Michael Holmes

1 month ago | blogpreston.co.uk | Michael Holmes

A drug dealer who set up his own lab at home to rake in £9,000 a month had his funeral at least partly paid for by the taxpayer, it can be revealed. Tattoo artist Ian Taylor, 54, who sold cannabis, MDMA and cocaine alongside his wife, died after being found lifeless at Kirkham open prison. A routine investigation found that he died of heart failure after suffering from health issues while inside, including obesity, asthma, COPD, hypertension, type two diabetes and fluid retention.

Nov 9, 2023 | antiwar.com | Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes is a freelance journalist and founder of Global Apartheid, a project that documents the largest mass killings in modern history. Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East at Columbia University in New York City. He has worked as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s in Madrid and Washington.

Sep 22, 2023 | msn.com | Michael Holmes

Smog containing gases from a restive Philippine volcano has sickened dozens of students and prompted 25 towns and cities to shut their schools as a health precaution, officials said. There is no imminent threat of a major eruption of Taal Volcano, which authorities said remains at a low level of unrest in Batangas province south of Manila. But they said its emission of sulphur dioxide-laden steam in recent days has caused skin, throat and eye irritation for at least 45 children in nearby towns.

Jul 20, 2023 | breakingnews.ie | Michael Holmes

A third night of Russian air attacks targeted Ukraine’s southern cities, including the port city of Odesa, and injured at least 21 people, Ukrainian officials have said. At least 19 people were hurt in Mykolaiv, a southern city close to the Black Sea, the region’s Governor Vitalii Kim said in a statement on Telegram. Russian strikes destroyed several floors of a three-storey building and caused a fire which affected an area of 450 square metres (4,800 square feet) and burned for hours.

Jul 18, 2023 | msn.com | Michael Holmes

The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion caused more than £27,000 worth of damage when she took a hammer to the window of a government building to protest against the environmental impacts of HS2, a court heard on Monday. Dr Gail Bradbrook climbed on top of the glass canopy at the Department for Transport building in London on the morning of 15 October 2019. She stuck posters on the glass referencing the climate risk that HS2 posed, Isleworth crown court heard.