent, northwest London, for more than 20 years. In May she received a letter telling her that she had been suspended from the governing body after two complaints alleging that she had made “homophobic comments at a public meeting”. She now fears she will be sacked. The row comes days before the...

Richard Huckle, one of Britain's worst paedophiles, has been killed in his prison cell in the north of England, sources have confirmed. The 33-year-old, who was serving 22 life sentences, at Full Sutton Prison in East Yorkshire, was found dead in his cell at the weekend. Huckle, from Ashford in Kent, was jailed in 2016, after being arrested on his return to the UK from Malaysia, where he had been living and abusing children. He pleaded guilty to 71 offences involving 22 children, but it is thought there were many more children across South East Asia. Huckle was found by...

The Queen and Prince Charles could make more than £100million a year from the huge expansion of offshore windfarms – thanks to a change in the way that the monarchy is funded. The green energy earnings of the Royal Family are being significantly boosted by an auction, which formally began last week, for the biggest offshore windpower development in the world. If they were still being paid by the long-established Civil List, the Royals would not have benefited. ... Prince Charles is a vociferous campaigner for renewable energy sources but is opposed to turbines being erected on land – particularly...

Britain could be in for a new beast from the east as experts predict this winter will be "the coldest weather in 30 years". Temperatures could reach as low as -14C with “snow event after snow event” expected to hit parts of the UK from as early as later on this month. Earlier this month, researchers from University College London forecast an average temperature of just 3.9C for January to February. They found that a freezing vortex of Arctic air could hit the country after studying current sea temperatures and a weather system over the north Atlantic.

Gender-neutral toilets in schools have left girls feeling unsafe and even put their health at risk, parents and teachers have warned. Girls who are menstruating are so anxious about sharing facilities with boys that some are staying at home for fear of being made to feel 'period shame'. With a growing number of both primary and secondary schools installing unisex toilets, some girls are risking infections by refusing to urinate all day. Others are so fearful they have stopped drinking liquids at school.

Researchers from University College London are forecasting an average temperature in the UK of just 3.9ºC (39ºF) for January to February in what is expected to be “the coldest weather in 30 years.” Yahoo News reported Saturday that temperatures in Great Britain could reach as low as -14C with “snow event after snow event” expected to hit various parts of the territory. Forecasters expect the lasting cold spell to begin sometime this month and to continue at least through March. “October is now looking like it will turn out to be colder than average with more of a chance of...