By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the EU referendum gets ever closer, everyone possible is chipping in with their opinion on what would happen after the votes are counted later this month. Now German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble said that a Brexit vote would one and for all mean 'Out is...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A hugely controversial council decision to allowing fracking in North Yorkshire may be challenged in court, an environmental group has said. Friends of the Earth said the plan to allow shale gas exploration in the village of Kirby Misperton could be taken in front of...
By Ben Gelblum, Contributing Editor @BenGelblum To paraphrase France’s greatest export (apart from Stella Artois) Jean Paul Sartre: “all human endeavours are doomed to failure.” Tony Blair and John Major join the EU Referendum fray today with even more nightmarish complications for those hoping for a quick and easy Brexit...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The factory where Trident nuclear warheads are built has seen construction disruption due to protests by anti-war protestors. The blockade at the Berkshire site has been organised by an international group of anti-war protestors. On Wednesday the group claimed that they had brought a halt...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Distressingly the world is now a more dangerous place, astoundingly there are now only ten nations that can be considered totally free from any form of conflict. Most of this small countries have relatively small populations. This shocking statistic was reported by the authors of...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Footage has emerged of a huge Russian nuclear warplane flying over rebel-held territory in Syria, only a short distance from the Turkish border. There are concerns that relations between Turkey and Russia could deteriorate even more, from an already low point. The warplane was filmed...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In a shocking twist in the EU referendum campaign a Tory MP has switched sides. Sarah Wollaston has now left the Leave campaign and will now back the Remain side instead. She was instantly subjected to attacks from Leave campaigners on social media after she...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The on-line voting registration system had crashed, EU citizens had wrongly been given polling cards and both sides have predicted the world will end on the 23rd June depending on which box you tick. So unsurprisingly the EU referendum led today’s session. At one stage...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor I was always told that goldfish have a two second memory, so assumed that fish were not the brightest of animals. It appears I was very very wrong. A team of scientists have shown that one tropical species of fish can recognise peoples' faces. Archerfish...