David Cameron tangled in pasty tax scandal
David Cameron’s efforts to justify Tories’ move to slap 20% VAT on hot pasties sold by high street firms like Greggs came to a crumbly end when his claims of eating a Cornish pasty at Leeds railway station were exposed as untrue. Defending the pie tax, the Prime Minister at a Downing Street press conference, pushed that government’s motive behind the sales tax was to bring freshly baked goods in…
American teenager jailed for murdering two British tourists
Shawn Tyson, 17, was read out two life terms yesterday by a US court of jury for shooting two Brits dead last April, in Sarasota County, Florida. The jury delivered the verdict after much deliberation about the age of the convict, who, according to witnesses, showed little emotion whilst the sentences were being read. The first degree killings of James Cooper, 25 and James Kouzaris, 24 on April 16 last…
