Gold Run (2022 film): Trailer, certificate and where to watch
The incredible true story of how gold was smuggled out of Norway ahead of the invading Nazi forces
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Daily Mail
34 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Gun found in new Madeleine McCann search ‘has not been ruled out as a game-changer' amid race against time to charge prime suspect Christian Bruekner
The gun retrieved from a well drained by firefighters last week during fresh Madeleine McCann searches on the Algarve has not been ruled out as a game changer by investigators. Further details emerged hours after German prosecutors described the co-operation with Portuguese police as 'excellent and very constructive' as authorities in both countries continue to try to build up a case against suspect Christian Brueckner ahead of his scheduled release from prison in September. The type of gun discovered during the three-day search operation last week near Brueckner's former ramshackle cottage home close to the Algarve resort where Madeleine vanished on May 3 2007, has not yet been revealed, but well-placed sources said today it was a 6.35 calibre. Typically these types of guns are small, pocket-sized, semi-automatic pistols used for self-defence or target shooting, but can be airguns. Portuguese daily Correio da Manha reported yesterday it was unlikely to be a 'lethal weapon' although tests are understood to be ongoing. It has not yet been ruled out as a potential game-changer in the 'race against time' to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance before he finishes the seven-year prison sentence he is currently serving for the 2005 rape of an American woman. Another gun said to have been found during last week's searches has been ruled out. It is believed to be more than 50 years old and has been described by Portuguese sources as a 'rusting relic.' The same well-placed sources confirmed yesterday forensic analysis of fragments of bones and adult clothing also unearthed last week would take place at a specialist police lab in Lisbon and not in Germany as initially reported. No samples of any kind have been sent back to Germany despite reports to the contrary, the insiders said. German forensic officers have been offered the opportunity of being present at the tests, although it was unclear today if they had accepted the invite. They were shown some of the bones that were unearthed, thought to be animal bones, in a video-conferencing session but were 'unable to come to any real conclusions about exactly what they were'. German prosecutors said yesterday in their only official statement so far since wells, ruins and water tanks across a 120-acre area in Atalaia between the Algarve towns of Praia and Luz and Lagos were inspected: 'The search operation conducted in Portugal last week has been completed as planned. 'No information can be provided at this time regarding the results of the investigation. 'Our sincere thanks go to all police officers involved in the search. 'The co-operation between the Portuguese police and the Federal Criminal Police Office was excellent and very constructive. 'We don't want to say anymore at the moment.' Luis Neves, the National Director of the Policia Judiciaria police force which in Portugal has been the lead police force in the hunt for Madeleine and whose officers worked along German counterparts at last week's search, insisted last Friday it had 'not been in vain' despite the apparent lack of results. He said: 'Nothing is in vain, not least because doors are being closed'. At the last Madeleine McCann search in Portugal just over two years ago, when the Arade Dam a 40-minute drive from Praia da Luz was combed, German police who requested the operation did take back home with them samples believed to be mainly soil samples. The remote dam was described at the time as Brueckner's 'little paradise.' The May 2023 dam searches were the first major searches in Portugal for Madeleine McCann in nine years following an earlier June 2014 operation when British police were given permission to do digs in Praia da Luz that involved sniffer dogs trained in detecting bodies and ground-penetrating radar. Those Scotland Yard digs were linked to the leading UK police theory at the time Madeleine died during a break-in while her parents were eating tapas nearby with friends, and burglars dumped her body. They also failed to produce any evidence pointing to the missing youngster's whereabouts. In a smaller operation in July 2020 Portuguese police and firefighters searched three wells for Madeleine's body but failed to find any trace of her. Last Friday Correio da Manha claimed German prosecutors had refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident. Portuguese authorities demanded an investigation into a British man and his German wife after his UK-based sister tipped off cops in 2018 she thought he could be covering up a dark secret about Maddie's disappearance, the newspaper reported. But it said German authorities rejected a Portuguese request to use an undercover police officer with a fake identity to try to befriend the female suspect and firm up their suspicions she was driving a car that hit Madeleine while under the influence of alcohol. There has so far been no official response from German, Portuguese or UK police to the claims. Convicted 48-year-old paedophile Brueckner denies any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance. His earliest possible prison release date is September 17 - though his lawyer said he would have to pay £1,300 in outstanding fines from a series of motor offences to leave then.
The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don't let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
This week, the UK government announced its plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the key companies involved noted that London presents a significant challenge: 'It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.' There's more than one problem with that statement – and it encapsulates so much of what's already going wrong in the adoption of driverless cars. For a start, 'jaywalking' isn't even a thing in the UK. We thankfully have no such concept or offence. Unlike in many US cities, pedestrians here are free to cross the road wherever they see fit. And thank goodness for that. The term 'jaywalker' was invented in the 1920s by the US motor industry, and it reveals a lot about its attitude to pedestrians. 'Jay' was a derogatory term at the time, meaning bumpkin or idiot. The term 'jaywalker' was deliberately crafted to stigmatise people walking in the street and it was part of a wider campaign to shift blame for rising road deaths away from cars and drivers, and on to pedestrians themselves. At the time, streets were shared spaces. Pedestrians, cyclists, children playing, street vendors and public transport all coexisted in the road. The car, when it arrived, disrupted that balance, often violently. Faced with growing public anger at the dangers posed by car drivers, the motor industry fought back. Through lobbying, media manipulation and pressure on lawmakers, it successfully reframed the public street as a space primarily for motor vehicles. The campaign was so successful that jaywalking became a criminal offence in many cities. And in many, it still is today. Jaywalking laws have been shown to disproportionately affect marginalised communities. Data collected under the California Racial and Identity Profiling Act revealed that black people are stopped 4.5 times more often for jaywalking than white people. We're still living with the consequences of the culture created by a system designed to get pedestrians out of the way. And so, when the CEO of a tech company building self-driving cars uses the word 'jaywalker' as an obstacle to be overcome, it's worthy of attention. It suggests that pedestrians are still a problem to be controlled, predicted or designed out. That human behaviour, rather than dangerous vehicles, is a bug that we need to fix. Unlike human drivers, AVs thrive on strict rules, structured environments and predictable behaviour. The messiness of human movement is challenging and a threat to AV adoption. That's why 'jaywalkers' are flagged as an operational challenge, because autonomous systems can't easily deal with real people doing ordinary things. The risk is that instead of adapting cars to people, we'll yet again redesign streets to suit machines. I'm not anti-technology. I'd welcome the chance to use an autonomous vehicle for long trips where public transport isn't an option. I also find driving, frankly, quite boring and tiring. Done right, self-driving cars could plausibly offer a safer, lower-carbon alternative to private car ownership. But only if they are developed in a way that respects people and cities rather than trying to bend both to meet the limits of the technology. The real danger is that we repeat history. The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life. The streets of the 20th century were reshaped to suit cars, often at enormous social cost. Entire communities were disrupted. Children lost the ability to roam. People stopped walking. Air pollution soared. A sense of community was lost. Road deaths, particularly among the most vulnerable, became normalised. Today, too many of our streets remain hostile, noisy and dangerous. If we want driverless technology to succeed it must be made to serve society, not the other way round. That means recognising that unpredictability isn't a bug in the system, but part of what makes cities human. And it means resisting any attempt to reframe basic human behaviour, like crossing the street, as a problem in need of control. While a UK jaywalking law is hopefully far fetched, there's nothing to prevent the gradual restriction of pedestrian movement through street design. After all, there is a lot of money to be made in prioritising the take-up of autonomous vehicles, so it will be tempting for companies to try to tackle anything that gets in their way. According to the government, autonomous vehicles could create 38,000 jobs and contribute £42bn to the UK economy by 2035. That's not insignificant. But if they do so by reinforcing a worldview where streets are for machines and people must behave or be punished, we've learned nothing. So if the trials ever begin, we have a choice to make. We can allow history to repeat itself, and powerful interests to shape our streets in one way. Or we can take a different path – one where we very clearly remember that cities are places where walking, cycling and public transport should be prioritised. It means ensuring that safety, equity and public space are not traded in the name of innovation. Driverless vehicles may still help us solve some real transport problems. But if they come at the cost of our freedom to walk across the street, then we're solving the wrong ones. Adam Tranter is the co-host of the Streets Ahead podcast. He was formerly West Midlands cycling and walking commissioner under mayor Andy Street
BBC News
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- BBC News
Holly Hamilton on Card-Not-Present Fraud
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