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Bookmaker takes £140k bet on Brexit Party winning most seats in European Elections
An online bookmaker has slashed the odds on the Brexit Party winning the most seats in the European Elections after taking a £140k punt on the newly-formed party. Star Sports revealed today that it has slashed the price on Nigel Farage’s party winning the most seats on Thursday from 1-20 to 1-66. The customer would win £5,200 if successful, which according to the latest polling data looks likely. A YouGov/Datapraxis poll, commissioned by the pro-remain Best for Britain campaign and...
Data scientists launch tactical voting website aimed at stopping Farage’s Brexit Party
A tactical voting site targeted at Remain voters has been launched by data scientists in a bid to stop the Brexit Party from running riot in this week’s European elections. Nigel Farage’s newly-formed party looks on track to secure a whitewash in the upcoming election and currently stands on 32 per cent of the vote. Combined with UKIP on 3 per cent that will give them more votes than pro-Remain parties combined, but their efforts could be stifled if voters...
Hero cop who took on all three London Bridge terrorists armed with baton feared ‘his time was up’
PC Wayne Marques told of the terrifying moment he fought extremist ringleader Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22.
McDonald’s bans milkshakes near Farage rally- Burger King responds
Burger King has been credited for “joining the anti-fascist resistance” after tweeting that it would still be selling milkshakes in Scotland despite a police-enforced McDonald’s ban on them near a Nigel Farage rally. The firm’s main UK Twitter account – which posted the most ‘liked’ branded tweet of all-time last year when it took down Kanye West – posted to the “people of Scotland” that they would be selling milkshakes all weekend following news that police had ordered a McD’s...
As the government abandons Dubs kids, these UK teens headed out to help them
As reports emerge that the Home Office is slashing a scheme to bring vulnerable unaccompanied children to the UK, four British children the same age as many of the children homeless in Northern France gave us their response after helping their counterparts not fortunate enough to have been born in the UK. Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who came to the UK as a Jewish child refugee on the Kindertransport, urged the UK Government to take its fair share of...
Judge jailing callous hit-and run driver who killed pensioner admits ‘pitifully inadequate’ sentencing powers
Mohammed Ahmed, 33, hit Milton Forde, 83, as he crossed a road in Coventry last year but sped away following the collision
Moment smoke and flames burst from a woman’s mouth as she exploded in hospital
Doctors think the poison she injected reacted with the air or her stomach gases to produce an explosion
Far right activist gives Hitler salute as jailed for plot to kill Labour MP Rosie Cooper
Jack Renshaw was jailed for 16 months in June 2018 for four counts of grooming adolescent boys
Antarctica ice now unstable as glaciers melt five times as fast as in the 90s
Coastal communities across the planet will be affected.