News about Edward Heath

How had the Met had come to believe 'Nick' and then, on his say-so alone, cruelly expose a number of very eminent, innocent individuals (including Harvey Proctor and Lord Brittan, both pictured above left) to vile and false accusations? I was asked to answer this problem. It was clear to me that 'Nick' (main picture) was not only a serial liar, but that his charges were also astonishing within hours of starting to read the documents surrounding the long police investigation.

The late Queen could be found at a card table in a village hall pouring tea for three other women of a certain age. She was in Sandringham as the President of the Women's Institute's Sandringham branch, and this first meeting of the year was always a highlight on her calendar. Elizabeth was following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother, Queen Mary, who established the branch in 1919 for the local community, mainly the wives and daughters of Sandringham estate workers.

During the probe into child sex abuse allegations, Sir Edward Heath's (left) close colleagues were never approached by police officers, according to Parliament. Several former Prime Minister May's colleagues have slammed the 'amateurish' probe, pressuring for a public inquiry into the unsolved charges. Despite Mr Heath's accusers, dreamer Carl Beech (right), being jailed for perverting the path of justice, they say it has tarnished the image of a "great statesman." Mr Heath had no evidence against him, although Carl Beech, his chief accuser, was both a paedophil and fantasist. Beech, the woman who screamed over a murderous VIP paedophile ring in Westminster, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Chia Chia and Ching Ching were the first examples of so-called Panda Diplomacy when they arrived in September 1974. The pandas were flown to Heathrow after a deal was struck by Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath and his autocratic counterpart Chairman Mao, according to them, and they were given a home at London Zoo. Mr Heath (left), who has since been out of office, was one of the first to pay the pair a visit. When Chia Chia left the United Kingdom in 1988, three years after his mate's death, it was fitting that Mr Heath (top right), who had been out of office for 14 years by then, resigned. Sadly, there have been no such goodbyes from Rishi Sunak to Yang Guang (bottom right) and Tian Tian, who are returning to China after spending 12 years at Edinburgh Zoo, this month.

Pandas have been a little-known diplomatic instrument for China for generations, allowing the Chinese government to wield soft power on the international stage. The beloved animals have been sent by the CCP since the 1940s to prove its good faith with America, with the deteriorating relationship between the two countries resulting in the death of all but four pandas around the United States. Since the pandas are owned by China, the nation is able to lease and retract the fuzzy creatures at will - leading Washington, D.C.'s beloved Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, who were sent back to Asia on November 8 after two decades in the United States. However, there are signals of 'panda diplomacy' taking center stage again after President Biden welcomed Chinese counterpart President Xi to a historic meeting in San Francisco last week. According to New York billionaire John Catsimatidis, the meeting saw Xi react 'positively' to the prospect of returning pandas to America. According to DailyMail.com, the entrepreneur of the Gristedes supermarket chain is planning to bring them to the Big Apple in a multi-million-dollar tourism effort.

Following Suella Braverman's dismissal as Home Secretary and James Cleverly's return to her old position, the former Prime Minister was seen striding into Number 10 earlier this morning, before his appointment was confirmed. Mr Cameron is following in the footsteps of fellow former Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home (right), who became Foreign Secretary under Edward Heath in 1970. Douglas Home was still a sitting MP when he returned to parliament, but Mr Cameron resigned entirely after being sacked as Prime Minister in 2016. It means he must be elected a member of the House of Lords to keep the tradition that members of Parliament must serve in Parliament. Peter Carrington, the last member of the House of Lords to serve as Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, when he resigned following Argentina's invasion of the Falklands Islands.

Locals are outraged that an iconic Hotel Bristol (top right) will be demolished for 'hideous' flats that they claim are being 'rubberstamped through.' When the plan to demolish the hotel was not revealed to Cornwall Council's planning committee, it was initially suggested that the blustertop road Narrowcliff in Newquay (bottom right and left).

QUENTIN LETTS: Dame Eleanor Laing, the deputy speaker, shook her head to young Alex Chalk to announce that his debate should proceed. The minister climbed and climbed as he increased. Tall chap. To see him stand is like watching someone unpack an anglepoise lamp or a sunflower regain their position after tying its shoelaces. He was utterly extended and gazed down at the house from such height, a surprise that he did not need an oxygen mask.

Peter Thomas, 87, died in 2008 at the age of 87, becoming the first Welshman to serve as Chairman of the Conservative Party under Edward Heath from 1970 to 1972. He was an inmate in camps, including Stalag Luft III, after being shot down while serving as a bomber pilot in 1941. Jane Clargo, a 69-year-old daughter, discovered more than 20 videos of her father performing in the camp's makeshift theater while clearing out his belongings with her sister. She contacted MailOnline after finding her father in a snapshot from a similar group of prisoners' performances that was auctioned at auction in 2021. Captions on the images depicted him in dramas ranging from 'Girls, Girls, Girls,', "Home & Beauty," and "Meet Mrs. Mandon," as well as several prisoners dressed as women. Inset: In 1963, Inset was at his desk as a more junior minister of state.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: This column was suspended during the Covid lockouts, not for a lack of entries, but because there were far too many. Our judging panel would have been unable to settle on the most relevant examples of police ignorance, incompetence, and overzealousness. They would have to choose between coppers kneeling and black bartenders; nicking sunbathers; tracking black dye into a lagoon in Derbyshire to discourage wild swimmers; and, in the case of the Met, 32 officers were sent by raiding a gym in North London suspected of breaching social distancing laws; to name just a few.

Witness A and Witness B made a string of troubling and damaging allegations against senior public figures that were eventually debunked. However, unlike fantasist Carl Beech, whose sex exploitation lies at the root of Operation Midland, no one has been charged with perverting justice. Witness A and Witness B of the assault were identified as legitimate by the Met later today. As a result, an inquiry will now look at whether there is ample evidence to support a conviction.

W. H. Auden (pictured) once said that "the only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel." Although the new plot is somewhat in keeping with the man's colorful life (with the opening line 'Stop all the clocks,') it's entirely in accordance with the man's vibrant life. The work, which appeared in the classic 1994 romcom Four Weddings And A Funeral, has become a staple reading at memorial services around the country. Auden's poem "Not so well known" was not so well known.

Daniel Morgan, the assassinated private detective, will receive a'significant' six-figure payout from Scotland Yard (commissioner Sir Mark Rowley on right) for the decades-long deception that has stifled the hunt for his killers. The deal comes two years after a bombshell official branded the Metropolitan Police as "institutionally flawed" and accused it of more than 30 years of cover-up and incompetence. The out-of-court deal marks another difficult day for the Met and its unpopular former commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick. The Met agreed to pay compensation to the Morgan family - led by the victim's campaigning brother Alastair Morgan (inset) - 18 months after they announced plans to sue the force, alleging that a decades-long cover-up of corruption was continuing

Former Prime Minister Edward Heath (inset) has been barred from serving in police due to his'sexual' remarks to fellow officers. During a meeting when Mike Veale, 57, (main), was in a senior female officer's car when he 'looked at her lap area' and said, 'You can touch yourself now,' a misconduct hearing was told today.

The Bank of England will see an increase in interest rates to 4.7 percent or 5% next Monday, barring a U-turn to end all U-turns, with further increases expected in the battle against tame runaway inflation. It means that many of the 2.5 million homeowners, who are set to get low-cost mortgages before the end of next year, will be in for a painful shock when they first apply for a new one.

After a 200g jar of Kenco Smooth instant coffee increased 13 percent in price, employees at a franchise in north-east London decided to put 'display only' coffee jars on its shelves. After seeing the price increase to £9.35, Nescafe Gold Blend was also removed from shelves, locals said, noting how the safety steps are 'heartbreaking' and a'sign of the times.' Today, GPS tracking cases were discovered on shelves at the Co-op food and fuel store in Harborne, Birmingham. Photographs from the Birmingham store show a £9.85 jar of Douwe Egberts and a jar of Kenco Smooth sold for £10.50, both in cases to discourage shoplifters.

The inflation rate in all categories from furniture and electricals to baked beans and bread increased from 8.8 percent in April to 9 percent in May, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) as a 'fresh high.' Food price inflation may have hit a new high, according to a retail trade body. Although food prices are still rising, the rate of increase in May dropped from 15.7 percent in April to 15.4 percent, according to the company's survey. The BRC said the rise in the cost of non-food products soared from 5.5 percent in April to 5.8 percent in May.

Despite the fact that Steve Rodhouse (left) will face gross misconduct charges in connection with Operation Midland, the former Met deputy assistant commissioner remains joint deputy head of the National Crime Agency. Victims of his bungled probe and former police chiefs have all condemned the decision to keep him in charge as the head of operations at the department, where he is at the forefront of the war against international organized crime. Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, was put under increasing pressure by her remarks. The department is available to her, and she has regular interactions with NCA director-general Graeme Biggar, Mr Rodhouse's immediate boss. Mr Rodhouse had been transferred to a 'back office' position at the NCA,' according to insiders.

DAIL MAIL COMMENT: With Justice Secretary Dominic Raab's defenestration following an orchestrated and largely exaggerated series of bullying allegations by civil servants, the Ministers'-Womenic link between Ministers and Whitehall has fallen to a deadlock. This was a transparent and effectively choreographed hatchet service that was designed by civil servants to bring down a Minister who held himself to a high standard and expected the same of his staff. Some were clearly unable or unwilling to match, and others were clearly lacking a work ethic and a sense of purpose. Such zealousness in other areas of life would be uplifting. To some in Whitehall, it seems that it has been viewed as a threat.

XCLUSIVE: Peter Tarnoy, 84, (left), said he was'very aware' of the repercussions' of breaking his commitments to spying for the Soviet Union in a 'application' (right) to Communist spy bosses in 1974. Mr Tarnoy spent years providing communist'military equipment' from the Ministry of Defense's top-secret Porton Down laboratory (inset), according to state files.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The 1973 memory of the war is also relevant today, as the economic and energy crisis persists today. It's impossible to ignore the comparisons between the past and present. In the meantime, inflation had been creeping upwards for months before the storm broke. Much of the blame for growth 50 years ago was placed on Prime Minister Edward Heath and his browbeaten Chancellor, Anthony Barber, who had gambled on a massive injection of money into the economy in an ill-fated rush for growth.

The 1929 Wall Street Crash and the 1931 bankruptcy of an Austrian bank contributed to widespread unemployment in the United Kingdom as exports fell and budget cuts had to be enforced. Bomb damage, rationing was still in place, and families were forced to deal with the death of loved ones in the decade after the Second World War, both military casualties and civilian deaths. The inflation rate in the 1970s hit a whopping 23%, and striking employees compelled Edward Heath's government to post a three-day week that culminated in mass industrial shutdowns and shopping by candlelight. Margaret Thatcher's time as Prime Minister in the 1980s were turbulent, with unemployment reaching four million and inflation remaining a factor. Bessie Braddock, a member of Liverpool's slum housing district, is pictured below; workers in a DIY shop use head torch and a miner's lamp to work in 1974 (top right); and unemployed workers march in Newcastle in 1931 (inset).

1958: CRAIG BROWN: 1958: On the children's show Crackerjack, disgraced fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley appears. 'It's a fine way to get my message of European Unity to the young people of this world of ours,' he says. 'I have every reason to believe that my participation on this prestigious display will bring me to the forefront of the political arena.' However, life takes a sour note when roly-poly host Peter Glaze ushers him into a cage that is already occupied by a crocodile.

With Liz Truss being ordered to resign yesterday, her predecessor is expected to contest for the first time in a week-long fight to replace her. Mr Johnson, who became Prime Minister in 1951 after being turfed out of office at the 1945 election, would be echoing his hero Winston Churchill, who was defeated in the war for the second time. Harold Wilson, Labour's chairman, achieved the same feat when the 1970 election ended his first term, before returning as Prime Minister in 1974 after winning more seats than Conservative leader Edward Heath. Stanley Baldwin, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, served three terms as Prime Minister, the first between 1923 and 1924, and the last from 1935 to 1937. During their time out of Downing Street, neither Baldwin, Churchill, nor Wilson resigned as leaders of their parties. Mr Johnson will have to look back at another Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay Macdonald, who made a comeback as Prime Minister after losing his seat as an MP and being pushed out as Labour leader Tony Abbott, for direct inspiration from the 20th century. A number of Prime Ministers served more than a term, with William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli being the most notable. Gladstone served four stints as Prime Minister, with the last three coming after he had resigned as the party's leader and then reversed to a comeback.