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The Labour Chancellor has slammed the Government’s Universal Credit System, and confirmed Labour will scrap it if they get into power. The controversial new system has drawn heavy criticism from charities and campaign groups. Many people have struggled to receive money on time and have also been left with less income than on their previous benefits. Mr McDonnell said to Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme: “I think most people have now come to the conclusion it has got to be scrapped....

East London was once full of house sparrows, but annual surveys found the population has dropped steadily since the Seventies.

Freya the springer spaniel has been trained up and employed by Wessex Water, whose region is a "stronghold" for the small amphibians

The teenager said she was in an unknown location on land somewhere in Boston, Lincs., with her attacker.

Cambridgeshire County Council said the move was a 'last resort' to help plug a multi-million pound gap in its budget

Sturgeon is not expected to give her key note speech until Tuesday.

The Observer is today facing a social media backlash after running an op ed from Conservative leader Theresa May that appears to mark a notable change in their political persuasion. Once revered as one of the few remaining mainstream newspaper outlets for Labour voters the rare editorial feature from May looks to cement a suspected shift the right. Detailing why “Labour voters should look afresh at the Conservatives” the PM repackaged much of her party conference speech in what political...

Zakaria Mohammed, 21, groomed three vulnerable victims before making them sell class-A drugs from squalid flats a hundred miles away from their homes.

A court was told today (Thurs) some of the 37 victims identified during the case were deliberately targeted because they were homeless or addicted to alcohol