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Investigation reveals the Leave campaign was “basically a political phishing scam”
An investigation into the Leave campaign's Facebook marketing campaign has revealed it was a "political phishing scam" that used sensitive issues with no connection to Brexit in order to win votes. Analysis of Facebook ads provided to the parliamentary investigation found ads about polar bears, the collapse of the UK steel industry and flood defences linked to the EU referendum vote - many offering the disproved sum of £350 million to solve UK problems. One used Storm Desmond which devastated many...
Chequers plan falls at the first hurdle
Theresa May's Chequers plan has fallen at the first hurdle after the EU's chief negotiator ruled out allowing the UK to collect customs duties on its behalf. Michel Barnier said the UK wanted to "take back control" of its money, law and borders - but so did the EU. He said the EU would not delegate "excises duty collection to a non-member", effectively sabotaging the compromised plan May put to the cabinet earlier this month. Although both he and the new...
Dementia patients living in care homes are given just two minutes of social interaction a day
Yet spending just ten minutes with them boosts their mental wellbeing
‘Just 13 per cent of the world’s oceans can still be classified as wilderness’
First mapping of global marine wilderness shows just how little remains
Homing pigeons smell their way home, a new study confirmed
They remember local smells to build up a mental map to guide themselves across many miles of unfamiliar territory back to their loft.
In Pics – People working in the world’s most extreme conditions
Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living
Watch – 76-year-old gran’s 62hr wait for bed in crisis-hit heatwave A&E
Shocking images show a 76-year-old gran being forced to sleep on chairs in a crammed A&E department. Jacqueline Hickson, 76, waited a staggering 62 hours for a bed after she was rushed to hospital with breathing problems. Bosses at Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Rhyl, north Wales, say the heatwave has caused a spike in patient demand. Mrs Hickson's daughter Janine Foden was so outraged she filmed her mum struggling to get some rest in the packed A&E department when she...
Stunning pics by homeless people – capturing life on streets of London
The photos taken over five days in June show Brits watching the World Cup and making most of the scorching weather in the capital.
Lad, 18, fatally stabbed in south London
The victim is the eighteenth teenager to be murdered in the capital since Christmas