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A former Australian PM has not held back on his thoughts on the potential Brexit trade plan with the Commonwealth. Kevin Rudd called the idea ““the nuttiest of the many nutty arguments” and more tellingly “utter b*llocks.” He was PM of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013. Rudd told the Guardian: “I’m struck, as the British parliament moves towards the endgame on Brexit, with the number of times Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India have...

People living in Britain have one and a half years slashed from their life expectancy due to air pollution, warns new research. Dirty air also causes double the number of deaths than previously thought, according to the study. The findings suggest that an estimated 8.8 million people died globally from air pollution, rather than the previously estimated 4.5 million. And in Europe, 790,000 extra deaths took place in 2015 as a result of poor air conditions - caused by diseases...

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed suspicions aired in the Commons last night that nothing has fundamentally changed in relation to the backstop in the withdrawal agreement. Labour's Shadow Brexit Secretary waved a fat wad of legal papers in the chambers last night and asked: "Is a single word of the Withdrawal Agreement different now to the document that was agreed on November 25?" Having studied the documents, he confirmed this morning that there is unlikely to be changes sufficient to...

It was only identified through its teeth - and fills a six million year gap in the fossil record.

Geoffrey Crossland was being investigated for indecent images when police officers raided raided his home and found guns hidden underneath the property, along with ammunition

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