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Donald Tusk has today confirmed that a free trade agreement (FTA) on goods with no tariffs is the only possible route for the UK's exit from the European Union. The President of the European Council said the EU does not want to build a wall with Britain, but Brexit means "we will be drifting apart". He said the EU wanted an "ambitious and advanced" free trade agreement, but the UK's red lines limit what it can get from the final Brexit deal. Tusk...

A campaign to restore a full tube service at Kensington Olympia station has reached 10,000 signatures. The campaign, called ‘Connect Kensington Olympia’, calls on Transport for London to reinstate a full London Underground timetable following reductions in service numbers in 2011. The campaign claims that an increase in tube services will improve air quality and ease congestion in the area and has been backed by the local MP and councillors, businesses, residents, event organisers and visitors to the area.  The petition is...

Hosting hit TV show The Apprentice put Donald Trump in The White House, suggests new research. The long-running show led to viewers seeing the real estate tycoon as a 'friend' - helping him become more believable, according to the study. The phenomenon is known as 'parasocial relationships' where strong emotional bonds are formed with people you've never met. Scientists say they often involve a celebrity and grow as more information about them is sought on Instagram or Twitter - even...

Eight fire engines rushed to the scene and expectant mums and other patients were told to leave wards after blaze was started in extractor flue in a boiler room

Protectionist trade tariffs signed by Donald Trump show the dangers faced by the UK post Brexit, union GMB has warned. This week the US President officially sanctioned a 25 per cent tariff on steel imports, 10 per cent on aluminium, and is now threatening a tax on cars entering the US, together with a threat to ignore the protections on foodstuffs of specific geographical origin - posing a threat to Scotland’s whisky industry and Cornish pasty production. GMB says the...

Public pressure appears to have played a part in NHS Cornwall’s decision not to privatise a part of it’s service, reports Cornwall Live The county was planning to launch the “Accountable Care System” for health services. It was claimed that this would push the NHS towards privatisation. Protests took place outside the County Hall during inquiry sessions over the plans, and eventually it has been shelved. Critics had said that the ACS would create an "Americanised" health system. The Council...

The tycoon wants is part of a growing number of 'try-before-they-buy' tenants living in London

The Sunday Times has been accused of employing a former actor to carry out the longest-running, most organised and grossly invasive spying operation in Fleet Street’s history, a Byline investigation has revealed. John Ford was paid up to £40,000 per year by Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday broadsheet to obtain phone bills, recover ex-directory phone numbers and penetrate private financial material, such as banking and mortgage data. Ford admits that several email accounts were successfully hacked, each of which were done "to order" on the...

A newspaper in a city with prominent links to slavery has issued an apology after running a controversial front page more than two decades ago. The Bristol Post's 1996 splash - headlined 'Faces of Evil' - includes 16 mugshots of black men jailed for dealing crack cocaine in the city. Editor Mike Norton said the report "ostracised a large section" of Bristol's African and Afro-Caribbean community "with its black faces ranged in rows like slaves held in cages". The Bristol...