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Officers seized around 60 packages weighing a combined 1,437 kilos. The UK street value of the drugs is likely to have been in excess of £100 million.

A new report has found the hit to the City of London from Brexit so far has been worse than expected, with financial institutions moving £900bn abroad. Dublin has been the biggest winner according to a study which found 275 banking and finance firms have moved business abroad. After rumours that is was to be cancelled again, Tuesday's second meaningful vote in the Commons on Theresa May's Brexit deal will go ahead as planned confirmed Brexit Minister Robin Walker. He...

The four-hour target that aims to ensure 95% of patients are seen to within that time frame might be about to be scrapped. It was introduced in 2004, to  improve patient care, but last month only two hospital trusts achieved it. NHS England believe that the targets were outdated and plan to reorganise how patients are dealt with. They will trial a rapid assessment measure for all patients arriving at A&E, with the intention of providing quicker life-saving treatment for...

HMS Argyll spent eight hours saving every soul aboard Grande America in the Bay of Biscay

The Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell has said that the Chancellor has shown “cowardice” over Brexit. McDonnell claims Philip Hammond could have done more to ensure Brexit isn't hugely damaging to the economy. He made the comments at a speech at Bloomberg today. McDonnell said: "The position of the chancellor of the exchequer comes with a responsibility which I think Philip Hammond actually has abdicated in his current role. If Brexit ends up leading to even half of what the government’s...

It offers hope of patients being given drugs decades before symptoms develop when they are most likely to work.

Fire crews were called to try and get it down

The Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has called on Bangladesh to take Shamima Begum as their national. Speaking ahead of the 16th National Peace Symposium at the UK’s largest mosque, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said Muslim countries should show sympathy to Begum and take her in. As her parents were originally from Bangladesh, "the first duty is of Bangladesh to take her as their national", he said. Despite the Caliph's initial policy been...

Esther McVey was called out for propagating out-dated Brexit myths this weekend after tweeting a 2014 claim by the Telegraph that all EU members would have to adopt the euro by 2020. The tweet, which has been deleted after garnering thousands of likes and retweets, questioned whether the public was aware of what "the EU has planned for its member states", despite the source being over four years old and based on inaccurate assumptions. The UK has a permanent opt-out...