Spectators Airlifted to Hospital After Maypole Collapses During Erection
Five people injured, some seriously, after a Maypole erected to celebrate ancient customs relating to May Day fell on the crowd of spectators.

Five people injured, some seriously, after a Maypole erected to celebrate ancient customs relating to May Day fell on the crowd of spectators.
Ukraine has already agreed it will “de facto” concede land held by Russia for a ceasefire and peace process, Trump’s Special Envoy has said.
President Donald Trump saluted the deal as saving America from “looking foolish” for having funded the Ukraine War in return for nothing.
The green lobby’s “purist” solutions of simply ending carbon altogether is “totally misguided”, Tony Blair wrote.
Claims he was subjected to a “witch hunt” for questioning alleged push to get women into the Corps even if they don’t meet standards.
Spain’s energy network remains silent on the cause of the European blackout, but said a solar power failure was “very possible”.
Putin unilaterally announced 72-hour truce, prompting Ukraine to question why they are still dragging its heels on a full 30-day ceasefire.
President expressed sympathy for Zelensky, who he says is now approaching negotiations with a “calmer” and better attitude.
A funeral Mass is being given for Pope Francis, with hundreds of thousands of mourners gathering with church leaders and political figures.
President Trump joined the gathered mourners outside St Peter’s Basilica, having flown overnight to Italy for the funeral of Pope Francis.
Even as talks progress and Trump says there is hope for a deal, Zelensky saying the Ukrainian constitution calls for total victory.
American businessman turned diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow for further rapprochement talks with the Russian Federation.
UK needs Minister for Deportations, with whole new staff recruited from outside govt to get around open-borders activists, says Farage.
Trump slammed Russia for launching a major air strike on the Ukrainian capital overnight, calling for a peace deal to get signed.
Volodymyr Zelensky surprised the U.S. President by being the more difficult of the two principals to negotiate with, Trump said
Ukraine and Russia accused one another of using the Easter truce to cynically advance their military positions.
In Paris, the bells of the recently restored Notre Dame rung out and football matches across Italy are cancelled in mourning.
President Donald Trump said he feels “really just a great respect” for the Royal Family as he named September.
French writer Renaud Camus has been informed that his presence in the United Kingdom “is not considered to be conducive to the public good,” and thus he has been banned from entering the country.
The U.S. will do whatever it takes to get peace in Ukraine as long as “either side or both” actually engage in the process, said Rubio.
Emergency services and got scientists raided farmhouse in hunt for improvised lab allegedly producing a potent biological weapon.
It is not often “incredible people… materialise”, Putin remarked in the latest move of what appears to be a Kremlin bid to flatter Musk.
The “end of history” is over and Europe is experiencing a “transatlantic crisis”, says Ursula von der Leyen.
The U.S. was wrong to neuter European power and create vassal states in the 1950s, Vice President JD Vance has said.
The Supreme Court has ruled that, for the purposes of judging matters of equality, terms like ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ refer to biological sex.
Radical left involvement is being considered by counter-terrorism police after prisons, and prison officers at home were targeted nationwide.
The U.S. is “fundamentally” an Anglo country and President Trump “really loves” the UK, VP Vance said as he talked up a trade deal to come.
Accusations of sabotage swirl over fate of UK’s final virgin steel plant, yet Beijing warns against creating “political and security issues”.
Zelensky stated others simply can’t understand what’s happening without witnessing it first-hand as he told Trump to come to Ukraine.
Lawyers for Hamas are challenging UK govt for classifying it as a terrorist organisation, which they say is against freedom of speech.
Britain snapped back at the EU after a top figure said ‘coalition of the willing’ talks failed to produce clarity on plans for Ukraine.
A new round of U.S.-Russia talks reportedly starting on Friday with an in-person discussion with President Vladimir Putin.
Subsea cables are vulnerable to sabotage with potentially devastating consequences and investment is needed, they say.
Union suspends tariffs against the U.S. in favour of a deal, saying it has “taken note” of Trump’s pause on every country except China.
Ukraine says Beijing aware of presence of Chinese fighters and may have given “direct or indirect permission” for them to fight for Russia.
EU talks tough game on tariffs but introduced its own at a lesser rate than the United States Wednesday, while saying it hopes to strike deal.
Claims that China has become a belligerent in the Ukraine War are “absolutely groundless”, a Beijing spokesman claimed.
Zelensky says forces engaged squad of Chinese citizens inside the territory of Ukraine, implying this means Ukraine is now fighting China.
Fear of Russian revanchism may set back decades of progress by European governments to erode individual responsibility.
A ‘new Cold War’ is raging in the Atlantic Ocean with a threat to national security detected, a report claims to reveal.