UK PM Boris Johnson announces Southend-on-Sea will be given city status by the Queen, fulfilling a long-held ambition of the late MP Sir David Amess, who was fatally stabbed on Friday bbc.in/3ASfGuA
UK PM Boris Johnson says Queen has agreed that Southend-on-Sea will be "accorded the city status it so clearly deserves", in honour of MP Sir David Amess, who had long campaigned for the change bbc.in/3lQGC9S
@BBCBreaking Very odd how people are murdered every day & many in doing their jobs, mps & @BorisJohnson don't flinch yet an mp gets murdered & whole governments appalled. The government needs to increase prison sentences and offenders get no visitors & family get no money from state rip David
@BBCBreaking A most fitting tribute from Her Majesty.
@BBCBreaking @BBCNews City of South End on Sea @VisitSouthend @SouthendBC well done. Shame this wasn't done when Sir David Amess was alive.
@BBCBreaking Pity we did show the same respect to any of the issues close to Jo Cox's heart: Humanitarian Aid, Child Poverty, to name but two.
@BBCBreaking Why did this man have to die before any change was made 🤷♀️ in honour ? I say in embarrassment ...