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The UK has banned all arrivals, departures and overflights involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed on Sunday killing all on board, on a flight between Ethopia and Kenya. A spokesperson for the CAA said: “As we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have, as a precautionary measure, issued instructions to stop any commercial passenger flights from any operator arriving, departing or overflying UK airspace." The UK has joined Malaysia, Singapore, China &...

DUP sources have said the party cannot support the Prime Minister’s deal in tonight’s vote, which effectively kills off any chance of it getting Commons' backing. Sky News correspondent David Blevins confirmed that a source close to the party said they did not see how the party could support the amended deal following Geoffrey Cox's legal advice. Cox announced today that the UK would still be trapped in the backstop even after the concessions May negotiated last night, which has...

The US president has tweeted a claim regarding climate change that is false.  He seemed to be tweeting a statement he watched on Fox News on Tuesday morning, writing, “Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: “The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” However,  the Greenpeace organisation refutes Mr Moore’s claims that he...

Wearing a grey jumper and joggers, his sobs echoed across the court room and he held his lower right arm which was in a cast.

Geoffrey Cox seems to be so busy tying himself in knots over Theresa May’s bad Brexit he’s forgotten his own constituents says GMB Union Geoffrey Cox MP has been accused  of a dereliction of duty as the famous Appledore shipyard looks set to close in his constituency. The North Devon yard has built almost 200 vessels since it opened in 1855 and is absolutely crucial to the South West economy and British shipbuilding. On Friday Appledore will fall silent –...

Scottish Labour delegates packed into a fringe event on democratic reform this weekend to hear bold proposals for a ‘new constitutional settlement’ under a Labour government. The meeting, co-sponsored by Unison Labour Link, the Red Paper Collective and Politics for the Many, saw Corbyn’s constitutional adviser launch key proposals (dubbed the ‘Bryan Paper’) to update the party’s democratic reform platform. The paper argues Labour must embrace ‘progressive federalism’ under a clear, codified constitution for the UK. It proposes a ‘partnership...

Chief Superintendent Robyn Williams, 54, indicated a plea of not guilty to possessing the moving image at Willesden Magistrates' Court today

Attorney general says May's new deal can still leave UK in backstop against its will. In a huge blow to the PM the Attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, has indicated that the UK could still be trapped in the backstop, even after the concessions May negotiaited last night. The government’s top lawyer did say the prime minister’s efforts had reduced the risk of being trapped in the backstop however he admitted it could still happen. Theresa May is to put her...

But he says it all hinges on Attorney General's legal advice