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It distinguishes between toxic and healthy forms of a protein that collects in clumps in dementia patients - causing confusion and memory loss

Appeals for the Conservatives to drop universal credit have been aired after new research revealed up to 100,000 children are set to miss out on free school meals because of new government thresholds. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned the roll-out of benefit system reforms ‘will create a substantial number of losers’ among families whose children receive free school meals. Up to 100,000 children from low-income families will lose out on free school meals because of the government’s method for...

  Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Foreign Secretary of “misleading the public” when he insisted that Britain's Porton Down chemical weapons research laboratory was “categorical” that the poison used to make a former Russian spy, his daughter and a British police man who attended them ill originated in Russia. The assertion that Russia had used the deadly banned Russian-made nerve agent Novichok, thought to have been destroyed to poison people in the UK has escalated a series of tit for...

Superstar agent Frank Cochran is accused of raping and sexually assaulting the victim and leaving her an "emotional wreck" and "a shell of her former self"

Colin Hewitt, 72, collapsed at home last Wednesday (28/3) after watching TV and was taken to his local hospital by ambulance after his wife Sue, 70, dialled 999. Because of a shortage of beds at Horton Hospital, in Banbury, Oxon., he was forced to spend the night on a trolley and managed only 45 minutes sleep. The next day he was transferred 28 miles away to John Radcliffe Hospital, in Headington, Oxford, for angioplasty surgery and to have a stent...

Hard Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has responded to the Beano comic's legal notice to "decist in your ongoing impersonation" of Dennis The Menace's arch enemy Walter "The Softy" Brown. The Beano's letter accused the right-winger tipped by his young Moggmentum followers to take over the Tory party of infringing their copyright in impersonating their snooty prim character pampered by his wealthy parents. Their cease and decist letter posted on Twitter accused the Conservative MP  whose upper-class mannerisms and reactionary views have caused him...

A falconer has been cleared of breaching strict hunting laws because he hunts foxes -using a GOLDEN EAGLE. John Mease, 45, was found not guilty after a court heard he used the enormous bird of prey to catch animals - not a pack of dogs. He was further cleared of causing unnecessary cruelty to an animal despite 'dispatching' another fox by driving a KNIFE through its eye after it was caught by his raptor in 2013. Co-accused Fitzwilliam huntsman George...

The man, understood to be 20, was a former pupil at City Academy, was stabbed to death in Hackney.

Monkeys unwind at the end of a stressful day with spa therapy - just like humans, say scientists. Snow monkeys use hot springs to reduce stress - as well as keep them warm, according to new research. The macaques are a popular tourist attraction in Nagano in northern Japan as they soak in the steaming baths. It was assumed they were simply trying to warm up during the chilly winter months when snow blankets the region. But experts who observed...