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A Brexit activist fined £20,000 for breaching spending rules during the EU referendum campaign has raised funds to appeal the decision in just two hours. Darren Grimes, who insists he was "completely innocent" of making false declarations in relation to a £680,000 donation to his BeLeave youth group from the main Vote Leave campaign, raised £20,000 through a crowdfunding campaign backed by right-wing media outlet Guido, who dubbed Grimes a "Brexit hero". He accused the Electoral Commission of acting out...

Suburban bumblebees are suffering from a toxic pesticide also found in pet flea treatments and many treated garden centre plants but banned from farms

There has been a worrying rise in the number of deaths in police custody. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has reported that 23 people sadly died in 2017. Of that number 17 had suffered some form of restraint or force by officers. It should be noted that is not a necessarily a direct link to why they died. Among the 23 people highlighted by the latest statistics are cases such as Rashan Charles and Edson da Costa in London. Those...

Researchers created "easy-bake fossils" in just 24 hours by heating materials like bird feathers, lizard limbs and leaves at high pressure

A tool has been developed that measures the level of excitement generated by any potential signal from aliens

Stockpiles of medicines, medical devices and "substances of human origin" thought to be blood will be collected in preparation for a Brexit no-deal, the Health Secretary has said today. Matt Hancock, the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, confirmed that provisions were been put in place by the department, adding that there will "obviously be a cost for this". He said medicines and medical devices will be stockpiled as well as substances of human origin, which under...

They spent most of their lives walking across the sea bottom of deep, offshore waters

The warning came after flames fanned by strong winds devastated the seaside village of Mati, killing 60 people and devouring homes and cars

Heroic doctors who worked in West Africa during the crisis in 2014 - 2015 gathered to protest the 'border police' policies which NHS workers are expected to carry out