a 21-year-old man in Hounslow, Middlesex.
and and 25-year-old man in Newport,
Monmouthshire. It was found that people
who shopped on Amazon for an ingredient
of a popular bomb-making compound
would receive the information that it was
‘frequently bought together’ with the other
ingredients. Britain is the fifth-biggest
audience in the world for extremist internet
content after Turkey, the United States,
Saudi Arabia and Iraq, according to a study
by Policy Exchange.T
he number of people who died in the
Grenfell Tower fire may be fewer
than the estimate of 80, according to
police, who have so far seized 31 million
documents in their investigations. Ryanair
began cancelling 40-50 flights a day for six
weeks without much notice. In response
to loud complaints, it published the details
of which flights would be cancelled up to
the end of October. A ship detained and
held at Aberdeen for more than a year was
ordered to be auctioned to pay the crew’s
wages. Acidic vapour wafted over part of
Hull when a dockside tank containing 580
tons of hydrochloric acid leaked overnight.Abroad
P
resident Donald Trump of the United
States said at the UN that if America is
‘forced to defend itself or its allies, we will
have no choice but to totally destroy North
Korea’. Of Kim Jong-un, the ruler of North
Korea, he said: ‘Rocket man is on a suicide
mission.’ His words followed the firing of
a missile by North Korea over Japan and
2,300 miles into the Pacific, which happensto be the distance to the American territory
of Guam. Within minutes, South Korea
fired a missile into the sea, which happened
to travel the same distance that could have
taken it to Pyongyang. The UN Human
Rights Council in Geneva demanded to
be allowed into Rakhine state in Burma
to assess the reason for 400,000 Muslim
Rohingyas having fled to Bangladesh.
Bangladesh attempted to stop the refugees
from dispersing in the country.H
urricane Maria devastated Dominica;
‘We have lost all that money can buy,’
said the Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit,
who lost the roof of his own house. It then
moved west across the Caribbean. Many
were killed when a strong earthquake
struck Mexico City. Toys ‘R’ Us filed for
bankruptcy protection in the United States
and Canada. J. P. Donleavy, author of The
Ginger Man (1955), died at 91. Equifax, the
American credit reporting company, said it
might have had data stolen relating to 143
million Americans and 400,000 Britons.I
n Egypt, a mass trial concerning the
violence that followed the removal
of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013
sentenced 43 to prison for life and 300 to
terms between five and 15 years. Haider
al-Abadi, the Prime Minister of Iraq,
demanded the suspension of a referendum
on Kurdish independence. In Spain, the
Civil Guard searched print works for the
ballot papers to be used on 1 October in
a Catalan referendum on independence,
which has been declared illegal. Plumbers
unblocking sewage pipes in Geneva found
the problem was cut-up €500 notes. CSHHome
B
oris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary,
issued a manifesto for a ‘glorious future’
for Britain outside the European Union as
‘the greatest country on Earth’. This was
seen as a challenge to Theresa May, the
Prime Minister. People like Sir Vince Cable,
the Lib Dem leader, and Kenneth Clarke,
the Tory arch-Remainer, said he should
have been sacked. Mr Johnson’s lengthy
piece in the Daily Telegraph came six days
before a big speech on the subject promised
by Mrs May, in Florence, before the next
round of Brexit negotiations. He declared
that Britain should pay nothing for access
to the EU single market. Amber Rudd, the
Home Secretary, went on television and
accused him of ‘back-seat driving’. Others
got up a row over his claim that ‘once we
have settled our accounts, we will take
back control of roughly £350 million per
week. It would be a fine thing, as many of
us have pointed out, if a lot of that money
went on the NHS’. Sir David Norgrove, the
chairman of the UK Statistics Authority,
said this was ‘a clear misuse of official
statistics’. Oliver Robbins, the government’s
top Brexit official, was transferred from
the Department for Exiting the European
Union to the Cabinet Office in order to
work more directly for the Prime Minister.
A
home-made bomb ignited in a wall
of flame in a morning rush-hour
Underground train at Parsons Green
station, injuring 30 people but failing to
explode. Police arrested an 18-year-old
Iraqi orphan (who had been in foster care
in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey) at Dover,