Jeremy Corbyn's shadow rail minister Andy McDonald was left stranded on a broken down Virgin Train en route to a rail fares protest in Leeds. The East Coast line has had the benefit of a £2 billion payout over the last over the last few weeks and it comes hot on the heels of today's 3.6 per cent increase in rail fares. McDonald said on his Facebook page: "My day of campaigning has been brought to a halt due to a...

A mosque in Alabama paid court fines of almost $2,000 to help a man who vandalised their place of worship with a swastika. The Masjid Al Salam mosque in Fort Smith filled out a check for $1,700 to cover what was left of the fines picked up by Abraham Davis after he painted the symbol of hate and the message “go home” on the front of their building in October 2016. Davis had been convicted of a felony for the vandalism but...

Reform of police forces is being blocked by membership of the Freemasons, the outgoing Police Federation chair Steve White has warned. Previously some police figures such as former Met police commissioner the late Sir Kenneth Newman and those investigating police forces have warned that membership of the secret society should have no place in the police. Steve White who stepped down after three years as head of the Police Federation on January 1, told The Guardian newspaper:  “What people do...

Out with the old and in with the new. That's Jeremy Corbyn's new year message to the country as he embarks on what is undoubtedly going to be a pivotal year in British politics. The Labour leader said the party would stake out the "new centre ground in British politics", saying the prospect of a "new Britain" was "closer than ever" and that he is leading a "government in waiting". It's a far cry from Prime Minister Theresa May's message, in which...

Pershing Square settles lawsuit with Allergan - Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd has reached an agreement in principle, subject to court approval, to settle lawsuits concerning the attempted acquisition of Allergan plc. by Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. in 2014. The lawsuits were filed in the Central District of California (Anthony Basile et al v. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. et al. and Timber Hill LLC v. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. et al). Pershing Square and Valeant have...

After train users have been slapped with their regular yearly ticket rise Virgin Trains has now "apologised unreservedly" for a tweet which some social media users described as "sexist". In response to a complaint about being referred to as "honey", the official Virgin Trains East Coast Twitter account asked if she would "prefer 'pet' or 'love' next time". The passenger, Emily Lucinda Cole, 27, said she was "stunned" by the response. Many other people took to social media to share...

The Labour party go in to 2018 two points ahead of the Conservatives in the polls, according to the latest data. Jeremy Corbyn's party would take 42 per cent of the vote if we had an election tomorrow, with the embattled Conservatives narrowly behind on 40 per cent. The so-called "Lib Dem surge" seems to have amounted to very little with the party remaining on 7 per cent of the vote. UKIP (4 per cent) and the Green Party (1...

Scottish Parliament bosses have been urged to rethink spending £80,000 on using birds of prey to scare away pigeons after their effectiveness was called into question. Hawks and falcons are brought in regularly to fly over the Scottish Parliament building to deter pigeons from making it their home. But MSPs say that the unwanted birds have gotten wise to the scheme and simply wait for them to be taken away by their handler before settling back on the roofs and...

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