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Mass shooting in Holland – Suspect named after three comfirmed dead

Shocking reports are emerging of a mass shooting in Holland. Dutch police have said that several people have been shot in the city of Utrecht. A man opened fire on a tram and the shooting took place at around 10:45 local time (09:45 GMT). According to news website AD, the gunman then fled the scene, that took place in the city centre. Utrecht Police said they are considering the possibility of a "terrorist motive".  Dutch police suspect at least one...

Just a flesh wound! Dutch PM compares May to hapless knight from Monty Python film

Another day another humiliation for Theresa May, this time from the Dutch PM. The Dutch PM, Mark Rutte, compared the struggling British PM to the knight from comedy classic film, Monty Phyton and the Holy Grail. The hapless knight is attacked and bits of him are sliced off, but continues to think he is winning the fight. In the cult classic film, the character has all four of his limbs cut off but wants to keep on fighting telling his...

Whatever happens now, Brexit has inflicted serious damage on UK financial services

Whatever happens next, Brexit has inflicted unprecedented damage on the UK’s financial services industry, the founder and CEO of one of the world's largest independent financial advisory organisations has warned. The finance sector, which makes up about 6.5 per cent of Britain’s GDP, is heavily reliant on Britain's connections with the EU's single market and could face significant disruption in the event of a no deal Brexit. But regardless of how the negotiations pan out, Nigel Green of deVere Group says...

Tory MPs say Comic Relief was ‘TV ad for Corbyn’ as it painted a bleak picture of deprivation in UK

The BBC has been accused of allowing its Comic Relief TV appeal to become ‘an advert for Jeremy Corbyn’ because it painted a bleak picture of deprivation in the UK. Tory MPs lambasted BBC bosses for peddling ‘socialist nonsense’ and making ‘absurd’ claims about the scale of poverty in Britain in this year's six-hour broadcast. They say celebrities painted a bleak picture of hunger, deprivation and homelessness in the UK, which MPs say amounted to a political attack on Theresa May’s...

Theresa May: Back my Brexit deal or risk never leaving the EU

Theresa May has issued a last-ditch plea to MPs, warning that a failure to vote through her deal when it comes before the Commons this week would mean "we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever". In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, she said a third rejection of her blueprint would mean would leave the UK in a “Hotel California Brexit” where “you can check out, but you can never leave”. The Government will ask for...

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