Greedy MPs to get freebie hols

The MPs and peers will be lapping up trips to Jamaica, Fiji, Australia, Tanzania and Kenya, all funded by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) through taxpayers’ cash.

Five MPs and two peers are to fly business class at a cost of nearly £4,000 each to Fiji, where they will spend 16 days island-hopping.

The Jamaican jaunt to the plush £130-a-night Jamaica Pegasus Hotel this week includes three peers and three MPs, among them John Austin, Labour MP for Erith and Thamesmead, who was blasted for spending £15,000 on renovating his flat during the expenses scandal.

A spokesman for the CPA insisted the trips did not involve “the luxury you might imagine” and said politicians were going to discuss “issues of concern” like climate change and trade.

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Wildfire kills six | The Olive Press

OVER six people have been killed by fires across Spain, while thousands have been evacuated from their homes.

Greenpeace has warned that these lethal wildfires have become habitual since the 1990s due to global warming.

Forest fires in Spain

An average of more than 80% of fires are caused intentionally.

Biggest US Wildfires | Epic Disasters

As Measured By Acreage Consumed In The Blaze

1.  Peshtigo, Wisconsin
October 8 - 14, 1871
More than 1,500 lives were lost and 3.8 million acres burned. The United States’ worse fire, however, is largely forgotten because it occurred at the same time as the more publicized Great Chicago Fire, which occurred on October 8 - 10, 1871. Interestingly, a similarly deadly fire occurred in Port Huron, Michigan on the same date.

2. Maine and New Brunswick, Canada
October 1825
Named after a river in Canada, the Miramichi fire burned 3 million acres and killed 160.