Captain Sir Tom Moore's family hid online abuse from him as it 'would have broken his heart'

Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter has revealed she hid the trolling, that the family received online, from her father.

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  • Trump tries to shift blame for Georgia defeat to other Republicans and lashes out at WSJ in new statement

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  • EU says it expects financial services deal with UK, but trust an issue

    Britain and the European Union are on course to agree a deal on regulatory cooperation in financial services this month, but the UK's actions in Northern Ireland makes it harder to build trust, the bloc's financial services chief said on Thursday. "We are on track," Mairead McGuinness told a Politico event. The British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move Brussels said violated terms of Britain's divorce deal.

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  • Bookings soar for Spanish holidays after ‘green corridor’ news

    When can I go on holiday The destinations most likely to make the 'green list' this summer The countries already rolling out vaccine passports Which of our 10 favourite summer holiday destinations could reopen by June? Sign up to the Telegraph Travel newsletter Britons are racing to book holidays in Spain this summer following the announcement that a ‘green corridor’ could be set up for vaccinated travellers. The bookings boom has been sparked by comments made by the Spanish Minister for Tourism, Fernando Valdés, who confirmed earlier this week that Spain and the UK are in “discussions” over potentially lifting travel restrictions for those who have been inoculated against Covid, as long as there is no collective EU decision on vaccine passports in the next few months. With the UK government also revealing its roadmap out of lockdown last week, with international travel a possibility by May 17 at the earliest, Spanish holiday firms are now experiencing a surge in demand from UK customers keen to fly south for the summer. One Ibiza hotel, the Nobu Hotel on Talamanca Beach, has already seen a 250% week-on-week spike in bookings, while the Puente Romano Beach Resort in Marbella has already reached 50% occupancy for the whole of August. Villa holidays are in high demand too, with one rental company, The Thinking Traveller, reporting a 100% increase in enquiries compared to this time last year, and a threefold increase compared to last week. Airlines have also witnessed a boost in the last week thanks to renewed passenger confidence: EasyJet sales for June, July and August have more than quadrupled in recent days, while TUI has seen reservations in Spain, Greece and Turkey rise by 600%. Scroll down for more updates

  • Meghan and Harry could’ve been Britain’s greatest asset, but we screwed it up. Royally

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  • Brexit: EU ‘simply can’t trust’ Boris Johnson’s government as negotiating partner, says Simon Coveney

    ‘It’s the British government essentially breaking the protocol – breaking their own commitments again’

  • EU parliament shelves vote on Brexit deal after Boris Johnson ‘violates’ agreement

    Group leaders have paused the ratification process amid the latest row

  • Car crashes into Chelmsford Aldi store

    Cameras have captured the moment a car crashed through a supermarket window and knocked over shoppers. It happened at an Aldi store in Chelmsford, Essex, just before 12:00 GMT on Wednesday.

  • Why the ICC war crimes probe into the Gaza war has rattled Israel and what will happen next

    The International Criminal Court this week announced it will begin an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by Israel and Palestinian militants since 2014, which could theoretically put senior figures on both sides in the dock at the Hague. Fatou Bensouda, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, has described the process as “daunting and complex” because it will be launched during a global pandemic, signalling that the investigation and any trial which follows could drag on for many years. Israel has condemned the ICC’s decision as “pure anti-semitism,” while Palestinian leaders and human rights groups say that a war crimes probe is long overdue. Here we look at the key allegations over war crimes, the possible timeline for the ICC process and what penalties could be imposed in the event of a guilty verdict. How did we get here? The ICC has powers to prosecute those accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes in the territories of the court's members. Back in December 2019, the ICC said that after a “thorough” investigation it had sufficient grounds to investigate both Israel and Palestinian militants over allegations of war crimes. Ms Bensouda, the ICC chief prosecutor, then asked senior judges at the court to make a ruling on whether it had jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank.

  • Dawn French’s funniest joke in The Vicar Of Dibley revealed

    Each episode of the comedy, which originally ran between 1994 and 1998, closed with a joke.

  • COVID-19: Nearly 21 million people have had first vaccine dose as UK reports another 242 deaths

    The UK has reported 242 more coronavirus-related deaths and 6,573 new cases in the latest 24-hour period, government data shows. It comes as the number of people in the UK who have now had a first coronavirus vaccine dose nears 21 million after a further 278,956 had the jab on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Downing Street has urged people to continue to respect the lockdown after a survey suggested more than four in 10 over-80s who received a vaccine appear to have since broken the rules by meeting up with someone indoors.

  • Newly published legal advice appears to contradict Salmond claim

    The documents related to the botched investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by the former First Minister.

  • Trump issues lengthy rant about veteran Republican Karl Rove after strategist criticises him

    The former president lashed out and called on Fox to fire ‘pompous fool’ Rove

  • Kamala Harris casts tie-breaking vote to allow debate on Biden’s Covid relief bill to begin in Senate

    Polls suggest more than 70 per cent of the American public back the legislation

  • Coronavirus risk for teachers ‘higher in lockdown’

    Teachers have had a “little bit higher risk” of infection with coronavirus during the national lockdown, new figures suggest. People who work in education and childcare appear to have had increased risk of infection compared to people who do not work in these professions, experts said. To date more than 1.4 million people have provided swabs so experts can assess infection rates across the country.

  • UK the most likely place in the world for mutant Covid-19 variant says health minister

    Britain is the most likely place in the world where a mutant strain of the coronavirus will occur due to the prevailing conditions, a health minister has said. Giving the stark assessment at Westminster, Tory frontbencher Lord Bethell said the nation "must be on the balls of its feet" to be ready for such "unhelpful news". The Conservative peer made his comments as a top scientist warned the risk of a dangerous new variant against which there was no defence was "eventually likely to be inevitable". It came amid criticism of the foreign travel red list for quarantining international arrivals, amid claims it was not effective or extensive enough. Responding to a statement on Covid-19 in the Lords, the renowned broadcaster and leading fertility expert Lord Winston said: "Within six hours of entering a cell, this virus will have replicated leading to millions of copies. "Some copies will be imperfect, the so-called variants, and time is of the essence. "The risk of dangerous new variants to which we have no defence is actually eventually likely to be inevitable."

  • US intelligence investigating links between Capitol rioters and members of Congress

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