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  • ‘When I tell Israelis I’m not Jewish but here to help, grown men cry’

    10/07/2025 6:18:27 AM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 16 replies
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10/7/25 | Jamie Shapiro
    “The day after October 7 [2023], I saw the people celebrating in Birmingham on Library [Centenary] Square,” says Gordon Biggerstaff, 61, a nurse from North Wales. “They were dancing and they were singing. I have never been so ashamed of my country.” Biggerstaff says it was at that moment he felt the overwhelming need to help his “Jewish brothers”. “The police and the government did nothing about it and they have done nothing since. I thought, ‘These people don’t represent me’, and I needed to do something about it myself.” He immediately looked into volunteering in Israel and found an...
  • North Wales town terrorized by a grey squirrel: 18 injured in two days of attacks

    01/08/2022 9:07:30 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    PENNLive ^ | Dec. 30, 2021 | Linda Hasco
    Last week, over a two-day period, people in a small town in North Wales began to experience unprovoked attacks by a grey squirrel. The animal was eventually captured and put down, but not before 18 people were injured as a result of its wild biting spree, reports say. According to the BBC, the grey squirrel started attacking people in Buckley, Flintshire, last week. Prior to that, Corinne Reynolds, 65, had been feeding it since March. She said it was a “frequent and friendly visitor” to her garden. The squirrel initially came “to steal bird food” Reynolds said: “All those months...