Former Tory minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and will run as a candidate in next year’s local elections. The former skills minister, who lost her Morley and Outwood seat in Yorkshire in the Labour landslide in July, will stand to be mayor of Greater Lincolnshire in May. She was unveiled at a London press conference today in which Mr Farage revealed that the party had passed 100,000 paying members for the first time.

The most important question in the wake of today’s immigration data is this – how do you lose more than 300,000 people? The Office for National Statistics (ONS) dropped a bombshell into the already heated debate about migration, as it admitted its earlier figures were way, way out. In sweeping revisions to figures it published just six months ago, the agency said that over the last three years net migration was 307,000 higher than previously thought.

A pensioner who lost a legal fight with a neighbour over where he put his bins out is now bankrupt as he says he was left with a £1million legal bill. Geoff Carter, 77, first went to war with his farmer neighbour Trevor Goldsworthy over the weekly bin collections in rural west Cornwall in 2018. He claimed Mr Goldsworthy’s rubbish, which was left opposite his drive, had blocked access and attracted flies.

At first glance, it looked as though the mom-of-two had lost control of her car late at night and swerved off the snow-covered road in the bitter cold down a steep embankment. The vehicle burst into flames, killing Ashley Schwalm, nee Milnes, 40, in a seemingly tragic accident that shocked friends, family and community. Her husband of 10 years, James Schwalm – a firefighter – was inconsolable, left to raise their two children, aged six and nine, on his own.

チョン・ヘインが坂口健太郎とのW主演ドラマへの出演を突然拒否し、騒動が発生。 ドラマは獣医と韓国人弁護士の信頼関係を描くバディストーリーで、来年2月に撮影開始予定だった。 ヘイン側は出演拒否の理由を明らかにしておらず、詳細は不明。 TBSは代役を探しているが、同クラスの俳優を見つけるのは困難とされている。 共演者やスタッフは企画の行方に不安を抱いており、坂口も影響を受ける可能性がある。 韓国メディアによると、ヘインは日本のドラマに初主演する機会を逃したことになる。

NATO and the US are now at ‘full war’ with Russia after the West crossed ‘all red lines’ allowing Ukraine to strike targets across the border with Western missiles, former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has declared. Medvedev, a close Putin ally who now serves as the Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that every Ukrainian strike on Russian territory with Western weapons would be met with a response. ‘It’s not going to go unnoticed… It will change the rules of engagement – it’s proof that NATO and Washington and other participants in the alliance are not just participating in a hybrid war, but a war in every sense of the word against our country.