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As MPs debate amendments to Theresa May's Brexit bill and various suggestions to break through the current deadlock including giving the British people the final say, bitter opponents of a people's vote might not enjoy being reminded of how articulate they have been in the past about the arguments for a second referendum. For instance the Brexit campaigner and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith recently insisted Britain would face the same sort of unrest...

Researchers say that many more people may die over the next decade if Britain presses ahead with Brexit because the UK is "heavily dependent" on fruit and veg imports

As MPs are due back in parliament to debate Brexit, Britain's food retailers warn that a no deal Brexit would affect the country's food security. Food retailers including Sainsbury's, Co-Op, Lidl, KFC, Asda, Pret-A-Manger, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer warned MPs “our supply chains are closely linked to Europe — nearly one third of the food we eat in the UK comes from the EU.” The open letter to MPs from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) warned MPs to avoid...

Astronomers at Durham University used the huge amounts of radiation supermassive blackholes emit as "beacons" to track the expansion of the early universe

Sophie Elms, 18, plead guilty to sixteen charges against two young children aged just three and two years

London-based company to set up seven-and-a-half acre greenhouse costing £10m at undisclosed site in rural Wiltshire

Roger Stone looks worried in this photo taken weeks before his dawn raid arrest on Friday

A study shows that the shocking increase in Mexico's murder rate between 2005 and 2015 fueled by warring drugs gangs that it partially offset expected gains in life expectancy among Mexican men

The north of England has borne the brunt of austerity cuts imposed since 2010, with the most deprived communities taking the biggest hit. A new study by the Centre for Cities thinktank shows communities which are enduring the highest poverty rates and weakest economies are facing cuts twice that of their counterparts in the more affluent south. The report also points to a "city and country" divide, with urban council areas having shouldered cuts to services such as street cleaning, road repairs and...