🔴EXCLUSIVE: French fishermen have been caught apparently “fibbing” on their applications to work in British waters after Brexit, the Telegraph has learned
🇬🇧UK officials have used satellite data to directly contradict claims made by a number of French fishermen to have previously fished off the coast of Britain telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
Under the terms of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, EU fishing vessels must show they operated in British waters between 2012 and 2016 before they can be granted a licence telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🇫🇷A number of the claims made by French fishermen were “immediately shown to be false”, according to one Whitehall source.
🔴To support their applications, some of the French boats have provided UK officials with “single data points” as evidence that they were working in the right area on a specific date telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🇬🇧The UK officials believe they have disproved a number of these claims after buying commercial satellite data called AIS, which is used by port authorities and keeps a record of where boats have been telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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🚨BREAKING: The British fishing boat seized by French authorities and currently stuck in Le Havre is free to leave telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
Cornelis Gert Jan, a Scottish-registered scallop dredger, was impounded seven days ago amid the political wrestle over post-Brexit fishing licences telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🗣️Mathieu Croix, lawyer for Jondy Ward, the captain of the Cornelis Gert Jan, said: "The court followed our arguments and cancelled the seizure.
🚨BREAKING: MPs have voted by 250 to 232 to overturn Owen Paterson’s suspension and consider the process the Standards regime that found him guilty of breaking anti-corruption rules telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🔴Opposition members shouted "shameful" and "what have you done to this place" as the votes were read out.
🗣️Chris Bryant earlier urged MPs not to "do something today that we will rue in the future", as he noted that the public will look disapprovingly on any move to protect Owen Paterson from his suspension
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🔴A four-year-old Australian girl was found alive on Tuesday night, 18 days after vanishing from her family's tent in a remote campsite in Western Australia.
Cleo Smith was discovered locked in a house in the coastal town of Carnarvon, not far from where she was last seen
Police forced their way into the house at around 1am local time and found the young girl inside, Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch said.
Police last month had offered $1M AUD (£546,000) for information leading to Cleo's recovery after she was feared abducted from her family's tent at a remote campsite on October 16.
Her disappearance triggered a massive search and police officers interviewed more than 110 people