David Warburton, the MP for Somerton and Frome, is facing an inquiry by the parliamentary standards commissioner.The Conservatives suspended the whip from Warburton in April after a series of allegations emerged concerning sexual harassment and cocaine use.It is not the role of the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, to investigate these claims. But her office announced on Wednesday that she had launched an inquiry into whether Warburton had broken the code of conduct for MPs on three counts, including paid advocacy and failure to declare a gift or other benefit.
A mysterious "chupacabra" - like creature is reportedly on the loose in Texas.According to a report from the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, a woman from Grapevine named Kim Cooley first noticed an animal that looked similar to a wolf or dog from her kitchen window last Monday evening as it walked across her backyard.The very next day, she found the animal right in the middle of her backyard and called out for her husband, Steve Cooley. He went out and shooed the animal away, but it kept returning.With binoculars, Steve saw an animal who was emaciated and hairless with wrinkly gray skin, long pointy ears, and bright blue eyes.
Anyone seeking a window into the absurdities and stupidities of late-20th-century life could do far worse than the original televised misadventures of Beavis and Butt-Head. Of course, Mike Judge's animated sensation, which disguised its high satire as the lowest of lowbrow comedy, was something of a mirror, too. With Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV lampooned its own audience - a whole generation of fellow tittering coach potatoes - alongside the countless other American stereotypes that passed into the pair's orbit over seven seasons.
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has suggested that the FIA's intervention on 'porpoising' has backfired on rivals Mercedes following complaints over driver safety from Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and team boss Toto Wolff.Both Hamilton and Russell were left in pain following the street circuits in Monte Carlo and Baku due to the low ride of the Mercedes and the bouncing of the car, which triggered a controversial technical directive from the FIA ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix.Red Bull boss Christian Horner argued Mercedes' struggles were down to the design of their car, rather than the FIA's regulations, and said it was the responsibility of the teams to fix their problems with 'porpoising'.
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