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Watch: Jeremy Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of misleading public on the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal

  Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Foreign Secretary of “misleading the public” when he insisted that Britain's Porton Down chemical weapons research laboratory was “categorical” that the poison used to make a former Russian spy, his daughter and a British police man who attended them ill originated in Russia. The assertion that Russia had used the deadly banned Russian-made nerve agent Novichok, thought to have been destroyed to poison people in the UK has escalated a series of tit for...

NHS crisis: “Urgent investigation” launched after heart attack patient was transferred to another hospital by taxi – which was CLOSED

Colin Hewitt, 72, collapsed at home last Wednesday (28/3) after watching TV and was taken to his local hospital by ambulance after his wife Sue, 70, dialled 999. Because of a shortage of beds at Horton Hospital, in Banbury, Oxon., he was forced to spend the night on a trolley and managed only 45 minutes sleep. The next day he was transferred 28 miles away to John Radcliffe Hospital, in Headington, Oxford, for angioplasty surgery and to have a stent...

Waltergate: Jacob Rees-Mogg responds to accusations he is breaching Beano’s copyright by impersonating Walter The Softy

Hard Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has responded to the Beano comic's legal notice to "decist in your ongoing impersonation" of Dennis The Menace's arch enemy Walter "The Softy" Brown. The Beano's letter accused the right-winger tipped by his young Moggmentum followers to take over the Tory party of infringing their copyright in impersonating their snooty prim character pampered by his wealthy parents. Their cease and decist letter posted on Twitter accused the Conservative MP  whose upper-class mannerisms and reactionary views have caused him...

Falconer cleared of breaching fox hunting laws – because he uses a GOLDEN EAGLE to kill the animals

A falconer has been cleared of breaching strict hunting laws because he hunts foxes -using a GOLDEN EAGLE. John Mease, 45, was found not guilty after a court heard he used the enormous bird of prey to catch animals - not a pack of dogs. He was further cleared of causing unnecessary cruelty to an animal despite 'dispatching' another fox by driving a KNIFE through its eye after it was caught by his raptor in 2013. Co-accused Fitzwilliam huntsman George...

Monkeys unwind at the end of a stressful day with spa therapy – just like humans

Monkeys unwind at the end of a stressful day with spa therapy - just like humans, say scientists. Snow monkeys use hot springs to reduce stress - as well as keep them warm, according to new research. The macaques are a popular tourist attraction in Nagano in northern Japan as they soak in the steaming baths. It was assumed they were simply trying to warm up during the chilly winter months when snow blankets the region. But experts who observed...

Woman diagnosed with terminal cancer writes to Theresa May after her third DWP request to prove she has cancer goes viral

A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer was shocked to be called to a 'consultation' to discuss if she could return to work. Krissy Johnson, 48, was diagnosed with incurable metastatic Breast Cancer in September 2015 and given less than a year to live. Nearly three years later, she has been called to a meeting by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to determine if she is capable of returning to work. The mother-of-one shared a letter she had been...

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