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Bankers have seen their pay increase by 9.3 per cent since 2009 as average wages fall by 3.1 per cent, new figures show. In the ten years since the financial crash the typical worker has been left nearly £1,000 worse off a year in real terms, the Trades Union Congress found. But the typical worker in finance or insurance has seen their pay increase by 9.3 per cent in a decade, giving them an extra £119 a week or £6,188...

Leah Heyes, 15, collapsed in a car park on Saturday May 11 and died later in hospital

Mr Chips was hit by an unknowing gardener as he was nestled in a pile of leaves, and a large section of fur and spines was ripped off.

A sand artist has paid graphic homage to Brexit and the Prime Minister's precarious state - with a giant sculpture of Theresa May losing her head under a falling guillotine. The controversial sculpture depicts a large globe with a horrified looking May in the centre, throwing her head under a falling guillotine with Brexit written across it. Outside of Europe on the sandy globe, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump both sit rubbing their hands together with glee as they watch...

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said any Brexit deal struck between the government and Labour will not make it through the House of Commons without the pledge of a "confirmatory" referendum. Theresa May is set to continue talks with Labour today in a bid to end the political impasse surrounding Brexit. But given that no party has a majority in the Commons the deal could still get stuck unless a second referendum is put on the cards. Speaking...

Why a Chinese vlogger thought it a good idea to livestream herself eating an octopus alive is a mystery. But as you can see the octopus didn’t intend to make it easy for her and fought back using the suckers on its tentacles – which tend to stick to stuff. Tentacles have hundreds of suckers which can stick onto objects powerfully enough to open shellfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=9qvl8HDO1Nc The video of the food vlogger known as ‘seaside girl Little Seven’ went viral...

The UK’s super rich are preparing to leave the UK should Jeremy Corbyn enter Downing Street, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. A record 151 billionaires were recorded on the paper’s Rich List this year, a 9.2 per cent rise on last year with a combined wealth of nearly £525 billion. But the prospect of a Labour government could spark a potential exodus, with tax increases prompting the wealthy to move their money out of the UK. Jeremy Corbyn's party...

The youths were caught on covert cameras restraining the bird before torturing it with a curved knife and a slingshot

New analysis by Centre for London has revealed that London’s local authority budgets have dropped by nearly a fifth (17 per cent) per head over the last eight years, with inner London boroughs hit the hardest. The analysis found that all principal service areas, with the exception of children’s social care, have seen budget reductions, with planning and development, highways and transport and cultural activity budgets facing the largest cuts. Taking London’s population growth into account, councils have seen an...