When family friends tied the knot this week, it was one of the most fun weddings I can remember.
Having given up on their original plans, scuppered by Covid, for a grand affair in a country pile, they settled for a small register office service.
The bride wore a cream jumpsuit, her bridesmaids a mismatch of floral dresses. I, meanwhile, ditched my go-to wedding look of frills and flounces, and instead opted for a green wool coat-dress, letting my accessories oversized pearl and emerald earrings, gold sequin shoes do the talking.
Trish Halpin reveals a selection of the most stylish outfits available from UK High Street shops to suit all budgets. Pictured: Dress, £169, mintvelvet.co.uk; bag, £275, luluguinness.com; heels, £45.99, zara.com; Jennifer Gibson earrings, £220, & Alexis Bittar ring, £225, fenwick.co.uk
Directive gives exceptions where troops can engage in countries without parliamentary backing
A RAF Reaper drone. The CDS document shows rules were relaxed which had limited drone operations to Afghanistan unless they had been approved by ministers. Photograph: Cpl Steve Bain ABIPP/MoD Crown C/PA
A RAF Reaper drone. The CDS document shows rules were relaxed which had limited drone operations to Afghanistan unless they had been approved by ministers. Photograph: Cpl Steve Bain ABIPP/MoD Crown C/PA
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A previously confidential Ministry of Defence document grants British troops permission to engage in potentially illegal bombing, which has not been approved by parliament, a charity has claimed.
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UPDATE: Man charged in two Lawton homicides has first court appearance Friday A man connected to two weekend homicides had his first court appearance Friday in Lawton. (Source: Comanche County Detention Center) By Tyler Boydston | April 23, 2021 at 7:27 PM CDT - Updated April 23 at 7:27 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - A man connected to two weekend homicides had his first court appearance Friday in Lawton.
Investigators say Anderson shot Gibson to death after convincing her to get in his car.
He told police his car ran out of gas at the intersection of 6th and 277 and when Gibson got out, he shot her and then shot her again after she fell down.
April 24th, 2021
If there s one thing the United States military gets right, it s lethality. Yet even once the US military has you in its sights, it may not know who you actually are such are, these so-called signature strikes even as that wrathful finger of God is called down from upon on high.
As Kate Crawford, Microsoft Research principal and co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU, lays out in this fascinating excerpt from her new book,
Atlas of AI, the military-industrial complex is alive and well and now leveraging metadata surveillance scores derived by IBM to decide which home/commute/gender reveal party to drone strike next. And if you think that same insidious technology isn t already trickling down to infest the domestic economy, I have a credit score to sell you.