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Prisoners at HMP Low Newton have ditched Spice in favour of stomach pills

One of the major financial backers of the Brexit campaign, Arron Banks, is said to have held meetings with the Russian Ambassador on three occasions, in the run up to the EU referendum vote. Additionally he flew out to Moscow to look at potential business plans in Russia. These revelations have come to light in The Sunday Times and The Observer via a series of leaked e-mails. 40,000 emails are said to have been obtained by journalist Isabel Oakeshott. Banks had...

Police have sealed off a nearby park and roads near Turnpike Lane station

Those with the learning disability were more than two and a half times as likely to suffer a food intolerance suggesting a link

An investigation by a national newspaper claims to have found traces in meat in some of two major supermarkets vegetarian and vegan meal options, which will worry many non-meat eaters across the UK. Following on from the horse meat scandal, this news may further lower confidence in the major UK supermarket chains. The Daily Telegraph reported that they found animal DNA in some of these meals. They sent the meals to a laboratory in Germany to be tested. These claims...

Nigel Farage has lashed out at the Brexit process and thinks it could make the UK worse off, if the negotiations do not improve, laying the blame squarely at Theresa May’s doorstep. It comes after a tough couple of days for the May, where rebellions over Brexit from both David Davis and Boris Johnson undermined her and even risked her premiership. Farage told the Today programme: "We have the got wrong leader. If we had a leader who actually believed...

The pain of travelling, and paying, for trains in the UK bothers a large section of the population, so the news that the boss of the rail networks has revived a CBE from the queen might annoy many. Mark Carne , Network Rail boss, was handed a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Carne was the man who is responsible for the new timetable structure, which really hasn’t gone very well, I know it from personal experience. Anyway, these...

With three weeks to go until crunch Brexit talks in Brussels, and the Conservative Government accused of spending more time negotiating with itself than the EU, the freight industry warned that Britain was heading towards a road block scenario – quite literally. Theresa May’s disunited Brexit team were accused of “playing chicken with crucial parts of the British economy.” The UK’s leading logistics trade body warned that it had lost confidence in the Government’s ability to deliver a ‘frictionless’ Brexit...

Scientists said the dangers of sharing of information on social media can lead to threats being amplified and twisted promoting 'crowd hysteria.’