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People are reporting Nigel Farage to Westminster council for fly tipping fish

Complaints about Nigel Farage fly tipping fish have been submitted to Westminster Council after yesterday's protest by the former Ukip leader on the Thames. Farage joined a raft of protesters campaigning for a revision of fishing quotas during the Brexit transition. The red, white and blue fishing boat sailed down the River Thames before stopping in front of Parliament and dumping the crates of dead haddock, which symbolise the stock that gets thrown back into the sea because of stringent...

Historic vote stops internet companies using loophole to sell women and children online for sex

  The US Senate just passed an important bill to tackle the loopholes used by internet companies that facilitate ads for sex trafficking. Senators voted yesterday to pass the historic FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). This bill establishes criminal and civil liability for websites that knowingly facilitate sex trafficking, such as by hosting ads and other content linked to a sex-trafficking enterprise. Now it has been passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate,...

Britain’s post-Brexit blue passport to be made by EU firm

Britain's post-Brexit blue passport, which has been used by politicians to symbolise the country's break from the European Union, will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm after they won the race for the £490m printing job. UK-based firm De La Rue, which makes the current burgundy version, lost the contract to make the iconic blue passport to Gemalto, which is listed on the French and Dutch stock exchanges. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning, the chief executive of De...

Reasons to Invest in Amazon Shares to Gain Significant Profits in Future

Amazon.com is a mammoth company with $571 billion as market cap. On S&P 500, its shares are the 4th largest and still going persistently. Below are good reasons why Amazon shares are good as long-term investment. Amazon is piloted by its founder Amazon was launched on 1994 by CEO Jeff Bezos. He is very passionate about his company and obviously takes good care of its performance than non-founder CEO’s can. Surveys have studied that companies led by founders have a...

Corbyn savages Theresa May over collapse of Northamptonshire County Council

This depressingly predictable slide towards the financial ruin and effective bankruptcy by Northamptonshire County Council is the result of staggering incompetence from both Whitehall and in County Hall says GMB GMB has welcomed the support of Jeremy Corbyn after the Labour savaged the Prime Minister over the financial collapse of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC). At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Mr Corbyn blamed the blamed the “slash and burn” approach to local authority funding as the reason for the council going...

New data confirms increased frequency of extreme weather events

European national science academies are urging further action on climate change adaptation after new data confirmed the increased frequency of extreme weather events. Man-made climate change has been proven to have increased recent extreme rainfall and associated floods as well as increasing the risks of wildfires with implications for humans and animals, the environment, and the economy. New data shows that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and...

“Instead of throwing dead fish in the Thames, Farage should have done his job as a member of the fisheries committee”

  Guy Verhofstadt has lashed out at Nigel Farage on Twitter over his river Thames fishing stunt, pointing out that if he cared about the British fishing fleet he would have bothered to turn up for them as a member for the fisheries committee in the European Parliament. - A role the British taxpayer paid him to fulfill, but one he avoided year after year. Farage joined fishermen in throwing Haddock into the river in protest after the UK agreed to...

Oscar-winning actor Emma Thompson joins fracking protest

Oscar-winning actor Emma Thompson has joined a peaceful walk and silent protest at a controversial fracking site. Protestors, led by over 100 women in white clothes, marched through Blackpool, Lancs., to urge the Government to publish an internal report on fracking which "could call into question" the viability of the industry. Emma Thompson, 58, led from the front holding a "NO FRACKING" sign in solidarity with the throng of protestors, accompanied by Greenpeace activist Tina Rothery. Emma Thompson in front...

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