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Paedophile who told man he wanted to have sex with his eight-year-old son avoids jail
Marketing consultant Ian Wivell exchanged messages with another man in which he discussed sexual activities he wanted to engage in with the other man’s son
Billionaires see fortune grow by £2bn a day as wealth of the world’s poorest dwindles by 11%
The fortunes of the world’s richest people rose by £2 billion a day last year, while the wealth of the poorest dwindled by 11 per cent. Some 3.4 billion people were forced to survive on less than £4.27 a day each according to new Oxfam research. The 26 richest people globally now hold the same wealth as the poorest half of the population – compared with the richest 43 in 2017. According to the Public Good or Private Wealth? study...
Generous taxpayer-backed pensions give top government bureaucrats an average pot of over £900k
A groundbreaking investigation into public sector pensions has revealed the 22 individuals who run UK government departments have an annual average pot of £907,273. The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has today revealed the details of some of the most generous unfunded pensions in Whitehall, with Sir Simon McDonald, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, currently sitting on a pension pot valued at £1,858,000. Fourteen of the top government bureaucrats will also receive a huge lump sum payout in addition to their annual...
Smoking can speed up ageing in youth by over two decades, scientists warn
Men and women who use cigarettes are twice as old as non smokers - biologically
Frog spawn could hold the key to cancer cure
The tiny eggs that have fascinated schoolboys for decades have proteins very similar to human cells
Gang jailed for unprovoked acid attack
The eight-strong gang who launched an unprovoked attack, which resulted in a number of people being sprayed with a noxious substance, were all jailed.
Cops stunned when they stumble across two stolen penguins
Man, 23, arrested after the flightless birds were taken from a zoo
More cheeky billboards trolling politicians with their own words appearing all over UK
The campaign by activist collective Led By Donkeys is meant to highlight the predictions made by top politicians in the run up to Brexit.
Brexit blamed as Philips close Suffolk factory
Brexit has been blamed as one of the deciding factors behind a factory closure in Suffolk with 430 jobs at risk, the East Anglian Daily Times has revealed. Philips Avent will move most of its operations from its factory in Glemsford to Philips’ existing innovation and manufacturing site in Drachten, the Netherlands. The site manufactures products for the non-UK market, exports that will be put in jeopardy once the country leaves the EU single market. Staff were told that Brexit was...