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By Press Association 2021 A man has admitted drink-driving while riding an e-scooter. Unal Gokbulut was using the electric device when he was stopped and failed a roadside breath test near his home in Ipswich in the early hours of April 5, Suffolk Police said. The 42-year-old appeared before Ipswich Magistrates’ Court on Friday where he admitted drink-driving while using the electric scooter. Speaking through a Turkish interpreter, he said: “It’s correct. I’ve taken alcohol. I accept.” Unal Gokbulut arrives at Ipswich Magistrat...

Modern Diplomacy Published 1 week ago Democracies have an inbuilt flaw when their own processes can be employed to undermine them.  It is what has happened in Hungary in the last decade, and Hungary is not alone.  In his youth the current prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, was an ardent dissident leading a youth movement, Fidesz, and in 1989 he was calling for the removal of Soviet troops and free democratic elections.  Opposition to single-party socialist rule was eventually successful, and he was elected a Fidesz member of the National Assembly in 1990.  In 1998, his party won ...

© PA PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on their way to hear the Queen's speech. Well we did it. We voted, in record numbers in fact. Last week’s Scottish Parliament elections saw no less than 2.7million adults take to the socially distanced polls in Scotland. That’s 64% of us – a remarkable turnout in the midst of a pandemic. I feared lower than usual turnout and I’m delighted to be wrong and found out as the cynic I clearly am. Whatever your thoughts on the result, and the painstakingly slow counting process to get us there, I think we can all celebrate the fact th...

Share Since defeat at the 2010 General Election, the Labour Party has changed leadership several times and as the recent elections across the UK have shown, they have continued to fail to make an impact when it comes to the voting public. The expert panel brought together by the Mile End Institute addressed how the party is progressing, if at all, under current leader Keir Starmer. It comes after a recent Mile End Institute poll showed that Londoners were divided in their views as to how well Keir Starmer is doing. Panellists included Caroline Flint, Member of Parliament for Don Valley (199...

A Canadian manufacturer last week chose the Chicago region to host its first U.S. facility. Lion Electric Co. will manufacture its all-electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles at a 906K SF facility under construction at 3835 Youngs Road in southwest suburban Joliet. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, along with many other state and municipal officials, joined the company’s leaders on Friday to announce the $70M project. “The new Joliet facility will put Illinois at the forefront of a national movement to transition to zero-emission vehicle use, advancing our own goals of putting 1 million of thes...