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A terrifying new report has claimed that human civilisation could be over by 2050, unless climate change is tackled immediately. Researchers from the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne claims that climate change poses a ‘near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilisation.’ The report outlines a worst-case scenario of how our world could look like in 30 years’ time. They assume that world leaders ignore advice to decarbonise the global economy, this would raise temperatures by 3...

The Labour Party is making up ground in the Peterborough by-election with odds on Lisa Forbes to win plummeting from 7/1 to 5/1 today. Fifteen candidates are facing voters at the ballot box on Thursday in a contest that will have wide political ramifications. The election of a new MP came about after local people effectively sacked their former Member of Parliament, Fiona Onasanya in a recall petition. Labour won a 48 per cent share of the vote in the...

Former Arsenal footballer Mathieu Flamini joined the protest aimed at protecting the ocean from plastic pollution and highlighting the climate crisis.

The £3million property, owned by the 'The Club is Alive' singer, was badly damaged during the two-and-a-half hour blaze, which police are treating as potential arson.

MEP Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party now has 29 MEPs and is in talks to join the far-right bloc in the European Parliament, may be suspended from his lucrative (£90,000 a year) job as an MEP. The European Parliament has issued Farage with a summons to a hearing on Wednesday afternoon at its code of conduct committee to explain why he failed to declare almost half a million in donations from Brexit-backing financier Arron Banks.  A Channel 4 News investigation...

An HM Inspectorate of Prisons report into Feltham Young Offenders Institute has revealed a massive increase in violence and self-harm, over a quarter of children locked in their cell for the whole work day and nearly two thirds reported having been physically restrained by staff. Shadow Justice Minister Imran Hussain said youth custody was “in crisis” and called on the Government to urgently set out a plan to ensure that children in Feltham are safe  HMYOI Feltham A in west...

More than half of Change UK’s MPs have walked from the party following disastrous EU elections, it has been confirmed. Six of the 11 MPs have quit the party with Heidi Allen and Chukka Umunna among them. Anna Soubry, who has been elected the new party leader, said she was "deeply disappointed" by the revelations. Change UK was formed earlier this year by 11 MPs who quit Labour and the Conservatives. Sarah Wollaston, Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Gavin Shuker...

Donald Trump has confirmed that the NHS will be on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal. Speaking at a press conference today the US President said: "When you're dealing in trade everything is on the table. So NHS or anything else, a lot more than that, but everything will be on the table, absolutely." https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1135916902750928896 The comments come just days after US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson caused uproar by making similar suggestions, and Trump's comments are likely...

As the US President and his entourage headed down the Mall to visit the Queen he might well have expected thousands of people there to see him. Perhaps adoring fans would wave flags to welcome his arrival? However, it didn’t turn out the way as the following tweets will show. It seems that the people of London had better things to do today and police numbers appear to have outnumbered supporters. A holiday mood as tens of thousands of Londoners...