Retained EU Laws and Latest Migration Figures

by Louise Mclean

Retained EU Laws

It has recently been revealed that despite a Bill to remove unnecessary EU Laws from the British Parliament's statute books, this has not happened.  I tend to believe that the reason, unknown to the general public, is that there is a plan to bring us back into the European Union and especially if the Labour Party gets back into power at the next general election. Certainly the likes of Tony Blair and other Arch-Remainers would want this.

Prime Minister Theresa May embedded Retained EU Law in the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018 'to ensure legal certainty and continuity' immediately after Brexit, by preserving all EU and EU-derived law as it stood immediately before the UK's departure.

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022 was introduced by Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg last year. According to this https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-retained-eu-law-revocation-and-reform-bill-2022

laws that are no longer needed will be removed by the end of December 2023.  This government article talks of bringing forward the 'opportunities of Brexit', although few of these have been realised, due to Britain having globalist leaders and entrenched anti-Brexit civil servants.  

It says the Bill will let parliament update our legislation through 'substance and status reviews' and mentions '2,400 pieces of retained EU law across 300 unique policy areas and 21 sectors of the economy'.  The reality is there are approximately 57,000 EU laws on our statute books! Watch Patriotic Lawyer Exposes Truth about EU Laws in Britain. 

This month it has been revealed that our PM Rishi Sunak has said that only about 600 laws will now be revoked instead of at least 4,000, after he had promised to shred them in his leadership campaign last summer.

Latest Immigration Figures

When there was a national referendum on leaving the European Union in 2016, millions of people voted to leave because they wanted to control Britain's borders and massively reduce the numbers coming to live here. Apparently this fell on deaf ears to the Conservative Party who have been in power since 2010 because immigration has been steadily rising to an untenable number.  

The latest figures that came out on 25th May 2023 show that a total of 1.2 million people came to live in the UK during 2022!  The net migration figure is 606,000, meaning 600,000 people left the UK.  This net figure is always put out to make the total arriving here look less.

These figures show only Legal Immigration and do not reflect the number of illegal immigrants who crossed the channel in dinghies over the past year.  These are estimated to be around 45,000 people, though probably far higher and of course the figures do not include stowaways in lorries and others that creep in around our long coastline!

According to this site, the Home Office granted 3 million visas between March 2022 and March 2023, which is a 90% increase from the year before! The categories break down like this:-

Visit Visas - 51%

Study Visas - 21% (including dependants)

Work Visas - 16% (including dependants)

Family Visas - 3%

Other reasons - 9% (including Ukraine Schemes and BN(O) route)

The Home Office has 62,292 organisations on its register who sponsor work. These are British companies that encourage immigration but there is strong criticism that they should be training British workers instead of importing cheap labour.

It's clear that a small island like Britain cannot continue to take in over a million new people every year. Apparently a new home would need to be built every 2 minutes to house them all. Right now there is a great shortage of housing for our own people and of course that means rental prices have soared and you won't get a decent 2 bedroom flat for less than £2,300 a month in outer London.

Not just housing but all public services are under strain right now and the traffic is very congested on the roads, as our roads were never designed for so many people.  It has been said that Britain is now the most highly populated country in Europe.  Apparently the whole world wants to come here and the reasons are many. Generous welfare benefits, free medical service, free schooling, £ sterling converts so highly into other worldwide currencies to send home.

But for the British people who have lived here for generations, they are dismayed at the massive influx, which is now clearly impacting on their culture, their language and their way of life.

Currently the Illegal Migration Bill is going through Parliament and being carefully checked by the House of Lords right now.  Nevertheless no one really believes that with the current extremely lax system, which seems to allow almost anyone from around the world to come here, that anything will really change. If you don't believe how lax the system is, just look at the Government's own website. https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration

Read more at Migration Watch UK and sign their Petition: 

And Nigel Farage tells it like it is!

Northern Ireland and the Windsor Framework Sellout

 

by Louise Mclean

This is not a post that I particularly wanted to write because we are as far from achieving Brexit as ever and if anything, things have been getting worse.

On 27th February 2023, with much fanfare, Rishi Sunak, the UK Prime Minister and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, presented the Windsor Framework at Windsor Castle. This was with the blessing of King Charles, effectively using the Royal Prerogative, which avoided a vote in Parliament. 

The fact that the King endorsed the Windsor Framework, without a formal vote in Parliament and which subjugates Parliament to EU law, calls into question the delicate constitutional balance between the monarchy, Parliament and the People.  It compromises King Charles's position as head of state before he has even attended his formal coronation.

The Windsor Framework was their answer to dealing with the problems of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which was agreed in 2019 as part of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, with the aim of preventing a hard border between the North and South of Ireland.

As we know, although the United Kingdom had left the European Union on 31st January 2020, Northern Ireland had been left behind and was still subject to the decisions of the European Court of Justice.

The Windsor Framework was supposed to address the problem of trade but many Conservative MPs and especially the DUP Northern Irish MPs are unhappy and say that it does not solve it.

It is so complex by design, that practically no one except those who drafted it can understand it.

Our government has now agreed to implement a whole range of checks and controls for trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which had not been enforced yet, due to the current grace period.

On 22 March 2023, Parliament then voted for something called the Stormont Brake by 515 votes in favour and 29 against.  The Stormont Brake was implemented by Statutory Instrument to amend the Northern Ireland Act 1998. It is basically inserting Theresa May's  Back Stop, which was voted down three times by Parliament. 

Altogether 70 conservative MPs either voted against the Stormont Brake or abstained, which was an uncomfortable rebellion for Prime Minister Sunak, and all of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) voted against. The Labour Party voted it in, despite the fact there was barely time to read it beforehand! It is a critical part of the Windsor Framework, which in fact gives the EU a direct return to regulation of the entire UK from Brussels.

The whole thing is so complicated and devious in its creation, that I am at a loss to explain it fully!  All I can do is point to these three excellent articles by Caroline Bell, who sets everything out as clearly as possible.

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/the-windsor-framework-getting-brexit-undone/

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/the-windsor-framework-a-legal-and-democratic-sting/

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/the-stormont-brake-con-is-critical-for-the-imposition-of-direct-eu-rule-on-the-uk/

What it does seem to be is an affront to the people of Great Britain and a backdoor pathway to letting the EU regulate all of our trade and not just that of Northern Ireland. Perhaps this is being used as a way to get the UK back into the European Union and push the North and South of Ireland into a United Ireland.

Certainly Theresa May made sure by passing the EU Retained Law Bill, that despite Brexit, all EU law in Britain would be retained and very little of the thousands of regulations, if any, have been repealed since we officially left the EU in January 2020.

 

The extent of the legal shenanigans of the Rushi Sunak government and the EU, leave my head spinning!  It is all clearly designed to dupe MPs and the public into thinking a good solution has been found for Northern Ireland!  Rishi, as we know, is one of the young globalist leaders of the World Economic Forum and is no doubt following their instructions!

Another good article is here: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-windsor-agreement-deserves-to-be-exiled/

CPAC - Farage, Orban, Trump and More

by Louise Mclean

The Conservative Political Action Conference was held this summer from 4th to 7th August in Dallas, Texas, with a big line up of speakers.  

There was a great deal of excitement at the conference because Donald Trump's 43 candidate endorsements had nearly all won their primaries and the majority of people in the audience were MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters!

On Thursday 4th August, Viktor Orban took to the stage to often rapturous applause, especially when he attacked the Woke agenda by saying: 'A man is a father, a woman is a mother and stay away from our children!'  He also talked about how Hungary had refused to take in any illegal migrants and how they had built a wall which had successfully kept them out. 

Orban is no fan of the globalists and their agenda.  He mentioned how Hungary was a Christian country which believes in the family. They have given tax breaks to married people, which has resulted in a doubling of marriages in the past 10 years and a halving of abortions.

Also attending was Nigel Farage who spoke on Saturday 6th August. He has attended before and he is due to attend CPAC in Sydney.  His speech was not as long as Orban's but he made it clear that the biggest threat we face is the 5th column inside our countries attempting to destroy the family unit, our Judeo Christian culture, our constitution and our history, through a Marxist education system infiltrating our schools, colleges and universities. 

Nigel also attacked the Fake News and how he was sick of hearing the accusation of white privilege in the English speaking countries. 

Farage said our conservative parties and elected representatives were not actually conservatives. The Americans have their RINOS (Republicans in Name Only) and he thinks the UK has the same, as Boris Johnson was elected as a Conservative Prime Minister but chose to govern as a liberal. 

Nigel said if America falls, we all fall and he urged the people there to fight back against all this and pointed out that the silent majority of the public are on our side. 

Nigel went on to praise Trump and pointed out how in 2018 Trump had warned the Germans not to be dependent on Russian energy and they had laughed at him but 'they are not laughing now'.

The highly anticipated big speech of the weekend came from Donald Trump on Saturday night.  He spoke of how the US is a nation in decline, how energy prices are sky high, when under his administration America had been energy independent. Now President Biden has been begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil, having closed down oil production in America. He said the US now has the highest inflation in over 40 years and that the Stock Market is at its lowest for five decades.  

Trump pointed out how the US had surrendered in Afghanistan and left behind $85 billion worth of the finest military hardware in the world.  He said the nation no longer had a free or fair press and free speech was no longer allowed.  The education system was failing badly, crime in Democrat-run cities was rampant and the economy was collapsing. Trump felt America was no longer respected or listened to. 

He also talked about the political persecution he has had to endure since 2016.  How he was accused of working with Russia, which was proven to be a hoax and was nearly impeached twice for committing no crime.

However he believed that soon the US would have its greatness again and the hard working patriots who built the country would save the country.  With all of Trump's candidates winning in the primaries recently, it certainly looks like the Republican Party will win the November midterms and make a highly successful comeback!

Two of the biggest stars at the conference were Republicans Kari Lake of Arizona and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Kari Lake had just won her primary for governor of Arizona.  Kari is a hugely popular ex journalist and does not hold back when speaking. Marjorie is also a very popular, straight talking woman, who has been continually attacked by the press. She actually went to visit the January 6th prisoners and reported to the world on the terrible conditions they are living in. Altogether there were nearly 40 speakers.

It does seem a bit of a coincidence that Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI on Monday 8th August, the day after this important conference ended, ostensibly to find classified documents that Trump was purportedly holding.  The world is shocked that this could happen to a President of the United States but Americans are hoping that the candidates he has endorsed to stand in the midterms will be unstoppable!

Who Will Fix the Northern Ireland Problem?

 

by Louise Mclean

For the past couple of years, Northern Ireland has been in limbo, due to the very restrictive rules of the Northern Ireland Protocol signed by Boris Johnson as part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement legislation.  Currently the rules which affect trade with mainland Britain are still going through a 'grace period' due to end shortly. 

Over the past few months the Assembly in Stormont has been shut down by the Democratic Ulster Party, who refuse to allow it to operate until this has been sorted out. It has been effectively without an executive since February 2022.

The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill was introduced on 13 June 2022 and has just gone through Parliament.  It would alter the wording and override parts of the Protocol affecting trade and it has yet to make its difficult passage through the pro-EU House of Lords.  It will not radically change the problems that need solving.

Brandon Lewis, the Northern Secretary, said that the Bill was designed to make the free flow of goods as easy between Northern Ireland and Britain, 'as from Great Yarmouth to Carlisle'.  Right now the problems are so bad, that many companies on mainland Britain are simply no longer sending their goods there, due to massive EU bureaucracy and paperwork.

Yesterday Lord David Trimble died. He had served as the First Minister of Northern Ireland and helped draft the Belfast Agreement (or Good Friday Agreement) in 1998, for which he received the Nobel Prize.  

Former Brexit Party MEP, Ben Habib has been involved in a lawsuit to overturn the Northern Ireland Protocol which he and Lord Trimble, who was a co-litigant, felt was a breach of the Belfast Agreement.  He says that there should have been cross community consent for the Protocol but this was in fact recently removed from the Northern Ireland Act 1998!  

They felt that the best possible solution was to have the NI Protocol completely nullified because it breaches the Belfast Agreement.  

Top politicians have all praised Lord Trimble and sent their condolences but many such as Tony Blair, being Europhiles, are not concerned that Northern Ireland remains under the power of the European Union, while the Protocol is in force.

In fact Nancy Pelosi came over recently to warn that there would be no trade deal with the USA if the Northern Ireland Protocol was changed in any way.  She does seem to rather exceed her role as Speaker of the US House of Representatives!

With Britain currently choosing its next Prime Minister, it is generally felt that top candidate, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, would be best placed to deal with the Northern Ireland problem because she brought forward the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. 

Unfortunately, she still believes it is possible to negotiate the Protocol wording with the European Union, who have proven to be totally intransigent in past negotiations. 

Northern Ireland has been a part of the United Kingdom since 1801. Without fixing the problems with trade as soon as possible, Northern Ireland is effectively still operating inside the European Union's Single Market.  While the rest of Britain left the European Union in January 2020 with the Brexit legislation, Northern Ireland was left behind and remains still firmly inside the EU!  

Will Parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol be Scrapped?

by Louise Mclean

Northern Ireland Parliament

In 2019 Boris Johnson accepted the Northern Ireland Protocol as being part of the Brexit legislation, eventually signing it into effect in January 2020.  While the rest of Britain left the EU, the Protocol meant Northern Ireland was left behind in the Single Market and under European Union law.  Here Lord David Frost explains the full history of the Protocol.

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/the-northern-ireland-protocol-how-we-got-here-and-what-should-happen-now/

In order to avoid a hard border between the North and South of Ireland, a customs border had to be created in the Irish Sea between Britain.  This has been totally unacceptable to the majority of people in NI, making goods coming from Britain too expensive to be exported, with many UK companies ceasing to export altogether.

So since Britain left in January 2020 the people of Northern Ireland have been effectively trapped in the European Union's Single Market.

As mentioned in a previous post, there seems to be a genuine push to create a United Ireland of the North and South, all of which will be in the European Union, with the South - Republic of Ireland being already in it.

This goes against the 1800 Act of the Union, which was the legal basis for incorporating Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom. There has been other legislation since then and more especially the Belfast Good Friday Agreement in 1998 (under Tony Blair's Government), which gives the people of NI a final say as to its future, in a referendum.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/belfast-accord-fundamentally-alters-nature-of-north-s-place-in-the-union-1.150356

The above link explains the legislation and how it changed in 1973, (just after Britain joined the European Union), making the people of Northern Ireland sovereign and entitled to a vote if they want to break away from Britain, which would happen if the whole of Ireland were united. This may have laid the foundation for a United Ireland under the European Union.

The recent election which was held in Northern Ireland was won for the first time by the Republican Sinn Fein party, making it the largest party in the Stormont Assembly. Sinn Fein originated in the South of Ireland and historically fought for a united Ireland.

Therefore the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which was previously the leading party, now takes on the role of Deputy First Minister.  The two parties did not work well together in the past and Sinn Fein are very pro the European Union.

Sinn Fein have already announced that they do not want to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol and are talking of giving the Northern Irish people a referendum for a United Ireland within the next five years.

Polls in Northern Ireland show that overall the people do not want to leave the United Kingdom, mainly for economic reasons.

However, since last week's election, the DUP, which advocates Northern Ireland remaining in Britain, is refusing to nominate ministers to form a new Executive until the problems with the Protocol are sorted out.  Under rules of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Fein cannot appoint their First Minister, without a DUP Deputy Minister and the DUP are refusing to cooperate until their demands for changes to the NI Protocol have been addressed.

Despite a recent debate in the UK Parliament to scrap the NI Protocol, the UK Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, said it would be better to negotiate with the European Union, which is a pointless exercise, when you look back at past endless negotiations that went nowhere!

The EU has indicated that it is not prepared to make any changes to Brexit legislation, which has already been signed into law and is unwilling to remove clauses relating to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Today Liz Truss, the British Foreign Secretary, has spoken to European Union leaders and given them an ultimatum after rejecting their recent proposals and the UK Attorney General has received legal advice that it could scrap aspects of the Protocol if it was causing social unrest.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61417798

Ms. Truss says there has been an impasse in power sharing between the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein since the election, which cannot be improved without changes to the NI Protocol.  She says: 'Prices have risen, trade is being badly disrupted, and the people of Northern Ireland are subject to different laws and taxes to those over the Irish Sea (in mainland Britain), which has left them without an Executive and poses a threat to peace and stability'.  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/10/liz-truss-stands-firm-eu-threatens-trade-war/

Britain may need to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which allows for either party to suspend parts of it, if it is causing serious problems, such as 'diversion of trade' and 'societal difficulties', which would be legal justifications.

The EU is not happy about this and is making lots of threats, including cancelling the Brexit Trade deal, legal action, dispute procedures or tariffs.  

This is an ongoing situation and we will have to see if Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have the courage to take action.

Britain to Process Illegal Immigrants in Rwanda

We have recently been presented with a plan to deal with the huge numbers of illegal immigrants coming over in small dinghies across the English Channel from France.  Boris Johnson has made the case and Priti Patel the Home Secretary has said they will be sent to a processing centre in Rwanda, East Africa. Apparently Priti Patel signed a memorandum with Rwanda last week and will pay the country £120 million.  In the meantime, the Royal Navy will be tasked with policing the English Channel, to apprehend the small boats.  

Naturally all the woke liberals are up in arms at the idea, including charities, human rights lawyers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Labour MPs and of course peers in the House of Lords, who have been blocking the Nationalities and Borders Bill as it passes through the Upper Chamber.  This is due to be heard again on 26th April. Anyone who wants to see the nit-picking going on, can see it here.

https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/46226/documents/1740

Ideally, all illegal immigrants coming into Britain could be potentially deported on the grounds that they cannot produce their identity documents or passports, (which they have been advised to throw into the sea by people traffickers who they paid to help them across the Channel).

Imagine if a person arrived at a British airport, or any airport, without an identity document or passport?  What would happen?  They would not be allowed to enter the country.  So the same rule should apply and it would quickly solve the current problem.

Since at least the year 2000, Britain has been paying France to deal with this mass migration across the Channel into Britain but far from it ceasing, the numbers keep growing.  It may be that France is also tired of the huge numbers coming into its country and therefore turns a blind eye to those people moving on to England.

When the people of Britain voted in the 2016 Brexit Referendum, many voted to leave the European Union precisely because they felt immigration was becoming a major problem.  Now six years later, nothing has been done about it and it is actually getting worse.

America is having the same problem at its Mexican border and Texas Governor, Gregg Abbott was so fed up that he recently forwarded at least four busloads of illegal immigrants to the Capitol in DC.  Right now he is considering sending them off to Biden's home state of Delaware!

Of course we all care about genuine refugees, for example from Ukraine, but many of the illegal immigrants coming over are healthy young males with their cell phones and smart clothes, who have managed to find the thousands of pounds necessary to pay the traffickers to get them to Britain.  From the footage we see, they do not appear desperate or destitute.  Some have genuinely come from war torn countries but the majority are economic migrants looking for a better life that the UK's generous welfare benefit system will give them.

Of course the argument is that immigrants contribute to a country's wealth in many ways.  Although that is partly true, the fact is that huge numbers subsist on welfare benefits, draining a country's resources.

Meanwhile, there are millions of British families which are in urgent need right now and are turning to Food Banks.  Due to higher bills and food prices many more will become homeless. These people are not being given the help they require because the massive numbers coming in also need to be housed and fed and appear to be given priority.  

Britain is a very small country compared to others and we now have a serious shortage of housing due to this influx, which has been going on since at least 1997, when Tony Blair started opening the floodgates.  This has pushed up the price of property to an all time high and is totally out of the reach of our young people, many of whom are forced to live with their parents.

When Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister during the 1980s, people forget she was elected due to her stance on curbing immigration.  She was so strict, that even if you were a British born wife but married a foreign born husband, he was not allowed to live in Britain!

On 24th April there will be the final runoff vote in the French Election between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.  Le Pen has made it crystal clear that she believes the French people are tired of showing their hospitality to a never ending number of migrants in France.  

Many European countries feel they have done their bit and enough is enough!  It is incredibly expensive dealing with so many newcomers.  Hungary and Poland for example refuse to take in any at all.  European countries are fast losing their cultural identities, with so many nationalities entering their borders.  Recently there have been days of rioting in Sweden related to immigration.

We must hope the plan for Rwanda will work and discourage people from coming here via illegal routes such as in dinghies and in the back of lorries, but the flights to Rwanda will be expensive.  Perhaps processing people on a relatively uninhabited island nearer to Britain would have been an easier solution.

Brexit Fishing Wars with France

by Louise Mclean

On Thursday 6th May 2021 up to 100 French fishing vessels blocked the port of St. Helier in Jersey in protest against new rules.

Throughout the Brexit negotiations, which carried on for five years, the French were extremely angry about losing any rights to fishing in British waters, which they had been doing since we joined the European Union in 1972.

Things got extremely heated at the end of 2020, when talks between the EU and their British counterparts were putting the final touches to the Brexit deal.  The French government were making threats against Britain regarding the slightest reduction in the number of fish they could catch in our territory.

The terms of the final Brexit deal did in fact hardly reduce the number of fish European nations could take around the coast of Britain and only very slightly increased the number British fishermen could have.

Matters have again come to a head with French fishermen demanding the right to catch fish off the Jersey and Guernsey coastline of the Channel Islands. 

They were demonstrating against post Brexit rules, which state that from 1st May EU fishermen must submit evidence of their past fishing activities, in order to receive a licence to carry on fishing there. 

The reason for the new rules is the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with Britain which was passed by the European Union recently.

Early in the morning of Thursday 6th May 2021 a flotilla of up to 100 French vessels, mainly trawlers and dredgers, blocked the port of St. Helier in Jersey in protest. 

Some Frenchmen were even saying it was another Battle of Trafalgar and one knocked into a Jersey pleasure boat, damaging it. Jersey fishermen said it felt like an invasion.

In response, Britain sent two Royal Navy ships, HMS Severn and HMS Tamar, to break up the tense situation, when flares were set off by the French.  The French then sent two gun boats to face off the Royal Navy but they were not granted permission to enter UK waters. 

The Royal Navy will now remain in the Channel to monitor the situation.

Paris has threatened to cut off electricity to the island of Jersey in retaliation, which is delivered via underwater cable from France.

The Channel Islands are very near the French coast and have been fished by the French for 40 years, so they are up in arms about any changes.

One French fisherman said that they had been told that the Jersey decision is irreversible and that it will affect 250 fishing vessels and 2,000 onshore French jobs.

Apparently 41 licences have already been granted to vessels so far but additional conditions have been added, which are unacceptable to the French.  The French maritime minister accused the Channel islands of dragging its feet about issuing licences.

According to Jersey's Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Ian Gorst, all that is necessary is for French fishermen to provide the evidence of the amount of fishing they have done in the past three years in order to receive a licence.  He said out of the 41 licences issued, only 17 provided this information.  This is apparently a condition of the new T&CA.

The French complain that London has imposed new zoning rules for where their fishermen can and cannot go, the number of days at sea, what machinery they can have, as well as insisting they carry data tracking gear.

The EU is saying Britain has broken the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement but currently Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not agree and has reiterated his unwavering support for Jersey.

Sir David Frost, chief UK negotiator with the EU, Mr. Ian Gorst of Jersey and the British Government are carrying on diplomatic talks with France and the EU Commission in order to resolve the situation.

Lord Frost said that the T&CA gives Jersey the right to regulate the fish in its waters.

The full dramatic story and pictures are here on the Daily Mail website.