Abubakarr Moiba, 43, of Falsgrave Road, Scarborough, pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to a woman. He was jailed for 12 weeks and ordered to pay £100 compensation.
Nathan Collinson, 37, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to assaulting two men in Scarborough and obstructing a police officer He was jailed for eight weeks.
Damien Wilson, 39, of St Andrews Road, Whitby, pleaded guilty to harassment of a woman.
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He was given a 12-month community order with a two-month curfew and 10 days’ rehabilitative activities. He was made subject to a three-year restraining order to protect the woman from him and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £114 statutory surcharge.
Jamie McPake, 21, of Fishermans Square, Redcar, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to a man in Scarborough.
He was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he wears an alcohol abstinence tag for 80 days. He must pay £1,000 compensation.
Dale Bonson, 44, of Hertford Close, Eastfield, pleaded guilty to affray and carrying a baseball bat as an offensive weapon, both committed in Eastfield.
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He was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay £650 prosecution costs.
Jihadists have kidnapped and slaughtered scores of people in an attack during Friday prayers in central Nigeria.
The exact toll of the attacks, which also hit the village of Binzi in Niger State, was unknown, federal representative Jafaru Mohammed said.
Jibril Ahmad, a civilian who survived the attack, said: ‘Soon after finishing the normal Friday prayer, the armed group of Lakuwara, in their hundreds, wielding guns, knives and machetes, began to attack us.’
‘They slaughtered some of our people, saying we are not practising the true teachings of Islam,’ Ahmad added.
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Some are understood to have escaped when another jihadist group, known as Mahmuda, started clashing with the militants.
Niger state police said they were aware of the kidnapping, but had not received reports of deaths.
Africa’s most populous country is battling a 17-year insurgency by jihadist groups, who have made such abductions a key tactic – including the 2014 kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls in the town of Chibok.
The insurgency is concentrated in the northeast, though Friday’s attack was in the west of the country, an area that has seen increased activity by armed groups and militants from the Sahel as the conflict has splintered.
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Jihadists have kidnapped and slaughtered scores of people in an attack during Friday prayers in central Nigeria. File image shows a Nigerian jihadist in 2014
Some of the jihadi militants in Nigeria have presented themselves as an alternative to the government in areas with limited government and security presence.
A key issue in Nigeria is the poor welfare of the country’s overstretched and underpaid security forces, which President Bola Tinubu has sought to address by recently announcing pay rises and mass recruitment for the military.
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The latest kidnapping comes just weeks after 163 kidnapped Nigerians were rescued from jihadi captivity.
The freed captives, mostly women and children, were handed over to authorities by security forces in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, earlier this month.
The Nigerians were abducted on February 3 when jihadi militants stormed the village of Woro, killing over 160 others.
February’s attack was one of the deadliest in Nigeria in recent years, and showed how militants who had previously focused their activities in the north are moving south through Africa’s most populous nation, where gangs compete for territory and control of natural resources in villages where they outnumber the country’s overstretched security forces.
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The US is providing military support to Nigeria under an agreement it says aims to protect Nigerian Christians, though much of that support is restricted to logistics and intelligence-gathering at the heart of the violence in the north.
The victims in the Muslim-majority Woro were rescued this month alongside 145 other victims who had been kidnapped, mostly from the neighbouring Niger State.
Local authorities did not say how the captives were rescued from the dense, expansive forest of the Kainji Lake National Park.
President Tinubu described it as the ‘largest rescue operation ever’ undertaken on a single day, and promised to intensify operations against armed gangs.
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Jihadists slaughter and kidnap dozens of people for ‘not practicing the true teachings of Islam’ during Friday prayers in Nigeria
Also, Rash Masum (Neet Mohan) received some really positive news, as he learnt that he had finally become a consultant!
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Elsewhere in the ED, this boxset saw Rida Amaan (Sarah Seggari) come to terms with her alopecia diagnosis. She was supported by friend and colleague Jodie Whyte (Anna Chell), who helped pick Rida back up whenever her confidence was low.
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A new era awaits (Picture: BBC/Metro)
Speaking of Jodie, the character turned into a bit of a detective this mini-series, as she became passionate about exposing the truth surrounding a local housing development Wyvern Hill.
Here’s everything you need to know on why Casualty is not on TV and when it’s back.
Why is Casualty not on tonight and when is it back?
Casualty has finished its Lethal Legacy boxset and thus it is currently off air – and won’t return to our TVs until the start of September.
The doctors of the ED will face their biggest challenge yet upon Casualty’s return (Picture: BBC)
Lives hang in the balance and the ED team are pushed to their absolute limits in a tense and emotionally charged story, bringing together some of the show’s most beloved characters.
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A major rescue operation unfolds, forcing impossible life-or-death decisions and testing the courage, resilience and leadership of those at the heart of the hospital.
Go North East has introduced the story stickers on the back of bus seats as part of the National Year of Reading.
The scheme aims to boost literacy by encouraging conversations about stories during everyday journeys.
Families enjoying a free storytelling event on top of Go Norh’s East’s open top bus (Image: Mark Savage Photograpy)
Daniel Laird, commercial director at Go North East, said: “We’re really pleased to be supporting the National Year of Reading – bus journeys are a great opportunity to take a break from screens and read a book or come up with stories with your children.
“It was fantastic to offer free storytelling sessions on our open top bus, creating a unique and affordable way to engage young children with reading.
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“Children also travel for free on our service throughout the summer holidays, giving families a chance to explore the many wonderful libraries and bookshops around the region.”
From left – Katrina Bainbridge, Go North East driver, and Michael Robson, storyteller from from Seven Stories (Image: Mark Savage Photograpy)
The prompts are designed to get families and children talking about stories, and the wider campaign hopes to reverse declining rates of reading for pleasure.
Recent figures highlight the scale of the problem in the North East, where one in five children aged five to eight does not own a book, and one in five state primary schools lack a library – compared to just one in 20 in the South.
During the summer holidays, Go North East teamed up with Seven Stories and the National Literacy Trust to host three storytelling sessions on an open-top bus outside Seven Stories in Ouseburn.
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The events, called Story Bus, were free to attend.
Michael, storycatcher from Seven Stories (Image: Mark Savage Photograpy)
Lucy Reeves, project officer at the National Literacy Trust, said: “It has been wonderful working with Go North East to spread the joy of reading across the North East.
“The storytelling stickers have opened up more opportunities for children and families to engage with reading and storytelling in the small moments of daily life.
“Go North East have embraced the Go All In message to bring reading opportunities into new spaces, for example on our local buses.”
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Bus sticker (Image: Mark Savage Photograpy)
The National Year of Reading is a major campaign led by the Department for Education and the National Literacy Trust, aiming to encourage more people to make reading part of their everyday lives.
Go North East’s Toon Tour, an open-top sightseeing bus route, also stops outside Seven Stories and will run until September 27.
More information about Go North East’s services and journey planning can be found on their website.
The scene on the M9 after last week’s catastrophic crash (Picture: PA)
A woman seriously injured in a wrong-way motorway crash in Ireland three years ago said she ‘absolutely cannot believe it’s happened again’.
Róisín Stakelum was driving to the airport on July 1, 2023, for a holiday before a planned emigration to Australia when she was hit head-on by a car full of teenagers going the wrong way.
‘I just can’t believe it’s happened again,’ she said.
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Funerals were held for Joe Carthy, Alex McCarthy and Kamil Pustkowski on Friday while services for Jeremy O’Brien and Jack Kennedy will be held on Monday and Tuesday.
The five boys were travelling in a high-powered BMW that was heading the wrong way down the M9 in Co Kildare and hit another vehicle.
Members of the Garda stand outside St Michael the Archangel Church in Athy as the funeral cortege for Joe Carthy, 15, arrives (Picture: PA)
The occupants of the other car, Niamh and Alma Kinsella, aged in their 30s, their younger sister Ella Hendricken, who is in her 20s, and a seven-year-old boy, all remain in hospital.
The four relatives had similarly been on their way to the airport to fly over to the UK for a wedding.
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A prayer vigil in solidarity with the injured women and boy was held on Friday evening in Saint Clare’s Church in Graiguecullen, Carlow near the Laois border.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he was ‘shocked and saddened’ by the crash, which he described as being the result of ‘an irresponsible and dangerous act’.
Mr Martin said such incidents are, in some cases, ‘being done for likes on social media’.
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Ms Stakelum said on Saturday: ‘I’m so upset. It’s really, really affected me.
‘I can’t stop thinking about the girls and the little boy in the car that was crashed into, and what they must be going through, and it’s brought it all back for me.
Sisters Ella Hendricken, Niamh Kinsella and Alma Kinsella were all seriously hurt in the crash
‘I haven’t been able to sleep properly since I heard about this, to be honest, and I just can’t believe it’s happened again, and that I don’t feel like there was anything really done to try to prevent something like this from happening again.’
Recalling her own crash, she said she had ‘no time to react’ to the car coming at her from the wrong way.
‘I was probably drifting in and out of consciousness, but I remember the headlights, I remember the big bang, and I remember being in the car, absolutely terrified afterwards.
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‘I had had a fairly significant head injury, so everything – like nothing, made sense. I could not comprehend what had happened.
‘I didn’t know where I was. I had forgotten where I was going. It was just absolutely terrifying.’
Ms Stakelum told RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio programme that a ‘psychological toll’ involving fear in the world kicked in when she was leaving the safety of the hospital.
‘That fear has lived in me since – it hasn’t really gone away. It has improved somewhat, but I am still absolutely terrified of everything.’
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Ms Stakelum has since been able to return to work two days per week but said ‘it’s a struggle’, adding: ‘I still have a lot of physical consequences and psychological consequences that affect my ability to work, and it has affected my trajectory in work.’
Asked if she thought she would ever go back to her old life, she said: ‘No, I don’t. I think my life is always going to be different.
‘I’m always going to live with the scars, physical and psychological, from what happened to me that night. I’ll never be the same again.’
She said she is a completely different person following the crash as she urged everyone to be more careful on the roads, ‘especially the small cohort of young people’ that are driving dangerously on motorways, adding: ‘It has to stop – it’s absolutely ridiculous.
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‘People that survive crashes like that, they don’t necessarily get their own lives back.’
She said she was ‘angry’ that ‘nothing has been put in place to stop this from happening’ again, adding that other European countries have alert systems for wrong-way drivers on motorways.
Asked how she feels about the driver who crashed into her, Ms Stakelum said: ‘Mixed emotions. I have a lot of empathy for him. I have an awful lot of anger as well.’
She said he did not have an easy life but added it was ‘not an excuse’.
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Further asked to reflect on the boys involved on Sunday’s crash, she told the programme: ‘I don’t know, that’s a harder one to answer.
‘I do have empathy for them, and I have a lot of empathy for their families and what they’ve been going through.’
On the family injured in the crash, she added: ‘I don’t know what they have ahead of them and trauma can affect people in so many different ways.
‘I don’t know what kind of injuries they have.
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‘All I could say is that it’s going to be … a slow process to get back to normal – and if there’s anything that I can do to help them, I would really like to be able to do that if they were willing to accept my help.’
An ‘aggressive’ paramedic who told a stroke patient that ‘Jesus and Jehovah are not coming to help you’ while responding to a 999 call has been struck off.
Rachel Lemonofides also told the patient, who was later diagnosed with a brain bleed and abdominal aortic aneurysm, to stop acting ‘like a baby’ and forced her to crawl down the stairs.
Lemonofides was dismissed by North West Ambulance Service in July 2024 after being accused of making dozens of allegedly ‘discriminatory’ or ‘racially motivated’ comments about or to the woman in January the same year.
A tribunal has now ruled that the British Army reservist, who holds the rank of staff sergeant, made up to 31 comments of this nature against the patient.
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On January 11, 2024 an ambulance was called to the patient’s address when she began feeling a ‘sharp pain in her chest’ as she got ready for work.
Ms Lemonofides’s crew responded to the call and they spent a total of 104 minutes at the scene before bringing the patient to hospital.
The patient had described the pain as ‘severe and excruciating’ and she was later ‘informed that her aorta had burst and she had a blood clot in the brain which had caused her to suffer a stroke’.
She was ‘given a 50 per cent chance of surviving an aortic dissection’ (emergency heart surgery).
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A nurse in the emergency department explained that the patient was having a cerebral bleed and later on, that she was also having an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Rachel Lemonofides was struck off as a paramedic at North West Ambulance Service. She is also a British soldier with the rank of staff sergeant
Ms Lemonofides accused the stroke patient of ‘absolutely ridiculous behaviour’ and refused to help her walk down the stairs after responding to the 999 call
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However, while responding to the emergency call, Ms Lemonofides had allegedly made a series of discriminatory or racially motivated comments either to or about the patient in which the paramedic accused her of ‘ridiculous behaviour’.
Ms Lemonofides’s remarks included telling the patient: ‘Jesus and Jehovah are not coming to help you’; ‘You are acting ridiculous now’; ‘This is like a child now’; ‘You are stuck on the floor like a child’; ‘This is a bit like silly behaviour now’; ‘We are not helping you like this, you are being silly’; and ‘I am really mad now because people are waiting for this ambulance and you are acting like a child.’
The paramedic also accused the patient of ‘absolutely ridiculous behaviour’ and of acting ‘as though you have had your leg ripped off’.
She also refused to help the patient walk down the stairs at her home, forcing the stroke sufferer to crawl instead.
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Ms Lemonofides said the woman was ‘behaving as if you are possessed’ and told her: ‘I should let your employer know how you are behaving given the fact that you work with vulnerable people.’
On several occasions it was noted that Ms Lemonofides had shouted at the woman in between making some of these comments, including when she told her to ‘act your age’.
The paramedic also said: ‘You are not dying, you have got a bad back’; ‘You should be assessed by the mental health team’; ‘You are lying, stop what you are doing, stop being a baby, let’s go downstairs.’
She accused the woman of ‘wasting time and making a scene’ and then told her ‘I’m not going to help you’ when she asked for ‘help to stand up and/or descending the stairs’.
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Ms Lemonofides also threatened to make the patient’s workplace aware of the incident, saying: ‘Stop being a baby, many people need this ambulance, we will tell your employer that you are being funny.’
The paramedic later said the patient was ‘just being dramatic’, telling her: ‘You have gone through child labour which is worse than this pain.’
In remarks that appear to have been made to a colleague during the incident, Ms Lemonofides also said: ‘I do not think this is medical, she is choosing to do this’; ‘This is like the worst behaviour I have seen for a very long time’; ‘Does she believe in black magic or anything like that?’; and ‘I can’t believe someone with a child is behaving like this’.
The paramedic’s final comments included telling the patient that ‘we can’t take you to the hospital because your condition is not that serious’ and ‘you have 60 seconds to get up or we are leaving’.
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The tribunal ruled that the list of 31 alleged comments made by Ms Lemonofides during the incident, some of which the Daily Mail has revealed here, were ‘proved on the balance of probabilities’.
It was ruled that her ‘dismissive and aggressive comments and behaviour continued throughout her attendance at the address’.
Ms Lemonofides admitted that she made these comments but had denied in July 2025 that her remarks were discriminatory on the grounds of ethnicity.
However, the tribunal also found that these comments were, as alleged, ‘discriminatory on the grounds of ethnicity; and/or racially motivated; and/or unprofessional, in that it breached professional boundaries’ with the patient.
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This promotional image identifying Ms Lemonofides as a reserve soldier was posted by North West Ambulance Service on social media
The tribunal found that four witnesses, who included colleagues and the patient’s housemates, were ‘shocked’ at hearing the paramedic’s remarks about the patient being ‘possessed’ and whether she used ‘black magic’.
‘The panel considered the audio recordings from the incident, noting the registrant [Ms Lemonofides]’s tone when making the comments about and being to Patient A,’ the tribunal ruled.
‘In addition, the panel noted from the recordings that, when Patient A was calling out in her native language, the registrant is heard to make comments such as “stop with this nonsense”, which could have been in response to Patient A speaking in her native language and therefore suggests hostility towards Patient A’s ethnicity…
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‘Colleague A confirmed [that] two other calls [on the same day] involved white female patients and neither of these patients were treated by the registrant in the same way she had treated Patient A.’
The panel ruled on the balance of probabilities that ‘it was more likely than not that the registrant’s conduct towards Patient A was discriminatory on the grounds of ethnicity’.
Ms Lemonofides denied her conduct was racially motivated on the day of the incident. However she was not present for the tribunal hearing.
The tribunal found that the Army reservist’s comments about ‘black magic’ and the patient being ‘possessed’ were ‘said for a purpose’, which was to ‘make reference to Patient A’s race’.
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‘The panel considered if the act was done in a way showing hostility or a discriminatory attitude to the relevant racial group and agreed that it was.’
It was ruled that Ms Lemonofides ‘appeared to have a bias towards the ethnicity’ of the woman.
After finding that the paramedic’s comments amounted to racially motivated discrimination, it was further ruled that her conduct ‘was an example of gross unprofessionalism and a breach of professional boundaries’ and the allegation was found proven.
‘The panel acknowledged that some patients require a more assertive manner for different reasons, but having considered the evidence in this case, the tone and manner of the registrant’s comments, together with her treatment of Patient A, the panel agreed that her conduct was abhorrent,’ it was ruled.
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‘It noted the distinct lack of dignity and respect for Patient A, with no evidence of empathy or compassion from the registrant and unacceptable treatment continued over a period of time.’
As part of the tribunal, Ms Lemonofides also faced allegations that she told a colleague in reference to the incident: ‘If it had been filmed, you would watch it back and laugh at it.’
The panel found the paramedic guilty of having made this remark on the balance of probabilities.
Ms Lemonofides was also accused of failing to recognise the seriousness of the patient’s condition.
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The tribunal found this allegation proved on the balance of probabilities after the patient described ‘having to crawl downstairs as she was unable to walk and was not assisted in doing so’.
Ms Lemonofides was accused of ‘refusing’ to help the patient walk despite having ‘pain to her back, throat and neck’.
One of the patient’s housemates told the tribunal that they saw the woman reach out to Ms Lemonofides with her hand and ask for help, but the paramedic ‘physically moved away’ and ‘refused to help her’.
The panel noted: ‘It was clear to the panel from the recordings that Patient A was crying out in apparent pain on numerous occasions, but the registrant was heard telling her to.’
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A spokesman for North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust told the Daily Mail: ‘The individual no longer works for the trust.
‘All of our patients are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect and there is no place within our organisation for colleagues who do not uphold those values.’
An Army spokesman said: ‘We have a common law and Data Protection Act duty to protect the personal information of our employees or ex-employees, as such we will not release any personal information relating to this case.’
Andy Burnham thinks Britain’s political culture is broken.
While his first few weeks in Downing Street have focused on grassroots policy, the new prime minister has made no secret of his plan to make his premiership a “circuit breaker” for Britain, starting with the “biggest rebalancing of power our country has ever seen”.
The former Greater Manchester mayor wants to bring about the “end of neoliberalism” and move beyond “trickle-down economics”, rooting decision-making and power in communities, rather than centrally in London.
He said that his administration would follow a “Makerfield test”, making decisions based on whether they would improve the lives of people in constituencies like his – a brand of politics driven by lifting up those he believes have been forgotten for decades.
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No 10 North, announced to much fanfare last month, is just the start of Mr Burnham’s devolution revolution. He wants far more power transferred from Westminster to local leaders and has already unveiled plans to give all mayors of England’s city regions a share of income tax revenue for the first time.
The new prime minister’s first weeks in office have focussed on bus fares, pubs and high streets (PA Wire)
This, combined with a plan to retake public control of essential services, is the key plank in the business-friendly socialist policy agenda Mr Burnham has dubbed “Manchesterism”. But to find an example of how Manchesterism could succeed, you may have to look a little further afield.
Found around 700 miles from the prime minister’s former patch, on the Nervión river that runs through Northern Spain’s Basque Country to the Bay of Biscay, Bilbao was historically a thriving port city that became a hive of heavy industry in the 20th century.
But like many port cities around the United Kingdom, it suffered the harsh impacts of deindustrialisation in the years after the Second World War, hitting a nadir in the 1980s as shipyard and factory closures caused large-scale unemployment.
“During the Eighties, because we were in a quite similar situation as Liverpool and other places in England,” Ivan Jiménez, president of the Port of Bilbao, tells The Independent.
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Ivan Jiminez, president of the Port of Bilbao (Port of Bilbao)
“People used to say, ‘No opportunities, this is dead, the steel industry has died.’
“Here, in the Eighties, I remember that we here had a 25 per cent unemployment rate. It was devastated.”
Once home to the city’s maritime might, the banks of the river are now most notable for the Guggenheim museum, built in 1997 to become the ship-shaped symbol of its revival.
Between its opening and 2015, GDP in the city more than doubled as it pivoted from a declining steel and shipbuilding economy to become a hub of clean energy, advanced manufacturing and biotechnology, with tourism and culture becoming key economies.
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From 2000 to 2018, the city had the highest level of economic growth in Spain and, according to Mr Jiménez, that owes a lot to its devolved powers, similar to those Mr Burnham wishes to introduce in the UK.
Bilbao’s province, Biscay, is one of three which make up the autonomous community of the Basque Country, a region marked by a prominent separatist movement, part of which desires complete independence from Spain.
But the Basque Country’s self-governance means it has sweeping powers over tax, education, health, economic strategy and welfare.
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As such, residents do not pay state income tax.
Instead of being funded by the Spanish central government in Madrid, Bilbao collects 100 per cent of its own income tax through its three provinces and keeps the majority, sending a fixed annual quota to the capital to pay for national services, such as the military.
Bilbao has seen a significant transformation in recent years (cimata/stock.adobe.com)
The regional leaders will receive a share of income tax revenues for the first time under the plans, which the government has described as the “biggest transfer of power from Westminster in a generation”, and would bolster their funding – on top of settlements currently allocated by central government.
Such autonomy has helped Bilbao thrive; according to Mr Jiménez, it proves that “you can manage without the dependency from the central state”.
“At the end, about 90 per cent of the taxes that are collected in the Basque Country stay in the Basque Country.
“With this autonomy, and in collaboration also with different other institutions – also from the state, also from Europe – they transformed a city that was based on heavy industry to advanced services and new industries.”
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Mr Jiménez believes that consistent public investment through locally collected income taxes has allowed the region to develop in a way that suits itself, rather than having a path chosen for it by central government.
But this has been boosted, he says, by tailored private investment and collaboration with the public sector, such as the public-private partnership Bilbao Ría 2000, tasked with regenerating post-industrial sites.
The distinctive Guggenheim museum helped transform Bilbao’s fortunes (Fernando/stock.adobe.com)
“Collaboration is quite easy here,” Mr Jiménez says. To have a meeting here with any kind of politician for an entrepreneur, it’s quite easy.
“They used to tell us, for example, you go to Madrid or other places to have a meeting with the regional ministry, it’s quite difficult.
“In our case, the doors are always open because we are looking all the time for investment, research, development.”
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It is, in many ways, redolent of what the MP for Makerfield wishes to achieve with his flagship policy of Number 10 North. Rather than everything being delivered through a nation’s capital, he hopes his new Manchester outpost will mean meetings for investment do not have to take place centrally.
Where Mr Burnham may struggle, however, is installing such a devolved economic system from scratch, Mr Jiménez says.
It is not a case of one size fits all, he believes, and such plans have to be bespoke in each region.
Though the English mayors have powers over matters such as transport and in their combined authorities, giving them control of taxes represents a radical change to the system.
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Number 10 North is an early flagship policy of Andy Burnham’s (PA Media)
And for Mr Jiménez, the reason it works in the Basque Country is its historic autonomy.
“If you ask me, nowadays, could it be possible to create this from zero in the Spanish state? I would find it very, very difficult,” he explains.
“If you want to translate this to any other place, and if you don’t have a culture – a culture in our case coming from history – it could be a very difficult talk or discussion.
“That’s very clear, and would probably be much easier to implement this in a place where this identity plays a main role.”
Strong identity and pride – whether it is national in the case of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland or regional in places like the Liverpool City Region (where a ‘Scouse not English’ attitude exists) – and ensuring people believe that their part of the UK can thrive is key to making it work.
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Mr Jiménez added: “You say: ‘I may feel English or not English, but I’m very linked to my region, and even if I feel English 100 per cent, I want to promote, I want to stay here, I want my children and grandchildren to grow up here with a lot of opportunities.’”
Retaining talent in the Basque Country is the job of Amaia Jugo, managing director of Bizkaia Talent.
Amaia Jugo, managing director of Bizkaia Talent (Supplied)
When opening No 10 North, the prime minister recalled his own experience of moving to London as a graduate in the early 1990s to find work, as he promised to make that a thing of the past.
About how the Basque Country has done so and prevents a brain drain, Ms Jugo said: “We explain that we have very good opportunities in strategic industries. We have different clusters, like automation, where you can have very good opportunities.
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“When young people finish university, they are usually looking at London or Madrid. It is very important to be connected with them to show that they will have good opportunities here and can do a very good job in companies that have a good impact in our ecosystem.
“We have to change. We know that some industries are going to disappear or become smaller. So we have to understand that we need different industries.”
Dua Lipa‘s mother Anesa posted an unseen wedding photo on Instagram to mark her daughter’s 31st birthday on Saturday.
Anesa, 54, gushed she’s ‘so proud of the person Dua has become’ as she led the sweet family birthday tributes.
Dua looked incredible in a sparkly silver minidress and bridal veil at one of her wedding celebrations while her mum stunned in a LBD and black cowboy boots.
She wrote: ‘Happy birthday Dua!! ❤️✨❤️✨❤️ I am so proud of the person you are and everything you’ve become.
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‘May life returns to you all the love, kindness and happiness you give. May this chapter bring endless reasons to smile and unforgettable moments. You deserve all the love and joy in this world! I love you!!’
Dua’s manager father Dukagjin, 57, also shared a tribute alongside childhood snaps of Dua which showed his youthful long hair.
The silver fox wrote: ‘Happy birthday Dua ❤️ I love you so much and I am so incredibly proud of you
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Dua Lipa’s mother Anesa posted an unseen wedding photo on Instagram to mark her daughter’s 31st birthday on Saturday
Anesa, 54, gushed she’s ‘so proud of the person Dua has become’ as she led the sweet family birthday tributes
Dua’s manager father Dukagjin, 57, also shared a tribute alongside childhood snaps of Dua which showed his youthful long hair
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‘May the hand of God be between you and the harms way May the love you give to all of us be the shield that keeps you safe and happy.’
Her sister Rina, 25, penned: ‘my main squeeezeee!!!! 4ever!!! Happiest birthday Du ❤️ im the luckiest girl to have you as my sister ���� i adore you, te dua shume❤️’
Dua’s husband Callum Turner recently revealed his plans to start a family with her in rare comments about their life together.
The actor tied the knot with the singer at London’s Old Marylebone Town Hall earlier this summer.
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Their legal wedding was followed by a lavish three-day destination wedding celebration in Palermo, Sicily, which included a private performance by Elton John.
In an interview he opened up about their potential next steps as a couple, when asked by Esquire UK whether family would be a priority for him in the next decade.
He said: ‘Obviously, yeah, I’m 36. I’d like to have a family and raise some kids.’
On how he found his wedding day, he sweetly added: ‘It was amazing… It was the most beautiful day of my life.
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The silver fox wrote: ‘Happy birthday Dua ❤️ I love you so much and I am so incredibly proud of you’
Her sister Rina, 25, penned: ‘my main squeeezeee!!!! 4ever!!! Happiest birthday Du ❤️ im the luckiest girl to have you as my sister ���� i adore you, te dua shume❤️’
Callum Turner tied the knot with the singer at London’s Old Marylebone Town Hall earlier this summer
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‘It’s nice to find someone that you love and who loves you and you want to be around all the time.’
Dua has previously spoken about whether she would like children or not telling British Vogue: ‘I’d love to have kids one day.
‘But it’s like the constant question of when would there ever be a good time – how it would fit in with my job and how it would work if I went on tour, and how much time out I’d have to take.
‘I think it’s just one of those things that’s going to happen when it happens. I love kids, but I think there’s so much more to raising a child than just loving children.’
The idyllic honeymoon saw the couple travel along the Amalfi coast before heading to Rome where they were seen amongst tourists, paying for a pair of tickets to capture a photo beside the Trevi Fountain.
They also made a stop in Naples and enjoyed a stay in Taormina, checking into the San Domenico Palace, the hotel made famous by The White Lotus season two.
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It happened in the early hours of Saturday morning
Police are appealing for information following a report of a burglary in Newtownabbey and a vehicle theft in North Belfast.
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In the early hours of Saturday morning, a man entered a commercial premises in the Antrim Road area of Newtownabbey before making off with a number of items.
A PSNI spokesperson said: “A report was received at approximately 4am this morning, Saturday 22nd August, that a man had gained entry to commercial premises on the Antrim Road in Newtownabbey, smashing a window and then making off with a number of items.
“Initial enquiries identified a suspect vehicle linked to the burglary. It was later confirmed this vehicle had been stolen from outside a property on the Somerton Road area of north Belfast after access was gained to a house and the car keys taken.
“The vehicle was later found abandoned by officers on Salisbury Gardens – with no one present.“Police are appealing to anyone who was in these areas around 4am this morning and noticed anything suspicious to make contact with us.“We’re also keen to hear from anyone who has dash-cam, CCTV or other footage to contact police using our witness appeal form at https://reporting.psni.police.uk/appeals quoting reference 201 of 22/08/26.”Alternatively, you can call us on the 101 number or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, or online at http://crimestoppers-uk.org/
Manchester airport has diverted seven flights after a man got on to the airfield.
A further 17 planes were delayed after the trespasser breached security in a ‘mental-health related’ incident at around 11.20pm on Friday, police said.
He was arrested at the airport after around 15 minutes and has since been taken to hospital.
easyJet flight 22194 from Zurichwas diverted to Birmingham while the airline’s flight 22002 from Barcelona was sent to Liverpool John Lennon airport.
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Meanwhile TUI flights 439 from Boa Vista, 2573 from Corfu and 2253 from Naples were all diverted to East Midlands airport.
Ryanair flight 1265 from Agadir was diverted to Birmingham, while Jet2 flight 1024 from Faro was sent to Leeds Bradford airport.
The airport has now returned to normal.
A spokesman for Manchester airport said: ‘A person encroached onto the airfield shortly before midnight last night.
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Seven flights due to land at Manchester airport were diverted after a man entered the airfield on Friday night
A further 17 flights were delayed by the man, who was arrested and taken to hospital for assessment
‘They were quickly apprehended by staff and arrested by Greater Manchester Police.
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‘The airfield was closed for around 15 minutes while the incident was handled and the breach was repaired. That resulted in seven diverted flights and 17 delayed flights.’
Greater Manchester Police said: ‘We responded to reports of a male who had been located air side at Manchester Airport at around 11.21pm last night.
‘This appears to be mental-health related and the man has been taken to hospital for assessment.’
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Chaos at Manchester Airport after trespasser ‘enters airfield’ causing seven flights to be diverted and 17 held in sky
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