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The Ukip leader, Gerard Batten, has appointed Tommy Robinson as an official adviser. Robsinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was the driving force behind the EDL. Batten has indicated that he will be advising the party on grooming gangs, Robinson, who faces a possible retrial after successfully appealing against a jail term for contempt of court, can't join Ukip quite yet though, as currently EDL members are not permitted to join the party. Batten said: “I have appointed Tommy Robinson to be...

These job losses, on top of those at Cammell Laird and the announced closure of Appledore, show this Government’s industrial strategy is in tatters says GMBUnion GMB, the union for Bombardier workers, has criticised a Government Minister for ‘washing his hands’ of bombardier job losses. Richard Harrington, Minsters for Business, Energy, Innovation and Strategy, said "Bombardier is a private company and the Government has no role it's commercial decisions..." in Parliament today. Bombardier yesterday announced 490 job cuts in Northern Ireland...

A study suggests stagnant wages, austerity, reliance on food banks, poor diets and health inequalities are to blame for England's poorest people dying nearly 10 years younger than the rich

Some 60 firefighters tackled the blaze after dozens of residents woke up to the blasts at about 3.30am.

The Work and Pensions Committee has today released its report on Government proposals to move people from older benefits onto Universal Credit. The influential group of cross-party MPs has called for the Government to delay the vote on these regulations even going so far as to say that ‘getting the process wrong could plunge claimants into poverty and even leave them destitute’. If these proposals are voted through, three million people currently receiving many older benefits - including those with a mental...

As if Boris Johnson's reputation couldn't take more of a hiding, fresh after the revelations that the water cannons he was warned were a waste of time as London Mayor lost £300k, it emerges that having resigned from the cabinet he is coining it in, paid £90k for two-hour speech to a hedge fund. Boris Johnson was paid a huge £90k for around two hours work on a speech, far exceeding his annual salary. The fee, listed in parliament’s register of...

A British woman is stranded in India and fighting for her life after she was bitten by a mosquito while on holiday. Balvinder Singh, 35, flew out to India last month to attend a family wedding and a month-long holiday but fell ill just two days before she was due to return home. The mum-of-three suffered vomiting and diarrhoea and was rushed to hospital when she started having seizures, where she had a heart attack and organ failure. Two weeks...

Staff at University Hospital Ayr and Ailsa Hospital have been told to stay in their rooms, while a police chopper circulates overhead

Ozell Pemberton was chased by the yobs before being knifed in front of horrified shoppers