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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has slapped down an expected demand from Boris Johnson for a post-Brexit cash boost for the NHS. Johnson was hoping for a £5 billion NHS "Brexit dividend." The Chancellor reminded Boris he is the Foreign Secretary, without responsibility for health spending, as he arrived for a meeting of European finance ministers in Brussels on today. Mr Hammond said: "Mr Johnson is the Foreign Secretary. "I gave the Health Secretary an extra £6bn at the recent Budget...

Breaking: a magnitude 8.2 earthquake 281km (175 miles) southeast of Kodiak, Alaska has caused a tsunami warning for parts of the North American coast and Hawaii with 10 metre waves already reported. A Tsunami could hit between the Western Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Western Aleutians. Tsunami watches are in effect for coastal areas of Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and even Washington and Oregon too. People in coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia being asked to go to...

A whole project can fall down as a result of bad translation. The translation agency Alphatrad UK offers professional, legal and official translation services in more than 100 languages and dialects. All kinds of translation services from one language to another are part of an exciting task that has to be based on thoroughness and a great knowledge of languages. Only the best specialists are wanted, or at least in the case of Alphatrad UK, a translation agency in London...

Nigel Farage is among the favourites to replace Henry Bolton following Sunday’s vote of no-confidence for the current UKIP leader. The former leader was back in the limelight recently after he called for a second referendum on EU membership on TV show the Wright Stuff. Some people have taken that to mean that he is eyeing up a return to the political arena, and he's well priced at bookmakers Ladbrokes who have him at 4/1 to take the reins at the beleaguered nationalist party....

A van driver accused of ploughing into a crowd of Muslims leaving one man dead in a bid to kill as many of them as he could told police 'at least I had a proper go' , a court heard today (mon) Darren Osborne, 48, killed one man, 51-year-old Makram Ali, and injured others in Finsbury Park, north London, it was said. Mr Ali had collapsed on Seven Sisters Road and a group gathered to help in the early hours...

The World's richest one per cent took home 82 per cent of the wealth last year, according to shocking new figures released by Oxfam. According to the findings the level of inequality veered once again in favour of the rich, with the vast majority of newly generated money going to the wealthiest one per cent. Data shows that of the £7.3 trillion generated between July 2016 and June 2017, around £6 trillion (82 per cent) went to 75 million people, while...

"The Shortage of nurses in UK is affecting patient care and threatening lives. Outsiders looking in would rightly be puzzled by the UK government’s policy for planning the largest workforce in the NHS, and the apparent chaos, contradiction and confusion that has characterised the process. Nothing seems to make sense. For example, we have been under-producing nurses in England over the past decade at a time when demand for care – due to a growing elderly population and an increase in people with multiple long-term...

An anti-Brexit campaigner has blasted the BBC in an open letter for allegedly saying “when” the UK leaves the EU and not “if”. Kim Spence-Jones, 62, has written to BBC chairman Sir David Clementi, claiming the broadcaster’s stance that Brexit will happen is “factually incorrect”. In the open letter, he argues the country could still pull out of an EU exit and insists the corporation should “use language that reflects the truth, in other words ‘if’ and not ‘when’”. The...

Donald Trump is being reminded of comments he made in 2013 when he called for the then President Barack Obama to step down over government shutdowns. Speaking on Fox & Friends he said: "Well, if you say who gets fired it always has to be the top. "I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top and the president’s the leader. And he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got...