FRIGID BRITAIN Has Suffered a Frigid Start to February, with Freezing Temperatures and Blizzards Covering Much of the Country
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The british Weekly, Sat. February 9, 2019 Page 1 Neeson engulfed by ‘racist’ uproar - page 2 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, February 9, 2019 • Number 1769 Always Free Cold snap leaves Britain shivering FRIGID BRITAIN has suffered a frigid start to February, with freezing temperatures and blizzards covering much of the country. Temperatures Met Office plummeted to -12C (9F) in meteorologist Simon the Scottish Highlands and Partridge said a respite -11C in the aptly named from the bitter weather Chillingham Barns, in that disrupted travel Northumberland, on in many parts of the Saturday night. country is now on the And although way. conditions had eased He said: “Things are by midweek, bringing picking up now as we a welcome rise in the start to see milder air push mercury as wind in from the South,” before and rain sweept across warning: temperatures the country the dreaded will dip again from around freeze could return soon, February 14 onwards with with bookmaker Coral potential for it being well slashing the odds on this below zero with further February being the coldest snow showers.” on record. Bookmaker Coral is Bone-chilling, double- giving odds of 4-5 on that digit lows were recorded this February will be the overnight on Saturday, coldest on record. with -10.4C in Redesdale, The lowest temperature Northumberland, and ever recorded in the UK is -10.8C in Leeming,North the -27.2C at Braemar in Yorkshire. Braemar in the January, 1982. Highlands was the Meanwhile, people coldest spot in Britain at who abandoned their cars -12.6C. on roads to go sledging in The freezing weather Dartmoor, Devon, were turned the Kinder branded “selfish idiots” Downfall, in Derbyshire, this week. into a challenge for ice Paramedics trying to climbers as get to an injured walker ICE CAPADES: Temperatures fell so low over the weekend it allowed nature to provide some beautiful the 100ft waterfall froze were held up for more scenes across parts of the UK. In Derbyshire stunning icicles formed at Kinder Downfall, where the icy into solid sheets of ice. cont. on page 2, col. 3 weather caused the 98ft (30m) waterfall to completely freeze over. News from Britain 2-5 • Meet a Member 8 • Crossword 8 • Stargazing 9 • Sudoku 9 • Brits in LA 10 • Sean Borg 11• Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. February 9, 2019 News from Britain Neeson’s red carpet event cancelled amid uproar over his plan to ‘cosh’ a black man n I am not a racist insists actor after revealing rage following rape of a female friend HOLLYWOOD star Liam that he was a black man. I Ireland. The Troubles, the Neeson was caught in the thought, ‘OK’. 60s, 70s and 80s. There middle of a race row this “And after that there was a war going on. I had week as the premiere of were some nights I went acquaintances who were his film Cold Pursuit was deliberately to black areas involved in the trouble, abruptly cancelled. in this city looking to be the bigotry. The announcement set upon so that I could “One Catholic would came amid continued unleash physical violence. be killed, the next day a fallout from the actor’s And I did it for, I’d say Protestant would be killed. admission that he once maybe four or five times.” One Catholic pub would wanted to kill a black man He was asked whether be bombed, a Protestant at random after a friend’s he asked for other details pub would be bombed. rape. Organisers called off of the rapist, such as was “We all pretend we’re the New York premiere he “tall, short or small”? all politically correct of the revenge-themed He replied: “I asked all but sometimes you just movie just hours before it those questions, I did, but scratch the surface and was supposed to start. I did ask her about race. you discover this racism The Northern Ireland- If she has said he was and bigotry.” born star has faced a fierce Irish or Scot or a Brit or “All this stuff that’s backlash since confessing a Lithuanian, I know I it happening in the world, to a “medieval” desire for would have had the same the violence, is proof revenge on his friend’s effect. of that, you know. But behalf. Television pundit “I was trying to honour, that primal need, I Piers Morgan led the to stand up for my dear understand.” criticism, saying: “It’s like friend in this terrible The interview was Ku Klux Klan stuff.” medieval fashion. published by The Earlier Neeson was “I’m a fairly intelligent Independent whose mobbed and hugged by guy and that’s why it commissioning editor fans as he arrived to give kinda shocked me when I Kuba ShandBaptiste “I was trying to honour, to stand up for my dear friend an interview in New York. came down to earth after wrote: “Neeson crucially in this terrible medieval fashion.” - Liam Neeson He issued no apology for having these horrible didn’t act on his impulses his earlier remarks, saying feelings.” and was later ashamed. he swiftly recognised his He called the experience “But I wonder if Woman, 80, hurt in road rage attack feelings were wrong. The “a learning curve” and underlying both perhaps An 80-year-old woman assault. when she tried to help actor, 66, described what said he sought advice from is a distinctive idea of suffered a fractured He has been released her husband, 74, who led him to prowl the streets the church and turned to black people as somehow pelvis when a driver under investigation and was also punched in the “nearly 40 years ago” to power walking to manage different, uncivilised, attacked her family in a police are appealing for face when he intervened. avenge his friend who he his rage. Neeson also told brutalist – rather than the road rage brawl. witnesses. The woman’s daughter, said died five years ago. how his childhood had focus being on the fact that The woman and her Derbyshire Police said 54, then also tried to He said: “I asked her, did affected him. “So forgive sexual abuse and rape are husband, followed it is understood the BMW intervene and was you know the person? me,” he said. “I was abhorrent acts, whoever by two other family driver accused a 61-year- punched in the face by the ‘No’. His race? She said brought up in Northern commits them.” members in a separate old man in the second attacker, which caused car, had driven to the car of abruptly pulling in her to fall to the ground, Rose and Crown pub, in front of him. hit the back of her head, 171 Pier Ave. Ste. 121 • Santa Monica CA 9005 Barlborough, Derbyshire, He apologised but and lose consciousness. Tel: (310) 452 2621 • Fax: (310) 314-7653 [email protected] on Sunday. was punched by the Police said it is www.british-weekly.com • Twitter/BritishWeekly When they arrived, a BMW driver and fell to understood the attacker BMW driver attacked all the ground. The attacker was restrained by his Managing Editor: Neil Fletcher four of them because he then kicked him in the male passenger and they Deputy Editor: Nick Stark felt he had been “cut up”, head several times, said both left in the BMW. Contributing Writers: Sean Borg, Alan Darby Drake, police said. police. The two women were John Hiscock, Eileen Lee, , Rick Parcell, Anne Shaw, A 34-year-old man was The 80-year-old was taken to hospital by Nick Stark, Craig Bobby Young arrested on suspicion of pushed to the ground ambulance. Showbusiness Editor: Sean Borg Advertising Manager: Mark Devlin Paramedics: in agony for help to get go from car to car urging Legal Notices and DBAs: Mirelle Woolf cont. from page one through. 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All submissions - Shocked witness Sophy dealing with ignorant including photographs - become property of the British Weekly and are subject to editing and/or deletion at smashed his knee when Editor’s discretion. he fell during a walk Miles described how one snow tourists who park California’s British Accent™ - Since 1984 on Saturday but waited of the paramedics had to wherever they fancy.” The british Weekly, Sat. February 9, 2019 Page 3 News from Britain How anguished Meghan begged dad to make up FRIENDS of the Duchess of Sussex have revealed she wrote to her father after the Royal Wedding pleading with him to repair their relationship. But they said when she asked him to stop speaking to the media, he responded BEFORE THE FALL: Charles Spencer with his by asking for a photo first wife, Victoria Lockwood, at Althorp House opportunity.