Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Police today arrested a man found with class A drugs at a 'kink rave' after a reveller in his 50s was found dead in a tent and a woman in her 40s was airlifted to hospital. 
Clean-up teams allegedly found the duo as they cleared the controversial Flamefest site after the three-day event over the weekend near Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. 
The man was pronounced dead and the woman was taken away in a helicopter. This afternoon, a man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of possession of class A drugs.
It was also revealed tonight that the woman was out of intensive care in hospital.
The festival caused uproar in the exclusive town after it was announced, offering an 'adult play area' staffed by dominatrix and a variety of kinky workshops. Police will be searching a number of addresses in relation to the investigation, but said they do not expect to make any more arrests. 
Only yesterday organiser Helen Smedley praised everyone involved including stewards and 'dungeon monitors' for helping to run the 'brilliant' event.
Miss Smedley had previously said members of the public would not witness 'outdoor sex' as revellers would go to 'safe places' to romp at the 'private event'.
Around 250 people paid up to £600 to attend the weekend-long festival - which finished on Sunday - and organisers drafted in extra security to stop gatecrashers.
But South East Coast Ambulance Service were called to reports of two people found unconscious at a field in the Southborough area of the town at 6am today.
Witnesses reported seeing five police cars and two ambulances today at the site.
Police were pictured focusing the investigation close to a white bell tent among other bell tents on the site. An area outside one of the tents was taped off. One neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was woken by the sound of the air ambulance landing at around 6am today.
He said: 'We heard at about 6am this morning the helicopter flying over. We heard at the beginning it was two ladies who had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
'We've since been told it was a man in his 50s and a young woman. We don't know for sure. It's so sad.
'Maybe they were cold and put a stove in their tent or something? That's all we know. The police have been there all morning.'
A black private ambulance drove out of the campsite today carrying the body of the man. A post mortem will now be held to establish the exact cause of death. 
Zulhash Uddin, ward councillor for High Brooms and Tunbridge Wells at the local council, has called for a full review of safety measures at future events. 
He said: 'It is so sad to hear that somebody has lost their life. My heart goes out to the family affected.
'More importantly safety is a number one issue at events like these and this will trigger a review when we do get the council issuing permits and licensing.
'Obviously local people did raise concerns about the festival. I am sure this will be looked at by the appropriate agencies.
'As a local representative obviously I will be speaking to the relevant agencies to make sure if there's anything we can learn to make sure it never happens again.
'This is very tragic. Obviously for now we need to be patient and find out the exact cause of this incident.'
A 10-year-old girl fought off a pervert after he sexually assaulted her as she walked through the woods.
The schoolgirl was attacked when she was walking through the woods in Claygate, Surrey, but managed to kick the man and sprint off.
Police have now launched a manhunt for the bearded Asian man, who was wearing blue Chelsea jogging bottoms. 
Officers released an e-fit of the suspect, who is described as being 40 to 45 years old and 6ft 1ins tall with a 'stocky build'. 
He has collar length black hair and a full black beard and was wearing a grey or white T shirt.
The suspect was later spotted by witnesses running in Claygate and was heading towards nearby Chessington.  
The assault took place in the woods which run parallel a street, Foxwarren, between 6pm and 6.30pm on Thursday, August 17.      
Detective Constable Helen Flower, who is investigating the incident said: 'I'd like to reassure the community that we're making every effort to identify this man as quickly as we can. Alternatively the independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111

Monday, 21 August 2017

After roaming the planet for 165 million years, it is thought the dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the planet when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago. 
The impact of the asteroid would have thrown up huge amounts of debris, and new computer simulations have revealed the extent to which this affected our planet. 
The findings suggest that Earth would have been plunged into darkness for as long as two years. The new results were found by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with support from Nasa and the University of Colorado Boulder.
The team used computers to model what Earth might have looked at the end of the Cretaceous Period, after a large asteroid struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, beneath the gulf of Mexico.
The impact is likely to have set off earthquakes, tsunamis and even volcanoes across the planet.
Now the new computer models may help scientists understand why more than three quarters of the species on the planet at the time died, while some survived. 'The extinction of many of the large animals on land could have been caused by the immediate aftermath of the impact, but animals that lived in the oceans or those that could burrow underground or slip underwater temporarily could have survived,' said NCAR scientist Charles Bardeen, who led the study.
'Our study picks up the story after the initial effects - after the earthquakes and the tsunamis and the broiling.
'We wanted to look at the long-term consequences of the amount of soot we think was created and what those consequences might have meant for the animals that were left.'
In March this year, core samples revealed life quickly re-emerged all around the globe after the Yucatan Peninsula asteroid struck, according to Dr Christopher Lowery, a researcher at the University of Texas-Austin, speaking at a conference at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference (LPSC) in Houston.
But the new study showed life on Earth would have looked very different for years after the collision.
The simulations found 15,000 million tons of soot would have been sent into the atmosphere after the asteroid hit, forming a barrier between the Earth and sunlight. 'At first it would have been about as dark as a moonlit night,' said co-author Owen Toon, a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Gradually the layer of soot would have dispersed, brightening the sky, but photosynthesis would have been impossible for more than a year and a half.
As the asteroid would have already damaged the plants on Earth beyond repair, the lack of sunlight would have hit phytoplankton in the oceans the hardest.
An Australian burns survivor, who was doused in methylated spirit and set alight by a jealous woman, has vividly recalled the horror of the attack in a new book.
Dana Vulin, 31, from Perth, has undergone more than 200 surgical procedures since she was set on fire in February 2012 by Natalie Dimitrovska - who was jealous Dana had spoken to her estranged husband during a party. 
Dana was at home the night Dimitrovska visited her, accompanied by a friend, Daniel Stone.
Dimitrovska demanded to know where her husband was - wrongly thinking Dana and he were romantically linked. 'The flames were everywhere: my shoulders, my naked stomach — only my boobs were protected by my tiny boob tube.
'The flames spread to my head, my hair went up in seconds, and when I reached up to wipe the burning chemicals off my face, my hands were already on fire.'
Dana said her instinct was to drop and roll - but by doing so spread the fire further around her body. 'The pain was excruciating, but through my screaming I could hear Natalie and Daniel making their escape through the sliding door,' Dana wrote in her book.
'They were laughing at me while I burnt alive.
'When I stood up the flames were getting worse, and I could barely think through the pain. 
'Panicked, I turned to the sink, trying to put the flames out by pouring a bucket of water over myself. Dana said she kept screaming for help - desperate for anyone to hear - while across the room her beloved dog, Killer, was whining in terror. 
'I knew that I needed to get help. I was as good as dead without it. 
'As I fumbled with the front door I could feel the skin falling from my fingers,' she wrote.
'I managed to get the door open and crossed the hallway to the unit next to mine, kicking at the door while yelling for help. 
'Long moments passed. There was no answer. 'Even after the fire was finally extinguished the chemicals continued burning me and it was so intense.
'I screamed so loud and for so long that when someone finally came, he wasn’t even my neighbour.
'The guy who turned up was working out in the gym of an apartment building next to mine, and he’d heard my screams and come running. 
A 38-year-old schizophrenic man launched an unprovoked knife attack on a train passenger after yelling 'I want to kill all the Muslims', a court heard today.
Adrian Brown was said to be suffering a 'severe psychotic episode' when he stabbed Muhammed Ali on a London Overground carriage in the south of the capital.
The intervention of other passengers on the train - which was travelling between Honor Oak Park and Forest Hill - might have saved the victim's life, the trial heard. Brown accepted that he carried out the attack, but pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder on the grounds of insanity at Southwark Crown Court.
Prosecutor Alan Kent QC told the court: 'The defendant was living in a hostel on the morning of December 12 (2016), he left that hostel armed with a knife - he was determined to find and kill Muslim men.
'He went to the train station at Honor Oak Park which isn't very far away from the hostel where he was living. He had with a knife which he took from the hostel.
'He walked up and down the train threatening passengers, threatening death to Muslims while looking for any Muslim men to stab and kill.
'He saw the victim, Mr Muhammed Ali, who was sitting on the train with his wife. The defendant approached Mr Ali who was sitting down and repeatedly stabbed him to his head and his body. 'Other passengers on this train came to Mr Ali's rescue and it would seem it was their bravery coupled with medical attention from a doctor and a nurse who happened to be on a train, that they may well have saved his life through their quick medical intervention.'
Mr Ali suffered injuries to his head and torso, as well as a punctured lung. Jurors at the trial of issues will consider whether Brown was insane at the time of the attack.
He is also accused of carrying a knife and assault by beating of Filipe Dias, who worked at the hostel, during an earlier incident, both of which are denied on the grounds of insanity.  The court heard Brown had become agitated over the absence of hot water and set upon Ms Dias, who had previously confiscated knives from him.
Mr Kent said: 'He was unhappy about a problem there with the hot water system.
'But there was something much more serious going on in his head at that time because what he suddenly came out with is "I'm going to destroy Isis, Isis are the problem".'
Ms Dias then came across his path and was grabbed by the throat and shouted at. 'As he left the defendant was heard to say: 'I'm going to kill some Muslims'.'
When at the station he was allegedly heard saying 'where are all the Muslims? I am going to kill all the Muslims' before holding a knife to the throat of another woman, who was unhurt.
He is then said to have spotted the victim, whose wife was wearing a hijab and a burka.
'He called him a "f***ing Muslim" before attacking him with a knife, stabbing him repeatedly and repeatedly shouting "f***ing Muslims" as he did so,' Mr Kent said.
'He stabbed Mr Ali numerous times, the crown say, clearly in an attempt to kill him.'
Brown, of Brockley Rise in South East London, appeared via video link from Broadmoor Hospital during the hearing, wearing a brown tracksuit. 
A woman has died and 20 people have been injured after an earthquake rocked a volcanic island just off the coast of Italy 
The earthquake, which measured 3.6 on the Richter scale, hit the tourist spot of Ischia, near Naples, on Monday evening.
It caused several buildings to collapse before residents and tourists ran out on to the busy streets. Footage and pictures showed around six buildings - as well as a church - in the town of Casamicciola had collapsed.
Italian publication ANSA reported a woman had died following the building and several people remain missing, while others are injured.   
There were reports of a number of people injured in the quake, which took place at the height of the summer tourist season. The island's hospital was evacuated. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene after buildings in the town started to fall to the ground.
ANSA reported: 'There were moments of fear because the earth trembled all over the island.
'In the houses there were fallen objects, furniture and in shops the goods fell off the shelves. Everyone in the street flocked to shops and restaurants. 
A mother-of-four who collapsed in court moments after a hearing a family court ruling received no treatment for four minutes when a paramedic arrived before she died, it was revealed today.
Hayley Gascoigne suffered a cardiac arrest as she sat in the concourse next to her parents Terry and Kathleen at Hull Crown Court on January 26.
Today a damning Yorkshire Ambulance Service report revealed the 32-year-old was not treated straight away when the rapid response vehicle (RRV) came and the paramedic should have used a defibrillator because she had a 'shockable' heart rhythm. 
The error was compounded by two more paramedics in an ambulance who did not challenge this decision. 
Hayley died in her sister's arms because of the 'stress' of a ruling in a family legal battle involving children, her devastated father told MailOnline the following day.
Her parents, who care for her four children, said today: 'Hayley was let down badly by the people whose job it was to help her, and we feel very frustrated and sad about this.
'We are deeply upset by our daughter's untimely death and miss her very much every day. Hayley was a fantastic mother who adored her children.' 
The ambulance report said there was a 'degree of mismanagement' in her case. After a post-incident debrief, which identified 'mistakes had been made', the RRV paramedic and ambulance paramedic who arrived later were suspended from frontline duties, although the latter was reinstated in a day. Records showed a 'noticeable decline' in regular, structured training for the RRV paramedic after 2011. 
Police initially launched an investigation amid concerns from a relative that she may have 'taken something' in the toilet shortly before she became ill. But a post-mortem examination has revealed found she died of hypertensive heart disease - often caused by high blood pressure - and toxicology tests all came back negative - meaning there was no trace of any drugs or alcohol found in her system.
The young mother, from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, fell ill while sitting with relatives on the first-floor concourse of the court just before 3pm on January 26.
Her mother Kathleen was heard screaming: 'Hayley. Oh My God. Call an ambulance. Please save her please.'
Miss Gascoigne began convulsing and was rushed to hospital but could not be saved - her parents had to break the devastating news to the children.
Paramedics arrived and she was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary, but was later pronounced dead.
Speaking at his home in Scunthorpe her father Terry Gascoigne said: 'My daughter died in my other daughter's arms. She died because of the stress'.
Some of Miss Gascoigne's friends posted Facebook tributes to the mother of four.
One said: 'She was a lovely, warm kind person and this is just so tragic. Love n strength to all her family n friends.'

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