News

Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last Wednesday have vowed to march on Washington to embarrass politicians in the sway of America’s powerful gun lobby. The mass shooting in Florida left 17 dead and 15 wounded.  It is the 18th gun-related incident in the US this year and the country’s 30th mass shooting. And we are only in February. Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. He is alleged to have set...

These chilling images show the squalid lair where Matthew Falder preyed on more than 200 victims before sharing many of their abuse pictures on the dark web. Footage shot inside Falder's pokey flat shows clothes, food containers and socks strewn over the floor - as well as a roll of toilet paper on his bed. His desk is piled with rubbish as well as golf balls, an iPhone docking station and what looks to be a tub of dried up...

Bennell coached at Crewe Alexandra & Manchester City Predatory paedophile convicted of abusing 12 boys May have abused over 100 - 86 more people came forward Ex-football coach Barry Bennell has been jailed for 31 years at Liverpool Crown Court for 50 counts of child sexual abuse. Bennell, described as the "devil incarnate" by the judge, was convicted of abusing 12 boys aged eight to 15 between 1979 and 1991. Sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Clement Goldstone QC said...

Theresa May today acknowledges the electorally toxic policy of making the England's higher education system the most expensive in the world. “We now have one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world,” the Prime Minister will admit. - Though according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), England has overtaken the US, where states are trying to reduce the cost of higher education and now actually has the most expensive university education in the world. And...

Published today (19 February), the largest study of its kind measuring the subjective wellbeing of 2,263 looked after children and young people across 16 local authority areas has revealed that 83% feel being in care has improved their lives, and that the longer children and young people have spent in care, the more likely they are to have moderate to high levels of wellbeing. However, whilst the majority of young people are positive about their experiences of care, the findings...

In sacking Henry Bolton and choosing Gerard Batten as their new interim leader, UKIP members have sounded the death knell for their party. Known for his extreme anti-Muslim views, UKIP founder member and London MEP Batten inherits an organisation (for the next 90 days at least) that is in debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds, lurching ever further to the right and into political irrelevancy. Nick Lowles, chief executive of HOPE not hate, said: “Gerard Batten...

Large parts of Britain shook this on Saturday as the country experienced its biggest earthquake in 10 YEARS. A two-second tremor was felt by people across England and Wales as scientists confirmed a reading of between 4.4 and 4.9 on the Richter scale. Thousands described their experience on social media after the mini-quake happened at 2.31pm. Reports suggest it was felt in south Wales, south-west England, the West Midlands and North West. Scientists at the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) described...

Hundreds of Americans attended a gun show in Florida just days after a tragic mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The 500-booth expo is less than 50 miles north of the school and was well attended despite the recent attacks. Reporters in the area said that many, in fact, attended because of the attacks, with a renewed desire to protect themselves. The event, sponsored by Florida Gun Shows, ran through the weekend with organisers not put off by the recent tragedy. Jorge Fernandez,...

As Jeremy Corbyn dismissed a “ridiculous smear” by the Sun alleging he briefed a Czechoslovakian communist spy during the cold war after a photo of the two emerged, another more current embarrassing photo of a Russian agent expelled from the UK with a UK politician has come to light. The Labour Leader’s spokesman insisted that he met a Czechoslovakian diplomat in the 1980s but “neither had nor offered any privileged information.” But that did not stop Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson...