On a clear day it is the most beautiful view in Britain. However, the days which are sufficiently free of rain, cloud and mist to enjoy the magnificent vista are sadly all too rare. The challenges of the weather make the chance of enjoying the view something of a lottery. However, that does not stop thousands of people making the pilgrimage to the top of the mountain every year. The return trip takes six to seven hours, depending on which path is taken, and most people who are reasonably fit should be able to make the ascent of more than 3,500feet.
Russia KNEW about Syrian gas attack in advance - and about a bid to cover it up by bombing hospital treating Assad's victims, say U.S. officials
A senior U.S. official told the Associated Press that a drone operated by Russia was flying over a hospital as victims of the attack rushed to be treated - and then the hospital was bombed. Hours after the drone left, a Russian-made fighter jet bombed the hospital in what American officials believe was an attempt to cover up the use of chemical weapons. Local reports after the attack said Rahman hospital, near Khan Shaykhun, was hit while treating victims, although it is unclear if this is the hospital U.S. officials were referring to. The official said the presence of the surveillance drone over the hospital couldn't have been a coincidence, and that Russia must have known the chemical weapons attack was coming and that victims were seeking treatment. The move piles further pressure on the relationship with Moscow. Vladimir Putin has already snubbed the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with the Kremlin saying they will not meet when the U.S.'s top diplomat arrives in Moscow on Wednesday.
- Britain's best view: Sweeping panorama of lakes and mountains from the top of Snowdonia beats scenery from Scotland, Cornwall and the Lake District to be voted the UK's most spectacular
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- The 539 town hall fat cats who rake in MORE than the Prime Minister: Damning audit reveals huge rise in number of staff taking home more than £150,000 - just as council tax bills soar
- And on Channel 4, The Great Brexit Bake Off with Theresa May: RICHARD LITTLEJOHN on the politicians elbowing their way onto prime time TV
- How the way you tap a phone can give hackers your PIN: Criminals can guess four-digit code by using software to monitor movements
- Revealed: British Army handlers 'let father-of-four informant be murdered by the IRA to save their prized double agent Stakeknife'
- Illegal immigrant who was jailed for attempted rape gets £27,000 compensation for being in prison too long - that's £20,000 MORE than his victim
- Fashion retailers launch investigation after fake fur on shoes, gloves and hats was found to contain hairs from cats, rabbits and raccoons
- Ninja Warrior contestant, 45, who urged a TV star’s 13-year-old daughter to send him naked snaps and stay overnight in a hotel with him is jailed for three years
- Clarifications and corrections
- At least 10 are injured as huge fire engulfs Dunkirk refugee camp leaving 'nothing but a heap of ashes' after knife fight between Kurdish and Afghan migrants
- Nearly 50,000 foreign students stay in the UK every year after completing their course
- Average car insurance could soar to £1,000 next year: Tax rises and reform on pay-outs to raise YOUR premiums
- Air security fears over breast milk: Fears new rules that allow up to two litres to be taken on board could be exploited by terrorists
- Loyalty costing broadband users £200: Customers hit by price rises of up to 67% when fixed-rate deals end
- Jihadis target British special forces' base in Syria: Isis extremists use car bomb and ground attack but are beaten back by coalition air strikes
- Disposable cups may get warning labels so coffee drinkers will be warned they take up to 30 years to decompose
- PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off an overbooked United flight as CEO pens 'tone deaf' email DEFENDING staff
- Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself - and he needed anger management, was 'not forthright' and had control issues, psychiatrist found
- 'I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond': Defiant United Airlines CEO pens 'tone deaf' email defending staff after 'belligerent' passenger was viciously dragged from overbooked flight
- 'North Korea is looking for trouble': Trump tweets extraordinary warning declaring that if China 'does not decide to help we will solve the problem without them'
- EXCLUSIVE: Striking out on their own! Melania takes Tiffany, Barron and THIRTY Secret Service agents to fashionable NYC bowling alley
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- Is there a Russian or North Korean submarine off the coast of California? Unusual Navy aircraft patrol searches spark fears
- 'United is proud to announce the new club class - fight club!' Twitter trolls airline with hundreds of hilarious memes after passenger, 69, was hauled off flight to make room for staff
- 'It was like killing your family in a car crash': David Letterman reveals how he spiraled into depression after his affair with a show assistant was publicly revealed in blackmail scandal
- 'I will have a life sentence': Student, 23, tearfully addresses her older brother, 31, in court as he was sentenced to 32 years in prison for sexually abusing her for three-years as a child
- PIERS MORGAN: Fly the Friendly Skies? You get better treatment on Con Air than on most domestic US airlines
- REVEALED: Gunman who shot dead his wife and her student, 8, at a San Bernardino elementary school classroom had been married to the teacher less than three months
- Countdown to catastrophe: It's a nightmare scenario. But as the war of words between Russia and the U.S. cranks up, historian DOMINIC SANDBROOK imagines the very worst
- 'I shouldn't be laughing': Bill O'Reilly giggles at footage of bloodied and bruised United Airlines passenger being dragged off plane
- He didn't die - he just didn't want to go bald on TV! Former Blue's Clues host Steve Burns confirms he IS alive despite years of rumors and explains why he disappeared from our screens 15 years ago
- United Airlines' stock price closes 1.1% down after plunging so much the company lost almost $1BILLION days after passenger's violent eviction
- 'Even Hitler didn't gas his own people': Calls for Trump spokesman Sean Spicer to be fired after bizarre Assad comparison and calling concentration camps 'Holocaust centers' in car-crash presser
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At least 10 injured as huge fire engulfs Dunkirk refugee camp leaving 'nothing but a heap of ashes' after a row between migrants
A huge fire has torn through at least half of the Grande-Synthe migrant camp outside the northern French city of Dunkirk. Witnesses say the fire broke out following rows between migrants. The camp was home to some 1,500 people by the end of March, living in closely-packed wooden huts. Local officials said the blaze had affected around 20 of the huts, each of which accommodates four people, as firefighters continued to battle the flames.
Keith's blue lamp will shine forever: DAVID JONES sees the courageous PC Palmer honoured with a funeral service fit for a hero as London remembers a fine officer
He saw himself as an ordinary man and his aspirations were noble in their simplicity. At work he was just PC 4157U of the Metropolitan Police Service. His aim was to serve and protect the people of his city – where possible, with a smile. At home his dedication to his wife Michelle and their five-year-old daughter Amy was equally unswerving. For his pains, he was pretty devoted, too, to his struggling local football team Charlton Athletic. Yesterday, however, Keith Palmer was given surely the most extraordinary send-off a British police officer has ever received. For, as we heard from the many people whose lives he enriched, there was nothing remotely average about the London bobby who died in defence of our democracy and the British way of life.
Shocking moment armed police point MACHINE GUNS at children in pyjamas as they are led from a house, forced to the ground and handcuffed after an incorrect tip off about a man with a firearm
A 37-year-old mother said her four children were 'treated like animals' by West Midlands Police after they were led out of their Birmingham home at gunpoint and handcuffed on the ground. Footage showed armed police leading the four from a house in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, and they were lined up in the road by officers wielding machine guns. Their mother, who asked not to be named, said she has yet to receive an 'apology or explanation' for the incident and claims officers 'ransacked' her home.
Misplaced your goldfish? Uber reveals bizarre list of lost items left by passengers including dentures, mozzarella balls and a bag of human hair
More than 5,000 items have been handed in to the company's lost property centre in east London in the past six months, with mobile phones and keys the most commonly forgotten items. But Uber's list has also revealed some of the more unusual items that have been left behind by users of the service - commonly known as riders - including dentures, a bag of human hair, 50 mozzarella balls and five sombreros. Uber users can contact their driver directly via the app if they leave an item behind, or speak to the company's lost property centre to reclaim it. Where possible unclaimed items were donated to charity, Uber said.
'Make America pay': Iran calls on Syria to ensure Trump 'regrets his attack' after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the US 'will hold to account any who commit crimes against innocents'
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (bottom right) accused the US of not acting 'within international frameworks' before condemning America's surprise bombardment of a Syrian airbase (top right). It comes after both Russian and Iranian forces last night warned Donald Trump (top left) they would retaliate with military action if he launched more airstrikes on Bashar al-Assad’s forces. In an ominous threat raising the prospect of war, they said the US President had crossed a ‘red line’ with his attack. ‘From now on we will respond with force to any breach of red lines and America knows our ability to respond well,’ the military chiefs said in a joint statement with Hezbollah. The Russian Embassy in London last night suggested there could be ‘real war’ if Moscow is presented with an ultimatum over Syria. But speaking ahead of the G7 summit today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (main picture) has said the US will stand up to anyone who commits crimes against humanity.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Theresa May leads Jeremy Corbyn by a giant 37-points when voters are asked who would make the best PM, huge poll reveals
- The PM is NOT planning a Commons vote on sending British bombers to join the fight against Assad as No 10 scrambles to find a 'political solution'
- ANOTHER senior Ukip figure quits the party as Mark Reckless announces he is defecting back to the Tories
Young mother-of-three died of heart attack hours after being sent home by A&E; doctors who failed to spot tell-tale signs of a blood clot
Sian Hollands suffered a heart attack and died hours after doctors failed to spot signs of a blood clot and discharged her from Darent Valley Hospital in Kent in 2015. A&E; consultants failed to spot signs of the blood clot, despite ambulance paramedics having noted chest pains, stomach pains and shortness of breath, all of which were present throughout Hollands's time in hospital. Both Dr Leila Mohamed and Dr Kamran Khan, who saw Hollands when she was admitted to Darent Valley Hospital in Kent, said they did not have access to the ambulance notes and that the patient was only complaining of abdominal pain.
Moment masked raiders waving guns and machetes shove a terrified female shop worker to the floor and force her to open a safe before fleeing with cash
CCTV captures the moment four robbers forced their way into a newsagents and threatened two members of staff with machetes and guns before making off with cash and stamps. Greater Manchester Police has released CCTV footage of the incident and are appealing for anyone with further information to get in touch. The incident took place on Tuesday, April 4. Jessica Samouelle, of Greater Manchester Police, said: 'Not only have these callous criminals stolen a significant amount of cash from an innocent business, but they've held two staff members at gunpoint and left them absolutely petrified.
Horrifying moment British mother, 32, who was three times over the limit after swigging vodka at the wheel with her toddler in the back hit a roundabout launching her Nissan 14 feet into the air
Tania Chikwature (left, arriving at court), 32, was three times the drink drive limit when she crashed her Nissan Qashqai while hurtling towards a roundabout on the A605 in Peterborough (right). Her toddler, aged 20 months, was sat in the back of the car but fortunately, escaped without any serious injuries. Chikwature, from Coventry, was jailed for 26 weeks for driving with excess alcohol and dangerous driving, at Peterborough magistrates' court. Footage of the horrific collision (inset) was captured by the dashcam of a lorry driver, who said it was one of the 'most dangerous pieces of driving' he had witnessed in over 30 years on the road.
'I'm afraid that is a completely useless answer': Eric Monkman shocks fans (and Paxo) as his team misses out on the University Challenge crown
With his shouty answers, razor-sharp intellect and teeth-gnashing, the Canadian Economics student Eric Monkman was a favourite to secure the win for his team in this year's University Challenge. Even Jeremy Paxman was as shocked as viewers when Monkman lost his nerve and gave a 'completely useless answer' in round three.
How could they? Fifteen kittens aged just three to five weeks are found dumped in a suitcase in the street by a veterinary nurse
The kittens (pictured) – thought to be aged between three and five weeks – were discovered by a nurse as she made her way to work at a vets in Dagenham, Essex. It is thought whoever dumped them intended for them to be found as they had cut air holes into the case (top right) and left it near the nurse’s home but the situation could have easily ‘ended in tragedy’. Believed to be from three litters, the kittens are now being cared for by Cats Protection’s Hornchurch & District branch.
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France implodes over jihadist threat: Prison guards chanting ‘the state against the state’ clash with police as they protest outside Europe’s biggest jail which they say is a hotbed of terrorism
Around 350 guards who work in Fleury-Merogis, in the southern suburbs of Paris, were protesting against conditions that have become a breeding ground for radicalism (left, inset bottom shows footage of the riots). They set up barricades and lit fires, before riot police moved in shortly after 10pm last night. The protests were organised by a number of prison officer trade unions who say their jobs are becoming harder every day because of overcrowding and increased violence. There are some 4,500 inmates in the prison, which was built in the 1960s to accommodate around 3,000. Current inmates include Salah Abdeslam, the 27-year-old Islamic State operative who survived the November 2015 attacks on Paris (inset top right).
WORLD NEWS
- France implodes over jihadist threat: Prison guards chanting 'the state against the state' clash with police as they protest outside Europe's biggest jail which they say is a hotbed of terrorism
- 'I am a Muslim and I support ISIS': Stockholm terrorist CONFESSES and tells police 'attack was REVENGE for bombing in Syria'
- Egyptian forces shoot dead seven jihadists planning to attack a Christian monastery days after bombing Coptic church as part of ISIS plan to divide the country
- China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined, says human rights group amid claims 'thousands' were put to death in 2016
- Migrants traded in Libyan slave markets are being murdered, raped and forced into prostitution, while many STARVE to death, warns UN
- Shameless rise of the 'beg-packers': Astonishing phenomenon of Western backpackers who beg for money to fund their travelling as they journey through some of the world's poorest regions
- 'Ban Islamic face veils across the EU': Jean-Claude Juncker's political party - the largest in the European Parliament - calls for new rules and says covering up is helping terrorists
- Japan's population to shrink by a THIRD within 50 years from 127 million to 88 million as long work hours and online porn are blamed for a drop in birth rate
- Two gay men face 100 lashes in Indonesia after vigilante mob storm into their house and find them naked together
- Refugee accused of raping a camper and forcing her boyfriend to watch had been told he was being deported from Germany just days before
- Lula and Simba are safe at last! Bear and lion left starving in Mosul zoo after ISIS overran the city arrive in Jordan
- Elephant that killed its handler after being unshackled from its chains is shot with an AK-47 as it rampages through a village before dying as its mate weeps at its side
- Terrifying moment crowds stampede through the streets of Malaga after false rumours started that a terrorist was driving a truck into pedestrians during Easter festival
- Sweden stands together for a minute's silence as the shocked country remembers the victims of jihadist terror attack that claimed four lives
- Revealed: Stockholm terror suspect's asylum bid was rejected after he 'LIED and exaggerated claims of TORTURE in Uzbekistan'
- Pilot who dropped sarin bomb which killed 87 Syrians is a General who carried out ANOTHER gas attack last month
- 'Make America pay': Iran calls on Syria to ensure Trump 'regrets his attack' after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the US 'will hold to account any who commit crimes against innocents'
- Trump orders his generals 'give me options for taking out Kim's nukes' and tells military to prepare to 'remove North Korean threat'
- Concentration camp survivors brought to tears by the sight of the ovens: 72 years after it was liberated, the horrors that echo at Nazi death camp are still too much for the few who escaped
- Nous sommes une famille: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and his family visit the war grave of his wife's ancestor who fell during the invasion of Normandy
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Terrifying moment crowds stampede through the streets of Malaga after false rumours started that a terrorist was driving a truck into pedestrians during Easter festival
Dramatic footage shows terrified spectators - including tourists - running for their life after rumours spread that a lorry was about to plough through crowds in the heart of Malaga, southern Spain. Police later confirmed the situation was caused by a fight - but visitors to the religious parade had seen two people lying on the ground and believed a terrorist had struck.