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Yellow meadow ants weighing more than an African elephant have completely changed the landscape of one Royal Park in just a century - with half a million ANTHILLS. Citizen scientists studying Richmond Park in south west London found that three billion ants had created anthills in the 17th Century park, some of which are more than 150-years-old. The Royal Parks’ Mission: Invertebrate project saw 55 volunteers count and measure the size of mounds built by the yellow meadow ant in...

After Carillion collapsed with huge losses, news emerged that hedge funds made around £300m since the Government contractor began to fail. BlackRock – which recently hired former chancellor George Osborne on a salary of £650,000 for one day a week – the world’s biggest fund manager made over £16 million across its funds. Now as outsource giant Capita said that dividends would be suspended and the share price plummeted, hedge funds made £90m. IHS Markit indicated that 8.2 per cent...

The average worker will earn more than £1.1 million in wages during their life, a study has found. Researchers who studied the earnings of 2,000 people revealed they will typically bank £1,123,164 in pay over an average 48-year working career. According to the study, the average worker earns £23,399.25 a year. Workers in London currently bring in the highest annual salary, an average of £31,217.62, while those living in South West earn the least each year, pocketing £18,428.13. Greg Tatton-Brown...

@BenGelblum As Tory donors turn against Theresa May and she runs out of Conservative colleagues leaping to her defence, one of her ministers has been rebuked by the Chief Tory whip for asking an obvious but embarrassing question: "whether a government could legitimately lead a country along a path that the evidence and rational consideration indicate would be damaging." If the facts suggest Brexit will leave the country poorer, should Theresa May still be pretending otherwise and pursue a course...

A 1,300-year-old gold cross which was found buried with the body of an aristocratic Anglo-Saxon teenager is to go on display for the first time. The Trumpington Cross, made of gold and garnet, was discovered on the skeleton of a female between the ages of 14 and 18 who was laid to rest in an extremely rare ‘bed burial’ ceremony. Only a handful of Anglo-Saxon bed burials - in which the deceased person is buried in the ground, lying on...

@BenGelblum With Britain's police budgets set to lose £700m a year, amid rising crime, and yet more cuts planned for border forces, parliament today heard of the tragic consequences of less money to fight a growing drug-fuelled gang crime epidemic. Knife crime is not being driven by minors and teenagers. It is being driven by organised criminals exploiting children, arming our young people and fighting turf wars over a £12bn drugs market, Tottenham David Lammy told the House of Commons,...

Feisty Emily Thornberry stood in at PMQs today, for Jeremy Corbyn, with David Lidington standing in for the PM as she in China. Thornberry said that the DUP and Tories were a “coalition of cavemen” because of their opposition to lower the voting age to 16, which all other main parties support. A concern for the Conservative Party is that 16-18 year-olds might be less likely to vote for their party. As the lively debate continued Thornberry said there was...

A young man who decided to take up fossil hunting made the find of a lifetime - just 15 minutes later. Archie Faiers, 21, was inspired by Sir David Attenborough after watching Attenborough and the Sea Dragon, and decided to have a hunt himself. He took his dogs for a walk along the jurassic coast and just minutes later Archie, from Uplyme, Devon, spotted an interesting rock in earth disturbed by a recent cliff fall. To his amazement, it turned...

A senior Conservative parish councillor has spoken of his horror at discovering one of his properties was being used as a massage parlour - which offered 'happy endings.' Bobby Nagpal, vice-charman of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council, in Essex, said he had 'no knowledge' his property was being used as a shop for sex services. Seedy men had even posted online reviews of the business, Relax Studio, boasting about 'happy endings', before it was shut down by authorities. Tower Hamlets council...