Author: Darren Smith

A Lidl security guard has been caught on camera attempting to remove a blind man and his guide dog from a London store, insisting the animal was “not allowed” — despite guide dogs having full legal protection to access all public premises under UK law. The approximately 40-second clip, posted on X by @OliLondonTV and filmed around three weeks ago, shows a guard in a high-visibility vest repeatedly telling the blind customer and his guide dog to leave the store. “Dog is not allowed,” the guard tells the man, who responds: “But it’s a guide dog.” The guard then says…

Spanish police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of up to ten schoolgirls, some as young as 15, after the pupils reported being plied with alcohol or drugs aboard a cruise ship before the vessel docked in Barcelona on 1 May. The girls, who all attend the same school in the Basque Country, were travelling on a privately organised four-day Mediterranean cruise when the alleged assaults took place. Eight victims made statements to police in Barcelona, with a further two filing complaints in the Basque Country. The name of the cruise liner has not been made public. A well-placed source…

North Korea has rewritten its constitution to require an automatic nuclear strike if Kim Jong Un is assassinated or loses command of the country’s armed forces — a move directly prompted by the killing of Iran’s supreme leader during US-Israeli strikes on Tehran, according to South Korea’s intelligence service. The constitutional revision was adopted during the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly, which opened in Pyongyang on 22 March. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service briefed that the changes formalise a nuclear response protocol under revised Article 3 of North Korea’s nuclear policy law, stipulating that a retaliatory nuclear…

A video of a man mocking Polish workers in fluent Polish while waving welfare payments at the camera has gone viral across Poland, igniting fierce debate about immigration and benefit entitlement in a country that has maintained one of Europe’s stricter approaches to non-EU migration. The clip, which began circulating widely on 8 May 2026, shows a man believed to be Ibrahim Pantera — a personal trainer based in the Brzeg area of Poland — speaking directly to camera in Polish. Waving Polish zloty banknotes, he taunts viewers: “Hey, you bastards, look — your welfare checks, your social benefits, and…

The Trump administration has released a trove of long-classified government files on UFOs and alleged extraterrestrial encounters, including photographs taken during the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 space missions, in what the White House has described as an unprecedented act of transparency toward the American public. The disclosure forms part of a new initiative called the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Encounters — known as PURSUE — and represents the first in a planned series of releases. According to Fox News, the materials bring together UAP videos, photographs and original source documents from across the entire…

AFC Bournemouth have launched an investigation into right-back Alex Jimenez and excluded him from Saturday’s Premier League squad after social media posts emerged appearing to show the 21-year-old sending inappropriate messages to a 15-year-old girl. The club confirmed the investigation on Friday in a statement that left no ambiguity about the seriousness with which they were treating the matter. “AFC Bournemouth are aware of posts circulating on social media involving right-back Álex Jiménez,” the statement read. “The club understand the seriousness of the matter and it is currently being investigated. As a result, Alex will not be included in the…

More than 200,000 migrants have now reached Britain by small boat since the Channel crisis began, after around 70 more were brought into Dover aboard a Border Force vessel on Friday — a figure equivalent to the entire population of Norwich. The running total stood at 199,943 before Friday’s arrivals, meaning the grim milestone is expected to be officially confirmed when the Home Office publishes its figures on Saturday. The first small boat crossing was recorded on 31 January 2018, with the situation declared a “national emergency” by then Home Secretary Sajid Javid by the end of that year —…

Major financial institutions are defying last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on biological sex by continuing to allow transgender staff to use women’s toilets based on self-identification, a new investigation has found. The findings, published by gender-critical charity Sex Matters, reveal that prominent firms including NatWest, the Co-operative Bank, Coventry Building Society and Admiral Insurance are among those still operating toilet policies based on self-identified gender rather than biological sex — more than a year after the Supreme Court determined that “man” and “woman” refer to biological sex under the Equality Act 2010. The ruling, handed down on 16 April…

Iran has seized a US-sanctioned oil tanker in the Sea of Oman and traded fire with American warships in the Strait of Hormuz, in a dramatic escalation that has cast serious doubt over the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran — even as both sides claim the truce technically remains in force. Iran’s navy announced it had intercepted and redirected the vessel Ocean Koi to Iranian shores, saying the tanker had attempted to “damage and disrupt Iran’s oil exports.” The ship had been carrying Iranian oil and was subject to US sanctions. Tehran offered no further elaboration on the precise…

A chilling “Doomsday video” secretly commissioned by CNN founder Ted Turner — created to air only at the literal end of the world — has resurfaced following his death, offering an eerie final glimpse into the extraordinary vision of the man who revolutionised television news. The footage, long treated as something of an urban myth within CNN itself, shows members of the United States military solemnly performing the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” outside the network’s Atlanta headquarters. A soldier slowly raises the American flag beside the military band before the musicians complete the farewell melody and the screen…