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Trolls put picture of Harvey Price on BANK CARDS

Disabled teenager's face printed on Barclays card and shared in Facebook group Will Mellor from..

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4 years ago

November 3, 2017

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Disabled teenager's face printed on Barclays card and shared in Facebook group
Will Mellor from Manchester shared photo, writing: 'New bank card has arrived.'
The SLAMBER-CITY car group celebrates the 'offensive' humour of its members
The post comes after Ebay removed items with Harvey's face printed on them
Merchandise also bore an explicit phrase the boy uttered on ITV's Loose Women

By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline and Katie French For Mailonline

Published: 06:23 EDT, 3 November 2017 | Updated: 06:23 EDT, 3 November 2017

Disgusting trolls continue to mock Harvey Price as the disabled teenager's face has been printed on a custom Barclays debit card.

A picture of Katie Price's blind son, who suffers from Prader-Willi syndrome and is on the autistic spectrum, was put on a bank card after others used sold mugs on ebay bearing his face and an explicit phrase he said on ITV's Loose Women.

Will Mellor from Manchester shared the photo in a Facebook group called SLAMBER-CITY, which has 162,809 members and requires users to answer three questions before they can join.

Will Mellor from Manchester shared the photo in the group after printing Harvey's face on his Barclays card

One of the questions is: 'If you had to either sit on a d*** and eat a cake, or sit on a cake and eat a d***, which would you choose and why?'

SLAMBER-CITY describes itself as the 'best f****** car group on facebook' and warns newcomers: 'We don’t give a f*** about you.'

The group boasts it 'rarely bans anyone', but says 'genuine' hate speech as well as personal attacks based on race, colour, creed or sexual orientation could result in a ban.

Harvey appeared with Katie Price on Loose Women, where he was asked what he would say to internet bullies and replied: 'Hello, you ****.'

But it also celebrates the distasteful sense of humour that connects its members, who are referred to as M9s, which means 'mates'.

'If you find something offensive, this may not be the group for you,' it says.

'M9’s are blunt, rude and crude f******. We’re also one of the tightest knit car communities on facebook who’ll come together and do what’s right when needed. Stick with us, and you’ll go far.'

The post comes after Ebay was yesterday forced to remove t-shirts and mugs mocking the 15-year-old.

Products including t-shirts and mugs were listed on the popular site branded with a phrase Harvey said on television last year.

He appeared on ITV afternoon chat show Loose Women alongside his mother to talk about internet trolls.

The custom card was shared in a Facebook group the day after Ebay removed this mug from its site

Price asked Harvey how he would respond if someone said something horrible to him and he replied: 'Hello, you ****'.

The phrase, along with a still of him from the show, was printed on mugs and t-shirts later sold on the site.

Ebay removed the items after deeming them 'offensive' because the products poked fun at the disabled youngster.

The t-shirt is emblazoned with the response Harvey gave when asked what he would say to internet trolls.

The seller, who went under the name rooby3333, advertised the shirts for £13.99 while the mugs were on sale for £8.99.

An eBay spokesman said: 'While we loved Harvey standing up to his bullies, unfortunately these items aren't allowed on eBay because of offensive language printed on them.

'We have removed these items and we will contact the seller on this.'

When asked about his products the seller said: 'It depends which way you look at it at the end of the day.

'He [Harvey] responded to a question regarding his haters and trolls, and I think he did a great job. As for being offensive, not at all.'

Just last month, England cricketer Ben Stokes was forced to apologise after he was filmed mimicking Harvey's phrase in a Snapchat video.

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Australia

Australia resists calls for tougher climate targets

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2 weeks ago

April 23, 2021

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Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has resisted pressure to set more ambitious carbon emission targets while other major nations vowed deeper reductions to tackle climate change.

Addressing a global climate summit, Mr Morrison said Australia was on a path to net zero emissions.

But he stopped short of setting a timeline, saying the country would get there “as soon as possible”.

It came as the US, Canada and Japan set new commitments for steeper cuts.

US President Joe Biden, who chaired the virtual summit, pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the year 2030. This new target essentially doubles the previous US promise.

By contrast, Australia will stick with its existing pledge of cutting carbon emissions by 26%-28% below 2005 levels, by 2030. That’s in line with the Paris climate agreement, though Mr Morrison said Australia was on a pathway to net zero emissions.

“Our goal is to get there as soon as we possibly can, through technology that enables and transforms our industries, not taxes that eliminate them and the jobs and livelihoods they support and create,” he told the summit.

“Future generations… will thank us not for what we have promised, but what we deliver.”

Australia is one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters on a per capita basis. Mr Morrison, who has faced sustained criticism over climate policy, said action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would focus on technology.

The prime minister said Australia is deploying renewable energy 10 times faster than the global average per person, and has the highest uptake of rooftop solar panels in the world.

Mr Morrison added Australia would invest $20bn ($15.4bn; 11.1bn) “to achieve ambitious goals that will bring the cost of clean hydrogen, green steel, energy storage and carbon capture to commercial parity”.

“You can always be sure that the commitments Australia makes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are bankable.”

Australia has seen growing international pressure to step up its efforts to cut emissions and tackle global warming. The country has warmed on average by 1.4 degrees C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies. That’s led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.

Ahead of the summit, President Biden’s team urged countries that have been slow to embrace action on climate change to raise their ambition. While many nations heeded the call, big emitters China and India also made no new commitments.

“Scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade – this is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis,” President Biden said at the summit’s opening address.

Referring to America’s new carbon-cutting pledge, President Biden added: “The signs are unmistakable, the science is undeniable, and the cost of inaction keeps mounting.”

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Australia

Sydney seaplane crash: Exhaust fumes affected pilot, report confirms

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3 months ago

January 30, 2021

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The pilot of a seaplane that crashed into an Australian river, killing all on board, had been left confused and disorientated by leaking exhaust fumes, investigators have confirmed.

The Canadian pilot and five members of a British family died in the crash north of Sydney in December 2017.

All were found to have higher than normal levels of carbon monoxide in their blood, a final report has found.

It recommended the mandatory fitting of gas detectors in all such planes.

British businessman Richard Cousins, 58, died alongside his 48-year-old fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, her 11-year-old daughter Heather and his sons, Edward, 23, and William, 25, and pilot Gareth Morgan, 44. Mr Cousins was the chief executive of catering giant Compass.

The family had been on a sightseeing flight in the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver plane when it nose-dived into the Hawkesbury River at Jerusalem Bay, about 50km (30 miles) from the city centre.

The final report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed the findings of an interim report published in 2020.

It said pre-existing cracks in the exhaust collector ring were believed to have released exhaust gas into the engine bay. Holes left by missing bolts in a firewall then allowed the fumes to enter the cabin.

“As a result, the pilot would have almost certainly experienced effects such as confusion, visual disturbance and disorientation,” the report said.

“Consequently, it was likely that this significantly degraded the pilot’s ability to safely operate the aircraft.”

The ATSB recommended the Civil Aviation Safety Authority consider mandating the fitting of carbon monoxide detectors in piston-engine aircraft that carry passengers.

It previously issued safety advisory notices to owners and operators of such aircraft that they install detectors “with an active warning” to pilots”. Operators and maintainers of planes were also advised to carry out detailed inspections of exhaust systems and firewalls.

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Australia unlikely to fully reopen border in 2021, says top official

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3 months ago

January 23, 2021

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Australia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.

The comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.

Department of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus’ escalation in other nations.

Dr Murphy spearheaded Australia’s early action to close its borders last March.

“I think that we’ll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.

“Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don’t know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,” he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue “for some time”.

Citizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.

Qantas – Australia’s national carrier – reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to “begin to restart from July 2021.”

However, it added this depended on the Australian government’s deciding to reopen borders.

Australia’s tight restrictions

The country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.

Australia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.

A vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.

Australia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.

Experts have attributed much of Australia’s success to its swift border lockdown – which affected travellers from China as early as February – and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.

Local outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city’s residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.

Other outbreaks – including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people – prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.

The state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated “hotspots”, following a decline in cases.

While the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.

Dr Murphy said overall Australia’s virus response had been “pretty good” but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.

In recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent – which has recorded at least nine infections – is under quarantine.

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