London Fire Brigade assistant commissioner Jonathan Smith says emergency services across the capital and Home Counties are under "signficant pressure" due to extreme temperatures. .
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologised to the leader of the country's opposition Socialist party for not knowing that he had been wiretapped by Greece's intelligence service in 2021, adding he would never have allowed it. The head of the intelligence service EYP, Panagiotis Kontoleon, resigned on Friday following allegations made by Socialist leader Nikos Androulakis and a journalist that they had been wiretapped. The conservative premier is expected to make a public address over the case on Monday, the semi-state Athens News Agency reported on Saturday.
Anatoly Chubais, the former privatisation tsar of post-Soviet Russia who quit his post as a Kremlin special envoy due to the war in Ukraine, has been discharged from a hospital in Italy after treatment, an Italian daily reported. Two sources close to Chubais, 67, told Reuters on Aug. 1 that he was in intensive care in Europe with a rare immune disorder. According to the sources, Chubais believed he was suffering from Guillain–Barre syndrome, a disease caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system.
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The Yeti Fire in northern California had spread to 7,721 acres and was 10 percent contained as of August 6, according to fire officials.Didi France-Poe recorded footage from her home on August 4, showing enormous plumes of smoke billowing over Seiad Valley.The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office announced that some residents subject to a mandatory evacuation were allowed to return home, but warned against complacency as the Yeti and McKinney fires were still burning. Credit: Didi France-Poe via Storyful
Ex-Emmerdale actor Sam Gannon has died suddenly while travelling in the US, his family have said. Gannon, 31, who played Kev in the long-running ITV soap in 2019, had been staying with family in Willows, California. Gannon's character in Emmerdale was a horse-drawn carriage coachman, sharing scenes with the character Charity Dingle, played by Emma Atkins.
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A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility is raging uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing.
The heatwave is expected to roll over into next week amid an unusually dry August
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Three people have been rescued after a house collapsed in Thornton Heath, Croydon. Residents reported hearing a loud explosion before leaving their properties and seeing one house destroyed and other neighbouring homes damaged. Emergency services say three people were taken to hospital with injuries, while another was treated at the scene. .
Nigel Huddleston said the goal of football lessons for girls in 90% of English schools was ‘admirable’ and ‘a golden opportunity’.
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Götheborg, the world’s largest, active, ocean-going and wooden sailing ship has arrived in London. The vessel, open to the public, will sail across the city and fire cannons next to Tower Bridge. The ship is a replica of an 18th-century tall sailing ship. It was built using all the original techniques and materials of the original. The original model owes its origins to the Swedish East India Company, which traded between 1731 and 1813, and was at the time, Sweden’s most valuable company. The first Swedish Ship Götheborg was launched in 1738 and went through three adventurous voyages to China, including one where it was hijacked by the British, before its wrecking outside the Fortress of Älvsborg, a former county of Sweden. In 1993, the Swedish East India Company was refounded, but this time with the mission to rebuild the Götheborg. The ship now tours the world and last visited London in 2007.
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A Darwen male-focused emotional support group celebrated their one year anniversary of raising awareness for men's mental health, this week.
A victim’s views, as well as their perception of their ‘future risk of harm’, will be weighed against the rights of uncharged suspects.
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