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Nigel Farage calls for new referendum – on the abolition of the House of Lords
Nigel Farage is calling for a new referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords after the Government suffered set-backs on the Brexit process. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage blasted the Lords for its intervention and suggested the House had "signed its own death warrant". He said: "By defying Brexit, the Lords shows what a travesty British democracy has become. "Ever since the great battles which led to the Parliament Act 1911, debates about the composition and power...
Fox hunt investigation dropped due to lack of evidence despite police having this video of fox being chased
A police investigation into a hunt has been dropped by the CPS - despite being given this video of a fox being chased by a pack of dogs followed by huntsmen. The CPS was handed footage of a fox fleeing for its life, chased by hounds across fields in Cheshire - followed by terriermen on quads and hunt members on horses. Cheshire Monitors - a group of hunt saboteurs - captured the chase from two different locations and gave the...
Hither Green residents blockade road to keep out funeral procession for stabbed burglar Henry Vincent
The body of burglar Henry Vincent laid in an open casket for three days so family and friends could pay their respects, a mourner has revealed. The criminal, 37, was kept beneath a DIY gazebo of green and blue tarpaulin outside his mum's home since Tuesday so mourners could pay their respects. A man blocks South Park Crescent, Hither Green, with his car. He was stabbed to death with his own screwdriver by hero pensioner Richard Osborne-Brooks on April 3....
Father of Game of Thrones star suspended by Tory party
The father of Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie has been suspended by the Tory party over non-payment of council tax. But Councillor Sebastian Leslie, who was revealed in December to be thousands of pounds in arrears, insists he is only defying the system to highlight a legal campaign. Until last week, the Aberdeen councillor had not attended any council meetings for four months and is now under investigation over bringing the party into disrepute. Confirming that he was now...
Tories could face a wipe-out in key London local election battlegrounds
A shift towards Liberal and Labour votes could leave the Conservatives facing an election wipe-out in the local elections today. According to political traders the Liberal Democrats could seize key seats in the poll, including a stronghold in Richmond. Labour currently hold control over 20 out of 32 boroughs in the capital, and could be set to take Wandsworth with traders giving Labour a 51 per cent chance of winning an overall majority in one of the tightest races in the London boroughs....
Plants can use underground communication to find out when neighbours are stressed
researchers discovered that plants have developed complex, chemical systems of communication when situated nearby each other
Newsreader in tax row says he was ‘expected’ by the BBC to set up his own company if he wanted a freelance contract
David Eades was giving evidence at a tribunal to decide whether he and two other presenters should pay a £920,000 tax bill
BEE-DAY Experts have called for a people’s army to fight the invasion of the Asian hornet on the Channel Islands
They say the next two weeks are crucial in stopping its spread and becoming established
Jeremy Hunt admits breast scan mistake ‘shortened up to 270 lives’
This could be the end for Jeremy Hunt as he admitted that up to 270 women could have passed away as they were not invited to a final routine breast screening. If they had attended these appointments they might have survived. This shocking admission will add even more pressure onto Jeremy Hunt who is currently under investigation over purchase of luxury apartments on south coast. He told the Commons 450,000 women aged around 70 had failed to get invitations since...