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Today’s newspaper summary – Paper Talk UK If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all
Today’s newspaper summary – Paper Talk UK If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all
Today’s newspaper summary – Paper Talk UK If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all
Today’s newspaper summary – Paper Talk UK If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all
Today’s newspaper summary – Paper Talk UK If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all
Today’s newspaper summary – Paper Talk UK If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all
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EU needs UK, former French president pleads to Starmer in warning over Trump’s return
A former French president has urged Sir Keir Starmer to lead Europe from outside the EU after Donald Trump returns to the White House.
François Hollande, who was the president of France from 2012 to 2017, said the UK and EU need each other “to respond to Trump’s offensive and to find solutions for the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East”.
And he said: “Keir Starmer needs to position himself as a European leader, while not being in the European Union. This is what he must sell to the British public.”
Speaking after an event at King’s College London, Mr Hollande added: “Starmer is in a favourable position, one in which he needs to capitalise on the benefits, not only for the United Kingdom but also to the benefit of Europe.”
And, in comments reported by The Times, Mr Hollande warned that the president-elect “only understands relationships based on strength”.
The left-winger, who left power in 2017 deeply unpopular after a term dominated by economic turmoil and questions about his private life, also backed Sir Keir’s ongoing reset with the EU, encouraging the PM to “demonstrate to Europeans that he is a partner again”
Mr Hollande is now an MP in the French parliament and is considering a second run at the presidency when Macron steps down in 2027.
It came as the governor of the Bank of England said Britain must rebuild relations with Brussels and warned of the economic consequences of Brexit.
Amid fears of a global trade war in Mr Trump’s second term, Andrew Bailey said he had to “point out the consequences” of Brexit, adding that it has “weighed on the level of potential supply”.
“It underlines why we must be alert to and welcome opportunities to rebuild relations while respecting the decision of the British people,” Mr Bailey said.
He added: “The picture is now clouded by the impact of geopolitical shocks and the broader fragmentation of the world economy.”
During the election, Mr Trump unveiled plans to impose 20 per cent tariffs on all imports to the US, with the levy rising to 60 per cent for Chinese imports.
The move would put pressure on UK goods prices, contributing to rising inflation, experts have suggested.
As part of Sir Keir’s reset with the EU, he is set to face fresh pressure to agree a youth mobility scheme with the bloc that would allow young people to live and work freely across Europe for a number of years.
Despite Sir Keir’s insistence that the UK has no intention of agreeing such a deal, official documents show the European Council has tabled a discussion on the issue on Friday.
EU needs UK, former French president pleads to Starmer in warning over Trump’s return
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-uk-latest-news-trump-starmer-b2647656.html
October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Mabon ap Gwynfor said Welsh police reported more than 45,000 cases of domestic abuse in 2022/23 and almost 10,000 sexual offences the previous year, with many more unrecorded.
Leading a Senedd debate, the Plaid Cymru politician challenged a tendency to believe rural Wales is an exception, with domestic violence “limited” to urban areas only.
Domestic violence epidemic
“The evidence shows otherwise,” he said. “Rates of domestic abuse in north Wales are higher than those in the city of london.
“North Wales even faces the same level of sexual crimes as Greater Manchester, which has a population five times the size.”
Trump in the US is going to make things much worse
Mr ap Gwynfor added: “I am afraid the election of President Trump in the US is going to make things much worse as he makes misogynistic attitudes acceptable again.”
Postcode lottery
He said victims wait a year for support in Cardiff or Merthyr but four months in Swansea, asking: “How can we justify someone’s trauma being dependent on a postcode lottery?”
Mr ap Gwynfor said the NSPCC found one in five children have experienced domestic violence, with Childline Cardiff holding 4,000 counselling sessions in the past year.
Calling for urgent devolution, he warned that prosecution statistics suggest sexual violence has effectively been legalised, with victims let down and public trust eroded.
Senedd committee’s alarm over domestic violence ‘epidemic’
Labour’s Joyce Watson said a vigil will be held outside the Senedd on November 25 to mark White Ribbon Day, the international day for ending violence against women and children.
Sioned Williams raised the NSPCC’s calls for sustainable long-term funding for specialist support for children and young people who are survivors of domestic violence.
“corrosive” effect of social media
Luke Fletcher warned of the “corrosive” effect of social media, calling for a crackdown on misogynistic content targeted at young men.
Responding to the debate on November 13, Jane Hutt pointed to progress made in tackling violence against women and girls but she recognised “so much more needs to be done”.
Ms Hutt, Wales’ social justice secretary, highlighted horrifying statistics from July showing that two million women in the UK are victims of male violence every year.
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