Operation Pisces was introduced to tackle organised crime in Enfield, but many sex workers have also felt targeted (Picture: Getty Images)
Maria has been tirelessly working the streets of Enfield as a sex worker on and off for seven years after escaping Romania to try and make a better life for her family back home.
‘Many women like me do this work because we have no other way to survive,’ Maria, 27, tells Metro. ‘Some of us have children. Many of us have left bad or violent relationships. We are all just trying to live.’
While she used to work on well-lit, populated streets and car parks, for over a year, Maria has been forced to work alone on desolated streets, parks, and in dark corners – all in a bid, she says, to get away from the watchful eyes of police.
The shift came about due to a Metropolitan Police initiative called ‘Operation Pisces’, which was introduced with Enfield Council in June 2024 to tackle organised crime and antisocial behaviour.
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However, according to Maria and other sex workers in the area, it only put them more at risk.
‘Things got so much worse for us,’ she explains. ‘Police were – and still are – everywhere. They tell us to move all the time. They shout and threaten us with arrest, so we retreat to quiet places, which is very dangerous.’
Lasting until December 2025, Operation Pisces was ‘a clear phase’ within a three-stage Home Office policy called Clear, Hold, Build – an ‘academic, evidence-based approach that seeks to address serious and organised crime, and more broadly improve an area over a long, extended period of time,’ Chief Inspector Rob Gibbs Chief from the Metropolitan Police, tells Metro.
‘This part of London [Enfield] has a lot of challenges in it – the organised element is around drugs and gangs and violence,’ he adds. ‘We are trying to break the cycle around that. The volume of women who have been exploited there is large.’
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The police and Enfield Council are trying to break the cycle surrounding drugs and gang violence (Picture: Getty Images)
However, Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes says that as far as she’s concerned Operation Pisces was effectively a ‘police crackdown against street sex workers in Enfield’s long-established red-light area.’
Although the scheme officially ended in Enfield nearly four months ago, Niki says it’s impact will be ‘long-lasting’.
She tells Metro that she first started receiving phone calls from ‘distressed’ women sex workers asking for her help in January 2025. ‘The policing approach involved heavy patrols and the issuing of ASBOs (Antisocial Behaviour Orders), loitering notices, and cautions,’ says Niki. (The Met insist no ASBOs, Criminal Behaviour Orders or loitering notices have been issued to sex workers in the area.)
As a result, many of the women were forced to disperse to isolated areas, ‘simply to try and earn enough money to survive.’
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Dr Binta Sultan, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Inclusion Health at UCL, has been doing outreach work with sex workers in Enfield and says that prior to the initiative, police ‘worked well’ with sex workers.
‘They took a collaborative approach with outreach services, were more trauma-informed, and treated women who were sex-working as victims of crime,’ she tells Metro. ‘They built trust.’
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Organisations working with sex workers say they would like to see more police support (Picture: Getty Images)
However, that changed with Operation Pisces, says Dr Sultan. ‘Women started telling us about their interactions with police – that they were being quite aggressive and rude, and that sex workers were being arrested. We also noticed women disclosing quite serious assaults from clients, but weren’t wanting to go to the police.’
They also noted a drop in women using outreach services because ‘police were located in those areas’ which made them afraid of being identified, arrested, or interrogated – or having their children taken away by social services.
The impact on sex workers has been ‘devastating,’ says Niki.
‘Women say they feel hunted, persecuted and fearful. Many are survivors of rape and other violence and domestic abuse; being shouted at and threatened by police is very distressing and retraumatising.
‘Why aren’t the police and council asking what support women, and particularly mothers, need to survive instead of persecuting and criminalising them?’ she asks. ‘The impact of a criminal record is lifelong. We see women barred from other jobs, from housing, and even losing custody of their children just because they have a prostitute’s caution or conviction.’
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Many women say the operation has left them feeling hunted, persecuted and fearful (Credits: Getty Images)
For migrant women like Maria, their increased vulnerabilities also open them up to even greater violence from clients.
‘‘Now we are also afraid of the police,’ she says. ‘We aren’t dangerous people. We are just women trying to survive and support our families. We need safety, not punishment.’
Sarah is the mother of two young children and has lived and worked in Enfield for three years. Like many sex workers around her, she’s had to find ways to support her family in ‘very difficult times.’
‘I started doing street work after losing my job in a shop,’ the 39-year-old tells Metro. ‘I didn’t choose this job because it was easy. I chose this job to make sure my kids are okay.’
Prior to Operation Pisces, Sarah was ‘okay with local police.’
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‘They knew who I was, and we all knew them,’ she says. ‘It meant we could work in areas where we could look out for each other. But everything changed and the police are everywhere.’
Fearful of being caught, Sarah says she has to ‘rush things with men and move quickly,’ which ‘increases the risk of violence.’
‘I didn’t choose this job because it was easy. I chose this job to make sure my kids are okay,; says Sarah (Picture: Getty Images)
‘Being treated aggressively by the police just causes more stress and fear to our lives,’ she says. ‘We’re not the problem. We are just trying to get by.’
Dr Sultan claims that when she formally raised her concerns with the police, she was told: ‘that’s not what we do.’
‘They said they are here to protect women, and were focused on exiting sex work as their approach,’ she adds. ‘Every time we have raised it, they say they don’t arrest women. That they don’t criminalise sex work. They say they are taking a trauma-informed approach.’
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CI Gibbs says that over the course of 18 months, they made 1,027 arrests as part of Clear, Hold, Build, and of those, 21 were arrests of sex workers.
‘But we’ve not arrested anyone for loitering,’ he insists. ‘The most up to date term for ASBO is Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO), and through this work, we have not used that on any of the women. The women that have been arrested have been for minor or low-level criminal offences.’
Since Operation Pisces was put into place, CI Gibbs says the police has already seen ‘falling crime and antisocial behaviour’ in the area due to Home Office strategy. However, he also admits that it has led to sex workers becoming ‘less visible than they were’ – but that this was an ‘unintended consequence’.
Niki”s response to the success? ‘It has been horrifying to hear the police boast about how they have cleaned up an area when it is women’s safety, health and wellbeing which has suffered as a result.’
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Dr Sultan adds: ‘Operation Pisces has been used as an example of good practice of policing sex work. We have serious concerns about this model being rolled out in other parts of London and the country, given the devastation it has caused.’
Sex workers and the law
Prostitution itself is not illegal in the UK, but many related activities are criminalized, particularly in England, Wales, and Scotland. It is legal to sell sex privately, but kerb crawling, operating a brothel, pimping or loitering or soliciting in a street or public place for the purpose of selling sexual services, is illegal.
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Meanwhile, Niki is calling on the Met to immediately start prioritising women’s safety, health and survival.
‘After the murders in Ipswich in 2006 (when five sex workers were murdered), agencies came together to provide emergency support that enabled women to come off the street quickly,’Niki explains.
‘They had a dedicated phone line, gave women cash payments so they didn’t have to work to eat, they helped women clear their debts, provided housing and even helped some women get essential dental treatment. There is no reason that this kind of support can’t be available in Enfield.’
CI Gibb says ‘there’s not a lot of point in criminalising a person who is just trying to survive. It doesn’t break the cycle.’ (Picture: Getty Images/Johner RF)
CI Gibbs points out that he has a ‘growing amount of intelligence’ that sex-working women are now approaching police officers for help. ‘In the past six months, 20 women have approached my teams asking for support,’ he says. ‘They feel trapped. We’re trying not to criminalise – there’s not a lot of point in criminalising a person who is just trying to survive. It doesn’t break the cycle.’
When criminal justice among sex workers ‘is necessary,’ Gibbs says his team are trying to ‘make the right referrals’ and have all the ‘support and safeguarding’ they need.
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As a long-term solution, the English Collective of Prostitutes is campaigning for the loitering and soliciting laws and for prostitute’s cautions to be scrapped as part of legislation that decriminalises sex work.
‘This would allow women to move off the street if they wanted and work together with others inside in much safer conditions,’ explains Niki. ‘But if this punitive policing devastating women’s lives continues, violent criminals will be given a green light to act violently towards them.
Two teenagers were declared dead at the scene after a car left a bridge and collided with a minibus
Peter Hennessy UK & World News Editor
07:22, 11 Apr 2026
Two teenagers have lost their lives following a serious collision on a busy UK motorway.
Officers were called to the incident shortly before junction 20 of the M1 in Leicestershire at 1.33pm on Friday afternoon, April 10.
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According to police, a blue car travelling along Gilmorton Lane towards Lutterworth had left the road bridge spanning the carriageway and struck a minibus heading southbound on the M1.
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service were also deployed to the scene.
A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police said: “Four people in the minibus – a white Fiat Ducato – were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver, a man, has been discharged and three women remain in hospital.”
“The two people in the blue car, both teenagers, were declared dead at the scene.”
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The carriageway was shut for several hours while forensic examinations took place at the scene.
Officers are appealing for anyone who was travelling on Gilmorton Lane or the M1 near junction 20 – in either direction – at approximately 1.30pm on Friday afternoon to come forward.
Anyone with dashcam footage or who witnessed either vehicle prior to the collision is urged to contact police.
You can contact us on 101, quoting incident number 308 of 10th April or visit Making a road traffic incident report | Leicestershire Police
Sky broadband customers can bag 500Mbps for the price of 300Mbps and get up to £200 to switch.
Jake Hackney Senior Consumer Writer
06:54, 11 Apr 2026
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Sky has massively undercut BT by dishing out upgrades with one of its super-fast broadband deals. The TV and broadband provider is also dishing out a major upgrade at no extra cost with its 500Mbps Full Fibre Broadband.
It’s currently on offer at £28 per month or roughly 90p per day, the same price as Sky’s slower 300Mbps plan. These speeds are ideal for 4K streaming or online gaming, with Sky estimating a HD TV programme will take around 25 seconds to download.
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What’s more, Sky is paying new customers up to £200 in bill credit if they switch to cover and fees from their old provider. Sky’s Full Fibre 500 deal beats the equivalent plan at BT, where the same speeds cost £40.99 per month after a three-month free promotional period.
BT has also confirmed its monthly prices will rise by £4 each April. Sky says its rates ‘may change’ during the 24-month term too, but its customers are given the opportunity to cancel their contract if a price change is announced.
It’s worth noting that, as Sky says its full fibre is available to 60% of UK homes, not everyone will be able to get 500Mbps speeds. New customers can use Sky’s postcode checker to check their eligibility.
Sky’s 500Mbps Full Fibre Broadband
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Sky is offering 500Mbps for the price of 300Mbps with its Full Fibre 500 broadband deal.
Sky’s Full Fibre 500 deal also rivals a similar plan at Virgin Media, where the M500 Fibre Broadband – delivering speeds up to a slightly faster 516Mbps – comes in at £29.99. However, there’s a free upgrade here too, as the deal comes with a free subscription to Netflix.
For those opting for Sky’s 500Mbps Full Fibre Broadband, customers have left thousands of positive reviews of the brand on Trustpilot. Of these, some have praised the ‘reliable’ and ‘buffering-free’ internet and ‘excellent’ service.
One glowing review says: “I ditched my old broadband because the company insisted I have a phone line, which I wasn’t even using. Enter Sky Broadband: no phone, just pure internet bliss. I’m honestly amazed – it hasn’t dropped once. Cheers to buffering-free surfing.”
Another says: “Went to transfer my broadband from BT to Sky. The service was excellent, I got a great deal and I know exactly what will happen on my installation day and going forward.”
Despite being happy with Sky’s fibre broadband, this customer deducted a star for their customer service, saying: “Had no problems with the broadband. It worked well, reliable, speed was decent. Bills are easy to access online. The only problem is when you need to contact them.”
Meanwhile, another five-star review says: “Great help on saving money on broadband and helping with how to do everything step by step.”
Tyson Fury has come out of retirement to face Russian boxer Arslanbek Makhmudov in a heavyweight clash in London on April 11. The fight will stream live on Netflix, which fans can get for free with Sky’s £15 Essential TV bundle or £24 Ultimate TV bundle, the latter of which also includes HBO Max and Disney+.
Arne Slot’s side are winless in three Premier League games, with a draw at home to relegation-threatened Tottenham sandwiched between losses against Wolves and Brighton.
Furthermore, the Reds go into this game on the back of three straight defeats and have failed to score in their last two.
Fulham, meanwhile, have an outside chance of Champions League qualification but remain in the battle for Europe nonetheless and arrive on Merseyside having won three of their last five league games.
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Here’s everything you need to know about where to watch…
How to watch Liverpool vs Fulham
TV channel: In the UK, the game will be televised live on Sky Sports. Coverage starts at 5pm BST on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League.
Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers can also catch the contest live online via the Sky Go app.
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Live blog: You can follow all the action on matchday via Standard Sport’s live blog.
WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Giuseppe Di Matteo, 12, was kidnapped by Giovanni Brusca’s Sicilian Mafia gang to stop his father Santino testifying against them
Young Giuseppe Di Matteo thought he was off to see his father when police officers came to pick him up one day in 1993.
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Ex- Mafia associate Santino Di Matteo had recently turned his back on his criminal comrades and was under the protection of the authorities for his own safety.
However, his 12-year-old son became a casualty when Cosa Nostra criminals in Sicily, Italy posed as police officers and kidnapped him.
The horrifying plot was masterminded by hitman Giovanni Brusca and crime boss Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina. For nearly 800 days, the helpless lad endured unimaginable torment while held captive in a café.
He was beaten and starved by the criminals, who also sent photos of the boy to Santino as part of their sick mind games.
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The initial aim was to stop the informant from giving evidence in the trial of anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, who had been killed in a car bomb attack.
The esteemed judge had devoted his career to prosecuting organised crime, notably leading the notorious “maxi trial” in 1986, which led to the conviction of 342 mafiosi, according to the Mirror.
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Brusca was ordered to seek revenge and, in 1992, he placed half a tonne of explosives under a motorway near Palermo, targeting Falcone as his car drove past.
The judge died alongside his wife and three bodyguards, and Brusca was forced to go on the run immediately.
The later capture of Santino revealed Brusca – dubbed ‘The Pig’ – as the ringleader, sealing Giuseppe’s terrible fate.
In 1996 – 779 days following his kidnapping – Brusca gave the command to kill Giuseppe with five callous words: “Get rid of the puppy”.
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The boy was so frail from his ordeal that he offered no resistance as he was throttled to death.
His remains were subsequently dissolved in acid to guarantee they would never be found – a technique called ‘lupara bianca’. Shockingly, Brusca showed no regret, later boasting in his autobiography about his ever more appalling crimes.
“I’ve dissolved bodies in acid; I’ve roasted corpses on big grills; I’ve buried the remains after digging graves with an earthmover,” he wrote.
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“Some pentiti [former Mafiosi] say today they feel disgust for what they did. I can speak for myself: I’ve never been upset by these things.”
Brusca was later captured and jailed for 25 years after confessing his role in more than 100 killings.
His eventual freedom in 2021, then aged 64, triggered outrage throughout Italy that such a lethal murderer was now at liberty to roam the streets.
Tina Montinaro, whose bodyguard husband was murdered alongside Falcone, told the Repubblica at the time: “The state is against us – after 29 years we still don’t know the truth about the massacre and Giovanni Brusca, the man who destroyed my family, is free.”
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Three years earlier in 2018, Giuseppe’s family received over €2.2m (£1.9m) as compensation for his murder. On the 25th anniversary of his son’s abduction, Santino stated in an interview: “I think about it every day.
“How can there be people so evil to treat a child this way? When people get involved in stuff like this, it’s most likely they are never coming back.”
Captain Cody has the perfect conditions to bounce back to form and add to his triumph in the Scottish Grand National last April.
Willie Mullins’ stable in Co Carlow is the dominant force of National Hunt racing – a sovereignty that now extends to the world’s most famous steeplechase, once the very emblem of the lottery where even the small-stakes player could hit the jackpot.
Mullins has now won the National three times but, tellingly, that tally includes the last two runnings, with I Am Maximus and Nick Rockett.
The latter’s late withdrawal leaves the 69-year-old trainer with eight of the 34 runners, and drying weather on Merseyside has enhanced the chances of the eight-year-old Captain Cody.
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It’s hard to see the son of 2010 St Leger hero Arctic Cosmos coming home in front if he repeats the form of four underwhelming runs this season.
But the key to Captain Cody’s chance today is Aintree’s drying terrain.
It’s a year minus a day since my selection enjoyed the biggest victory of his career so far on Scotland’s west coast.
There are ‘Nationals’ run everywhere in Britain and Ireland nowadays – Midlands (Uttoxeter), London (Sandown), Somerset (Wincanton), Berkshire (Ascot), Sussex (Plumpton), Borders (Kelso), Leinster (Naas) and Kerry (Listowel), to name but a few.
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But there are four Nationals that really count – the English which, being the first, doesn’t need a geographical qualification, the Scottish, Irish and Welsh.
Of the 23 runners who lined up at Ayr last year, 10 turned for home with any chance of success, with Captain Cody moving with menace on the outside.
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His jumps at the final two fences weren’t pristine, but the casual ease with which the bay gelding lengthened to overhaul Klarc Kent – Harry Cobden had merely to shake the reins – and score by a length had to be seen to be believed. The handicap system rewards excellence with extra lead in the saddle, and Captain Cody is 12lb higher in the ratings today.
But his rise in the weights is well earned, and an eight-year-old jumper should be at the peak of his powers.
The Scottish National’s distance is three miles, seven furlongs and 176 yards, and Captain Cody will have no problem galloping for an additional two furlongs and 118 yards.
He has his own way of getting from one side of a fence to the other, but the National obstacles, with plastic cores replacing the timber of yore, are more tolerant of such eccentricity these days.
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Jockey Johnny Burke, whose best National placing from six attempts was a fifth aboard Goonyella in 2016, gets the leg-up today and the British-based Irishman represents a safe pair of hands.
Of Captain Cody’s 33 rivals, Mullins’ I Am Maximus, first in 2024 and second last year, Grangeclare West, third 12 months ago, and talented outsider Champ Kiely are all dangers, while Gorgeous Tom, whose trainer Henry de Bromhead won the race with the Rachael Blackmore-ridden Minella Times in 2021, is also in the mix.
But it’s the improving novice Oscars Brother, bidding to give his owner JP McManus a record fourth National triumph, who is feared most of all.
The eight-year-old, one of just two horses trained in Co Tipperary by 29-year-old Connor King, looked an embryonic stayer when fourth at the Cheltenham Festival and has more to offer.
It would be doing Bath a massive disservice to suggest they were all route one as they demonstrated with their third try which was strike play perfection. The scrum was solid and Redpath felt Russell, who faked pumped once to draw a gap to send Henry Arundell scurrying under the posts.
Then right on half-time came a try that both coaches identified as a key momentum shift as shortly after Smith missed a penalty to touch, replacement Francois van Wyk was driven over. Russell missed leaving the game tantalising poised at 35-26 to the visitors. After the madness of the first half, Smith took the first conservative decision of the game, by kicking a penalty in front of the posts. However, Saints were reduced to 14 men when JJ van der Mescht was sin-binned following repeated offences in the 22. Bath kicked to the corner and piled what seemed like half of Somerset into the maul with replacement Kepu Tuipulotu grounding the ball. Russell’s conversion made it a five-point game.
Another Smith penalty gave Saints a modicum of breathing space but that was wiped out by Russell’s penalty before a grandstand finish featuring Pollock, inevitably, and Hill’s try which will be celebrated long into the night.
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Match details
Scoring sequence 0-5, Pollock try; 0-7 Smith con; 0-12, Dingwall try; 0-14, Smith con; 5-14, Dunn try; 7-14, Russell con; 7-19, Lockett try; 7-21, Smith con; 7-26, Kemeny try; 7-28, Smith con; 12-28, Russell try; 14-28, Russell con; 14-33, Sleightholme try; 14-35, Smith con; 19-35, Arundell try; 21-35, Russell con; 26-35, Van Wyk try; 26-38, Smith con; 31-38, Tuipulotu try; 33-38, Russell con; 33-41, Smith pen; 36-41 Russell pen; 41-41, Hill try; 43-41, Russell con.
Bath T De Glanville (S Carreras, 52); H Arundell, O Lawrence, C Redpath, W Muir; F Russell, B Spencer (B van der Linde, 74); B Obano (F van Wyk, 29), T Dunn, (K Tuipulotu, 52), V Sela (T Du Toit, 47), Q Roux (T Hill, 47), C Ewels, G Pepper, S Underhill (A Barbeary, 32), M Reid (R Molony, 66).
Northampton Saints G Furbank; T Freeman, R Hutchinson (T Litchfield, 74), F Dingwall, O Sleightholme (G Hendy, 66); F Smith, A McParland (A Mitchell, 59); D Fischetti (E Iyogun, 47), C Langdon (C Wright, 17), C Kundiona (E Millar-Mills, 47), T Lockett (Van der Mescht, 68), JJ van der Mescht (E Prowse, 67), J Kemeny, T Pearson (C Chick, 27), H Pollock.
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Earlier, as part of the opening, Rudy’s Pizza announced a giveaway of 3,000 pizzas for those who sent their contact details in advance.
The Manchester-based company gave a similar promotion when Rudy’s Pizza opened in York’s High Ousegate in 2024.
Since then, the York outside has won widespread acclaim, receiving 4.5 stars out of five on Google based on 434 Google Reviews.
Tripadvisor awards 4.6 stars out of five, based on 198 reviews, ranking it 85th out of 728 York restaurants.
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Emergency services were deployed to the scene of the crash off the GM-2 road in San Sebastian de La Gomera, on the island of La Gomera, on the east coast on Friday, the 112 Canarias official account posted on X.
Photographs shared by the Canary Islands Government on social media appear to show the bus had come off the road at a hairpin bend, coming to rest in a ravine.
Rescuers work at the scene of a bus crash near in San Sebastian de La Gomera, in Spain’s Canary Islands, Friday, April 10, 2026. (Europa Press Canarias/Europa Press via AP) (Image: AP)
Several ambulances, including an air ambulance, attended to the British tourists and driver.
Two seriously injured people are currently being transferred to hospitals in Tenerife by helicopter.
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One will be taken to University Hospital of Nuestra Senora de Candelaria while another will go to the University Hospital of Canarias.
NEW YORK (AP) — After chants of “run again!” filled the room, former Vice President Kamala Harris told African American activists on Friday that she’s actively considering another presidential bid.
“I might. I am thinking about it,” Harris told Rev. Al Sharpton after he asked directly whether she was going to run for president in 2028.
Harris’ comments came during the National Action Network’s annual convention, where more than a half-dozen potential candidates appeared this week , hoping to make inroads among Black voters — who comprise one of Democrats’ most powerful blocs.
The Democrats’ next presidential primary season won’t begin in earnest until after November’s midterm elections, but this week’s conference showcased a collection of Democrats already jockeying for position in what promises to be a crowded competition.
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For now, at least, there is no clear early favorite. But there did appear to be a favorite at Sharpton’s conference.
Harris, the nation’s first Black female vice president and the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2024, earned the only standing ovation and the largest crowd of any other 2028 prospect this week.
Sharpton noted that Harris earned more votes in her losing 2024 campaign than even former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
“Whatever she decides to do, she made a point in history,” Sharpton said.
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Harris has raised the possibility of another presidential bid before in the 15 months since she left office. She also recently launched a political action committee and began to travel across the United States to support Democrats, especially across the South.
Still, some in the party have shifted their focus to a new generation of Democratic leaders given Harris’ struggle in the last presidential contest.
The convention lineup this week featured Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, and Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego.
Buttigieg, speaking shortly after Harris left the stage, received soft applause from a room that was about half-empty. Some cheered when he mentioned supporting federal workers and minority businesses, but many attendees had streamed out of the packed auditorium after Harris’ speech in an effort to grab a selfie with the former vice president.
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Buttigieg, like many other 2028 prospects this week, laughed off a question about whether he would seek the presidency again.
Harris was more explicit.
Three times she repeated, “I’m thinking about it,” when Sharpton asked her about a 2028 White House run.
“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office and the situation room. I know what the job is, and I know what it requires,” Harris said.
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She continued: “I am thinking about it in the context of who and where and how can the best job be done for the American people. That’s how I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted.”
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