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Theresa May’s parliamentary bind could make cancelling Brexit her “new default”
Revoking Article 50 could have become the government’s default Brexit position, ITV political editor Robert Peston has revealed. Following Sunday’s sofa chat in which the Prime Minister revealed the choice over Brexit is a binary one between some version of her negotiated deal and not leaving at all, she could have laid the groundwork for cancelling Brexit to become the “de facto Brexit default”. Peston said: “The point is that she has no power to prevent a no-deal Brexit on...
Dogs can sniff out early signs of cancer in humans with 97% accuracy
A dog's ability to use their smell receptors which are 10,000 time more accurate than humans' can be used to detect malignant lung cancer in patients.
Climate change could cause as much damage as when dinosaurs were wiped out by asteroid
Man's destruction of planet means life on Earth could take equally as long to recover as it did after the "Great Dying" more than 60 million years ago
Teen praised Adolf Hitler and created shrapnel-filled bomb terror trial hears
The 16-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, told fellow pupils he was going on a rampage, aiming to kill many people and then be shot by police or kill himself
Watchdog finds Boris Johnson has ‘over-casual attitude’ to rules with another financial breach
“That does not demonstrate the leadership, which one would expect of a long-standing and senior Member of the House, nor compliance with the general principles of conduct.”
Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne says it’s time to “think again” about Brexit
Peter Oborne has said Brexiteers must swallow their pride and think again about a process which has "paralysed the system" and "turned Britain into a laughing stock". The prominent Leave advocate has penned an honest Open Democracy feature which calls for Brexiteers to acknowledge that the process has gone sour, saying "we will never be forgiven if and when Brexit goes wrong. Future generations will look back at what we did and damn us." His position, he says, is driven...
Packed rush hour train catches fire at London Bridge station
The Southern train had just arrived in London Bridge when its brakes went up in flames.
“I may lose my job, but my constituents’ jobs are more important” says Jess Phillips
Jess Phillips says she may lose her job by backing a second referendum, but her "constituents' jobs are more important". The Labour MP was speaking in her constituency of Birmingham Yardley this weekend in response to criticisms that MPs should reflect the will of the people they represent. Yardley voted Leave in the 2016 referendum although Birmingham was deeply divided over the issue. More than three quarters voted to Remain in some wards but the same ratio could be found...
Three ingenious ways to solve the UK’s disposable coffee cup problem
Last week the BBC reported that an independent coffee chain has seen sales fall by £250,000 since it banned single use coffee cups. The UK throws away a staggering 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups each year. Only a tiny proportion are recycled and half a million a day become litter. The problem is clear, but what’s to be done?Cambridge Consultants has been working on solutions. Here are three proposals:COFFEE CUP AS A SERVICEReusable cups are great, but we often forget them, and cleaning them...