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IF HE WAS still alive, former UK Prime Minister Ted Heath would have been questioned under caution over claims that he sexually assaulted five boys, police said today.
Following a two-year investigation, officers said that Heath is alleged to have raped an 11-year-old boy during a paid sexual encounter. The alleged offences are said to have occurred when he was a serving MP.
He is also alleged to have indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy during a chance encounter in a public place in 1962 and indecently assaulted a 15-year-old boy during three paid sexual encounters in 1964, the year he was made Tory leader.
The Conservative politician, who was prime minister between 1970 and 1974, died in 2005 at the age of 89.
“Sir Edward Heath was an extremely prominent, influential and high-profile person who was arguably one of the most powerful people in the world,” Wiltshire police chief constable Mike Veale said, announcing the investigation’s findings.
The allegations against him were of the utmost seriousness and from a significant number of people.
The £1.5 million (€1.7 million) probe was triggered in 2015 after Heath was named as a suspect in an investigation into so-called historical child sex abuse.
Of the 42 allegations made against Heath, seven would have warranted him being questioned by police.
Six people named Heath in accusations of satanic or ritual abuse, but police found no corroborative evidence.
With reporting from AFP
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No matter where they put it, it will still be across the Irish Sea.
There is already a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Sensationalist nonsense.
My parents live 20 miles from this, they are not overly concerned. Maybe we are making to big a deal in Ireland
@allison
At the beginning, every thing looks fine. Then as time goes by, we see an increase in “minor incidents”. Nothing big at all: some leakage, or minuscule cracking, etc.
And most of all, we keep on building these nuclear:
- without knowing how to dismantle them (!)
- without knowing what to do with radioactive waste.
Apart from that, everything is fine. Look! France has 58 nuclear reactors (and don’t know what to do with the old old Fessenheim).
My dad has just said, if the plant blows he would rather be the first to go, than suffer
Allison, to some, whatever they do in the uk is always wrong, and always a big deal. The fact that atmospheric pollution is killing thousands every year. Nuclear kills no one.
Chernobyl killed 57. Then best not build another Chernobyl type reactor then.
Radiation is naturally occurring. The linear no threshold theory is completely discredited. Fake science. Atmospheric pollution due to burning turf, coal, oil does kill, and causes many lung diseases. Cars kill about 250 people every years. Sellafield has killed no one. Let’s have some perspective here.
@Clever Jake: in 1957, when the Morris Minor was still a relatively new design, the Air Corps still flew spitfires, Nelson’s column was still there…ancient history.
More iodine tablets so!!!!
@Lily, it’s a stupid place to put it, 90%of the year that wind blows from the south east meaning any explosion or Islamic terrorists attack I.e. flying a plane into it,would most likely mean the whole of England and Scandinavia would get the bulk of the toxic cloud.
* meant south west.
Actually most winds in this area blow north east so even a full meltdown and explosion there would not do much to us.
I remember freaking out about this after seeing a fake documentary about a Sellafield explosion and researched it. I used to think Ireland was woefully unprepared for disasters and big attacks, still think we are for some but to my surprise I discovered we’ve had an Ebola response plan since before 9/11 (even though an outbreak here is virtually impossible even if we had a few infected walking around), have stockpiles of vaccines from smallpox to H1N1 and CRBN gear for nearly every cop, solider and medic.
Fallout would be blown over northern England and the Low Countries. Some would come our way as not literally every wind always blows NE but the way the wind patterns work it would disperse the fallout so widely it wouldn’t do any damage. Only thing we worry about is the Irish Sea being poisoned, hardly a small concern but it’s not death and apocalypse if it blows…for us anyway…lots of death for other people..
The winds didn’t prevent Ireland get a dose of Chernobyl fallout.
“getting”
and yet it only seems to have affected one wealthy, publicity living, woman from cork. strange.
Ted, and what disaster did it cause? Nada.
@Buster VL: __ You must be smart enough to realise that there are long-term effects as regards radiation. The disaster was immediate around Chernobyl, but not so immediate further away.
Like it or not, we need nuclear power. Doubt it will ever happen here though
I agree completely, oil companies love investing in all this renewable stuff because they know it poses no real threat to their interests, unlike nuclear.
Nuclear energy has killed far fewer people and than the hydro-power or solar power industries, but people don’t want to hear those facts.
That plant is going to be on the UK mainland so we have no say, nor should we. To the people getting worked up over it, just reaslise that their nuclear missiles are stored just 75 miles from this island. Those are the explodey type!
“Explodey type”…if i could give you a hundred green thumbs for that i would :)
Perhaps the English should start moaning about the noxious gasses emitted by the pool beg incinerator, or all those cow farts.
Very well put. Multiple thumbs up
We are all doomed I tell ya, doomed!
I really don’t know why there is such an irrational fear of nuclear power in Ireland.
I think our politicians who know diddly squat about nuclear power and the physics behind it are partly to blame.
Cos we Irish are thick…simples
The Chinese are taking over. Our addiction to cheap electronics is coming back to haunt us
Sega Megadrive all the way i have no regrets.
Reports that the Chinese want to build a second nuclear power station in England is still under review.. Then the Chinese will have really taken over it seems…
The central processing unit of the new plant is an android box running Kodi.
Isn’t that how SE Asia and India were conquered in the first place, through trading might. Better brush up on the ole Chinese.
Quiet, says he/she responding on an internet forum.
Why aren’t we pushing towards being run totally by renewable energy?
Go a head push, let’s hear your ideas, don’t be shy..
If we were to approach it rationally, we’d have a huge wind farm on the north-western corner of Mayo and nowhere else. We’d have another hydroelectric power station in parallel with Ardnacrusha, on a new canal from Lough Derg that would also regulate Shannon flooding and would rejoin the Shannon at Coonagh below Limerick. We’d pasteurise agricultural slurries and run generators on the gas it produces. We’d grow fuel crops like miscanthus and fertilise them with sewage plant sludges.
The problem is that all that requires joined-up thinking and we don’t demand that from our representatives.
It’s not really feasible to store. Personally I think ireland could do with a nuclear plant just outside Dublin, supplemented by renewables from the rest of the country, which could run from renewables supplemented by Dublins nuclear.
Really? Have you noticed that even Britain and France build theirs well away from their own capital cities?
There was a TV programme earlier this week about energy to generate electricity showing several solutions around the world. In Dubai for instance they have thousands of solar panels enough to generate electricity for 20,000 homes. Whereas in Norway they have a new thorium nuclear power station set underground within a mountain. The thorium process also uses up waste nuclear fuels.
Dubai are also building a nuclear plant so are the Saudis. Oil will run out and it’s not good for co2 emissions
Have you noticed how close hinckley is to bristol and Cardiff.
John Considine the Shannon river is totally unsuitable for producing hydroelectric power, the station at Ardnacrushs produces 86MW which is less 2% of the maximum demand requirement of 4500 MW.
Get away with them innovative ideas here John! Irish politics doesn’t wanna hear about big infrastructure projects cos they’re all gonna take longer than the next election, and with our most powerful ministers pushing 70 they know they won’t be alive to see it and don’t care.
They also don’t understand the difference between an investment and an expense so constantly starve long term projects of funds cos of short term fiscal problems that in the medium term would actually provide stimulus to fix said fiscal problems, but they can’t think in 3D like that. Besides why find something you can’t see for 7 years when you can use the cash to pick up 1-2 extra seats with extra 10ers on whatever SW rate or tweaks to USC.
@John Considine, we could also bring the army in to shoot all the cattle in Ireland, thus reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our allowance to burn gasoline.
Molten Salt is the way to go – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
Growing crops to produce energy only makes food crops more expensive, another power plant along the Shannon wouldn’t produce much power same as energy from waste, nuclear power is the only true clean way of producing large amounts of reliable power and using the reactor developed in the USA in the 70 and 80′s there is zero chance of meltdown and very little waste
Uk, ireland are pushing towards renewables, have you not noticed the windmills. With enough of them, they could provide as much as 30% of the countries needs. The other 70% needs to come from somewhere. In Ireland’s case, we will be importing electricity from the uk, and it is good that uk electricity will be co2 free.
Dubai is a little sunnier than ireland.
@John Considine:
A. Have you asked home/landowners in North West Mayo whether they would like a huge wind farm, I seem to remember them gettting a bit upset about a pipe.
B. Ardnacrusha produces fook all electricity as would another plant in the same place, if it was feasible financially & from an engineering viewpoint it would already have been done.
C. Have you looked at the geology around from Derg to sea. A canal would cost umpteen billion to construct something big enough to make a difference. Also there are numerous choke points along the Shannon’s length meaning a canal in Derg will make fook all difference above Portumna. For all practical purposes the Shannon is untaimable cheaper for state to purchase flooding properties and allow nature take it’s course. Protect what can be protected and abandon the rest.
D. Where will you get the energy to pasteurise agricultural slurries? Surely it will use more energy than it creates.
E. We already grow fuel crops
You can join up all the nonsense you like it still doesn’t make them good ideas.
The best modelled approach to the carbon reduction for the UK by 2050 has 20GW of nuclear and 100GW of renewables. The only other credible alternative to meet targets is carbon capture and storage on fossil fuel plants inside of nuclear. Based on all current best educated guesses a mix of nuclear and rewnwables is the way to go for the UK. Granted a model can’t predict the future but you need to plan a power system in decades as plants last these long. Hence a decision now might be different in 20 years but its still the best option. Have a read of future energy scenarios model done by national grid in UK. Unbiased educated model on going green along with models of no change and less investment in renewables. Only way to make an informed opinion.
Yet another cancer making factory off our coast.
It will probably emit less radiation than Moneypoint.
Less toxic than Irish Steel that the EPA were told by successive governments not to monitor.
It’s hardly our coast
Why has the East coast of Ireland the highest cancer rate in Ireland? I was recently diagnosed with cancer and ive done a lot of research into the causes. The most likely in my opinion is radiation from sellafield. Its certainly never been proven one way or another but just look at the effects of the accident in chernobyl. Nuclear isnt safe.
1. Population density is the East is greater than the West
2. Outside of Dublin in the South/East, health services have been cut year on year. So early detection rates are too great either.
3. Any dermatologist will tell you that we should be wearing factor 50 suncream, 365 days of the year. Just because it is raining or overcast doesn’t mean UV light is damaging you skin.
Seamus, you are not the only one mate. It often makes me wonder why there are so many Irish families with kids regarded as special needs. I am sure that on average there are more in Ireland than in the UK.
Seamus, sorry to hear you have been diagnosed with cancer.
Can i ask what type of cancer?
Also what is your present and past occupations?
How exactly were you exposed to the radiation from sellafield?
Chris you are sure or you are guessing???? Big difference
Brent, Im talking in percentages here. Population has nothing to do with it.
You might call it guessing, but the facts are there are a lot of people with special needs in this country and there needs to be some answers as to the reasons. I would also agree with Seamus that non- Hodgkin cancer causing a breakdown of the body imune system in this country is becoming quite common. Even doctors in the Mater have told me this.
Radiation doses received by the Irish population
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2qlbEuNzUU
The higher amount of children born with special needs is down to genetics, we have a small population with very little immigration for over 100 years meaning more chance of genetic problems
Get Lost Eircodes Id rather not disclose my type of illness and my previous occupation, teaching, had no bearing on my condition. The consultant actually mentioned the fact that cancer is more prevalent in the East and that i had been exposed to harmful chemicals. He didnt discount sellafield. All the patients in the hospital with me were also from the East. Thats why i think sellafield is a possible source of the radiation along with the research i done.
As the video i already linked above from the EPA states, total radiation received by Joe Public in Ireland from Sellafield, Chernobyl and all nuclear testing combined is 1% of our annual average radiation dose.
How can you discount the other 99+% and blame Sellafield???
you know if the cover-up is only on obscure websites, that only deal with the same cover ups, then they are more than likely NOT cover ups.
So jake what you are saying is that natural radiation is better for you than man made radiation?
Cornwall’s granite emits a lot of naturally occuring radon gas. the south western winds blows it over ireland.
FFS The amount of disinformation and hearsay that people on this site believe is unreal. The amount of radiation emitted by Sellafield is tiny. Seamus Og blames it for his cancer, someone else is blaming it for special needs children. If it caused any of these issues you’d expect Cumbria to be inundated with these problems and clearly it is not.
Proinsias, Youre a horrible excuse for a person. I didnt blame sellafield for my cancer but said it couldnt be discounted as a contributing factor as claimed by the consultant himself. Id trust his judgement quicker than yours. And one other thing, i am not misinformed about sellafield and the risks it involves.
@Buster, you might want to recheck your wind direction…
@Chris Kirk: because abortion is banned in Ireland.
Watch ‘Pandoras Promise’ on Netflix.
Great documentary that blows the myths of nuclear power away
Thanks for the recommendation, very interesting documentary. Some of the paranoid dopes on here should watch it.
Whether we like it or not the UK needs to build this plant. With some of the older nuclear plants due to be decommissioned in the next few years and North Sea oil and gas running out they are left with no choice. It is reckoned that two medium sized modern Nuclear Power Plants would be sufficient to supply all the power needs of a population of our size.
The Chinese are backing so it must go ahead for fear of offending them? So not only are they taking over African and bullying Africans the British are bending over too. Chinese revenge for the opium wars. Not that I’ve a problem with nuclear energy but with the Chinese calling the shots??
Excellent news. The uk really cares about the environment. Renewables are simply not enough, coal, gas, cracking all generate co2.
How about some sense of perspective here. The uk is not going to build a Chernobyl pattern reactor. France’s edf have a perfect safety record.
Get the tree huggers out
And Bangladesh apparently which is disappearing due to rising sea levels…
Let’s hope this project doesn’t turn out to be anything like the fiasco that the 1.6 GW EPR reactor under construction in Finland has turned out to be. Construction began in 2005 and the reactor was supposed to be generating power by 2009.
Instead, the project has staggered from one cock-up to another and the estimated cost has risen from the original €3.2 billion to nearing €10 billion and rising. The best guess is that it may finally come on line in 2018.
That plant hasn’t cost Finland a penny extra than the original price agreed. The company building it has had to take a 2 Billion loss.
Clever. The Finnish Government locked in the original price at 3 Billion. The French company building it and its German partners have had to absorb all the extra costs. That is why Siemens sold it’s share in it. It had already cost them billions.
@ Mick Jordan “That plant hasn’t cost Finland a penny extra than the original price agreed. The company building it has had to take a 2 Billion loss.”
If that is true, I bet the company wishes it had gone to Ireland instead. The Irish Government – be it a Fianna Failure or a Blueshirt one – would probably have just paid the full whack and bent over to take another shafting.
Jake, what are you not getting about what Mick said? Who cares if it’s over budget – the company take the loss not the taxpayer.
What are you trying to say?
Finland doesn’t have a gang of chinless wonders sat at the controls. Unlike HM Government.
The last time I looked ‘wondering’ why are all the nuclear power stations on the west coast of the UK. .. all on the Irish seaboard? ?
Population density.
The proposed Chinese power station if it goes ahead will be built on the east coast of England.
No they aren’t.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456932/html/
The Brits want to irradiate the oirish.
What the hell are they playing at!!
@Paul Scully:
Generating electricity I should imagine
This is tantamount to a declaration of war against the Republic of Ireland. They should at least pay a form of insurance premium to us to cover any possible and these days more likely, the consequences of an accident or terrorist attack which would spread here.
Winston, at last…entitlement raises it’s greedy head. You have renewed my faith in, some, human nature.
@Winston Smith:
Hyperbole much?
When people worried about Fukushima’s affect on marine life. I saw documents that mentioned the Irish Sea as being one of the most radioactive bodies of water in the world.
This is a joke water has memory it’s new information. Research it. When water goes bad people go bad.
Understand water memory, it’s new information. When the water goes bad the people go bad, our muscle is 80% water, our body is 65% water, Jesus said he was in water & air not to look at his death on the cross. The Irish Government said they don’t want special treatment in Brexit, but we are still letting them shit in our waters.. Useless basters!!!
They are building a nuclear reactor beside the sea, the Atlantic ocean knowing that global warming will cause the sea levels to rise and knowing that winter storms will do damage. Then as well as this they build it in the middle of about 23 fracking sites that could cause earthquakes that could crack the bottom of the reactor. How clever is that?
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