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Annual redundancy spend would pay almost 300 much-needed paramedics’ salaries for a year says GMB union Ambulance bosses spent more than £10 million of public money on redundancy payments in just one year, research by GMB, the union for ambulance workers, reveals. The combined spend on redundancy and other forms of exit packages by the ten ambulance Trusts in England since 2010 is an eye-watering £31 million. In 2013/14 alone, the Trusts forked out more than £10 million on exit packages. This spend...

Alan Sugar just tweeted and deleted this racist joke with a photo of Senegal's World Cup team appearing to be selling sunglasses and handbags:   Alan Sugar's deleted tweet But as people pointed out how appalling his xenophobic quip was, the Apprentice TV star doubled down and was far from apologetic. Bookmakers Paddy Power didn't waste any time responding by opening bets that tech mogul Lord Sugar would delete his Twitter account and lose his job on the BBC series...

LGBT tourists splash out an estimated £160bn annually on foreign holidays, but many choose to steer well clear of countries where homosexuality is still criminalised.

And they have already confiscated another £21.7 million of assets in the first two months of the current financial year - almost treble the amount in the same period the previous year

Researchers say American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than a millennium - and passed them on through generations by learning

The pensioner was fatally injured in a collision with car towing a trailer at Earl's Court

Police say the victim remains in hospital two weeks after the incident at Blackfriars underground station

Researchers have discovered that epigenetic proteins promote the proliferation of mammary gland stem cells in response to the sex hormone progesterone

The 75-year-old man got trapped in a marsh in Norfolk