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Thirteen Polish people have been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences as part of a major probe into the exploitation of eastern European workers. Police swooped at a series of residential properties in Handsworth, Birmingham, during a series of early morning raids on Thursday (25/1). Officers were acting on intelligence people were being brought to the UK with the promise of work before having a significant cut of their wages taken by gang masters. It's believed a legitimate employment...

President Trump has said he is ready to apologise for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from far right group Britain First. Trump tweeted a succession of Islamaphobic videos from the Deputy Leader of Britain First in November in a move that was condemned by World leaders, including Theresa May. Although his press secretary defended the tweets at the time, the President has told Piers Morgan that he is ready to apologise in an exclusive interview to be aired this weekend. He said he was...

One thing we should expect from the World’s biggest information resource is integrity. Google has the power to influence everybody through the information it serves up during the 1.2 trillion information searches per year, worldwide. Google now processes an average of over 40,000 search queries every single second. However, is Google pulling the wool over our eyes, putting profit growth before the quality, independence, and relevance of the information it serves to us? Last year, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) revenue grew 21 per...

Baroness Tessa Jowell yesterday received a standing ovation in the House of Lords after she gave a moving speech about her battle with brain cancer. Hundreds of peers, including the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, gave the Labour politician a minute-long applause after she called for more cancer treatments to be available on the NHS. In May last year, Ms Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with a high-grade brain tumour known as glioblastoma. In a moving speech, she called for...

The oldest known human fossil found outside of Africa suggests modern humans left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. The fossil, an upper jawbone with several teeth, was found in one of several prehistoric cave sites in Israel. Dating techniques of material and the jawbone said it is between 175,000 and 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years. Before the latest discovery, the earliest modern human...

Economic insecurity has become the "new normal" according to a damning new study, with at least 70 per cent of the UK’s working population "chronically broke". Research by leading thinktank Royal Society of Arts found that while about 30 per cent of respondents said they lived comfortably, 40 per cent said their finances were permanently precarious. The remaining 30 per cent said they were not managing to get by, in a nod to Theresa May's JAM acronym. Brhmie Balaram, the author...

Police forces across England & Wales have released some very worrying figures about violent crime across the two nations. The increase use of knives and guns on the streets of the UK will terrify law-abiding citizens. Knife crime has increased 21 per cent with over 37,400 offences recorded, and gun offences have risen 20 per cent to over 6,600. Overall there has been a 14 per cent increase in crime. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the offences were...

Donald Trump this week signed an executive order that imposed tariffs on washing machines and solar panels. The move has been widely criticised by manufacturers for driving up costs for American citizens and reducing choice. Suspicious that the move could ignite a trade war with South Korea and China have also been raised. Discussing possible outcomes, Dr Fragkiskos Filippaios, Reader in International Business at Kent Business School at the University of Kent, says: "Recently, the US administration decided in favour of the introduction...

The UK is on the edge of a nursing crisis, with the number of new health care professionals lagging behind an ageing population. According to analysis from the International Longevity Centre - UK the number of nurses rose by a pitiful 0.8 per cent between 2009 and 2017, while the number of people aged over-65 rose by 17.6 per cent over the same period. The number of nurses per 1,000 of the population has fallen considerably from its peak of...