Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 13 Desember 2014 | 22.11
Two young women have died after the car they were in crashed into a wall.
The women were passengers in the vehicle, which crashed in Lyndhurst in the New Forest area around midnight.
They were both aged 19, Hampshire Police said.
A 21-year-old man who was driving the car and another female passenger, 19, are being treated in hospital but their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
A spokesman for Hampshire Police said: "A member of the public contacted Hampshire Constabulary at midnight this morning, when a car collided with a wall on Gosport Lane.
"Two of the passengers were pronounced dead at the scene."
The road was closed overnight and re-opened this morning.
Hundreds of British soldiers are to be sent to Iraq to help the fight against Islamic State, Sky News understands.
They will make up a training mission to assist the Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga.
The soldiers - expected to number a few hundred - will go to the region "within weeks" senior military sources have said.
The National Security Council is expected to rubber-stamp the mission when it meets on Tuesday.
Although small groups of British troops have conducted similar missions over the past few months, this will be much greater in size and on a more permanent basis.
Video:Troops Return To Iraq For IS Fight
A team of military advisors recently went to the country to scope out options.
It's believed the mission will be largely split between the capital Baghdad and Irbil in the Kurdish controlled north.
It hasn't been confirmed which regiments the troops will be drawn from.
The UK government has repeatedly insisted that any such training mission would not constitute 'boots-on-the-ground' although British Special Forces are operating in the region.
In October a dozen soldiers from The Yorkshire Regiment were dispatched to Irbil to train the Kurds to use heavy machine guns.
Video:October - Reaper Drones Footage
An advisory team has also been embedded in the Iraqi military HQ, working alongside the Americans.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman wouldn't confirm the specifics of the latest mission but did say: "The Defence Secretary announced the intention to provide further training to the Iraqi military in early November.
"No decisions on troop numbers, units or locations have been made, so this is purely speculation at this stage."
The British contribution will fit into a wider mission involving a number of nations.
Earlier this week, the most senior US Commander Lt Gen James Terry revealed that the coalition training mission would involve around 1,500 soldiers.
Video:British Troops Back In Iraq
US special operations troops have already set up a training base at the Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar Province.
Germany recently pledged around 100 soldiers to help train the Peshmerga in northern Iraq. That mission, if approved, will begin early next year.
NATO has also said it would explore options if the Iraqi government came forward with an official request.
The Alliance said that any training mission wouldn't necessarily be based in Iraq. Neighbouring Jordan has been used for similar projects.
A man thought to have travelled to the UK clinging to the bottom of a lorry has died after falling beneath the vehicle's wheels on the M25.
The man, from Sudan, is believed to have climbed underneath the lorry in the French port of Calais.
Police are seeking witnesses to the incident, described as a 'fatal fail-to-stop traffic collision', that took place at 7pm on Friday between junctions 24 and 25 of the M25 in Hertfordshire.
Scotland Yard said two men from Sudan are believed to have got underneath a foreign HGV in Calais at around 11am and wedged themselves into place.
The vehicle they were concealed beneath entered the Eurotunnel and arrived in England about 40 minutes later and began travelling towards London.
At approximately 7pm, police said, the two men, still clinging to the underside of the HGV, decided to leave the lorry after becoming extremely cold.
Border Force staff check under lorries arriving from across the channel
While the HGV was stationary in lane one of the motorway, one of the men worked himself free and clambered down the nearby grass verge.
Police said the second man attempted to do the same, but the lorry began to move off and he is believed to have fallen beneath its rear wheels suffering fatal injuries.
Another driver stopped his vehicle and pulled the injured man to the edge of the carriageway. He then drove off.
A second member of the public stopped his vehicle and offered assistance.
London's Air Ambulance attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police later traced the lorry driver, who they believe was unaware of the incident and so did not stop at the scene.
A spokeswoman for the Met Police said: "No arrests have been made and he is helping officers with their inquiries."
Traffic on the M25 and surrounding routes suffered major delays while the road was closed to deal with the incident.
Officers are appealing to anyone who saw what happened to come forward.
Anyone with information should contact the Roads and Transport Policing Command witness line on 0208 991 9555 or dial 101 and ask for Alperton Traffic Garage.
The computer meltdown that hit UK airports yesterday was sparked by an unprecedented systems failure, it has been disclosed.
Air traffic control company Nats has offered its first detailed explanation of the problem at its national centre in Swanwick, Hampshire.
More than 300 flights were cancelled or delayed after the computer failure.
A statement from Nats said: "Swanwick controller workstations provide a number of tools and services to the controller to enable them to safely control a high volume of air traffic.
"In normal operations the number of workstations in use versus in standby fluctuates with the demands of the traffic being controlled.
Video:Flights Delayed In London Airspace
"In this instance a transition between the two states caused a failure in the system which has not been seen before.
"The failure meant that the controllers were unable to access all of the data regarding individual flight plans which significantly increases their workload.
"Our priority is to maintain a safe operation for the flying public; consequently when the failure occurred we immediately took steps to reduce the traffic into and out of the UK network.
"The controllers had a full radar picture and full communications with all aircraft at all times during the incident and at no time was safety compromised in any way."
Video:November: How Busy Is UK Airspace?
Nats said it understood the problem was connected to a number of workstations "in a certain state" combined with the number of "air space sectors" open.
Officials restricted air space in response to the issue, leaving flights at some airports grounded yesterday.
Nats declared that its systems were back to full operational capacity last night but a knock-on effect has been seen at airports.
By Saturday morning, timetables were returning to normal, although Heathrow said 38 flights had been cancelled before 9.30am and Gatwick Airport was cancelling a handful of flights.
Video:Air Traffic Problem Delays Flights
Friday's problems came just over a year after hundreds of flights were affected when problems arose with a telephone system at Nats in early December 2013.
There were reports passengers on some flights were unable to collect their luggage and were told that it would be sent on to them by courier.
Other airports where travellers suffered delays on Friday included Manchester, Birmingham, Stansted and Luton, but airports as far north as Aberdeen and Edinburgh were affected.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the disruption was unacceptable. He has been summoned before the Commons' Transport Select Committee on Monday to answer questions about the failure.
Jim Murphy MP is the new leader of the Scottish Labour Party, comfortably beating Holyrood health spokesman Neil Findlay and former Scottish Executive minister Sarah Boyack.
The East Renfrewshire MP and former Secretary Of State for Scotland had been favourite to win the race triggered by the resignation of previous leader Johann Lamont.
After the announcement, Mr Murphy, who received 55.77% of the vote, said: "Today is the fulfilment of a dream for me."
Speaking to Labour party members at the Glasgow Emirates Arena, he joked that he had always dreamed of being appointed captain of a team in the east end of Glasgow.
He said becoming leader was a "remarkable honour".
Video:Jim Murphy After Being Elected
"Scotland is changing and so too must Scottish Labour. I'm ambitious for our party because I'm ambitious for our country."
Mr Murphy told Sky News' Anna Jones: "This is fresh start for the Scottish Labour Party. We are going to do things differently. It's a new beginning. We are going to identify new policies and a new approach.
"I want us to use our passion and ingenuity to change our country. I know we can do it if we work together."
He said he would be the one making the decisions for Scottish Labour, not Westminster.
"I am big enough and ugly enough not to be pushed around by anyone. I'll make the decisions, we'll call the shots here in Scotland.
"The Scottish Labour Party is back in business."
Polls indicate that Labour could be routed in Scotland at May's General Election, as support for the SNP rises, but Mr Murphy said he was determined to change that.
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Gallery: Jim Murphy: Scottish Labour Leader's Career
Jim Murphy was born in 1967 in Glasgow. His family emigrated to South Africa when he was a boy but Murphy returned to Scotland in the 1980s.
As a student he became president of NUS Scotland in 1992 and NUS UK from 1994 to 1996.
Written By Unknown on Kamis, 11 Desember 2014 | 22.11
Two British men who joined Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria have told how they were treated as terrorism suspects on their return to the UK.
Former soldiers Jamie Read, 24, and James Hughes, 26, say they were taken to separate interview rooms at Heathrow Airport and questioned about their trip for six hours.
Anti-terrorism officers took their laptops and equipment and went through their phones, they said.
Mr Read told The Sun: "I was raging. They kept asking why we went, who we were with and were we being paid? We weren't, of course."
The pair went to Syria and fought alongside Kurdish forces in Kobani after IS filmed the brutal killing of British and American aid workers.
Video:Syria Fighter's Family 'Proud'
They came home amid fears their families could be targeted by jihadist sympathisers.
Mr Hughes' family have previously spoken out in support of his decision to join the fight against the militants.
His sister Lara told Sky News: "Obviously, I am very worried about him going out in such a dangerous country.
"But we are all very proud of him.
Video:Stuart Ramsay With 'Rag Tag' Army
"He's just doing it to help others. That's very much in his nature."
His father David hit back at claims his son was a "traitor" and criticised proposed legislation that could leave those who go to fight in Syria effectively stateless.
He said: "I believe James is the epitome of a true blue Brit in the support he is giving in Syria and trying to give the Kurds a fair chance.
"We should all be proud of the choices and actions of these guys and all the armchair critics in the media and vote-grabbing pundits in government would do well to reconsider the facts before branding people as traitors or criminals, especially when they have clearly proven themselves already as heroes."
Lightning strikes have left some 27,000 homes without power for a second time in two days as Britian continues to be battered by the so-called "weather bomb".
Yellow "be prepared" alerts are in place for Scotland's western coast, the Highlands and Islands, Orkney, Shetland and Northern Ireland.
Alerts also remain in place for England's East, South East, North East, North West, northern Wales and other areas.
Just after 9am a lightning strike near Fort Augustus in the Scottish Highlands resulted in a loss of supply to Skye and the Western Isles.
Many of those affected suffered power outages on Wednesday as bad weather swept the region.
Video:Predicting Weather 'Bombs'
A spokesman for Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution said: "We'd like to apologise to customers for the loss of supply this morning.
"We appreciate that many of these customers also lost supply yesterday and we'd like to assure them that we are doing everything we can to get them back on as quickly as possible."
Forecasters predicted the strong winds and wild weather would ease in the late morning.
But southerly areas of the UK could be hit by stormy conditions rolling in from the Atlantic tonight.
A deep low pressure system known colloquially as a "weather bomb" caused extreme weather conditions for parts of Britain on Wednesday.
Video:Weather Bombed - Again
Waves of 52ft were recorded in coastal regions and thousands of homes left without power.
As well as disruption to energy supplies, the severe storm caused ferry and train cancellations and school closures in the North.
Wind speeds of 144mph were recorded on St Kilda, an uninhabited archipelago 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides.
According to the Met Office, the highest recorded wind speed at low level sites was 81mph on Tiree.
Off the coast of Orkney, a rescue operation was launched to help a British-registered fishing vessel which issued a Mayday call after getting into difficulties.
Video:Phenomenal Waves In Weather Bomb
The 33ft trawler, with 16 Spanish crew, had one of its bridge windows smashed and some equipment damaged in the stormy conditions.
The O'Genita was escorted to Westray in Orkney by the Stromness lifeboat.
Twenty vehicles also had to be freed after becoming stuck in icy conditions on Cairn O' Mount, a high mountain pass, in Aberdeenshire.
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The father of a British jihadi jailed for nearly 13 years after travelling to Syria says parents with children who do the same will be "too scared to tell police".
Mohammed Nahin Ahmed's father spoke to Sky News exclusively on the condition that neither his name nor face were shown.
His son was sentenced alongside his friend Yusuf Sarwar at Woolwich Crown Court last week for terrorism offences.
Childhood friends Sarwar and Ahmed, both 22, were given 12 years eight months in prison each, plus another five years on licence.
Ahmed's father says his family co-operated with the police and helped persuade the pair to return home to Handsworth in Birmingham.
Video:Jihadi Dad's Regrets Over Informing
"We told the police, we went to them for help but we didn't get any. We surrendered them for justice but the police didn't help at all.
"If anyone's children go to Syria now, no one will tell the police because they will be too scared to tell them this.
"My son lives in jail so what did I gain from going to the police? People go to the police for justice and help. No, I wouldn't go again."
Ahmed and Sarwar admitted engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorism acts in July.
They became the first Britons to be convicted in the UK of Syria-related terrorism offences.
Upon sentencing the judge said it made no difference that their offences were abroad and described them as "fundamentalists committed to violent extremism".
Ahmed's father, however, says his son made a mistake and returned to the UK because he feared for his life.
"No, he is normal. His life was normal. He prayed just the way we do. I think maybe it was the internet that brought those kinds of thoughts to him, the internet brainwashes people these days.
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Gallery: Terror Pair Left Trail On Computer
Two British men who travelled to Syria to fight alongside rebels have pleaded guilty to terrorism offences. All photos from West Midlands Police.
Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar spent eight months in Syria last year after contacting Islamist extremists from the UK. This email was sent to Ahmed by a Danish extremist.
Ed Miliband has unveiled a new policy to balance Britain's books in an attempt to repair the damage to his credibility after he failed to mention the deficit in his party conference speech.
In a speech on tackling the deficit, he pledged that a Labour government would cut spending year-on-year in all Whitehall departments apart from health and international development until the deficit has been dealt with.
He promised that his party will make no manifesto commitments for next year's general election which would require additional borrowing.
He said every policy will be "costed, credible and funded".
The move, coming just a week after George Osborne's Autumn Statement, is intended as a fightback after Mr Miliband's conference blunder and opinion polls showing Labour trailing the Conservatives on the economy.
Video:Labour's Economic Pledge
A poll by ComRes last week suggested 43% of people think they would be better off under David Cameron and Mr Osborne, while only 32% believe they would do better under Mr Miliband and Ed Balls.
Mr Miliband accused the Conservatives of planning to return spending on public services to a share last seen in the 1930s, a time before there was a National Health Service and when young people left school at 14.
"And they have finally been exposed by the Autumn Statement for what they really are: not modern compassionate Conservatives at all - but extreme and ideological, committed to a dramatic shrinking of the state and public services, no matter what the consequences," he said.
Unveiling Labour's alternative, Mr Miliband said Britain must deal with the deficit to create the strong economic foundation needed to build prosperity for working people, attract investment and fund public services.
"There is no path to growth and prosperity for working people which does not tackle the deficit.
Video:Miliband: 'There Was A Bit ...'
"What we need is a balanced approach which deals with the deficit - but does so sensibly," he said.
Mr Miliband added: "This is an essential test of credibility.
"There is huge uncertainty about the deficit because of economic circumstances and on the basis of recent experience.
"That makes it all the more important that parties do not spray around unfunded commitments they cannot keep.
In a letter to shadow cabinet colleagues, shadow chancellor Ed Balls said: "We will set out for our manifesto other priority areas of spending which will be protected.
Video:Labour Still For 'Working People'
"In the meantime you should be planning on the basis that your departmental budgets will be cut not only in 2015/16, but each year until we have achieved our promise to balance the books."
In response the Tories hit back, with Business Minister Matthew Hancock claiming: "Labour's policy is to run deficits forever - more borrowing that would add to the national debt every single year.
"That would mean more debt than hardworking taxpayers or our children could ever hope to repay.
"This risk to the economic recovery is exactly why Ed Miliband simply isn't up to the job."
Two girls, aged 13 and 14, have been charged with the murder of a woman in Hartlepool.
Angela Wrightson, 39, was found dead at her home in Stephen Street on Tuesday morning
She died from blood loss after suffering substantial injuries, a post-mortem examination established.
The two teenagers appeared before magistrates in Hartlepool on Thursday.
The younger defendant appeared before Teesside Youth Court in Middlesbrough watched by her parents from the back of the court.
Her mother cried as she was brought into court in handcuffs, which were removed for the short hearing.
District Judge Martin Walker told the girl she would be held in secure accommodation.
Separately, the 14-year-old was escorted into the warm courtroom in tears and she wiped her eyes with a tissue. The judge said she would also be held in secure accommodation.
Her father was in court for the hearing.
Both girls confirmed their names, addresses and dates of birth but did not say anything else.
No pleas were entered on their behalf and no details about the alleged offence were read out.
Both girls will appear before Teesside Crown Court later.
