New powers for police to target drones
PRAISE For bravery of her Bobby COMEDIAN Katherine Ryan has revealed how her boyfriend fought off a home intruder who tried to steal the laptop containing scripts of her new TV series.
Writing on social media, she revealed that fellow Canadian Bobby Kootstra had battled the man and managed to save her work before the police arrived.
Sharing a picture of a policeman in her home in Barnet, North London, she told fans: “Cool to be robbed tonight by a masked man in our home.”
She went on to show her laptop splattered with blood and praised Kootstra.
Katherine told her followers: “And this is why I love Bobby K. He got in a fight and wrestled back my Netflix series and scripts.” Your Face or Mine host Ryan, 36, DANGER Drone near plane ON SOCIAL MEDIA She seemed to make light of raid
also posted pictures of her tiny pooch, joking he was a useless guard dog.
Despite making light of the ordeal on Saturday night, the comic, who has a nine-year-old daughter Violet, posted an image at 5.10am, saying: “That’s fine I never liked sleeping anyway.”
The entertainer deleted another post in which she accused police of putting her on hold even while she thought the burglar was in her home. Ryan wrote: “They need more money AND NOW.”
She also posted a picture of a ring that the robber stole before he was “tackled into the street” and asked for it to be circulated around pawn shops.
Earlier this year the comic, a regular on panel shows including Eight Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown and Have I Got News For You revealed she was dating Bobby 20 years after they first got POLICE are to be given extended powers for combatting illegal drone users to avoid more airport chaos.
Around 1,000 flights at Gatwick Airport were disrupted over three days last December.
This year, flights at Heathrow and Leeds-Bradford Airport have been affected, while aviation authorities together as teenagers. She told The Mirror how they had reunited after meeting in a bar while she was in Canada filming Who Do You Think You Are? for the BBC in January.
She said Bobby, also 36, was the first man to have broken her heart.
He has since taken a sabbatical from his job and moved to the UK.
Saying she is the happiest she has been in years, Katherine has had to change her stand-up routine, which has always been about embracing single life.
She has written and will star in sixpart Netflix sitcom The Duchess, which airs next year. It features a single mum warn of 125 near-misses between unmanned aerial vehicles and aircraft in 2018.
Today in Parliament the proposed Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill will outline plans for new police powers to stop transport disruption and the use of drones to drop drugs, TITCHY She joked about her guard dog whose daughter is the centre of her world and who is debating whether to have a another child with the dad, her greatest enemy.
Katherine has said the main character is a “heightened version” of herself.
She is also working on a second stand-up project for Netflix, called Glitter Room.
The ex-Hooters girl has told how she was “properly poor” before finding fame.
Last night a spokeswoman for Ryan said the burglar had not been caught and had fled with other items. weapons and contraband into prisons. A mobile “counter-drone” unit will be set up to respond to incidents across the UK, while a publicity campaign will ask people to report drone incidents.
Security minister Brandon Lewis said: “To ensure the drone industry can thrive we must be able to crack down on those who use drones to cause harm or disruption.”
No-fly zones around airports were extended from 1km to 5km in March, and from November 30, any drone weighing over 250g will have to be registered with the Civil Aviation Authority and its operators pass a competency test.