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Trump likens impeachment inquiry to ‘a lynching’
The president claimed Democrats are trying to undo the 2016 election that put him in the White House.
Cancer patients ‘worried about adding to workload of overstretched NHS staff’
‘Isolated’ patients are struggling to contact healthcare workers and increasingly turning to Macmillan Cancer Support, the charity says.
Century-old lighthouse placed on wheels to move it away from eroding coastline
When the lighthouse was first lit in 1900, it was roughly 650ft from the coast in Jutland. Now it is only about 20ft away.
Jubilation as law change decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland comes into effect
DUP leader Arlene Foster has vowed to explore legal options to stop the liberalisation of abortion in the region.
It really was an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
And the proof can be found in fossilised algae - the world's smallest organisms, say scientists.
Millions of apples left to rot as European pickers abandon Britain
Ali Capper, chairwoman of the NFU’s horticultural board and an apple producer, said that she had never seen crop wastage like it.
Man-made meat that tastes like the real deal could help save cows and the planet
Lab-grown meat has been given real texture after scientists grew muscle cells on edible fibres
Man collects over half a million cigarette butts & posts them back to tobacco companies
Jason Alexander packs up boxes of around 1,000 butts and ships them off to companies in the UK with the hashtag 'Have your butts back'.
Clive Tyldesley says his business has “let the public down” on Brexit
"The UK media has allowed people to become bored with the single most important nationals news story of the last 50 years".