Jeremy Hunt recently promoted to Foreign Secretary and in China a bid to establish new trade connections managed to get the nationality of his wife wrong in a botched bid to ingratiate himself with his hosts. Hunt, Britain’s top diplomat now managed to mix up regional rivals Japan and China, as well as mistake his wife’s nationality, boasting “my wife is Japanese.” He hastily corrected himself, telling his counterpart, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi: “my wife is Chinese. That’s a...
While night-time lighting is good for parasitoid wasps, who find food far more easily, aphid populations are decimated by them as they are so much more visible.
The Jet2 pilot also joked the plane was going to be "hanging upside down, performing experiments" and he would be playing Twister with his co-pilot during the flight.
Savage cuts to the police force is making the UK a more dangerous place to live in, according to crime commissioner. West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson warned that having fewer officers to tackle a sharp an increase in crime is a “deadly equation.” Jamieson told the BBC’s Today programme in an interview over the weekend: “The homicide team in the West Midlands is actually at bursting point at the moment dealing with the many serious incidents they’ve had,” he...
A group of almost 40 MPs have come together to sign an open letter pleading for a second referendum over Brexit, reports the Daily Mirror. The MPs form a cross party alliance hoping that the nation is given another chance to decide if leaving the EU is the what they really want. The letter reads: “Brexit is taking longer and costing more than we thought, and it’s been changing our communities, our hospitals and our job prospects in ways that...
The financial services industry must “unite and fight” against a no-deal Brexit that potentially erodes clients’ rights and damages the financial sector itself, warns the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations. The warning from deVere Group founder and CEO, Nigel Green, comes as the UK's International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, said that Britain should accept a ‘no-deal’ scenario, instead of requesting more negotiating time. It also follows MPs being told earlier this week by the Association of British Insurers that...
Police arrived at the lad’s home in Sproatley, East Yorks, at 4pm yesterday (Thurs) after an urgent 999 call
Humour is universal - with no 'cultural barriers', say psychologists.
Three suspects held on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident in east London, although no injuries reported
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