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France forced to draft in police to stop burglaries from evacuated homes as Britons ordered to leave amid wildfires

France has been forced to draft in police to stop burglaries from evacuated homes amid a devastating series of wildfires.

Almost 220,000 people have now been evacuated as flames tear through the Cap Ferret peninsula and towards Bordeaux.

Sophie Brocas, the Prefect of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Gironde, said 1,200 members of France’s National Gendarmerie had been deployed to Gironde – where one of the country’s largest fires is raging.

Patriotic Britons could be banned from flying flags as left-wing activists urge council to launch legal battle

Patriotic Britons in Birmingham could be banned from flying English and British flags if their council heeds the demands of left-wing activists.

Campaigners from “Brummies United Against Racism” are demanding the council seeks an injunction against the grassroots Raise the Colours group.

“We’ve been lobbying the council continuously to remove the flags and they’ve been really dragging their heels about it,” one told The Guardian.

D-Day beaches of Normandy recognised as World Heritage sites in rare move

The D-Day beaches of Normandy have been recognised as Unesco World Heritage sites.

The beaches become the first Second World War battlefields to be granted the status by Unesco in a move that commemorates the soldiers who lost their lives.

Known by their Allied code names, Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword and the Pointe du Hoc promontory, were recognised by the UN body at its meeting in South Korea on Sunday.

‘Britain’s first halal-only university flats’ handed to Muslim students in Scottish city

University students can benefit from “halal halls” thanks to a “faith-led” accommodation firm.

ILM Halal Student Halls provides rooms and communal areas that are “strictly halal-only” for Muslims.

From £165 a week, tenants can benefit from an en-suite room and alcohol-free spaces including a kitchen that is “halal-only”.

MoD admits it doesn’t have ANY water-bombing aircraft needed to put out fires

The Ministry of Defence has admitted it does not have any water-bombing aircraft needed to put out wildfires.

On Sunday, Scottish First Minister John Swinney turned down Wes Streeting’s offer to use Chinooks to combat the devastating wildfires in the Cairngorms.

Mr Swinney rejected the offer because the helicopters simply are not able to drop water onto the heathlands below.

German Government ‘tried to cover up Syrian migrant’s attack on Good Samaritan tourist’

An American tourist who was left disfigured after intervening in an assault on a woman aboard a German tram has claimed the country’s Government tried to cover up his attack.

John Rudat, a 21-year-old model, was slashed with a box cutter when he tried to protect two women from being “assaulted and harassed” in Dresden last August.