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Girl, 5, and dad killed in Ireland petrol station blast were 'buying mum birthday cake'
A five-year-old girl who was buying her mum a birthday cake was among the victims killed in an Irish petrol station blast.
Three children and seven adults died in the 'freak accident' gas explosion shortly after 3pm on Friday at Applegreen Service Station in Creeslough, Co Donegal, reports the Mirror.
Shauna Flanagan Garwe, 5, believed to be the youngest victim, and her dad Robert Garwe, 50 were reportedly looking for a birthday cake for the mother when they lost their lives just moments after entering the station shop.
The second youngster victim, Leona Harper, 14, was also killed in the blast while buying ice cream for a sleepover at a friends house in Creeslough. Her devastated brother, Anthony Harper, paid heartfelt tribute to the young rugby star on Facebook last night. He wrote: "I don't no where to begin, Leona I couldn't of asked for a better little sister.
Families of Peter Tobin's suspected victims left without answers as monster takes secrets to grave
Detectives pleaded with Peter Tobin in the last few hours of his life to confess to any other murders. Officers made several visits to his hospital bedside to get the twisted serial killer to reveal his secrets.
But Tobin, 76, serving a whole life term for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, refused to speak and died yesterday morning at 6.04am. Police made the last-ditch attempt with Tobin, linked to at least seven other murders or missing women cases, after we used an image of him chained to a bed in hospital as families begged him for answers.
Nicola Stork, whose teenage sister Louise Kay vanished from Eastbourne in 1988 and is believed to be another of Tobin’s victims, said she was grateful that the police had tried to get answers.
She said: “I’m pleased that the police tried but it’s difficult for us as we feel now that we may never know. I wanted him to confess if he had anything else to say and obviously the police thought he did. I’m pleased he is dead.”
King Charles could be crowned on 'fake' Stone of Destiny, claims Glasgow pub boss
King Charles could be crowned on the wrong Stone of Destiny next year, according to the boss of a pub said to house the real one. David Low, who owns The Arlington in Glasgow, spoke out after last week’s death of lawyer Ian Hamilton at the age of 97.
He had led a gang of four Glasgow University students and nationalists who took the stone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950. It’s claimed the stone they dumped four months later at Arbroath Abbey is a replica while the real one was left at The Arlington, a pub in the city’s Woodlands Road where the group were regulars.
David, 64, said: “We believe that we have the real one. However, now Ian Hamilton is dead, no one can say for certain. It will remain a mystery for another 1000 years.”
Police recovered the stone from Arbroath and returned it to London but claims later emerged that the real stone was left in The Arlington, which the four had visited in the days after the theft.
Fugitive Nicholas Rossi's exit from the UK could be held up ‘by years’ over new rape claim
The extradition of US fugitive Nicholas Rossi could face delays as police quiz him over an alleged rape in the UK. Essex Police are making arrangements to question the conman at HMP Edinburgh, where he has been held while fighting the bid to return him to the US, where he was charged with two rapes and one sexual assault.
We revealed how food blogger Michelle Minnaar claimed she had been raped by Rossi after meeting him on a dating website in 2017. If charged, UK court proceedings would take precedence over the extradition process.
A source said: “Police don’t want to keep this guy in the UK any longer than need be but the facts are that if he is formally charged with the rape in Essex then the whole thing stops. The Essex case would take priority. If it goes to trial and then a conviction, you are potentially looking at years of delays.”
The Scottish Courts Service confirmed that by law any extradition “would have to wait until the domestic criminal matter concluded”.
Labour plans to build thousands of new council houses in Scotland to end the scourge of rogue landlords
Labour’s shadow housing minister has vowed to end the “racket” of exploitativ private landlords in Scotland by building thousands of council houses. Lisa Nandy has also promised to introduce a government backed mortgage deposit scheme to help first time buyers onto the property ladder.
She told the Sunday Mail: “Under the Tories over the last 12 years housing policy has become a racket that insentivised people to buy up hundreds of properties and rent them out in poor condition to make a quick buck.
“At the same time there’s been a deliberate vandalism of the social housing stock which started under Margaret Thatcher, and now the current incarnation of the Conservative party has come back to finish the job. The cost of living crisis has meant that home ownership is now beyond the reach of many people because house prices have been pushed up so far.”
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