🔴Rebekah Vardy has told the High Court that she was “just gossiping” when messaging her agent about the failure of one of her husband’s then teammates to come to training in 2018
🔴 Rebekah Vardy said she was "fuming" that someone had tipped off a newspaper about a story before her, texts between her and her agent read out in court have revealed
🔎The “Wagatha” epithet was conjured on Twitter (where else?)
It was created in tribute to the deductive powers of Mrs Rooney, who – by deliberate deployment of fake stories on her Instagram – alighted upon Mrs Vardy, who denies the accusation, as the source of tabloid leaks
The ongoing trial represents, one would think, an improbable culture clash with the genteel figure of Agatha Christie, whose tea-at-the-vicarage social landscape is one in which chipolatas are merely party sausages, and leaks are found only in drains
💬 Rebekah Vardy has said that she felt “bullied and manipulated” during cross-examination by Coleen Rooney’s lawyer, as her own lawyer concluded his questioning.
🔴 Military experts agree that crossing any river in the middle of a conflict is not easy.
But the Russian army’s attempt to build a pontoon over the Siverskyi Donets river ended with a significant portion of a battalion wiped out in the process
🎥 Drone footage shows the aftermath.
❌ Russian army vehicles, including as many as three dozen tanks, were blown to smithereens as the battalion gathered to make the crossing
🔴At least two civilians died Thursday as a result of a shelling attack on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, local authorities have said
🔴Boris Johnson must show the same leadership over Northern Ireland as he has on Ukraine by ripping up the Northern Ireland Protocol, Lord Frost has said
➡️Lord Frost also said efforts to broker an agreement had "reached the end of the road". He urged the Prime Minister to act now to save the Union even if that meant "confrontation" with the EU
🔴British troops are “ready to go and fight” Russia in a “lethal” way if called upon, the head of an elite unit has said
🗣️Brigadier Nick Cowley, Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, admitted his soldiers bore a “huge responsibility to make sure we are ready because we may need to go and fight for our freedom”