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Today veteran MP Paul Flynn’s Private Member’s Bill that would have paved the way for Alfie Dingley, 6, who has a sever form of epilepsy and others like him to legally receive the medicinal cannabis they urgently need was filibustered by Tory and Labour MP’s. Speaking outside parliament Newport West MP Paul Flynn and his Welsh Labour colleague Tonia Antoniazzi fumed at their own party for letting down those Alfie whose case they had championed in Parliament. Paul Flynn said...

A Facebook glitch yesterday sent hordes of traffic away from the profiles of brands and celebrities to the personal accounts of some of the earliest adopters of Facebook. Businesses and celebs that have names starting with a number saw their traffic redirected to corresponding accounts that were set up under the same number back when Facebook gave pages an ID. People searching for 888 Casino this morning got the account of Sarah Tucker, who attended Harvard University where the social...

Many Remainers were hoping that the UK could at least stay in the customs union after the UK leaves the EU. However, this is now looking highly unlikely as the health secretary ruled it out today. Hunt appears to have drawn a line under the issue and the Government will not change course. Jeremy Hunt was insistent that the government would not change its mind on the issue, he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “No. Because, if we...

A sharp rise in the number of bets placed on George Clooney becoming the 46th President of the United States of America has been reported by bookmakers. The Hollywood A-lister is now just 20/1 (from 50/1) to win the Democrat nomination for the 2020 election, with the leading online bookmaker accepting a surge of bets following Clooney’s reported donation to the gun-rights march being held next month. Clooney’s odds of replacing Donald Trump as the States’ next leader have also plummeted...

Stephen Fry has announced that he has prostate cancer in a video posted on his site. The celebrated comedian, actor, writer and presenter posted a video entitled "something rather mischievous" online, explaining that doctors discovered the tumour during a routine check-up. Fry, who appears upbeat in the video, said he had a gleason score score of eight, which is high enough to warrant some form of treatment. He had an operation in the first week of January to remove his prostate and...

Reports are emerging of women on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre for women and families. According to reports from women held inside the detention centre over 120 of the women held there have refused meals since Wednesday breakfast. Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott visited the centre this morning to meet the women inside and to "hear first-hand their experiences and their concerns" as she has been campaigning to end the much maligned system of holding people indefinitely on...

Academics across the country are on strike due to planned pension reforms, which they claim will leave them in financial strife later in life. Students joined their lecturers holding mass walkouts across 57 universities up and down the country. Students and lectures man picket lines and hold a rally on the steps of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) at UCL. Thirteen more days of strike action are expected to take place until Friday 16 March. The University College Union...

Former nurse Mandy Orton, 55, received a letter from solicitors demanding she pay £6,000 in arrears or have her home in Northampton repossessed

Kylie Jenner inadvertently wiped a billion pounds off Snapchat's stock market value yesterday after she tweeted that she doesn't use the app anymore. The reality TV star is followed by 24.5 million people on Twitter, and added to the unease around Snapchat's re-design when she tweeted: "sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad." A petition on Change.org has already been signed by 1.2 million people calling for Snap Inc. to...