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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.
Cross-party Brexit talks collapse
Cross-party Brexit talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have collapsed, it has been confirmed today. The Labour leader told the PM that negotiations have “gone as far as they can” and “we have been unable to bridge important policy gaps between us”. He also pointed to the unstable leadership of the Conservative Party, saying as a leadership contest kicks off "the position of the government has become ever more unstable and its authority eroded". It comes after Hilary Benn,...
Brexit Party refuse to publish policies, so Led By Donkeys are helping:
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party have said that they will not publish a manifesto - not until after the European Parliament elections they are standing in. - Despite being against a European Parliament. So billboard pranksters Led By Donkeys are making up for the party’s lack of policies by suggesting some based on their past statements. In posters around the country, they have reminded Nigel Farage’s party of their unpalatable stated positions on policies. Like Farage’s objection to maternity pay: https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1129052784899350529...
Convicted murderer with dagger tattoo on arm is on run after escaping from prison
Stephen Archer, 48, was jailed for life for murder in 1993