Summary: The Communist spy at the heart of an MI5 Whitehall security alert boasted about her plans to install Chinese MPs in the Commons as far back as 2007, it emerged yesterday. Barbara Stange-Alvarez destroyed wine, spirits and beer when she went on the rampage in Aldi, St Albans Magistrates' Court was told. The 36-year-old from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, walked along the aisle at the local store and used her arm to sweep hundreds of bottles off the shelves, a judge heard. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries today signalled the BBC licence fee will be scrapped after 2027 as part of the Prime Minister's policy blitz dubbed Operation Red Meat that aims to deflect from the recent Partygate row. Sir Keir Starmer was last night under mounting pressure to apologise after being pictured drinking with colleagues during lockdown. The Labour leader has tried to ride out the controversy but was forced on to the defensive yesterday as Tory MPs accused him of hypocrisy.In an uncomfortable TV interview, Sir Keir said there was 'no comparison' between his drinking and the Prime Minister's attendance at an event in the Downing Street garden. Anne Frank may have been betrayed by a Jewish notary who became an informant for Nazi occupiers in order to save his own family's lives. A fitness centre receptionist who took two ecstasy pills at a music festival collapsed with organ failure and died in hospital, an inquest heard. Senior police officers who oversaw a 'boys club' have been sacked amid claims of cronyism, bullying and racking up thousands in bogus expenses claims. Chief Superintendent Paul Martin was found to have failed to declare a conflict of interest when he interviewed his friend Chief Inspector Davinder Kandohla for promotion to Superintenden
