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A system proposed by legendary codebreaker Alan Turing more than 60 years ago can explain the patterning of tooth-like scales on sharks

Esther McVey recently referenced Mind in a speech about Universal Credit. The mental health charity decided to reaffirm their position on the much-criticised new benefit via Twitter. Responding to the noise on social media, Vicki Nash, Head of Policy and Campaigns said: “The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Esther McVey mentioned Mind in her Universal Credit (UC) regulations statement. We have repeatedly raised our concerns with the Department for Work and Pensions about UC and the regulations and so...

Caroline Nokes, Immigration Minister, has said that the Home Office 'got it so badly wrong,' over its treatment of the Windrush Generation. Nokes issued a “heartfelt apology” and was “ashamed” the treatment they received. Nokes was speaking to a group of Windrush generation people at a meeting in Brixton, South West London Nokes said: “It’s really important, it really matters to me that people have a chance to shout at me. It really is. I just feel really ashamed, that’s the...

A $240-billion-a-day market has announced today that it is to switch London for Amsterdam ahead of Brexit. CME Group Inc. is moving its European market for short-term financing, the largest in the region, out of London because the exchange operator wants to guarantee continental firms can continue to use it if there is a no-deal Brexit, Bloomberg has reported. The decision is the first example of an entire major financial market leaving the UK. John Edwards, managing director of BrokerTec...

The public accounts select committee has warned that the public is losing its confidence in the police to do their jobs, due to the severity of cuts to the force. This confidence has been “severely dented” the watchdog said. The committee concluded police are taking longer to charge suspects, fewer arrests are happening and patrol officer numbers have been depleted. The report said: “Forces are struggling to deliver an effective service: it is taking longer to charge offences, they are...

Remain would win a significant majority if the EU referendum were held again, according to a major new poll from Channel 4 and Survation. Some 54 per cent of people said they would stay in the EU if the 2016 referendum were held tomorrow – when those who refused to vote or answered “don’t know” were removed. Survation interviewed 20,000 people in the biggest ever independent Brexit opinion poll. Analysis showed that 105 council areas that voted Leave in 2016 would...

Police say the frail OAP was found with multiple "serious injuries" at his home in Enfield, north London

Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected Borat to canvass for Donald Trump in a hilarious midterm election spoof on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Borat engaged in conversations with Trump supporters who defended putting immigrants in cages and refuted the "fake news" reports of Trump in the video. “I don’t believe he is and I don’t see any evidence of that,” one man said to which Borat responded: “I am a racist, it is nice", Borat replied. Baron Cohen’s most recent project, Who...

With the final results pouring in the US Midterms look be a tale of two chambers. The Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, and Republicans held the Senate, results which were celebrated on both sides. At 1:27 am US time Donald Trump posted a quote from conservative economist and actor Ben Stein, who lauded the President as “the magic man". He said: “There’s only been five times in the last 105 years that an...