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Nazi pug Ukipper brags he still has not paid fine and taunts cops ‘come and get me’
Markus Meechan, who uses the monicker Count Dankula, insisted he did not regret his actions
First signs of movement on Earth – probably made by “slug-like” creature around 2.1 BILLION years ago – discovered
The previous oldest remnants were dated to 570 million years ago, but the new evidence was uncovered in a fossil deposit in Gabon
Gavin Williamson roasted for Tory defence cuts as he boasts Brexit to ‘enhance UK’s lethality’
Brexit 'can enhance UK's lethality', insisted the Defence Secretary today, before being promptly derided by all sides and reminded of the scale of Tory defence cuts. Brexit, said Gavin Williamson, recently mocked for suggesting Gibraltar could be defended from Spain with paintball guns, was an opportunity for Britain to be a global military leader. The former Tory Chief Whip who used to keep a tarantula named Cronus on his desk gave a customarily belligerent address to a defence thinktank today....
Conservative Party finally admits Universal Credit has increased food bank use
It has been some time in coming but eventually the Conservative Party has accepted that there is a link between the roll-out of Universal Credit and the increase usage of food banks, by those in desperate need of basic food and living supplies. Amber Rudd accepted that huge increase in food bank usage has, in some part, been caused by UC. Until today senior Tories have flatly denied that this was the case. The number of emergency food parcels handed...
Residents of a posh riverside London apartment block ‘feared for their lives’ after ’15’ armed police stormed building
Two men spotted on the roof of the building opposite Millbank and MI5 before 'imitation firearm' was dropped onto Salamanca Street below.
A murder investigation has been launched after man found dead in Essex with stab wound
The victim, who has not been named, was found suffering from a stab wound to the back
‘Dangerous brinkmanship’ after May rejects Corbyn offer
Theresa May wrote to Jeremy Corbyn last night and rejected the Labour leader's call for the UK to stay in a permanent customs union with the EU. She has effectively ruled out Labour’s ideas for a compromise Brexit plan. The PM stressed her objections to keeping the UK in some form of customs union, as this would prevent the UK making its own trade deals. This decision comes as business groups are warning that with under than 50 days to...
An ‘elderly’ man has died in hospital after being found in a duck pond in a small Essex village
Emergency services rushed to the scene this morning (Feb 11) of an incident in Tiptree duck pond, in Essex where police have cordoned off
County lines drug dealer has eight months knocked off jail sentence after writing letter
Lamar Blackstock, 27, was collared by police with a stash of heroin and cocaine in his car, and a lock-knife