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Video on social media shows a barefoot man stood on a ledge holding a Palestine flag several metres up Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben. At least nine emergency service vehicles lined Bridge Street in central London and crowds looked on from beyond a police cordon. A Met Police spokesperson said: “At 7.24am on Saturday March 8 officers were alerted to a man climbing up the Elizabeth Tower at the […]

A shooting at a pub in east Toronto left 12 people wounded, police said. Police said they were called to reports of multiple people being shot near Progress Avenue and Corporate Drive at around 10.40pm local time on Friday evening. Toronto paramedics had said 11 adults suffered injuries ranging from minor to critical, but police later said 12 people were hurt, and that four people had non-life-threatening injuries but the […]

Indie rockers Blossoms and Panic Over will be among the music artists to benefit from a pot of £1.6 million. The Music Export Growth Scheme (Megs), from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), allocated support to 58 UK acts. The scheme, run in partnership between industry and the Government, supports small to medium-sized music companies looking to grow their artists’ […]

Betsy Arakawa died of a rare disease often spread by rats Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a week after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare infectious disease at their home, a pathologist has said. Dr Heather Jarrell, chief medical examiner for New Mexico, told a press conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US, it was “reasonable to conclude” that Ms Arakawa, also known as Betsy Hackman, […]