William and Kate Celebrate Tenth Wedding Anniversary

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William and Kate celebrate tenth wedding anniversary

n Royal Couple release oﬃcial portrait to mark their special day

THE prince gazes adoringly at his beautiful wife in a romantic photo to mark a fairytale 10 years together.

In the second picture which they tried to delay hitches. of the set, released this the inevitable.

In

a

new

BBC

week left, Kate and

But they have still documentary,

Royal

William hug and smile managed to retain

a

Wedding: A Day To

as they celebrate their degree of normality for Remember,

Fiona

happy marriage.

themselves and their Cairns

and

Rachel

It was a decade ago children

–

George, Eardley, who led the

that more than 300 seven, Charlotte, ﬁve, team that designed

million people around and Louis, three – that the cake, tell how the

the

world

and watched the Queen and perhaps Queen discovered they

Kate’s Prince Charles can only had removed a door

William

wedding in Westminster dream of. Abbey.

at Buckingham Palace because the cake was too big. The Queen

Much has changed country hideaway since April 29, 2011, but

Only last weekend, surprisedthemandsaid: the same shared joy they the couple and their “I understand you’ve portrayed on that day youngsters enjoyed a been dismantling my shines through in today’s Sunday lunch in the house.” two oﬃcial portraits, garden of the Rose &

taken

by

celebrity Crown at Snettisham handbrake on

photographer

Chris in Norfolk, close to

Later, William had
Floyd at Kensington their country hideaway, to be rescued by his Palace this week.

Anmer Hall.

brother Harry when he
As William and Kate started to drive Kate out

reach their 10-year of the palace in Prince

bigger burden

Kate, 39, wears

a

milestone,

a

YouGov Charles’s Aston Martin

£195 ﬂowery Ghost poll shows that the Volante sports car.

Avery

wrap

dress, nation’s love for them

Former rugby ace Sir which she previously is growing with a net Clive Woodward tells wore at a British High approval rating of 68 the show that it did not Commission reception per cent for Prince go smoothly. on the couple’s tour of William and 67 per

“They drove oﬀ and

Pakistan in 2019.

cent for Kate. Only the he struggled and he’s

William, 38, and Kate, Queen on 76 per cent is chugging out – this is at

now pivotal ﬁgures higher.

for the future of the Wills the back of Buckingham

and

Kate’s Palace – and Harry goes

British monarchy, ﬁnd wedding is widely running after him,” says

themselves sharing bigger burden of royal made the UK proud but duties after years in it was not without its on.” a

recalled as a day that Sir Clive, laughing.

SO FAR, SO GOOD: William and Kate married on April 29, 2011.

“Hehadthehandbrake

The royal couple have three children.

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News From Britain

Boris bites back as ‘Flatgate’ scandal continues to grow

n PM and Labour leader exchange angry words at PMQ

BORIS Johnson went claimed the Government

“Do not the British

on the counter-attack was “mired in sleaze, people deserve a Prime this week as claims cronyism and scandal”, Minister they can trust,

that

ﬁnancing

for prompting Mr Johnson not

a

Government

a

renovation of his to say around £350,000 who are mired in sleaze,

Downing Street ﬂat of taxpayers’ money cronyism and scandal?”

broke the law became was spent redecorating The Electoral impossible to ignore. the Downing Street Commission said on

In a heated Commons accommodation during Tuesday: “We have clash with Labour Tony Blair’s term in been in contact with leader Sir Keir Starmer, oﬃce. the Conservative at Prime Minister’s He told Sir Keir: “The Party since late March

FLAT BROKE? Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (right), mocked the
PM over the affair, referring to him as ‘Major Sleaze’

Questions,

Johnson answer is that I have and have conducted

matter.”

have also announced a Mr Johnson’s estranged

insisted repeatedly that covered the costs. he personally paid the an assessment of the information they have provided to us.
Asked if Mr Johnson separate inquiry into the former chief adviser

would be willing to be refurbishment payment, Dominic

Cummings

overages for the £58,000 ‘Dodgy contracts’

questioned in person, his headed by crossbench claimed any attempt to

press secretary said: “He peer and former private get donors to “secretly and the Government secretary to the Queen pay” for the work by

redecoration. The bill

“Of

course,

the

“We are now satisﬁed

was way above a £30,000 Electoral Commission that there are reasonable taxpayer-funded annual is investigating this grounds to suspect that maintenance allowance and I can tell him that I an offence or offences for the premier’s official have conformed in full may have occurred.

will of course be happy Christopher Geidt.

designer Lulu Lytle

to assist if asked.” Downing
The redecoration row would be “unethical,
Street erupted last week when foolish, possibly illegal”.

residence.

with the code of conduct

“We will therefore

But Mr Johnson told and the ministerial code, continue this work as a MPs: “I have covered the and oﬃcials have been formal investigation to costs.” He maintained advising me throughout establish whether this is

Two veterans in court charged with murder of IRA member in 1972

his cash arrangements this whole thing.

the case.”

TWO elderly Northern Court of Human Rights, a checkpoint in the area at

did not break ministerial

Taunting Mr Johnson

Ireland veterans this claiming his prosecution the time.

conduct rules or the law. with

the

nickname separate inquiry

week became the ﬁrst is “discriminatory and

The lawyer told the court that Mr McCann

The Prime Minister “Major Sleaze”, Sir Keir

The watchdog can

to be tried over “legacy” vexatious”.

spoke out after the said: “This is a Prime issue ﬁnes of up to Electoral Commission Minister who during the £20,000 and can refer launched an inquiry into pandemic was nipping investigations to police

killings during The Troubles.

Among those attending was a senior member of court was MP and former the Oﬃcial IRA who was

The

former soldier Johnny Mercer suspected of involvement

reports

Conservative out of meetings to choose or prosecutors.

paratroopers, known to – sacked last week as in a number of attacks on the court as Soldiers Aand Veterans minister after security forces carried out C and now in their 70s, speaking out about a lack by the republican group.

Party chiefs arranged wallpaper at £840 a roll.

A

Tory spokesman

“What do we get said: “We believe all from this Prime Minister reportable donations a loan from donors to initially foot the bill.

both denied murdering of progress on legislation

The court heard that

However, Mr Johnson and this Conservative have been transparently

Oﬃcial IRA member Joe to protect British Northern police intelligence in 1972

was said to be furious the Government?

Dodgy and correctly declared

McCann in Belfast, in Ireland veterans from assessed Mr McCann as probe was announced contracts, jobs for their and published by the

an hour before an mates and cash for Electoral Commission.

1972.

prosecution.

a leading member of the

The 24 year old was at the time top of the Royal it is messy, it is unpleasant, that, if encountered, he Ulster Constabulary’s it is a horrible process to would likely be armed most wanted list, Belfast go through for both sides. and resist arrest. Crown Court was told. “What I don’t think is The lawyer said both The trial is being held – 50 years later – you get soldiers believed Mr before judge only, a truly accurate picture of McCann would have because of fears that a jury what happened.” been armed but they said could be intimidated. He added: “They served no weapon was found Before the trial opened, their country, they did when they searched him demonstrators held their best. War is messy as he lay wounded on the banners outside the court and we need to ﬁnd a ground.

He said: “In any conﬂict, Oﬃcial IRA in Belfast and

ill-tempered Minister’s

Prime access. And who is at the

“We will continue

Questions heart of it? The Prime to work constructively

clash with Sir Keir.

Minister – Major Sleaze, with

the

Electoral

The Labour leader sitting there.

Commission on this

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killings in the Troubles but Branch oﬃcer attempted soldiers shot Mr McCann hundreds more could face to arrest Mr McCann, who in order to stop him

reinvestigation.

ran away.

from getting away and

One of the men facing

The Crown lawyer said avoiding being arrested.

“The prosecution case

trial later this year, Dennis at that point, soldiers A

Hutchings, Cornwall, is seeking deceased

permission to take his soldier B, opened ﬁre. legally justiﬁed.”

case to the European They had been manning The case continues.

79,

from and C, and another now is that in all circumstances

paratrooper, that shooting was not

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News From Britain

COVID: Sixty million booster shots will ﬁght third wave

n New order will allow every Briton to get third shot to renew protection against virus

SIXTY million extra originally had.

we can deliver more than

booster vaccines have

Professor Van-Tam also 2.5 billion doses of our

been secured to ﬁght oﬀ said a study was under vaccine globally by the end

the threat of a third wave way to look at whether it of 2021.” of Covid.

was necessary to use the

Vaccines

minister

Health Secretary Matt same vaccine someone Nadhim Zahawi said: “We Hancock said the stockpile had for their ﬁrst two jabs are doing everything we

will “keep us safe and for their booster.

can to make sure the most

free” from a potential virus surge in the autumn.

Mr Hancock conﬁrmed vulnerable are protected

that the latest data, from Covid-19 now and in

The new order of including ﬁgures showing the future. Pﬁzer/BioNTech

doses seven in 10 adults now

“Our brilliant Vaccines

means the NHS will have have protective Covid-19 Taskforce has secured enough supplies to give antibodies, means the an extra 60 million doses every adult a third shot to country is on target for of the Pﬁzer/ BioNTech renew protection against lifting further lockdown vaccines to support our

the virus.

restrictions next month.

booster

programme,

It comes as England’s

which will be developed in

line with the advice of our

deputy chief medical ‘committment’

oﬃcer Professor Jonathan

Van-Tam
He said: “The data experts.”

suggested shows that we are

Meanwhile, the Health

The UK has secured an extra 60 million doses of the Pﬁzer/ BioNTech vaccine

“we are at or close to essentially on track for Secretary has hinted there the bottom” of levels of where we expected to be may be “good news” soon coronavirus cases in the at this point and that is for care home residents bringing coronavirus back here, while we get this it to an “upsurge” with

into the home.

disease under control much lower levels of

across the whole world, hospitalisations we have been working on deaths. and
UK.

He added: “I am

obviously good news.

currently required to

‘hopeful’

Ben Osborn, managing isolate for two weeks after
“And especially now a programme of booster that vaccinations have shots for over a year now.
He said: “The modelling consensus is clear, we will personally hopeful that if director of Pﬁzer UK, said: a trip out. the vaccine programme “By more than doubling

The Government has

taken

place

The among “And we’ve backed some have what’s called a third vast of the only clinical trials wave. continues at pace, the third our supply commitment been threatened with wave might just be a third to the UK, we are legal action over the rule, residents.

majority have now had in the world looking

“I am fairly hopeful

upsurge.”

delighted to support the which campaigners say

two doses and, among speciﬁcally at booster that if the vaccine

staﬀ, vaccination rates are shots. programme continues

rising as well. “I’m delighted to be at pace and continues to
“Also, the rates of able to tell you that we’ve be as successful as it has
Theneworderbringsthe ongoing rollout of the UK encourages care homes number of Pﬁzer vaccine immunisation programme to act unlawfully by

doses the Government has and help the Government “imprisoning” residents.

procured to 100 million – in its eﬀorts to address the

Mr Hancock said: “We

areworkingonitrightnow,

coronavirus are so much secured

a

further 60 been the third wave might

the same as the number pandemic.

lower in the community. million doses of the Pﬁzer/ just be a third upsurge So I hope that we can have BioNTech vaccine that will and much less signiﬁcant some good news for you be used alongside others because of the delinking of AstraZeneca shots ordered.
“Along with our partner and in fact I had a meeting BioNTech, we are working on this yesterday, to make
In theory, this means relentlessly to support sure we can get the rules

soon.”

as part of our booster of cases to hospitalisations

people should be able vaccination

campaigns right so that people can

“It means we can follow shot programme later this and deaths. But I think it to have a booster shot of worldwide and, based on safely leave a care home

the same vaccine they current projections, believe and come back without the roadmap – and we look year.” at the data all the time.” Professor is inconceivable to think
Van-Tam we will go from a period
Announcing the new warned that a third wave of relative calm, which is Pﬁzer deal at a Downing of Covid was likely in the where we are now, with no Street news conference, autumn but said he was further bumps in the road the Health Secretary said: “hopeful” that the vaccines between now and this time “To keep us safe and free programme could reduce next year.”