Man builds Lego model of village ahead of famous daffodil festival

[ad_1] A man is building a model of a Cambridgeshire village out of Lego to help visitors find their way around during the village’s famous flower festival. Paul Earnshaw decided to combine his love of Lego and daffodils to create a map of the village of Thriplow for the thousands of visitors who will be […]

US backs Pakistan’s right to defend itself amid Taliban clashes

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Starmer chairs Cobra meeting after strikes by US and Israel on Iran

[ad_1] Keir Starmer is chairing a meeting of the UK government’s Cobra emergency committee as Britain decides how to respond to the US-Israeli bombing of Iran, and Tehran’s retaliation against bases in the Gulf. The UK did not participate in the first wave of strikes early on Saturday but had deployed RAF Typhoons to Qatar […]

US-Israeli operation against Iran was in the works for months, IDF says

[ad_1] The massive strikes conducted by the U.S. and Israel on Saturday — dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” by American forces — have been in the works over the past several “months leading up to the attack,” according to Israel officials. In the first IDF statement following the attack on Iran, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson […]

Mistaken arrest victim from Southampton says police were laughing

[ad_1] In a statement, Thames Valley Police said: “While we apologise for the distress caused to the complainant in this case, their arrest was based on the investigating officers’ own visual assessment that the individual matched the suspect in CCTV footage following a retrospective facial recognition match, and was not influenced by racial profiling. [ad_2]

Trump’s Iran attack is a gamble – and the outcome is unclear

[ad_1] Donald Trump’s decision to launch “major combat operations” in Iran is the biggest gamble by any American president since George Bush invaded Iraq more than two decades ago. The US commander in chief – who came to power as an arch opponent of the US’s so-called “forever wars” – has set out ambitious and […]