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Church of England calls for five days of Brexit prayers when Britain leaves the EU
The Church of England has put forward plans for five days of Brexit prayers after Britain leaves the European Union at the end of next month. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the church's spiritual leader, says he wants to pray in public with the leaders of the Catholic, Methodist, Baptist and United Reformed churches on the day after Britain leaves. Speaking to the Sunday Times, a senior Church of England source said: "I would hope that it will resonate with...
Video of Chuka schooling Chuka on the virtues of party loyalty goes viral
A video of Chuka Umunna schooling his future self on the virtues of staying loyal to your party has gone viral after the MP left Labour to found the Independent Group. The video, which was first published in 2016, called on those considering leaving the Labour Party to stay. He said: "The only way you are going to see your values implemented in office is if Labour gets back into government, and we can't do that if the Labour family...
New campaign encourages City firms to pay London Living Wage
A new campaign has launched today encouraging more City financial and professional services firms to pay the London Living Wage. The City of London Corporation, which runs the campaign backed by the Living Wage Foundation, is taking over the London Underground with a poster campaign to get more firms to pay at least the London Living Wage of £10.55 per hour. The posters will be displayed at nine of the capital’s busiest tube stations, including Liverpool Street, Euston, Victoria and...
75 years on bravery of WWII aircrew honoured thanks to man who blames himself for their death
Tony Foulds was just eight-years-old when an American B-17 Flying Fortress came down in Endcliffe Park after trying to avoid him and his young friends
Austerity policies have made us all £1,495 a year worse off, analysis shows
Austerity policies have resulted in nine years of slower growth and left us all £1,495 a year worse off, analysis by The New Economics Foundation has revealed. The think tank found the impact of tax and spending changes since the Conservatives came to power had left the economy £100 billion smaller than it would otherwise have been. As a result, the cumulative effect of tax, public spending and welfare adjustments on growth by the end of the 2018-19 financial year had left the...
Volcanoes turned Earth into giant snowball 580 million years ago
Scientists say the Gaskiers glaciation could have been triggered by huge amounts of carbon dioxide being absorbed as part of the weathering process of the solidified lava
Earth ‘facing global warming Armageddon in less than 150 years’
Scientists say the concentration of carbon dioxide is rising faster than at any time since the age of the dinosaurs
Man & his pregnant wife who died in horror smash with coach had been chased by police for ten minutes
Officers had called off the pursuit just before the crash as the car was speeding on the wrong side of the road.
Tommy Robinson supporter who called TV reporter a ‘slag’ fined & ordered to pay her £50 compensation
A Tommy Robinson supporter who called a TV reporter a ‘slag’ to her face has been fined and ordered to pay her £50 compensation. Restaurant worker William Eve, 57, claimed in his defence that he didn't perceive swearing or using the word ‘slag’ as insulting because he was from east London where it was "common" language. Eve was cleared by magistrates of using "religiously aggravated" language when he asked Al Jazeera journalist Sonia Gallego if her employer was 'Muslim-backed'. He...