In this Tuesday’s Mirror Daily Digest, we’ve pulled together the biggest stories of the day from an intruder break-in at a royal residence to a tourist’s Greek holiday ‘nightmare’
Welcome to the Mirror’s Daily Digest, where we’ll be pulling together all the best stories of the day from our News, Showbiz, Royal teams and more. This Tuesday, we’re featuring everything from an alleged intruder break-in on the grounds of Windsor Castle to a tourist who complained that her stay at a Corfu hotel came without ‘English food’.
We’ve also got the latest on the Beckhams, with Brooklyn reportedly distancing himself from the family. Meanwhile, our News team has been following the latest on the three Brits who are facing the death penalty after being accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia in Angel Delight sachets.
Windsor Castle security scare as man breaks in while William and Kate at home nearby
This afternoon, our Royal team reported on the security scare at Windsor Castle following an alleged break-in on the grounds of the residence. The man is believed to have climbed over the wall to get into the castle grounds on Sunday before he was quickly detained by officers from the Metropolitan Police, which is responsible for security at the address.
A man in his 30s was then handed over to the local police force, Thames Valley, before being arrested on suspicion of trespass and possession of a Class A drug. According to reports, the Prince and Princess of Wales, were at their Adelaide Cottage home on the Windsor estate at the time with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. However, as the intruder is said to have entered the grounds near Town Gate, it was some distance away from the royals’ home.
The man is also said to have not entered the inner buildings of Windsor Castle. A source told The Sun: “He broke into the castle near Town Gate and was quickly detained by police. It was a crazy thing to do and caused quite a stir but at this stage it appears there was no intent to cause any serious harm.”
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Brits facing death penalty for ‘smuggling cocaine in sachets of Angel Delight’
Meanwhile, three Brits are facing the death penalty after being accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia in Angel Delight sachets, our News team reported this afternoon. Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, were arrested in Bali on February 1 after being stopped by customs at the X-ray machine.
It detected suspicious items in their luggage disguised as food packages, said prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara. Mr Umbara told the District Court in Denpasar that a lab test result confirmed that 10 sachets of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in Collyer’s luggage combined with seven similar sachets in his partner’s suitcase contained 993.56 grams of cocaine, worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£272,000).
Police later arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, after a controlled operation which saw the other two suspects hand the drug to him in a hotel car park in Denpasar. He is being tried separately.
According to data by the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections’, around 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes. Those convicted face lengthy prison sentences or, in some cases, execution by firing squad.
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Brooklyn Beckham savagely writes David out of history with cutting comment
It’s never a dull moment for the Beckhams – and now, Brooklyn has reportedly distanced himself from the family after a string of rows, our Showbiz team reports. The chef initially appeared to be offering an olive branch to dad David, with the name of his new hot sauce range, Cloud23, previously said to be a “warm nod” to their father-son relationship.
However, Brooklyn himself gave a very different account when explaining the inspiration behind the branding in an interview with Glamour Germany. He said: “The 23 stands for our engagement date and my age back then,” making no reference to his sporting legend dad.
Elsewhere in the interview, Brooklyn, 26, showed off his tattoos, with a number of these elaborate body art pieces being nods to his parents and younger siblings. This includes his dad’s birth year, 1975, inked on his thumb, and the initials DVBRCH, standing of course for David, Victoria, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
However, these personal pieces of body art weren’t part of the discussion about Brooklyn’s tats, with the conversation instead focusing on his dedications to wife Nicola, and members of her family.
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Russia threatens UK with nuclear apocalypse after Keir Starmer’s defence warning
In other news, our Politics team reported that the Putin regime is mocking Sir Keir Starmer over his “war footing” defence review warning of the Russian threat. The Kremlin’s most prominent TV propaganda show warned of nuclear Armageddon facing Britain with “painful” radiation deaths.
And the Kremlin-funded broadcast urged the Scots and Welsh to declare independence from London before it was too late. The Putin broadcast claimed that a “very pretty” woman standing beside Starmer at his defence review announcement showed – from her expressions – that many Britons doubted his strategy in making the UK “battle ready” to fight Russia.
Leading Putin TV mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov declared: “I can’t understand why the British have gone mad [with the new UK defence review]. Where do they want to clash with us? At what point?
“Or do they think that we have already landed, entered the Thames somewhere and are now storming Westminster Abbey….? We are moving to combat readiness, said Starmer. But considering how he boxes, I’m afraid to even imagine his combat readiness….”
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Tourist’s ‘nightmare’ as Corfu hotel ‘had no English food’ and not enough chips
Finally, a holidaymaker revealed she was “sick to death of looking at rice” after the hotel she stayed at during her Greek getaway came with “no English food”. Susan Edwards, from Westerhope, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has refused to book with TUI again after paying for an all-inclusive trip to Corfu where she wasn’t offered English food.
The mum, 69, had jetted off to the Greek island paradise with her two cousins, aged 77 and 78, 50-year-old second cousin and daughter, 30, on a TUI package holiday. But she said the vacation was “horrendous” from the minute they arrived, and that the Brits were left with “no food” they could eat.
Speaking to the Newcastle Chronicle, Susan said the group discovered on the first morning of their stay at the Lido Corfu Sun Hotel that there was “no English food” available. The mum, who suffers from ulcerative colitis, lamented the lack of bacon and sausage, saying she and the group were unhappy when they were presented with traditional Greek fare.
She said: “On a morning you could have toast, a hard boiled egg, or something in sauce. There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot.”
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