The Christmas period is a time for love and peace but as the festive season rolls in King Charles seems to be increasingly anxious about what his estranged son Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's next move might be.
30.11.2023 - 17:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Seven men have been charged in relation to an alleged drugs plot to bring cocaine in the UK. Packages of Class As were discovered in August last year in a shipping container at the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk.
The drugs were allegedly destined for Wigan.
Yesterday (Wednesday, November 29), National Crime Agency officers arrested nine suspects. Now seven have been charged with conspiring to supply cocaine between February 27, 2020 and November 29, 2023. Two men were released on bail.
Stephen Martland, 68, of Lakeland Gardens, Chorley, Lancashire; Paul Mockett, 49, of Stump Lane, Chorley, Lancashire; Darryn Schofield, 44, of no fixed address; Neil Maguire, 44, of Georgia Close, Bootle, Liverpool; Neil Foley, 45, of Kingsway Avenue, Broughton, Preston, Lancashire; and Paul O’Shea, 45, of Edge Lane, Crosby, Liverpool have all been charged.
Darren Wetton, 55, of Ashby Street, Chorley, Lancashire has been charged with conspiring to supply cocaine; and being concerned in the supply of cannabis between December 1, 2022 and December 10, 2022.
Four men appeared at Wirral Magistrates’ Court today and three appeared at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court. All were remanded to custody apart from Darren Wetton who was bailed. They will all next appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 3 January 2024.
The Christmas period is a time for love and peace but as the festive season rolls in King Charles seems to be increasingly anxious about what his estranged son Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's next move might be.
Coleen Nolan's son, Shane, has broken his silence after it was reported that he and wife Maddie Wahdan have split after he was unfaifthul.The couple, who tied the knot last year after six years together, have been hit with rumours their marriage is over due to alleged unfaithfulness on Shane's part. Shane is reported to have confessed to seeing another woman while still with Maddie, leaving the Miss Great Britain star "heartbroken." Shane has since taken to his Instagram Story, where he appeared to make light of the situation with a couple of cheeky posts shared to his 42,900 followers. One showed a canoeist battling rough waters, captioned: "Therapist: How's it going? Me: Just going with the flow! The flow." Another post featured a child going down a slide on their back, with the caption: "Me trying to make it to the end of 2023." Opening up about Maddie and Shane's split, one insider claimed that his mum is "really upset".
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appeared as the star witness at the trial in June – had sued Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.Harry and about 100 other claimants – including actors, sports stars, celebrities and people who simply had a connection to high-profile figures – have taken legal action over allegations of phone-hacking and unlawful information-gathering between 1991 and 2011.Harry said he was targeted by MGN for 15 years from 1996 and that more than 140 stories which appeared in its papers were the result of unlawful information gathering, though the trial only considered 33 of these.“I found that 15 out of the 33 articles that were tried were the product of phone hacking of his mobile phone or the mobile phones of his associates, or the product of other unlawful information gathering,” Judge Timothy Fancourt said.“I consider that his phone was only hacked to a modest extent, and that this was probably carefully controlled by certain people at each newspaper.”The judge concluded there had been widespread hacking and unlawful activities at the paper of which senior executives were aware, although nearly all those on the board of the company had not been told.MGN, owned by Reach had argued the accusations were not supported by the evidence.“We welcome today’s judgment that gives the business the necessary clarity to move forward from events that took place many years ago,” an MGN spokesperson said.“Where historical wrongdoing took place, we apologize unreservedly, have taken full responsibility and paid appropriate compensation.”
22 Kids & Counting star Sue Radford revealed two of her children have not spoken for nearly 18 months after a fallout over frozen pies. The 48 year old matriarch of Britain’s biggest family - stars of the Channel 5 reality show - has turned to a trained intervention counsellor in a bid to get siblings Chloe, 28, and Luke, 23, talking again. She told how the pair fell out over a shelf of frozen pies at the family’s bakery and a huge row erupted.
Married At First Sight Australia star Olivia Frazer has blasted the dating show for "ruining her career", claiming that the villain edit she received has destroyed any chance that she will ever become a teacher. Olivia, 30, was matched with Jackson Lonie on the Australian dating show and at the time was studying to become a teacher after years spent as her late father's carer.
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failed court challenge in a libel lawsuit.The Duke of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article that said Harry tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the UK after leaving his role as a working member of the royal family.Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled Friday in the High Court in London that the publisher has a “real prospect” of showing that statements issued on Harry’s behalf were misleading and that the February 2022 article reflected an “honest opinion” and wasn’t libelous.“The defendant may well submit that this was a masterclass in the art of ‘spinning,’” Nicklin wrote, in refusing to strike the honest opinion defense.Harry has claimed the article was “fundamentally inaccurate” and the newspaper defamed him when it suggested he lied in his initial public statements over efforts to challenge the government’s decision to strip him of his security detail after he and his family moved to the US in 2020.Harry, 39, the younger son of King Charles III, also has a lawsuit pending against the government’s decision to protect him on a case-by-case basis when he visits Britain.
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Omid Scobie is finally setting the record straight!
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Janette Manrara was flooded with the same comment as she shared an adorable new snap of her baby daughter. The former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer has been enjoying some time with her mum after she flew from Miami to help her daughter and husband Aljaz Skorjanec.
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Emmerdale fans were left fuming at Gus after he threatened Rhona over baby Ivy. As viewers of the ITV soap know, Gus used the embryos frozen by him and ex-wife Rhona years ago to start a family with his now-wife Lucy, despite Rhona saying he couldn't.
Naman Ramachandran Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” was the big winner at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with seven wins. “All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
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Entertainment Tonight, Scobie said he understands why gossip has spread that William cheated on his wife, Kate Middleton. “Unfortunately, if a rumor’s left to kind of do its own thing, it can run 20 laps around the world before you even think about what, how you want to kind of address it,” the writer explained.“They never addressed it, so those rumors will never go away even though there’s no truth to suggest that they are true,” he added.
One day on since a Dutch translation of Omid Scobie’s new book allegedly revealed the names of two senior royals who allegedly raised ‘concerns’ over Prince Archie’s skin colour, Talk TV host Piers Morgan has publicly named the royals in question live on air. The original claim, made by Meghan Markle during her infamous 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, alleged that while she was pregnant with her first child, “several conversations” had taken place between herself, Prince Harry and senior members of the royal family about “how dark” Archie’s complexion would be.