1 week agoUSA UpdateComments Off on Grooming gangs national inquiry demands grow as Tories force vote on new probe into ‘disgusting’ crimes
LABOUR MPs will be put under pressure as Tories force a vote on holding a national grooming gangs inquiry.
The Conservatives are tabling an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill which calls for a statutory inquiry into the scandal later this month.
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They say Labour’s plan for five local inquiries is inadequate because the scale of abuse was much wider.
And they do not have the power to summon witnesses and requisition evidence.
It will put Labour MPs in a tricky position as some have gone against the party to call for a national inquiry.
And it could trigger a Red Wall rebellion.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “We now know that these disgusting crimes were deliberately covered up by the police and local authorities simply because the majority of the perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage.
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“The young girls – some as young as 12 – had their lives ruined.
“The cover-up has to end and those who hid these crimes held to account.
“It is disgraceful that not a single person has been punished for the cover-up.
“Every decent Labour MP who cares about this should vote for our amendment in Parliament.”
1 week agoUSA UpdateComments Off on Teen, 19, dies after viral TikTok ‘dusting’ challenge went wrong leaving family ‘utterly devastated’
A TEEN, 19, has died after taking part in the viral TikTok “dusting” challenge that went wrong, leaving her family “utterly devastated”.
Renna O’Rourke, from Arizona, tragically passed on Sunday after being in an intensive care unit for a week.
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Dusting involves young people inhaling aerosols like spray deodorant, paint thinner or keyboard cleaners.
Renna went into cardiac arrest before later being declared brain dead after using a cleaning product to take part in the deadly challenge.
The teen’s heartbroken dad Aaron O’Rouke described how his daughter dreamed of fame.
He told AZFamily: “She always said, ‘I’m gonna be famous, Dad. Just you watch. I’m gonna be famous’, and unfortunately this is not under the most optimal of circumstances.”
Aaron and his wife Dana shared their daughter’s tragic story to raise awareness of the social media challenge.
Dana said: “There’s no ID required. It’s odorless. It’s everything kids look for.
“They can afford it, they can get it, and it doesn’t show in mom and dad’s drug test.”
The mom explained how Renna and her boyfriend used an app delivery service to have the cleaning agent delivered to their door.
She told 12news: “[Renna] and her boyfriend had Door Dashed product to my house and I didn’t know. It’s keyboard cleaner. I didn’t know what they were doing with it.
“We want to make sure that we use our tragedy so that no other parent has to experience looking at their child on life support and a ventilator and not breathing on her own all because she huffed out of a can.”
Dr. Randy Weisman, from the HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, explained how inhaling aerosols can make users feel drunk or euphoric for a few minutes.
But such use can result in liver failure, heart failure and lung disease among other irreversible issues – or death.
He told AZFamily: “This is extremely concerning.
“When they inhale these chemicals in the gas it will actually replace the oxygen within their lungs and within the rest of their body.”
Renna’s parents said that the only light to come from her passing is that her organs have gone on to save at least six other people.
Mom Dana said: “Through that we’re finding strength and purpose.
“She will be unbelievably missed, leaving the most aching hole in our lives, but if her life is to mean anything, we are going to do what we can to prevent somebody else’s child from being where ours is right now.
“She will be unbelievably missed, leaving the most aching hole in our lives, but if her life is to mean anything, we are going to do what we can to prevent somebody else’s child from being where ours is right now.”
A post on the GoFundMe set up for Renna read: “On Sunday, June 1st at 1:30pm, our wonderful daughter, after 4 days in the ICU, was pronounced brain dead.
“She was the light in every room she walked into, and the pain that her family and friends feel is simply immeasurable.
“We want to use the proceeds of this fundraiser to cover the extensive medical bills, burial costs, therapy costs, and to spread awareness about the dangers of Huffing/Dusting, the practice of inhaling keyboard cleaner or similar.”
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1 week agoUSA UpdateComments Off on ‘Fuming’ Angela Rayner locked in ‘tense’ row with Rachel Reeves over crucial spending review
ANGELA Rayner and Rachel Reeves are locked in a row over this week’s spending review — which fellow ministers have dubbed, “The War of the Roses”.
The Deputy PM was last night still refusing to sign up to her housing department’s budget.
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Ms Rayner has been demanding billions more for home building.
Talks are going down to the wire, leaving Chancellor Ms Reeves with little time to get her numbers to add up before she presents her spending plans to Parliament on Wednesday.
If Ms Rayner — dubbed “Red Rayner” for her leftie views — refuses to agree to her budget then No11 will have to take the highly unusual step of imposing it on her.
One senior minister told The Sun on Sunday: “Things are tense. The two most powerful women in Cabinet can’t agree.
“It’s like War of the Roses. Angela represents a Lancashire seat and Rachel’s is in Yorkshire.”
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The War of the Roses was a series of battles for the throne waged between the House of York and House of Lancaster.
The Yorkist symbol was a white rose and Lancaster’s was a red rose.
The Labour Party’s emblem is also famously a red rose.
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A senior government insider said: “Angela is definitely not happy. She could blow up at any moment.”
Another said: “Angie used to work for a trade union and has taken those hardline negotiation tactics with her into the Treasury talks.”
The Government has vowed to build 1.5 million new homes in England by 2029, but Ms Rayner fears she will miss the target without more cash.
Nailbiting negotiations between the pair were still ongoing last night.
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Many departments face having to make deep cuts because of a tight spending squeeze.
But Ms Reeves will tell MPs on Wednesday she is spending shedloads of cash on infrastructure investment to turbocharge the economy.
This will include £86 billion on Britain’s fastest growing sectors, including tech, sciences and defence.
Writing in today’s Sun on Sunday, Cabinet minister Peter Kyle said “tough decisions” have been made to knock the economy into shape.
1 week agoUSA UpdateComments Off on Peter DeBoer sealed fate with Stars after unbecoming response to ill-fated decision
DeBoer has taken teams to the Cup finals twice and the conference finals a sum of eight times — three straight in Dallas, and six of the past seven years with the Sharks, Golden Knights and Stars — and yet he has never lasted more than four-plus seasons (in San Jose) on any of his...
1 week agoUSA UpdateComments Off on Inside Ben Griffin’s meteoric golf rise and the partnership, nine holes that changed everything
As we sit right now, based on recent form, outside of Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, there isn’t a player who enters this week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont hotter than Ben Griffin.
