Several are feared dead after a plane and helicopter fell from the sky after crashing mid-air near a country estate. Emergency services were called to the scene after the aircraft came plummeted into the Waddesdon Manor National Trust site just after midday today. Both aircraft came from the pilot training...
Britain is set to pay a long-standing debt of £450 million to Iran to help free imprisoned mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. According to new reports Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond have authorised government lawyers to settle the 38 year-long dispute over a tank deal. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been locked up since April 2016 on...
What is the secret to making a good wine? Ask the French and they'll say they'll say its the terroir. Ask any New World grower and their more likely to say its the human input that really makes the difference. But ask the Leaf Plucker vineyard on the Western Cape...
Scuffles broke out as students protesting about the salary of Britain's best-paid university vice chancellor were bundled out of meeting. Action group Bath Students Against Fees and Cuts is calling for the resignation of £451,000-a-year boss Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell. They stormed into the university's annual 'Let's Talk' event and...
Prominent wildlife photographer Richard Bowler says the government's vote to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill is a vote to say animals can no longer feel pain or emotions. The move to reject sentience in the bill has been largely under-reported in the mainstream media despite Michael Gove...
Bereaved children are effectively invisible to the Government, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. Just seven months after the government cut the benefits available to bereaved UK families, the Life Matters task force has revealed that there is no central record of the number of children affected by the...
People living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with asthma when there are lots of trees in their neighbourhood, a study by the University of Exeter’s medical school has found. The study into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be...
Mike Ashley's public plans to sell Newcastle United are nothing but a means to stave off spending in the January transfer window, sources close to the club have revealed. The Sports Direct owner says he wants the club off his hands by Christmas, according to the Newcastle Chronicle. But it could...
A Goldman Sachs banker has likened the UK under Jeremy Corbyn to "Cuba without the sunshine" in a nervy attack on the Labour leader at the Super Investor private-equity conference in Amsterdam. Fat cat Bobby Vedral warned the apparent chaos in Theresa May’s government has raised the risk of Mr...