Another one of those weird DM stories where the numbers jump out at you: Hero of the Twister horror: Father tells of terror as he hurdled railings and ran to help boy, six, who fell 30ft from Lightwater Valley rollercoaster as ride continued to move around them
Emergency services rushed to the Twister ride at the park in North Stainley, near Ripon, and the boy was taken to Leeds General Infirmary by air ambulance.
Mr Philo told MailOnline: 'I was the guy wearing the red-hooded top whom got to the scene first after jumping the barrier along with an off-duty police officer.
..'Thankfully the boy is OK and nothing life threatening. It was a scary sight and one that I would not forget in a hurry.'
..In June 2001, Miss Savage, of Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, died when two cars collided on the same Twister ride, which was then called Treetop Twister.
Five years later, French firm Reverchon Industries SA was found guilty of breaches of health and safety law after the death of the 20-year-old student. It was convicted of failing to ensure safe design and construction, and failing to give information necessary to ensure the ride was safe when open to the public. Leeds Crown Court heard in 2006 that a wiring fault, which should have been found during the quality control testing process, meant the control system was not safe. A decade later at the park in July 2016, carer Paul Marshall saved a man in his 50s with learning difficulties from falling 85ft from the Black Pearl pirate ship ride.
I'm wondering why it hasn't been closed down. Here's another post on the place:
Daily Mail Watch: Prince Andrew's ex-girlfriend crowned new Queen of football - let's take a look
So the daughter of Robert Staveley, a North Yorkshire landowner who founded the Lightwater Valley theme park is Amanda Staveley. Looking for any recent news articles on her brings up this one, posted 4 days ago: Abu Dhabi royal set to buy Newcastle United - report
Newcastle United’s long-running saga to find a buyer looks set to be at an end with owner Mike Ashley reportedly agreeing terms to sell the club to Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nehayan. Ashley, who owns British sportswear retailer Sports Direct International, has reportedly agreed to sell the club for £350 million ($445m), UK newspaper The Sun reported late on Sunday.
Ashley, majority owner of Newcastle since 2007, has been seeking a buyer for the club for a number of years, and was involved in discussions with Amanda Staveley, and her company PCP Capital Partners over a possible deal for £250 million ($348 million). Staveley, whose company was instrumental in the deal that saw Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour buy Manchester City, had brought together potential investors from around the globe - believed to be from the Middle East, east Asia and the United States.
Sheikh Khaled, who is a cousin of Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour, previously led a $2.6bn bid to buy Liverpool FC, which would have been the most expensive takeover in the history of the game. Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group, however, turned the off down and insisted the Premier League club is not for sale. Sheikh Khaled is the founder of Dubai-based Bin Zayed Group, a conglomerate with diverse business interests in the local and international markets.
An article from the Crown Prince Court: Yahsat Chairman says company brings technology and jobs for UAE citizens
Yahsat, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, Abu Dhabi government's strategic investment and development vehicle, launched two satellites in 2011 and 2012. The satellites provide a variety of government and commercial applications, including "YahClick", a new reliable and affordable satellite broadband service....
The lecture was also attended by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al Khaimah, H.H. Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, the Ruler's Representative in the Eastern Region, H.H Sheikh Suroor bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, H.H. Sheikh Nahyan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Minister of Presidential Affairs, H.H. Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court, and Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development.
The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side
Episode 1 was based around the bombshell revelation that Manchester City is not actually run by Sheikh Mansour Al Nahyan but by his more powerful and more dangerous older brother, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and it argued that the club’s rise to the top of the European game reflects the efforts of a gang of cash-hungry, blood-thirsty statesmen to extend their network of power and influence, aided and abetted by shape-shifting public relations advisors.
Unfortunately, bungles and bootlegging merely provide the context for Episode 2’s darker content. “The Kids Are Not Alright” is mostly about child slavery....
On May 11, 2005, then US Ambassador to Qatar, Chase Untermeyer, sent a classified cable to the State Department in Washington DC detailing his experiences at a large thoroughbred camel race meeting in Doha. Untermeyer noted the highly visible presence of the most senior members of the Qatari royal family, including the current Emir Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani. “During the fifth round, two camels were observed coming through the finish line without jockeys. When asked about the missing jockeys it was commented that the jockeys must have fallen off the camels onto the racetrack,” runs the cable, which describes seeing a total of three jockeys being taken away in ambulances that day and notes that six jockeys die every year and “many more are severely injured.” Untermeyer also noted that US Embassy staff’s attempts to interview the jockeys of these thoroughbred camels “met with resistance.” This isn’t surprising – the 800 jockeys present that day were mostly between 4 and 6 years old and they weren’t Qatari.
..The use of children in races can be traced back to the men behind Manchester City – the Al-Nahyan family of Abu Dhabi – and the palace they built themselves in the Rahimyar Khan region of Pakistan in the 1970s.
..According to Save The Children, it was around this time that parents from Rahimyar Khan began to allow their children to be taken to the Gulf, often in private planes, and as the popularity of the burgeoning sport grew, fuelled by petrodollars, so did the demand for jockeys. Children from Bangladesh, India, Sudan, Mauritania were also trafficked to the Gulf, but Pakistan appears to have been the main source of child jockeys and the UAE their main destination. Save The Children estimate that 15,000 children from the Rahimyar Khan region of Pakistan alone were trafficked to the UAE between the mid-1970s and 2005. Investigations in Pakistan in 2004 revealed the existence of several highly-organized trafficking networks, comprising criminal gangs, recruiters, travel agents, law enforcement officials in Pakistan, and wealthy and powerful individuals in the UAE....
The article goes on and gets increasingly unpleasant about what happens to the children..
Yahsat/Yahlive has been connected to the Hampstead case (and more is still to come about that)..
David Petraeus - ex - CIA chief, new media mogul in Eastern Europe. The complete investigation - On Soros and Telecommunications in Eastern Europe
Will Draper update and more connections re the Hampstead case and Christ Church School
Remember that UAE embassy mansion fire ? A look at UAE influence in Washington, broadcasting systems and their connection to the world of child abuse. I need some tech savvy eye
Watch this space....
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Update on that story: Boy, seven, who suffered serious head injuries when he fell 30ft from Lightwater Valley rollercoaster is now fighting for his life, police reveal