A year later and things are not looking good for post-Brexit Britain - there is no clear plan from current leadership on how to execute Brexit, and all attempts to negotiate the UK’s departure from the EU have failed in spectacular fashion. On top of having to react to such bumbling uncertainty, the industry is also battling government attempts to completely undermine customer privacy and security in the UK. Following a terror attack in London on 3rd June 2017, British...

BREAKING: Shocking details of the scandal behind the urgent review of 10,000 criminal cases possibly tainted by faulty or manipulated forensic data have been aired in an emergency parliamentary debate. Westminster heard how the Government had been warned that “murders and rapists will go free” because of their policy of privatising forensic services. Judges’ adoption and fostering decisions have relied on questionable forensic data too. “What assurance can the minister give that children haven’t been removed under false forensic evidence?”...

Garlic could ward off hospital superbugs, a new study revealed. Ajoene, an active sulphurous compound found in the pungent vegetable, when combined with antibiotics helps break down a bacteria's defences. Scientists hope the breakthrough could fight incurable cystic fibrosis and chronic wounds in diabetics as well as tackling MRSA and common hospital infection P. aeruginosa. University of Copenhagen researchers found ajoene destroys the biofilm of resistant bacteria and make antibiotics work again. It does not kill the bacteria but disrupts...

Christmas could be ruined for thousands of passengers with crackers, party poppers – and chestnuts – on many airlines’ naughty lists. Strict rules imposed by airports and airlines mean passengers aren’t always allowed to travel with these seasonal essentials - either in their hand luggage or checked bags. As a result of heightened security measures, the likes of Ryanair, Etihad, Emirates and Norwegian Airlines all have crackers on the no-fly list. Even those using airlines which do allow them can...

International Public Partnership consortium preferred bidder for OFTO project - International Public Partnerships Limited says that it is pleased that Transmission Capital Partners, the consortium comprising INPP, Amber Infrastructure and Transmission Investment has been appointed as preferred bidder for the long-term license and operation of a further offshore transmission project (OFTO). The latest scheme, comprising the transmission cable connection to Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm represents the seventh such project that Transmission Capital Partners has been appointed to, as preferred bidder....

2017 will be remembered as the year that Ryanair  bosses got very red faces.  A bizarre decision to change their staff holiday entitlement proved to be a very poor judgement and left most of us thinking they should probably fire the person who made that call. Flight Chaos The changes they made resulted in many pilots and cabin crew having a lot of holiday entitlement to use up.  Knowing that it couldn’t really be denied the jaw-dropping decision was made...

If it wasn't for Brexit the work of Peter Roberts may have been forgotten in the annals of European legislation. But a week on from the government's vote to reject an amendment to the European Union Withdrawal Bill tabled by Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas his work is being debated again. Born in the 1920s Roberts took up dairy farming in Hampshire as a young professional but became so appalled by the suffering of animals in intensive farming systems he started campaigning about...

My father died last week. I don’t mean that to sound too dramatic: he was approaching 70 and had suffered from cancer for a few years. That said, he’d been in remission, and until what proved to be the last week of his life, he was pretty healthy. His doctor was somewhat baffled by his wellbeing, but had advised him to keep doing what he was doing, which included a martini every day at about 5.00 pm. The end was...

British citizens who fear immigrants and thought they threatened their values and way of life were more likely to have voted Brexit And the results, partly driven by narcissism, were regardless of their age, gender or level of education. The research, published in Frontiers in Psychology, identified 'collective narcissism' as a new voting variable. Scientists from the UK, Poland and Portugal measured the effect of xenophobia on voting behaviour, and found that it was strongly related to voting in favour...