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Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor |
A village fightback against migrant camps is set to spread across the country.
Piddington in Oxfordshire will today hold a symbolic referendum on leaving the United Kingdom in protest against plans to move up to 1,250 male asylum seekers into a former army barracks close to the community, which has a population of just 350 people.
The parish has been approached by hundreds of other villages and towns nationwide for advice on replicating the campaign, which has won the backing of the Conservatives and Reform.
As well as the vote, Piddington’s villagers have drawn up plans to install a network of wireless CCTV cameras, an emergency alert system and security patrol teams.
Speaking to The Telegraph on the eve of the vote, which is expected to pass unanimously, women who live in the village said they had taken up self-defence classes over fears about the influx of migrants.
Piddington, near Bicester, is the site for one of three proposed new asylum camps on former military bases.
More than 1,000 asylum seekers are set to be housed in this former army facility |
Camps at Crowborough in Sussex and Wethersfield in Essex have already opened as Labour seeks to decant thousands of migrants from hotels, and find accommodation for the 17,000 Channel migrants who have arrived so far this year.
Migrants housed in military bases and hotels are currently allowed to roam freely around surrounding villages and towns.
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Below, Alice West, one of the women fighting back against the plans, writes for The Telegraph on the fear being felt in her community and what she and other villagers are doing in an attempt to stop the move.
The concerns of locals are clear. In my Oxfordshire village of Piddington, with a population of 350, we have no shop, pub or school. When plans emerged to house 1,256 male asylum seekers on our doorstep, everything changed.
As a mother of three, I watched our community organise self-defence classes at the nature reserve while pleading with female MPs to halt non-detained accommodation.
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Saul Freeman’s surgeon ‘made anti-Semitic remarks’ during a hospital visit |
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Laura Donnelly Health Editor |
The Telegraph has published extraordinary testimonies which campaigners say reveal “the anti-Semitic rot at the heart of our NHS”.
I’ve been reporting on the experiences of Jewish patients and health workers uncovered by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, including disturbing accounts from people who say they felt frightened and vulnerable while receiving or providing NHS care.
One of the most shocking involves Saul Freeman, a cancer patient from Sheffield. He says a surgeon began making anti-Semitic remarks while cutting a growth from his forehead under local anaesthetic, claiming Jews killed Palestinian children “for fun”.
Freeman, who feared his Star of David necklace was visible, describes realising that the man making the comments had a knife in his hand and becoming frightened he might deliberately harm him.
We also report the experience of Cambridge nurse Shelley Lipman, who says a colleague gave her a Nazi salute beside a patient’s bed after discovering she was Jewish.
Shelley Lipman described her experiences of anti-Semitism while working in the NHS |
Polling for the campaign found almost two-thirds of British Jews fear unequal NHS treatment because of their identity.
The NHS exists to care for people when they are at their most vulnerable. These accounts raise disturbing questions about whether Jewish patients and staff can always feel safe within it – and what happens when they do not.
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Philip Johnston Britain’s most populous nation has no formal voice in the so-called Celtic fringe’s constitutional talks Continue reading ➤
John Redwood Ending the triple lock is swindling pensioners, Dominic Lawson Continue reading ➤
David Blair The West’s luck will soon run out. Confrontation with Russia looms when it does Continue reading ➤ |
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have moved their children to a new school because of security concerns. Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, started at a British school just last week, but will now join another one in the area. The children spent only two days at the school before the Sussexes removed them over concerns about the daily commute. Heavy traffic and the distance between the school and the property where the family is staying were critical factors. Yesterday, The Telegraph revealed that the Duchess of Sussex had been granted her first government-backed security review since quitting royal duties. Victoria Ward, our Deputy Royal Editor, has the full story. For subscribers only ➤ |
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Valerie Stobbart has been desperately searching for her son, Nathan, for nine months |
In May, an email arrived in my inbox, writes Dominic Nicholls, sent by a desperate mother asking me for help to find her missing son. Nathan Stobbart had travelled to St Petersburg to marry his Russian girlfriend. Coerced into the Russian army, he vanished somewhere in Ukraine, missing and presumed dead. His mother hoped he had been taken prisoner and, receiving no word from the British government, asked The Telegraph for help. For this, her employer, the Home Office, sacked her. Read the extraordinary full story here.
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When Hermione Eyre dialled into a Zoom call with Debbie Harry recently, there followed an hour of honest reflection from the woman once branded “the first postmodern tough cookie”. “I’ve lived long enough to have a few things to talk about,” Harry – as breathy and feminine as Marilyn Monroe – admits, discussing her time as a Playboy bunny, the tribal experience of her Blondie shows and her idiosyncratic style. Continue reading ➤ |
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The class of ‘64: John, Bruce, Symon, Andrew, Suzy, Jackie, Tony, Sue, Peter, Paul and Neil |
In 1963, World in Action made a documentary in which it interviewed seven-year-old children from across the class spectrum. Since then, director Michael Apted has returned every seven years to catch up on their lives. Now, the participants are 70, and they reflect on how the series has shaped them as they return to our screens for the final time. Continue reading ➤ |
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Lorraine Dale spent 10 years as Queen Elizabeth II’s head housekeeper, training staff to keep the royal residences in mint condition. Telegraph readers asked her about the art of washing, ironing and dusting for a monarch, the household ingredient she swears by for keeping bed linen in top condition and how she avoided any disasters around family heirlooms.
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This piece is part of our new weekly series, bringing you expert health advice from professionals.
Midlife is a common time for sexual difficulties to surface. Illness, stress, trauma, cancer and surgery can all change how someone feels about their body and their sexuality.
We’re remarkably good at looking after other aspects of our health, yet when something happens involving our genitals, we can feel we’re supposed to cope with it silently.
Anxiety and shame around sexual problems can become debilitating. People worry they’re no longer attractive, or that their relationship is failing. Others start to avoid sex rather than admit a problem.
Sex doesn’t have to be perfect, happen a certain number of times a week, or look the way it did when you were 25. It needs to work for you, in the body and relationship you have now.
In this piece, I discuss the most common midlife sex problems I see, and what you can do to get back on track.
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Lentils, anyone?Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes:
It will, we must concede, be quite an achievement if the Government manages to get children excited about lentils. As part of its health-driven overhaul of school meals – adios, pink custard – it is encouraging the adoption of regular “pulse days”.
I grew up in a vegetarian home, so I know all about lentils. I suspect I wouldn’t have relished having them for dinner and then lunch at school the next day (the end of my relationship with them came, by an odd coincidence, on the day I started university). Mind you, I never found myself craving a second helping of lukewarm spaghetti hoops or sickly sponge pudding either.
Is there a happy compromise to be found? Lynn McDonagh thought so: “When I went through the school system, meals were actually cooked from scratch on school premises. By the time my children were at school, meals were brought in ready-made and reheated. That’s when standards went down.”
Another reader added: “I have wonderful memories of primary school dinners in the 1960s and 1970s. We had dinner and pudding every day, plus a third of a pint of milk at break time. All meals were cooked on the premises. We had pie and mash at least once a week, mince and rice, banana custard, tapioca pudding, fish on a Friday, and once a fortnight it was gypsy tart, with an apple to clean your teeth afterwards.
“We had to eat vegetables every day, and we were not allowed to leave the table until we’d finished. I’m 67 with a BMI of 20, all my own teeth and just two fillings. Bring back dinner and pudding for kids.”
Malcolm Edward added (I think correctly): “Scrapping fish and chips is very sad. Young people need energy. Healthy food is good, but it must be what the children like. If they don’t like it, they won’t eat it and there will be a lot of waste.”
Richard Clark, meanwhile, was puzzled: “I’m surprised to hear that school meals require reform again. I thought Jamie Oliver had sorted it all out.” How would you make school meals great again? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
Please confirm in your reply that you are happy to be featured and that we have your permission to use your name. |
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1830 | The Duke of Wellington opens George Stephenson’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway, but on the same day, William Huskisson becomes the first passenger killed by a railway train while attending the opening
1940 | Battle of Britain Day: One of the most fierce days of the war as the RAF fights off the Luftwaffe’s most concentrated attack on London
2024 | Ryan Routh’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump while the presidential candidate was playing golf in Florida
Birthdays: Prince Harry (42), Tom Hardy (49), Jimmy Carr (54)
From Hollywood A-listers to music legends, some of the world’s biggest stars have chosen the most unexpected people to guide their children, writes Marianka Swain.
How many celebrity godchildren and godparents do you know? Test your knowledge with our fiendish all-star quiz. To start off, Steven Spielberg has not one but two A-list goddaughters – but who are they?
1. Reese Witherspoon and Angelina Jolie
2. Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow
3. Alicia Silverstone and Winona Ryder
4. Kirsten Dunst and Liv Tyler
Click on one of the above options to reveal the answer |
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Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was TARANTULA. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
P.S. I’d love to hear what you think of this newsletter. You can email me your feedback at fromtheeditor@telegraph.co.uk. |
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