Suspicions are raised over helicopter crash

The RAF Puma helicopter crash that killed three servicemen and injured nine last week is now the subject of a police investigation because of a possible criminal offence (Michael Evans writes).

Private Sean Tait, a 17-year-old army trainee,Flight Lieutenant David Sale, the pilot, and Sergeant Phillip Burfoot, a crew member, died as a result of the crash in North Yorkshire.

Defence sources disclosed that an RAF board of inquiry found something that raised suspicions that an offence might have been committed.

Neither the Ministry of Defence nor North Yorkshire Police would give any hint of the reason for the criminal investigation.

Hospital murder

A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a fellow patient at a psychiatric hospital. Telahum Tedola, 36, appeared at Rochdale Magistrates’ Court accused of murdering Rosalind Kim McManus, 58, an inpatient at the Birch Hill Hospital in Littleborough, Rochdale. Mr Tedola was remanded in custody.

Rattling Bentleys

Bentley has recalled 520 of their £200,000 cars after incorrect wheel bolts were used on their Azure and Arnage R, T and RL models. Engineers at the company, based in Crewe, Cheshire, discovered the fault after customers complained that their new vehicles were rattling when driven at speed.

Speed of light broken

Two German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light: 186,000 miles per second. They claim to have forced light to overcome its speed limit using “quantum tunnelling”, in which microwave photons – energetic packets of light – appeared to travel “instantaneously” between two prisms a metre apart.

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