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What’s going on with Battersea Power Station?
If you’ve been anywhere near Battersea Power Station in the last twelve months, you’ll have noticed that its iconic towers have become a hive of activity, lined with cranes and construction vehicles as redevelopment gets underway in earnest. It’s been an insurmountable project for countless investors over the last fifty years, but it finally looks like the status of Battersea Power Station is going to be restored. Not as an energy plant, but as a luxury development. Curious as to...
Donations to the Conservatives dwarf all other parties in first 3 months of the year
Donations to the Conservative party were three times the size of any other party at the start of 2018, new figures have revealed. The Tories received £4.7 million in the first three months of the year, compared with £1.4 million of donations to Labour and £564,000 to the Liberal Democrats. Leading Tory donors include Ehud Sheleg, an Israeli-born businessman who recent media reports have suggested could become the party's treasurer. The party also received a £582,358 bequest. Outside of the main...
Photos capture moment Kingfisher plucks fish from bottom of river
This spectacular set of images captures the bird diving from a great height
The brain actually ‘beats’… just like the heart, say scientists.
And its tiny movements - less than the width of a human hair - have been caught on film for the first time.
Memory fades as people get older because their brain runs out of gas… just like an ‘old banger’
Mitichondria, tiny 'power stations' that fuel all cells make less power in the brain with age
Tommy Robinson has been jailed over comments made outside court
The founder of the English Defence League has been jailed over comments made on camera outside a court building which had the potential to derail a long-running trial. Tommy Robinson filmed himself during an hour-long rant outside Leeds Crown Court which he streamed on Facebook Live and was viewed a quarter of a million times. A judge who locked the right-wing activist up for 13 months for contempt of court told him his actions may cause the sensitive case to...
Calls for PM to implement new EU workplace rights or “risk betraying voters”
GMB is urging Theresa May to implement at the earliest opportunity important changes to a European Union directive that will make it harder for unscrupulous employers to exploit workers. Following the landmark vote in the European Parliament today to strengthen protections on posted workers, the union is calling on the government not to drag its feet in implementing the change to the rights of posted workers. The changes are intended to prevent undercutting employers paying EU workers posted in the...
Motorways & streets left submerged in water after 12 inches of rain fall in an HOUR
The skies opened up over south east England, leaving cars partially flooded and roads covered by heavy rainfall - and the sky so dark it looked like night.
Richard Madeley terminates interview with Gavin Williamson after defence sec refuses to “give straight answers”
ITV's Richard Madley terminated an interview with Gavin Williamson this morning because the defence secretary refused to give straight answers to his questions. The broadcaster was clearly infuriated with Williamson for dodging questions after he challenged him over the Salisbury poisoning case. After asking him three times whether he regretted having told Russia to “shut up and go away” in the aftermath of the attack, the Good Morning Britain presenter suddenly announced “interview terminated”, adding it would be “helpful if you answered...