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Elderly woman rushed to London hospital with serious injuries after hoarding fell on her outside H&M
Woman in her 70s was walking along the pavement in Hammersmith just after 10.30am when the hoarding collapsed
Outrage as almost 300 jobs slashed at Cammell Laird Shipyard
This is another kick in the teeth for the UK’s proud shipbuilding tradition says GMB Union GMB has expressed outrage after almost 300 job losses were announced at Cammell Laird. The company said it was slashing 291 jobs - nearly 40 per cent of the workforce – by March 2019. Just this week the shipyard won two contracts worth more than £600 million, to maintain Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships. GMB will meet with members on October 15, before meeting with the...
BBC editor has denied naming a victim of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal
Arif Ansari was charged under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 after a live news bulletin in February.
Companies to be forced to publish ethnicity pay gap
Theresa May has announced plans to make employers reveal their ethnicity pay gap. It is hope this will identify extent of discrimination, in the workplace, on race grounds and that this will change in the future. Currently only 3 per cent of employers measure their ethnicity and disability pay gap. This announcement comes after the gender pay gap revealed huge discrepancies in cretin companies and sectors. Ms May said: “Every employee deserves the opportunity to progress and fulfil their potential...
Corbyn calls for school children to be taught about negative aspects of British empire
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for children to be taught about the legacy of the British Empire, the slave trade and colonialism. He also want to raise awareness of the role black people have played in British history. Mr Corbyn today was visiting Bristol as part of Black History month. He met up with Paul Stephenson, a civil rights activist who was actively involved in 1963 Bristol bus boycott. This was a struggle to overturn a ban on ethnic...
Families who keep gold in house during Diwali warned to up security after terrifying armed raid
Detectives warned of a spike in burglaries during the Hindu festival Diwali after a couple were threatened by four thugs who demanded their “Asian gold”
EIGHTH London school shut due to false widow spider invasion
The primary school is the eighth to have been closed in East London due to False Widows.
Young Tories at Oxford University banned from joining Bullingdon Club – once home to David Cameron & Boris Johnson
The Oxford University Conservatives Association have added the infamous drinking society to their list of proscribed organisations.
Conservative Government’s new Suicide Prevention Minister made jokes about suicide
During yesterday’s PMQs Theresa May announced the Government had appointed a suicide prevention minister, the first time this role had been introduced in the UK. It has now emerged that the new minister, Jackie Doyle-Price has made jokes about suicide. She had previously told a newspaper in her Thurrock constituency, that she would rather jump off Beachy head (a notorious suicide spot) than defect from the Tories to UKIP. The comments were made back in 2014 after Douglas Carswell had...