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A drunken dad left the pub just minutes before he caused a "catastrophic" crash at nearly 130mph which took the lives of three people.

A cast of thousands of colourful characters and hundreds of iconic vehicles parading through central London for the Jubilee pageant include 1950s motorcycles, decorated double-decker buses from seven decades and a band of belligerent Daleks. The four extra-terrestrial mutants from the sci-fi television programme Doctor Who will be rolling alongside cultural icons from the 1960s in the decade-by-decade Time of Our Lives section of the spectacle. True to their combative on-screen nature, the Daleks threatened other performers and journalists gathered on Horse Guards Parade with “extermination”.

getting drunk and assaulting a pregnant friend, has managed to avoid a jail sentence despite smashing her eye socket.Canterbury Crown Court heard how Rachel Carter, 32, flew “over the heads” of horrified, screaming children to attack Jade Huckstep at a Ramsgate gathering in March last year.She barged past two children, causing common assault, to set upon her victim.Judge Simon James told her: “You became involved in an argument with your former friend who you knew was in the early stages of pregnancy.“It is clear things descended into a physical altercation with you two mothers exchanging punches".“Outside," the judge added, "you can both be seen screaming insults at each other, seemingly oblivious to the impact that had on the children around you.“You pushed children out of the way so you could continue to prosecute your assault.

A Catholic Church in the United Kingdom has banned an award-winning gay author from visiting and speaking at two schools near London. The Archdiocese of Southwark cancelled the talks by young adult fiction writer Simon James Green at the two schools. Green was scheduled to speak at The John Fisher School in Purley, South London on March 7 and at St John’s Primary School in Gravesend, Kent on March 9.

prison after he became a drug lord - and he did it to pay for treatment for his arthritis.Barry Doughty initially escaped from HMP Littlehey in November, 1999, after bending an iron bar on his cell door, before jumping over on outer prison fence.He fled to Europe, and evaded police ever since.