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Prisoner charged with GBH after prison officer has throat slashed with razor at HMP Nottingham
Michael McKenna is accused of assaulting the member of staff at HMP Nottingham at around 10am on Sunday (14/4).
Images of man suspected of stabbing two men in apparently random London attacks
The victims were both knifed in Kilburn, north west London, in the early hours of Tuesday April 9th
Child mauled to death by dog was alone in caravan with animal
The incident happened at Tencreek holiday park in Looe
George, Britain’s oldest goldfish won at a fair in 1974 has died aged 44
Keith and Mary Allies have been left devastated by the death of their record-breaking pet George
Man charged with setting fire to Grenfell Tower effigy could face six months in prison
Paul Bussetti, 46, was charged on Friday with two counts of sending or causing to be sent grossly offensive material via a public communications network.
‘Dangerous’ monster who abused girls as young as six brought to justice by them
Stephen Pearson, 50, carried out a “sustained campaign” of child rape and abuse against three victims he targeted between the early-1990s and mid-2000s
Rees-Moggs, racists and Brexit profiteers: who’s in Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party?
Nigel Farage has bet £1,000 of his own money on his newly formed Brexit Party winning the most seats at the European Parliament Elections on May 23rd. Former UKIP leader Farage claimed to have been already given £750,000 in donations, launching the rival, “similar” but “different” party to UKIP yesterday, branding his former party as “tarnished” by the far right. “I don't think that Middle England, decent people, want to vote for a political party that is linked with extremism,...
FOI request reveals James Dyson funded water reservoir on his farm with EU funding
An FOI request has revealed James Dyson financed the construction of a water reservoir on his farm with EU funding. The billionaire arch Brexiteer took money from the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) to pay for the development, despite campaigning for Britain to leave the union. The farm, dubbed Beeswax Dyson in Lincolnshire, has received £4.2 million of European subsidies between 2016 and 2017. Susan Elan Jones MP, leading supporter of the People’s Vote campaign, said that Dyson was...
Conservative support plummets to lowest level in five years
The level of support for the Conservatives has plummeted to its lowest level in five years as turbulent Brexit talks and party divisions grip the party. According to the latest polls they have dropped 6 points to 29 per cent this week, meaning Labour now has a 7 point lead with 36 per cent of the vote. This is the lowest the Tories have scored since the European elections in May 2014, almost five years ago, and comes just two...