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Serious doubts have been raised about the BBC’s impartiality during the Brexit referendum campaign. Former Business Editor Robert Peston, who spent nine years with the public broadcaster before switching to ITV in 2015, said the national broadcaster failed to deliver impartial and balanced journalism in its coverage of the referendum. It comes after new figures leaked by Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder show that there has never been a pro-EU MEP on Question Time. Some 33 UKIP MEPs made appearances...

The Observer is today facing a social media backlash after running an op ed from Conservative leader Theresa May that appears to mark a notable change in their political persuasion. Once revered as one of the few remaining mainstream newspaper outlets for Labour voters the rare editorial feature from May looks to cement a suspected shift the right. Detailing why “Labour voters should look afresh at the Conservatives” the PM repackaged much of her party conference speech in what political...

The ad stated “Uber - unsafe for passengers, unsafe for road users” and featured a hand reaching from a car window to grab a woman's purse from her handbag

 Bristol-based animal welfare charity Viva! is launching its new campaign, Trash. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the forgotten victims of the dairy industry – male calves – and forms just one part of their ongoing campaign to highlight the dark side of dairy. To mark the launch of Trash, Viva! has commissioned two giant vegan billboards to appear on one of the busiest stretches of motorway in the UK for the first two weeks of October. The emotional billboards feature young calves...

Patrick Kielty’s family are sadly well aware of the price of instability in Northern Ireland.

Boris Johnson has used his Telegraph article to attack, not for the first time, the PM and her Brexit plan. He called May’s Chequers plan “"a moral and intellectual humiliation for this country" that will "cheat the electorate" if implemented. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Johnson, over 4,500 words, said: "This is the moment to change the course of the negotiations and do justice to the ambitions and potential of Brexit. "There has been a collective failure of government, and...

The Children’s Food Campaign group, known as Sustain, complained to the Advertising Standards Aithority (ASA) about the ads

A private school has withdrawn an advert and apologised after an advert for the elite school appeared to suggest that those who attended the school would one day be rich enough to “buy their dad a jag.” The advert for Vinehall School in East Sussex told the story of a boy arriving in his father's Volvo, but wishing he had the headmaster's Jaguar. After attending the school and being "very successful in business" he buys his father a Jaguar when...

The mum-of-four, a regular marathon runner, said she only realised something was wrong when she developed tinnitus in one of her ears