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1. #RIOTS: Rioting spread to more parts of England last night as people took to the streets of Manchester, Nottingham, West Bromwich, Gloucester, Liverpool and Birmingham. Much less violence was reported in London as 16,000 police officers patrolled the city. Police in Birmingham have launched a murder inquiry after three men who were struck by a car died from their injuries.
2. #JOBS: The government says that up to 445 new jobs could be created across 24 new companies which received support from Enterprise Ireland in the second quarter of this year.
3. #MARKETS: The Asian markets have rebounded somewhat this morning after what has been a very bad week of trading for them, the New York Times reports. The rebound follows the US Federal Reserve’s statement yesterday evening that it is likely to keep interest rates low for the next two years to aid recovery.
4. #BOI: Bank of Ireland has reported pre-tax losses of €556 million for the first half of this year. Impairments on bad property and construction loans reached €386 million for the period. The bank insists that its loan losses are going down overall, but expects residential mortgage arrears to increase in the coming 12 months.
5. #RACE FOR THE ÁRAS: Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has pledged his party’s support for broadcaster Gay Byrne, if he should choose to run in the presidential election, the Examiner reports. However, Byrne told the paper that if he runs, it would be as an independent candidate.
6. #SYRIA: Syrian leader Bashar Assad is refusing to scale down his government’s crackdown on political dissent. When meeting the Turkish foreign minister yesterday, the Syrian president said he would continue to “relentlessly fight terrorist groups”, according to the Guardian.
7. #LIBYA: Libyan state TV has reportedly shown footage of Colonel Gaddafi’s son Khamis, who rebels claimed was killed during a NATO air strike last week, Al Jazeera reports. The video clips apparently shows Khamis visiting injured people in hospital and was allegedly recorded yesterday.
8. #FACEBOOK THREAT: The loosely-organised hacking group Anonymous has warned it will attack Facebook in a major assault on 5 November, according to Business Insider. Members of the group claim to have been behind recent attacks on the websites of credit card companies and US security organisations.
9. #OOPS: ‘Mentalist of the Year’ Keith Barry blacked out on stage at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre last night during a stunt which he says went a bit too far. The Independent reports that the stunt involved asking two audience members to tie him up with rope and cover his head in cling film.
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Helicopter’s crashing into cranes.
Trains crashing into apartments.
What’s going on. GTA has become real.
It’s some guerrilla marketing plan for GTA V.
Sky news creaming themselves. Almost sound disappointed there were no passengers…
No passengers??? Was in a model?
There was a pilot Dave!
Next 24hrs, I witness interviews and endless speculation/drivel from sky reporters. Played over and over again.
Yep Sky News wet themselves at the misery of others and pretend to be all concerned and relevant. Disgusting outfit.
21st Century keening…they’re pros at it.
Sky News confirming two people have died. RIP.
Hope the crane driver was not up there , I Was always up the crane for 7 am hope he was late that day
Apparently he was just about to go up. Lucky man.
I hope annika rice is ok
;-)
It crashed into a crane according to Sky news.
I live in the development where this tower is being built. It’s very scary, if the helicopter had of being heading in the opposite direction, it would have hit either the apartments or bus station. Heard a massive bang just after 8 and then looked out to a plummet of smoke. Tbh when I heard the bang wasnt too worried as the area has a lot of construction going on so it can get noisy. It’s completely surreal. RIP to the victims.
Can see the smoke from my office! Hit a crane and fell to the ground apparently!
That’s just up the road from my house!! Lots of building work going around there aswell.
I been up many cranes in London near airports I sure once or twice a plane has came within 100ft over me
Can see the smoke from my Window in work. Looks horrific
God be good to the people in the Helicopter,
Also sad to see that so many of our young people are seeing this from their work place windows, having to be over there than here. Sad sign of out times and our Govts of last few decades.
Only in Ireland could we read about helicopter crash in another country and find a reason to complain about our government. Not every story needs a comment on how bad they are!
Nugget head of the week award goes to you!!!!
Because it’s not like Irish people have been heading to London for generations is it? Regardless of the economic situation here.
*Actual facepalm.
Steven, seems God was not ‘good’ to them, the guy flying the chopper is dead.
London deals so well with this sort of thing, fantastic emergency services.
did any one other than me think ” twin towers” again?
Jeez.. i hope everyone ok :/
I think that’s a no.
Holy crap!
Two confirmed dead, just this minute. Pilot and someone in a car which was hit by falling helicopter. Low fog tipping the top of the building with the Crane. Near impossible to fly in fog, must have flew lower to exit fog and clipped the Crane.
Alan Sugar will just have to tube it like everyone else now.
Oh no that’s not good :-(
It was an Agusta 109 helicopter. Very common helicopter used for VIP transport etc…
http://www.tigerhelicopters.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/helicopters/14.jpg
The SAS used to have a couple of 109s (captured from Argentinian during the Falklands war). Cue the conspiracy theorists!
Used to have, Reg. The Agusta 109s, including the captured Argentine ones, were replaced by Dauphins as you probably already know. But no doubt some conspiracy loon will attempt to go down the SAS Agusta 109 route?
Was it an A-TEAM crash? That is the pilot stumbles from the wreckage unscathed.
Nope. This being reality he died a tragic, horrific death instead.
Everyone should steer clear of Waterloo-nightmare took two hours getting into work! Unfortunately there have been casualties, but it just shows that the desensitising nature in London certainly exists….when these incidents occur, it usually follows runs along the lines of,’God, what happened?’ next pressing issue (how does this affect my route/transport).
thanks for that Dara O’Briain
Apparently they’re searching the Thames aswell…
And the trains are still running!
That’s fairly close to mi 6 building choppers always in and out of there ?
Wow
Tragic
Can somebody post whether it is unusual for a helicopter pilot to travel alone!!
Perfectly normal…
Cheers Gareth
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