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No UK car manufacturer is prepared for Brexit, motor industry warns
The car industry has been one of the most vocal against Brexit due to the damage it could inflict on car production in the UK. Now Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has said that none of the car makers in the UK is ready for a no-deal Brexit. He said he is “increasingly concerned” about the UK failing to reach any kind of deal with the EU. A “no deal” Brexit means that...
Cannabis could hold key to boosting survival rates in people with hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer
Mice with the disease lived almost three times longer after being given cannabidiol
Bacteria go extinct at rates much higher than scientists ever expected
Between 45,000 to 95,000 types of bacteria disappeared in the past million years - contradicting the widely held theory they rarely die off
Brit suing US Army over claims UK workers exposed to deadly chemicals
David Wright Paterson, 57, was sacked from his job as a quality control inspector after complaining about working with carcinogenic cadmium for several days.
Baldness & white hair caused by high fat western diet could be cured by daily pill
Experimental drug successfully reversed hair loss, hair whitening and skin inflammation previous linked to a human diets heavy in fat and cholesterol in mice
John McDonnell tells the City “people want change, get used to it” as protesters descend on parliament
John McDonnell has sent early warning signs to London's financial sector saying he wants to "transform capitalism" and they had "better get used to it". The Shadow Chancellor pulled no punches in a strongly-worded interview with CityAM today. He said "we are sixth or fifth biggest economy in the world and yet at the same time we can't house our own people, a million foodbank parcels handed out last year - that is a system that's not working". His sentiment echoe that of...
Pub where Hugh Grant famously ‘bugged a bugger’ has gone on the market for a bargain-basement £100,000
Journalist-turned-publican Paul McMullan caught in sting by actor at Dover hostelry exposing phone hacking
Devon town declares itself ‘city state’ in opposition to Brexit
A plucky town in Devon has made a stand against Brexit. Remainers in Totnes have declared their town an “independent city state.” They have even gone as far as making passports and writing an oath of allegiance to the EU. However, they admit that it is a bit of fun and don’t expect Totnes to be annexing itself from the rest of the UK, for real, any time soon. Dominic Raab has one less problem on his list to potentially...
Jeremy Hunt mixes up Chinese & Japanese describing own wife on China trade trip
Jeremy Hunt recently promoted to Foreign Secretary and in China a bid to establish new trade connections managed to get the nationality of his wife wrong in a botched bid to ingratiate himself with his hosts. Hunt, Britain’s top diplomat now managed to mix up regional rivals Japan and China, as well as mistake his wife’s nationality, boasting “my wife is Japanese.” He hastily corrected himself, telling his counterpart, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi: “my wife is Chinese. That’s a...