Tom Parmenter
National Correspondent at Sky News
National Correspondent for Sky News covering stories all over the UK. Married to @lisaskynews Email me [email protected]
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Tom Parmenter
Ruth Bourne, 98, remembers the "electric buzz" among the crowds partying outside Buckingham Palace on VE Day. She was one of hundreds of thousands of people that swarmed into central London on 8 May 1945 to celebrate in the streets after such a long and gruelling war. "There was the most amazing atmosphere," she tells Sky News as we take a black cab to the palace to retrace some of the route she took on foot 80 years ago. Image: Whitehall was filled with people celebrating on VE Day.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Tom Parmenter
Negotiations to end a bin strike in Birmingham have today failed to result in an agreement – leaving residents with growing piles of rubbish outside their homes. Bin workers began their strike on 11 March and Birmingham City Council declared a major incident on 31 March, citing public health concerns.
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2 months ago |
news.sky.com | Tom Parmenter
The final act of Juliana Falcon's life, in the minutes before she was shot dead by her son, potentially saved dozens of others. Realising the unthinkable about her child, her intervention was crucial in preventing him from carrying out what could have been one of the worst mass killings ever to happen in the UK. It was late at night when the 48-year-old interrupted her teenage son, Nicholas Prosper, in his bedroom with a gun.
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2 months ago |
mkfm.com | Tom Parmenter
Nicholas Prosper shot his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, sister Giselle, 13, and shot and stabbed his brother Kyle, 16, at their family home in Luton on 13 September last year. But the 19-year-old did not plan on stopping there, according to prosecutor Timothy Cray KC, who told Luton Crown Court he had prepared the murders "for months" and wanted to kill at least 30 schoolchildren.
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2 months ago |
news.sky.com | Tom Parmenter
A teenager obsessed with mass killings who murdered three members of his family was travelling to his old primary school when he was arrested. Nicholas Prosper, 19, shot his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, sister Giselle, 13, and shot and stabbed his brother Kyle, 16, at their family home in Luton on 13 September last year.
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RT @LisaSkyNews: Liverpool parade survivor: 'My baby's pram got bounced' https://t.co/AKQdoYpriV via @YouTube
VE Day - the buzz, the conga and the man in the wheelbarrow - from Buckingham Palace and South Wales with three remarkable women. https://t.co/7MzReoHXdl
How a mother prevented her son’s “truly evil” plan for notoriety…. https://t.co/OnbF7XQxCx
