This is the moment an Evri courier ‘delivered’ a parcel before picking it up and driving off – as dozens more complaints flooded in about missing or damaged deliveries. 

Footage taken on a home security system shows the man walking up to the front door of the house and tapping details into a handheld device. But instead of leaving the box, he tucks it under his arm and walks away with it to his car.

After flabbergasted homeowner Steve Beresford posted the footage on Facebook he was contacted by a woman who lived a few miles away and had footage of what appears to be the same man turning up at her home and acting suspiciously.

He went up to her front door with a package – although she wasn’t expecting a delivery – and walked away with it again.

The individual returned the following day and stopped on her driveway before getting out briefly and then driving off. She now fears he may have been scoping out her house for a burglary.

Details of the incidents, which were reported to police who confirmed they had been linked by the investigating officer, coincide with an influx of further complaints about Evri services. 

New complaints the Mail can reveal today alone include –  

• Ingrid McNeil, from Glasgow, losing a £200 necklace after selling it on eBay; 
• Londoner Ruth Sloneem not receiving a £375 coat bought from Sweaty Betty; 
• Conor Cooney, from Maidstone, never receiving four items from Disney;  
• Customer in Bournemouth saying four parcels she’d ordered had not turned up;

CCTV footage shows the courier driver walking away with the parcel moments after he appeared to have confirmed delivery on a hand held device. Homeowner Steve Beresford, 61, said notification of the delivery appeared on his wife’s mobile 

Kaz Hill believes it’s the same courier who turned up at her house in Frieston with a parcel – but took it with him when he left

Retired BT service engineer Mr Beresford said he felt ‘violated’ by the ‘theft’ – but Evri claims there was a misunderstanding because the courier had a partial address

Ingrid McNeil, who is 56 and works for a housing association, posted a necklace she had sold on eBay on December 8, but the parcel failed to reach its destination. 

‘The one and only email I got from Evri was that the parcel was on its way back to me. I have never received it,’ she said. 

‘The tracking number gets you nowhere – saying they are experiencing ”technical issues”. I’ve received no necklace or compensation.

‘Out of the goodness of my heart I refunded the buyer as I didn’t want them out of pocket.’

Ms McNeil went on to say she had emailed Evri ‘about 20 times’ – but to no avail, as she has been led to believe the parcel was either lost or stolen on the way to the seller in Warwickshire.

Another customer complained of losing the ‘most expensive coat’ she had ‘ever bought’.

Ruth Sloneem, from Pinner in north London, said: ‘I am so infuriated not to have received my really expensive coat ordered from Sweaty Betty which was promised within 24 hours. That was a week ago.

‘Their message says there was a delivery problem and they would get back to me in 24 hours. I have sent many messages but heard nothing.

‘They are the worst delivery company. Why do companies use them.’

Ms Sloneem said she had ordered the Nimbus Longline Waterproof Puffer Coat for £375. But she has now been left with nothing but an ‘order number and Evri tracking number’ – ‘neither of which allows you to speak to anyone’.

Conor Cooney, from Maidstone, Kent, said he had been expecting four items from Disney this month.

However, Mr Cooney was disappointed to discover the gifts, which he had bought for his children and other family members for Christmas, ‘only contained two items’ – despite the fact he had ordered four.

He said: ‘I called Disney customer service and the first question they asked is “was the branded box at all damaged or tampered with”.

‘The problem is, the delivery hadn’t arrived in a branded box. It looked as though someone at Evri had opened the box, taken a couple of items and then wrapped the others in a black plastic delivery bag and stuck a label on it.’

Mr Cooney said it was the two ‘cheaper’ items that had been repackaged and redelivered.

He added, ironically: ‘Nice to know that Christmas orders are safe with one of the biggest delivery firms in the country!’

Louis Tremblay, nine, (centre, pictured with dad Adam, left, and mum Lauren, right) was left distraught after a rogue delivery driver threw his Christmas present in the bin

Tish Burbridge, a pensioner in Salisbury, has complained of missing ‘six or seven deliveries’ over the last eight months

In Bournemouth, one customer claimed none of four parcels she had ordered over the past two and a half months had turned up.

Overall, ‘£1,000’ worth of items had ‘gone missing this time’, she said.

The buyer, who wished to remain anonymous, said: ‘Essentially, every parcel I’ve ordered that is then passed to Evri has not been delivered since October. 

‘I’ve raised it with Evri each time that multiple parcels are going missing, but the situation has obviously not improved or been remedied.’

Earlier this week, the Mail revealed how one of Evri’s drivers had been sacked after he was caught on camera hurling fragile packages into the back of his van.

Customers complained he laughed when they complained about crumpled parcels.

Around 30 current and former couriers also told BBC Panorama how they were under pressure to deliver more and more items.

And the firm came bottom of a customer satisfaction survey of parcel delivery companies conducted by Ofcom in October.

Steve Beresford, 61, who lives in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, had bought a £21 candy cane infinity light for his wife, Beverley, 62, as she had decorated the Christmas tree with candy canes.

Describing the moment he discovered what had happened to the gift, he told the Mail: ‘I felt violated. I felt sick.

‘I’m disabled and have fibromyalgia [a chronic condition causing widespread musculoskeletal pain] and this triggered it, so I started having panic attacks and anxiety.

‘It’s not just stealing people’s Christmas presents. It’s all the upset and stress that goes with it.’

The couple were out for lunch when they received a notification on Mrs Beresford’s mobile phone that the delivery had been made on Monday.

The arrived home an hour later and ‘searched high and low’ but couldn’t find the package, so they contacted Evri by email.

Former BT service engineer Mr Beresford said apart from an automated response – which said they would be contacted within 24 hours – no one had been in touch with them.

‘So we thought we’d check the CCTV footage and you could have knocked me down with a feather,’ he added.

‘We couldn’t believe that we were seeing. We’d caught him [taking the package] as clear as day.

‘I told the police ‘I hope you find him and he’s behind bars for Christmas’. The officer agreed with me and said ‘Wouldn’t that be nice?’

After putting the footage on Facebook because he was so ‘livid’ about what had happened, he was contacted by Kaz Hill, who lives a few miles away in Frieston.

Ms Hill explained the same man turned up at her house on December 9 with a package, went up to her front door, and then left with the box.

An Evri subcontractor was arrested by Hampshire Police on Monday after up to 120 parcels were stolen just days before Christmas. Pictured is a photo of the stash

CCTV footage showed him standing outside her property. It cut out before he walked away but she said she was in at the time and saw what happened.

He returned in his silver car the following day, parked in her driveway before briefly getting out, then drove off again.

‘It looks like he pretends to put it down, then makes it look like no one is home, then takes it back. But he doesn’t even ring the doorbell,’ said Ms Hill, who was in at the time.

‘The second time he scared me, as he was just in his car on the drive for quite a while and then just before he left he got out of the car and looked back at the house.’

She contacted police, who issued an incident number but told her they couldn’t take any further action.

‘Technically it was not a crime as nothing was stolen as I wasn’t expecting a package,’ Ms Hill said.

‘However, the guy is clearly pretending to deliver, then pocketing the goods. The police can’t do anything but have said that they will just keep compiling info on him.’

Extraordinary footage taken on December 10 in the Norfolk village of Watton showed another EVRI delivery driver hurling parcels into the back of his van.

Astonished recipients described how the man ‘laughed off’ complaints when he handed over crumpled boxes.

The driver is also said to have abandoned a pile of items in a high street before he crossed the road to deliver a package. 

The incidents happened in the same county where people waiting for Evri deliveries had to search for items themselves earlier this year when the courier left them in undergrowth, on bins, in hedges and in the street.

MPs representing a number of constituencies have raised concerns about the company’s service recently.

Caroline Dinenage, who represent Gosport in Hampshire, said she knew of ‘numerous’ cases of Evri parcels being ‘dumped or marked as delivered with no attempt made to actually reach the recipient’.

In a letter to chief executive Martijn de Lange, she wrote: ‘With Christmas fast-approaching, residents are understandably distressed and frustrated by these failures, particularly where valuable gifts are involved.’

Evri registered 41 per cent dissatisfaction among customers in a poll conducted by Ofcom in October. The next worst was Yodel on 33 per cent and DPD with 26 per cent.

Amazon came top with a 16 per cent dissatisfaction rate, with FedEx and UPS second on 18 per cent.

Video filmed in Timsbury, Hampshire captured the moment an Evri delivery driver appeared to steal a Christmas present from a customer’s doorstep. Evri said it was investigating the incident 

The survey found 4.2 billion parcels had been delivered by all firms in the previous year – higher than the pandemic peak of four billion.

The company, which rebranded from Hermes UK in 2022, has been owned by American investment firm Apollo Global Management since last year.

In the financial year 2023-24, Evri’s pre-tax profit almost doubled to nearly £120m.

New footage this week showed one courier putting a nine-year-old Louis Tremblay’s Christmas present in a bin without putting a note through his family’s door. 

After receiving a message saying the present – a flip book US YouTuber Andymation – had been delivered, his parents checked their CCTV to see the driver opening the lid of a bin on their drive before putting the parcel inside. The bin was later collected. 

In Salisbury, a courier has been sacked after a pensioner complained of missing ‘six or seven deliveries’ over the last eight months. 

Tish Burbridge, a pensioner in the Wiltshire city, told the Salisbury Journal: ‘It’s extraordinarily annoying and also, you know, I’m now on a pension and money is tight, and I can’t afford to lose money like that. It’s just, it’s just not practicable.’

Meanwhile, an Evri subcontractor was arrested on Monday in Southampton after up to 120 parcels were stolen just days before Christmas. 

In nearby Timsbury, footage appeared to show a driver swipe a parcel from a family’s doorstep – before allegedly making off with it under her coat.

Toni Fryer, 47, vowed to ‘never use Evri again’ after her son’s Christmas present disappeared on December 15. Evri confirmed it was investigating the incident. 

Elsewhere, in Manchester, a delivery driver working for the phone was filmed on a Ring doorbell throwing packages containing glassware onto the ground before referring to the recipients as ‘dirty c***s’.

A Lincolnshire Police spokeswoman said they had received a report of a theft in Sibsey, adding: ‘A parcel was reportedly delivered to the address by a delivery man and the man left the scene taking the parcel with him. Enquiries are ongoing.’

The spokeswoman confirmed the force had also received ‘a report of a man acting suspiciously in the Old Leake area of Boston’.

An Evri spokesman said of the incident at Mr Beresford’s house: ‘Unfortunately, this parcel didn’t have a house number or name, which understandably confused the courier who was new to delivering in the area. 

‘The courier followed our guidance and took the parcel away with them as they were unsure if they were delivering to the correct address.’

Attempts had been made to contact the customer, he added.

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General Secretary of the Co-operative Party Joe Fortune warned the decision ignored fans, and demanded the Independent Football regulator ensures this never happens again

11:01, 23 Dec 2025Updated 11:09, 23 Dec 2025

Boxing Day is set to host one Premier League match(Image: MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Just one Premier League game on Boxing day is a betrayal of fans and stamps on a tradition that brings families together, the Co-Operative party has claimed.

General Secretary of the Co-operative Party Joe Fortune warned the decision left behind those who made it the beautiful game, and demanded the Independent Football regulator (IFR) ensures this never happens again.

In a letter to its chair, David Kogan, Mr Fortune called for action to prevent issues with scheduling, suggested the Premier League do more to boost grassroots football, and pushed for reform of ownership structures.

READ MORE: Premier League fixture changes for TV over Boxing Day and New Year confirmedREAD MORE: Just one Premier League game on Boxing Day due to Sky Sports and TNT Sport obligationsGeneral Secretary of the Co-operative Party Joe Fortune condemned the decision

He said: “We are told this abandonment of tradition and fan values is due to expanded European club competitions placing pressure on the domestic schedule, clashing with the Premier League’s commitment to televise a set number of matches on weekends.

“This is just another example of the ever-expanding monetisation of football coming above the experience of fans.

“Fans are increasingly priced out of enjoying the game, while ownership of our country’s top teams is dominated by foreign companies or states.

“Football – and indeed all sport – should always be centred around the people who make it so magic, the fans who give up their time and money to a shared experience with their community.

“This decision is completely ignorant to those fans and communities, and has understandably caused outrage.”

The day after Christmas has become an iconic part of the football calendar, with top-flight ties often filling a decent chunk of the day on December 26. This year Boxing Day will see the fewest top-flight games take place since the Second World War. Eight matches were played in 2024 on the same date.

His comments were echoed by Labour MP Anneliese Midgley, who sits on Westminster’s Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

She said: “Boxing Day football has been part of the English game and a family tradition for generations – including in my own.

“Fans are always told football is nothing without them, but decisions like this show how often they’re treated as an afterthought, with kick-off times that don’t work, rising costs and traditions quietly pushed aside. It’s time fans were properly listened to again.”

Responding, an IFR spokesperson said: “Fans are central to the IFR’s mission and our future licensing regime will require clubs to demonstrate meaningful engagement with their fans on key decisions such as stadium moves, club heritage and ticket pricing.

“If standards fall below what the IFR considers adequate and effective engagement, we will work with clubs to bring them back to the required standards and where necessary impose sanctions where clubs are in breach of our regime.”

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Liverpool manager Arne Slot says star forward Alexander Isak will be on the sidelines until at least late February.

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Alexander Isak is expected to be out of action for two months after fracturing his leg against Tottenham, with Liverpool manager Arne Slot accusing Tottenham’s Micky van de Ven of making a “reckless challenge”.

The Sweden striker was injured in a tackle from the defender in the act of scoring the opening goal in Saturday’s 2-1 victory and limped off the pitch.

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Liverpool said in a statement on Monday that the forward had had an operation on an ankle injury that included a fibula fracture.

“It’s going to be a long injury, for a couple of months,” Slot told reporters on Tuesday, “So, yeah, that’s a big, big, big disappointment for him. And as a result, also of course for us.”

Slot described Van de Ven’s tackle as “reckless”.

“I think I said a lot about the tackle of Xavi Simons [sent off earlier in the game for Spurs], which for me was completely unintentional, and I don’t think you will ever get an injury out of a tackle like that.

“The tackle of Van de Ven, if you make that tackle 10 times, I think 10 times there’s a serious chance that a player gets a serious injury.”

Isak, centre, gets injured in a challenge with Tottenham Hotspur’s Dutch defender #37 Micky van de Ven at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on December 20, 2025 [Justin Tallis/AFP]

Isak’s challenging year continues

Isak’s injury is the latest setback for the forward after he signed from Newcastle for a British record 125 million pounds ($168m) in September.

A dispute with Newcastle meant he did not have a proper preseason programme and arrived at Liverpool well behind his teammates in terms of fitness.

His season was then interrupted by a groin injury.

The 26-year-old has scored just three goals in 16 appearances since completing his protracted move to Anfield.

Isak’s absence will be a major blow for Reds boss Slot, with Mohamed Salah at the Africa Cup of Nations and Cody Gakpo not ready to return from a muscle injury until early in the new year.

It leaves Slot with Hugo Ekitike, who has five goals in his past four games, and the little-used Federico Chiesa as his only senior forwards.

Liverpool, whose Premier League title defence collapsed after a shocking run of results, have climbed to fifth in the table after extending their unbeaten league run to five games.

Isak’s injury raises the prospect of Liverpool moving to boost their attack in the January transfer window, with Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo linked with a move to Anfield.

It may also change the conversation around Salah, who had been linked with a move to Saudi Arabia following his recent claim that he had been thrown under the bus by the club and no longer had a relationship with Slot.

Salah’s rant, which came after he was left on the bench for three successive matches, prompted Liverpool to leave him out of the squad for a Champions League match at Inter Milan.

But he returned to action as a substitute against Brighton before leaving for international duty.

Liverpool host bottom side Wolves on Saturday.

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Four-day week may be considered a sign of failure, England councils told

Steve Reed, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, has written to all councils to warn that adopting a four-day week for staff puts them at risk of being declared a failing authority, Jamie Grierson reports.

As Jamie reports, 25 councils have discussed a four-day week policy and one, South Cambridgeshire district council, has already moved to the pattern.

This is quite a shift from Labour. At the time of the 2019 general election, when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, Labour was committed to the goal of reducing average working hours over the course of a decade so as to in effect introduce a four-day working week for everyone.

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Lib Dems call for creation of fly tipping hotline to improve reporting of ‘mountain of rubbish’ problems

Last month Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, raised an incident of fly tipping in Oxfordshire at PMQs. That is not the sort of topic that normally comes up at PMQs, although anyone who has seen the pictures will know why Davey, and his party, felt this had to be raised at the highest level.

Not letting go, the Lib Dems have today released some polling that suggests this is a widespread problem, and that it is getting worse. According to the poll by Savanta, commissioned by the party and carried out last month, 20% of people say they have seen ‘mountain of rubbish’ fly tipping in their area, on a scale similar to the Kidlington incident raised at PMQs.

Among the 1 in 5 who did say fly tipping was a problem for them locally, 66% of them thought organised criminal gangs were involved, and 64% of them said they thought the problem had got worse in the past 12 months.

Tim Farron, the Lib Dem environment spokespeson, said:

These figures show that the scandalous mountain of filth in Oxfordshire is just the tip of the iceberg. From our riversides to our rural lanes, criminal gangs are turning this country into an environmental wild west.

What’s worse – we don’t even know the true scale of the problem. Communities are being left to deal with filthy waste whilst criminal operations run rings around a system that all but looks the other way.

We cannot go on like this. Liberal Democrats are calling on the government to urgently clean up illegal waste sites and set up a new fly-tipping hotline to improve public reporting and detection of large-scale waste sites across the country.

In a thread on social media yesterday, Calum Miller, the Lib Dem MP for Bicester and Woodstock, recalled how he was first alerted to the problem at Kidlington and how he got the Environment Agency to respond.

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Non-crime hate incident recording system for police ‘not fit for purpose’ and must be replaced, expert body to tell Home Office

Good morning. With Christmas just two days away, the Westminster tap of news, which normally gushes strongly, is down to a dribble. There is not much on the government’s grid today, apart from an announcement about a plan to ensure young people leaving care in England will receive free prescriptions, and dental and eye services up to their 25th birthday, which we’ve written up here …

… and also confirmation that some former mineworkers are getting a £100-a-week boost to their pensions as a result of a change to the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme announced in the budget.

Josh MacAlister, the children’s minister, has been giving interviews this morning about the care leavers announcement.

We’re in one of those weeks where, even more than usual, news organisations have to find their own stories. In politics we’ve got a report from Peter Walker about Reform UK’s plan to slash aid spending (or, rather, slash it even more than it has been slashed already).

“Plans by Reform UK to slash the aid budget by 90% would not cover existing contributions to global bodies such as the UN and World Bank, shredding Britain’s international influence and risking its standing within those organisations, charities and other parties have warned,” Peter writes.

The Telegraph is splashing on a story by Charles Hymas, its home affairs editor, saying that “non-crime hate incidents [NCHIs] are to be scrapped under plans that police chiefs will present to the home secretary next month”. This sounds like something pencilled in for the 2026 No 10 news grid, but Hymas has spoken to Lord Herbert, the former Tory policing minister who is now chair of the College of Policing, an organisation that works with the Home Office on policing policy, and he has confirmed that NCHIs are for the chop. He told the paper:

NCHIs will go as a concept. That system will be scrapped and replaced with a completely different system.

There will be no recording of anything like it on crime databases. Instead, only the most serious category of what will be treated as anti-social behaviour will be recorded. It’s a sea change.

The police started recording NCHIs following a recommendation in William Macpherson’s 1999 report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Macpherson said the police should create “a comprehensive system of reporting and recording of all racist incidents and crimes”.

Herbert told the Telegraph that the system was no longer “fit for purpose” because of the growth in social media and the advent of smartphones. He said:

It’s drawn police into an area that I don’t believe they wanted to be in. Police have been caricatured that they wanted to be involved in this, but I haven’t met a copper who does.

While some police officers argue that recording NCHIs is a useful way of recording behaviour that will escalate into criminality, the system has also generated countless stories (not least in the Telegraph) about police forces becoming over-preoccupied with offensive tweets.

According to the Telegraph, under the new system officers will not log hate speech incidents on crime databases, and will instead treat them as intelligence reports. They will also be given a “common sense” checklist so that they only intervene in cases of serious anti-social behaviour. Herbert told the paper the police had to be careful “not to throw the baby out with the bathwater”.

Ministers, including Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, have repeatedly said (normally in response to press reports about alleged excessive police responses to NCHIs) that they want the police to focus on what matters to the public and the Telegraph says the College of Policing plans are likely to be accepted by the Home Office. Mahmood is on record as saying that the police should be able to distinguish between “content [on social media] that is offensive, rude, ill-mannered, and incitement to violence, incitement to hatred”.

There is nothing much in the diary for today. But we’ll find some news somewhere.

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae have opened what state media calls an “attractive mountainous tourist resort and leisure ground for the people.”

According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), five luxury hotels have opened their doors in Samjiyon, a remote northern city near China.

Pyongyang promoted its latest luxury hotels, featuring amenities such as barbecue restaurants, hot tubs and leisure spaces, despite widespread economic hardship across the country.

Kim toured bedrooms and other facilities at new hotels

Kim, who attended the ceremonies on Saturday, declared the resort “clear proof of the rising status of our people,” despite the hardships most North Koreans endure.

He personally inspected the facilities, even testing the firmness of the beds for good measure, according to KCNA. His daughter, believed by many analysts to be the heir apparent, was by his side for the grand tour.

Kim toured ‘bedrooms of hotels, cosy leisure spaces and commercial and public catering facilities,’ according to KCNA Image: YONHAP NEWS AGENCY/picture alliance

State media insisted the hotels were proof citizens have “nothing to envy in the world.”

The opening comes as Kim seeks to highlight the ⁠country’s ‍economic progress ahead of a party congress next year, when a new development plan ‌is expected ‌to be unveiled.

According to KCNA he said the new resort was “clear proof of the ever-growing ideal of our people and our state’s potential for development.”

Foreign tourists likely the target market 

Tourism to North Korea remains a tightly choreographed affair mostly limited to government-approved tours that offer only controlled glimpses of life in the hermit kingdom.

But Kim is on a drive to boost tourism, and the opening of the new hotels at Samjiyon follows North Korea’s launch of the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone earlier this year.

Among the facilities on show were both indoor and outdoor bathsImage: KCNA/KNS/AFP

He declared Samjiyon to be an “innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the country.”

“The main target demographic is foreigners,” Peter Ward, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, told AFP. But, he added, visits to Samjiyon could also serve as rewards for “productive units” of workers.

Lim Eul-Chul, a professor at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University, said “large-scale group tourism could soon be accommodated via border regions with China.”

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• A 2-year-old boy is dead after a car crash on a highway near Peterborough, England, on Saturday, Dec. 20
• “Our thoughts are with the parents and family of this young child who has tragically lost his life in this collision,” said Sergeant David McIlwhan
• A 64-year-old driver has been granted bail after being arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving

A toddler is dead and five other people are seriously injured after their broken down vehicle was struck by another car. 

At around 6:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, Dec. 20, a Toyota Auris that had broken down in a live lane of the A1 northbound carriageway near Peterborough, England, was hit by a Volkswagen Touran, Cambridgeshire Police confirmed in a news release.

A 2-year-old boy from London, who had been traveling in the Toyota, was killed in the crash. 

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Five others who had been in the same vehicle were rushed to Peterborough City Hospital with serious injuries, police added.

The 64-year-old driver of the Volkswagen, who was from Peterborough, was “slightly injured” in the crash, police said. He was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, but has since been released on bail until March 20.

“Our thoughts are with the parents and family of this young child who has tragically lost his life in this collision,” said Sergeant David McIlwhan in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “The family is being supported by specialist family liaison officers.”

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Sgt McIlwhan added, “I would appeal for anyone who witnessed the collision or has dashcam footage but was unable to stop at the scene, to get in touch.”

Police have advised anyone with information regarding the incident to report it online, quoting incident 401 of December 20. Alternatively, reports can be made by calling 101.

Cambridgeshire Police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for further comment amid their ongoing investigation. 

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By KATHERINE LAWTON, NEWS REPORTER

Published: 09:09 GMT, 23 December 2025 | Updated: 09:16 GMT, 23 December 2025

A two-year-old boy has died and five people have been seriously injured after their car broke down and was hit on a major A-road. 

The toddler, from London, was inside a Toyota Auris that broke down on the A1 in Cambridgeshire at around 6.20pm on Saturday. 

The Toyota was sitting in a live lane on the northbound carriageway when it was hit by a Volkswagen Touran just past Stibbington Junction. 

Five other people who were in the Toyota were rushed to Peterborough City Hospital with serious injuries. 

Cambridgeshire Police has called for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward. 

Sgt David Mcllwhan said in a statement: ‘Our thoughts are with the parents and family of this young child who has tragically lost his life in this collision.

‘The family is being supported by specialist family liaison officers.

‘I would appeal for anyone who witnessed the collision or has dashcam footage but was unable to stop at the scene to get in touch.’ 

Anyone with information about the collision should report to the police online quoting incident 401 of December 20. 

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At the start of 2020, Harry and Meghan dropped the bombshell that they were quitting their royal roles – and their decision was reportedly spurred on by an incident at Christmas, just weeks before

09:00, 23 Dec 2025Updated 09:05, 23 Dec 2025

Harry and Meghan will spend their seventh consecutive Christmas away from the royal family(Image: BACKGRID)

The Sussexes will be once again celebrating Christmas thousands of miles away from the Royal Family. Harry and Meghan – who remain largely estranged from members of The Firm – will instead likely remain at their home in Montecito, while the likes of King Charles, Prince William and Princess Kate gather for their celebrations in Sandringham.

The last time Harry spent Christmas with the royals was back in 2018, following his wedding in May earlier that year. The following December, they spent the festive season in Canada during an extended break from their royal duties. Mere weeks later, the Sussexes dropped the bombshell news they were quitting royal life. And according to one royal expert, it was an incident that took place in Christmas 2019 that tipped the couple over the edge.

READ MORE: Prince Harry and Meghan’s ‘rude’ rant about Royal Family that ‘included late Queen’READ MORE: Meghan Markle snubbed from life-changing royal meeting over ‘leak fears’READ MORE: ‘Awkward’ Prince Harry looks like ‘a fish out of water’ in Meghan’s new Christmas videoThe late Queen seen giving her Christmas address in 2019

Harry, Meghan, and their baby son Archie spent the festive season in Canada with her mum, Doria Ragland. Like so many, they watched the late Queen’s Christmas message – but were reportedly infuriated by one key detail.

The couple were said to be upset when they saw family portraits on display on the late Queen’s desk, but none featured the Sussexes. In the book Finding Freedom, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand claimed the couple believed the Royal Family were “conspiring against them” with the move. They said Harry and Meghan also felt they had “long been sidelined by the institution and were not a fundamental part of its future”.

They wrote: “One didn’t have to look further than the family photos displayed during the Queen’s Speech on Christmas Day. In the Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace , where the Queen delivered her address, viewers glimpsed photos of the [Waleses] and their children, Charles and Camilla, Prince Philip , and a black-and-white image of George VI. Noticeably absent was a photo of Harry, Meghan, and their new baby, Archie.”

Harry and Meghan were also said to have been upset by a photo of the Queen with her heirs(Image: PA)

The authors said palace sources insisted the photos were chosen to represent the “direct line of succession”. However, Omid and Carolyn said Harry and Meghan felt it was “yet another sign that they needed to consider their own path.”

It wasn’t the only ‘snub’ that reportedly pushed the Sussexes to cut ties. A sweet snapshot of Prince George proved to be a ‘wake up call’ for Harry and Meghan, and cemented their decision to leave the Firm, an expert has claimed.

The image in question showed the late Queen with her three heirs, the then-Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George, who was six at the time, in the throne room at Buckingham Palace. It was released at the beginning of 2020, days before Harry and Meghan confirmed they planned to step down as working royals.

On the face of it, the picture simply showcased the future of the monarchy and mirrored many historic portraits. But it is alleged to have caused upset behind the scenes.

In his book Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, Andrew Morton wrote: “The royal couple suspected that the entire institution was conspiring against them. As they saw it, the evidence was all around them. The unspoken code was straightforward: the future of the monarchy was assured, with or without Meghan and Harry.”

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US President Donald Trump warned Nicolas Maduro to ‘not play tough’ and to step down on Monday, while the Venezuelan leader said Trump should focus on the issues in his own country. Trump told reporters the US will keep 1.9 million barrels of oil that were seized near Venezuela in December.

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Denise Coates, the billionaire boss of Bet365, a self-described “ultimate gambler” and Britain’s highest-paid woman, took home at least £280m in pay and dividends in 2025 despite a slump in pre-tax profits.

Coates’s Stoke-based gambling empire recorded turnover of £4bn in the year to March 2025, up from £3.7bn the year before. Pre-tax profits fell to £349m from £627m in the previous year.

Bet365 incurred a £325m increase in expenses as it reshaped its global footprint, expanding its presence in the US and South America, while giving up its sometimes controversial presence in China, where online betting is illegal.

Coates had already extracted more than £2.5bn in pay and dividends from a company that she began building in a car park in her home city.

Accounts posted on Tuesday show that she took a further £104m in salary, while her majority shareholding means she is entitled to at least 50% of a dividend of £353.6m, taking her total income from the group to at least £280m.

The deal is an increase on the £150m she claimed last year but falls some way short of her £469m record payout in 2021.

While Coates’s vast remuneration has sometimes drawn criticism for its sheer scale, some in the industry have pointed to the fact that she avoids structuring her deals in a way that dodges tax, making her one of the largest contributors to the exchequer in the UK.

The company also donated a further £130m to her charity, the Denise Coates Foundation.

The Guardian has previously reported that tax breaks available to Bet365 as a result of its donations to the foundation may have saved the company more than the charity has yet paid out to good causes.

During the year, Bet365 also waived loans to Stoke City football club, which was demerged from the group and is now under the control of Denise Coates’s brother, John.

The accounts made no mention of early-stage discussions about a possible £9bn sale of the group, which the Guardian revealed earlier this year had taken place.

However, the company did refer obliquely to its decision to leave the Chinese market, where betting is illegal. Bet365’s presence there has long been controversial, although it has always insisted that it was not breaking any Chinese laws.

The company incurred one-off restructuring and reorganisation costs of £59m after its exit from “certain markets”, it said.

However, it did not cease taking bets in China until the end of March, indicating that some of the cost of its exit could fall during the current financial year.

The departure has been seen by some pundits as a necessary step to ensure it does not fall foul of regulators or enforcement bodies in the US, where Bet365 is expanding fast.

It entered five new states during the year and now offers licensed betting in 16 of them. The US supreme court overturned a long-held ban on sports wagering in 2018, sparking a betting boom as individual states introduced their own regulatory regimes one by one.

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It was supposed to be just another Thursday in Laos, where Anthonin’s father was born.

Instead, the 30-year-old French citizen found himself among more than 140 people, mostly tourists, on a ferry that capsized in the Mekong River. All but three are thought to have made it to safety.

Videos online show a scene of chaos – people screaming for help, children crying and passengers scrambling to get their belongings.

Anthonin, who declined to give his full name, recalls seeing a mother and her two children on board the ferry – but they were nowhere to be seen on the rescue boat.

On Monday, Lao media reported that the body of a woman, named Pany Her, had been retrieved from the river. Rescuers then found the body of a one-year-old, who they believe was one of her children. Efforts to find a second child are continuing.

The boat was making its way last Thursday from the riverside town of Huay Xay to the historic city of Luang Prabang in northern Laos, a common route along the Mekong – and popular with visitors to the country.

There were 118 tourists and 29 locals, including four crew, on board the boat when it struck underwater rocks, according to an official report carried by the Laotian Times.

Within minutes, the ferry began to sink.

“The [crew] were just totally unprepared for that. There was a lot of confusion… it happened really, really fast,” Anthonin said.

“What was, you know, puzzling and alarming is that there were very few life jackets, around like, 15 life jackets maximum… [it] was really bad.”

As the boat continued to capsize, passengers shouted to a passing boat for help, but it did not stop – possibly because, according to him, it was relatively small.

The second one, however, did stop and take them in. However, according to British tourist Bradley Cook, another passenger on board, that briefly “made it worse”.

The 27-year-old told the BBC that as the rescue boat came closer to their ferry, people started to shift and put weight on one side of the ferry, causing water to fill up the hull even quicker.

Mr Cook went to the other side to climb up on the roof, from where he jumped onto the rescue ferry.

Some people managed to climb over to the ferry, while others swam for it, hung onto the rails and got pulled up by others. Both Anthonin and Mr Cook were among those rescued.

But others were less fortunate.

Anthonin says he was helping some other passengers retrieve their luggage at the back of the sinking ferry when he saw a Lao mother and her two children.

However, when he was on the rescue ferry, he realised they weren’t there.

“Some people were crying, panicking. It was a mess,” he said. “[But] I didn’t fear for my life… I was more affected by the three missing people.”

Lao media later reported that the body of the Lao woman Pany Her and a one-year-old child were found, separately, near Luang Prabang.

Another passenger, Gabrielius Baranovičius, 19, told the BBC that he and his friend, both of whom are from Lithuania, did not panic at first.

“We were just joking around,” Mr Baranovičius said, adding that his attitude quickly changed when he realised they were sinking.

After getting on the rescue boat, Mr Baranovičius said he starting filming what was happening on board “but then I heard other people screaming so [I] turned off the camera and went straight to help other people in the water get on the boat.”

Tens of thousands of tourists use slow boat and speedboat services every year along the 300km (185-mile) route connecting Huay Xay, Pak Beng and Luang Prabang, according to the Mekong River Commission.

For Mr Cook, the experience was “terrifying” and it made him want to get out of Luang Prabang, “although everyone’s really friendly here”, because it was a constant reminder of his narrow escape.

Speaking to the BBC from Vang Vieng, a town in northern Laos, Mr Cook said he planned to file for insurance claims for his electrical items that were broken and for cash that was lost, though he was not sure who would be held responsible.

“I’m assuming it’s just a freak accident,” he said, though he added he “was not sure how avoidable” the ferry capsizing was.

It’s not the first time such a sinking has occurred in Laos.

In September 2023, a passenger boat, which travelled on the same river corridor between Huay Xai and Luang Prabang, capsized in the Mekong in Pakbeng district, resulting in three deaths.

The boat reportedly became entangled in a fishing net, causing loss of control and the vessel overturning in strong currents.

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A Mexican navy plane carrying burn patients to a Texas hospital in the United States crashed Monday in the waters of Galveston Bay, killing at least five people, officials said.

Mexico’s Navy said eight people were on board the twin-turboprop aircraft, including four navy officers and four civilians, one of them a child.

The plane was transporting burn patients to Shriners Children’s Hospital in Galveston.

Cause of the crash under investigation

The aircraft, a King Air ANX-1209, departed from Merida in Mexico’s Yucatan state and was headed to Galveston Scholes International Airport.

The flight was part of a medical mission coordinated with the Michou and Mau Foundation, which arranges emergency transport for children with life-threatening burns to the hospital.

Authorities said the crash happened as the plane was approaching Galveston. The cause remains under investigation. Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been deployed to the scene.

The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office said its dive team, crime scene unit, drone unit and patrol officers were also assisting at the site.

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At midnight on Christmas Eve, the words of the traditional hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in the tiny grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born.

“On the night of Christmas, war is buried, On the night of Christmas, love is born,” a local choir sings each year during the midnight service. As they rehearsed ahead of this year’s service, many choir members said the words echoed with deeper meaning following the ceasefire in Gaza.

“It reminds us that no matter the difficulties, the darkness, there is always a light and that hope is always alive,” said Joseph Hazboun, the conductor of the lay choir made up of local Catholics.

For the past two years, as the war in Gaza dragged on, Christmas in Bethlehem has been a somber affair, without the traditional festivities and decorations and music. But this year, families are flocking again to Manger Square, signaling hope about the fragile ceasefire and providing a much-needed economic boost to Bethlehem.

On a recent visit, Manger Square was crowded and buzzing with festive lights, a Christmas market, and music shows for children.

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Palestinian vendors wait for clients in Manger Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

“You can see the town come alive again,” said Zoya Thalgia, a resident of Bethlehem. “Everyone’s happy, everyone’s coming out to celebrate, no matter religion, no matter their stance, everyone is here.”

Christmas and religious pilgrims have always been a prime economic engine for Bethlehem. Around 80% of the Muslim-majority city’s residents depend upon tourism-related businesses, according to the local government. During good times, their earnings ripple out to communities across the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967 that has long struggled with poverty.

But during the Gaza war, the unemployment rate in the city jumped from 14% to 65%, Bethlehem Mayor Maher Nicola Canawati said earlier this month. And in previous years, as an act of protest, some churches created Nativity scenes with Jesus as an infant surrounded by rubble and barbed wire.

Despite the ceasefire that began in October, tensions remain high across much of the West Bank.

Israel’s military has said it is cracking down on militants in the territory and carrying out frequent raids. Attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank this year reached their highest level since the U.N. humanitarian office started collecting data in 2006.

Odette Al Sliby, a Bethlehem resident, has sung in choirs since she was seven years old, but she said few things compare to being able to sing in the grotto at the midnight Mass.

“It’s very holy, the place and the atmosphere and the songs and the words,” she said. Singing those songs is a message of hope, she said, and a reminder to Christians of the significance of endurance. “As Christians in the Holy Land, there is a big message of being here,” she said.

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Palestinians watch performances in Manger Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Christians account for less than 2% of the West Bank’s roughly 3 million residents, a presence that has been shrinking.

As poverty and unemployment have soared during the war, about 4,000 people have left Bethlehem in search of work, the mayor said. It’s part of a worrying trend for Christians, who are leaving the region in droves.

Across the Middle East, the Christian population has steadily declined as people have fled conflict and attacks.

Hazboun said he will pray this Christmas that the Christian population of Bethlehem and of other areas in the region important to Christianity don’t shrink any further.

The return of Christmas festivities across the West Bank, including a Christmas market in Ramallah thronged with visitors, is a much-needed break for local children, said Hazboun.

While Palestinians in the West Bank are still devastated by the images coming out of Gaza, lighting the community Christmas tree in Bethlehem’s Manger Square for the first time in two years earlier this month provided a boost of much-needed holiday joy.

“We continue to pray for peace. This is the land of peace, it’s the land where the Prince of Peace was born, and we continue to pray and hope that one day we all will enjoy peace,” Hazboun said.

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A new subpoena has demanded the medical records of a University of Kentucky cheerleader accused of hiding her newborn baby’s dead body in a closet.

Laken Snelling was arrested on August 30, 10 days after police found the body of a baby boy wrapped in a trash bag and towel in her bedroom closet at her college home in Lexington, Kentucky.

The 21-year-old is facing charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. 

On December 10, a subpoena was filed which orders the University of Kentucky Medical Center to hand over Snelling’s full medical records between August 2024 and now.

The information provided in the file could help investigators as they seek to piece together the tragic case.

The University of Kentucky Medical Center has until January 20 to comply and hand over the file. 

Snelling remains under house arrest and is subjected to electronic monitoring at her father’s home in Jefferson County as per the conditions of her bail.

Authorities believe the glamorous former cheerleader gave birth to the child in the early morning hours of August 27, and the infant was alive at the time of delivery.

The 21-year-old is facing charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant

Laken Snelling was arrested on August 30,10 days after police found the body of a newborn baby boy wrapped in a trash bag and towel in her bedroom closet at her college home in Lexington, Kentucky 

Additional testing of the baby’s corpse was underway by the Fayette County Coroner’s office to determine his cause of death after an initial autopsy was determined to be inconclusive.

While that additional testing was requested back in October, the results have not yet been made public. 

Snelling has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Prosecutors alleged Snelling gave birth at 4am on August 27, when her roommates said they heard loud noises coming from her bedroom.

Snelling told police days later she was awake for about half an hour following childbirth before she passed out on top of the infant, according to an affidavit.

When she awoke, Snelling allegedly said she saw the baby was ‘turning blue and purple,’ leading her to believe the child was dead.

At that point, she said she wrapped the baby up ‘like a burrito and laid it on the floor next to her because it gave her a little comfort in the moment.’

She then apparently fell asleep again, and woke up to her alarm at 7.30am – at which point she allegedly placed the baby in a towel and the placenta in a black trash bag, which she placed in her closet.

She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Now, her medical records have been subpoenaed

Photos from April shows Snelling performing with the University of Kentucky’s STUNT team 

When she then saw her roommates, Snelling told them the loud noises they heard were simply her passing out and falling.

She also told them she was going to a doctor because ‘she had not eaten and had not been feeling well,’ according to the affidavit.

Snelling did go to a student clinic in the aftermath, but did not go inside, the document claimed.

While she was gone, her roommates – who were said to have been suspicious of the pregnancy Snelling was hiding and the noises overnight – went into her room and found a ‘blood-soaked towel on the floor and a plastic bag containing evidence of childbirth,’ prosecutors allege.

When one of the roommates then made the gruesome discovery, she reported to police that the infant was ‘cold to the touch.’

By the time Snelling returned to her college home, she was detained by police.

As officers continued to investigate in the days that followed, they executed a search warrant on Snelling’s phone and requested access to her Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and a shared iCloud account with her mother.

The probe revealed that Snelling had made a number of Internet searches ‘including different things pertaining to pregnancy, images of her during labor, photos of her doing things ordinary pregnant woman should not be doing and a concealed or hidden pregnancy,’ the affidavit says.

Snelling was a senior at the University of Kentucky at the time of her arrest and a member of the cheerleading stunt team

Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling was ordered to wear an ankle monitor as part of the conditons of her release from custody 

Snelling was a senior at the University of Kentucky at the time of her arrest and a member of the cheerleading stunt team.

She has since withdrawn her position at the school.

It is unclear if she ever told anyone about her pregnancy. 

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Mette Frederiksen of Denmark and Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland have issued a joint statement to demand respect for their borders after America appointed a US envoy to Greenland.

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(L to R) Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen smile for the cameras back in April.(Image: Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Ima)

Leaders in Greenland and Denmark have issued a joint statement directed at Donald Trump, demanding respect for their borders, after the US president appointed a ‌special envoy to Greenland in his latest steps in his campaign to acquire the country.

The US President has long insisted the move would help boost international security and, in March, he suggested it would be a simple process for his nation to acquire the territory. However, Mr Trump has since faced a fierce attack from Greenland with its defiant Prime Minister blasting the world leader for his tactics.

Prime ministers Mette Frederiksen of Denmark and Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland have demanded respect for their borders on Monday, December 22 after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has said repeatedly should be under US control.

“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again. National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law … You cannot annex other countries,” Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (centre) pays a visit to Greenland to “strengthen unity” with the Danish autonomous territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.(Image: Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Ima)

The two leaders added that “fundamental principles” were at stake. “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the US should not take over Greenland,” they said. “We expect respect for our common territorial integrity.”

Trump, 79, appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to serve as the US ‌special envoy to Greenland, a measure he believes will represent a huge advance in securing the island. Trump said on Monday: “Jeff understands how essential Greenland is to our national security, and will strongly advance our country’s Interests for the safety, security, and survival of our allies, and indeed, the world.”

Landry, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, thanked the US president for the appointment, saying: “It’s an honour to serve … in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S. This in no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana!” Landry took office as governor in January 2024. His term ends in January 2028.

Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Lokke Rasmussen told his nation in a TV broadcast on Monday he would summon US ambassador Kenneth Howery to the foreign ministry in the coming days “to get an explanation”.

Rasmussen said he was “deeply upset by this appointment of a special envoy”, and “particularly upset” by Landry’s statement, which he said Denmark had found “completely unacceptable”.

He added: “As long as we have a kingdom in Denmark that consists of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, we cannot accept that there are those who undermine our sovereignty.”

The US special envoy appointment has also ruffled feathers in the European Union, with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Antonio Costa both said on Monday. “Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. These principles are essential not only for the European Union, but for nations around the world,” they posted on X.

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They also said that the European Union stands “in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland”.

Swedish foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said that “Sweden stands wholeheartedly behind its neighbour” and “will always stand up for international law”.

Norwegian foreign affairs minister Espen Barth Eide added Norway’s support to the pile, commenting: “Respect for sovereignty, integrity and the inviolability of borders is the foundational principle of international law, and must be upheld by all states without exception.”

Trump, in the early months of his return to the White House, repeatedly called for US jurisdiction over Greenland, and has not ruled out military force to take control of the mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island.

But Greenland, with less than 60,000 residents, is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark and holds strategic importance for the Kingdom of Denmark, NATO, and the EU. It is a socially progressive island, where like in Denmark, education and healthcare are free and the island is rich in minerals.

Days after becoming Prime Minister in the spring, former scientist Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said: “President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future.”

But then in August, Danish officials summoned the US ambassador following a report that at least three people with connections to Trump had carried out covert influence operations in Greenland.

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Earlier this year, Vice President JD Vance visited a remote US military base on the island and accused Denmark of underinvesting there. Trump has said that Greenland is crucial for US security and hasn’t ruled out taking the island by military force, even though Denmark is a NATO ally of the US.

Denmark and Greenland have said the island is not for sale and condemned reports of the US gathering intelligence there. The US push for Greenland is also opposed by Russia and much of Europe. The Denmark Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment about Landry’s appointment.

The Danish Defence Intelligence Service said in a report earlier this month that the United States is using its economic power to “assert its will” and threaten military force against friend and foe alike.

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