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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is advertising for a "strong team player" to fill the role

The man died following a collision with a car in Deptford, south east London, on Saturday morning

Dr Julie Gottlieb has found suicide rates spike at times of political crises

Staff regularly fork out to feed pupils who don’t get enough to eat at home according to new survey Almost one in 10 school staff brings food in from home to feed kids who would otherwise go hungry, a shocking study has found. They surveyed thousands of classroom based school support staff up and down the country - 8 per cent of whom felt they have to spend their own money on food for hungry children. Staff report children coming to...

Would be Conservative Party leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself in the centre of a racism storm, over comments he made at the Tory Party conference. Mr Rees-Mogg made the controversial comments at a pro-Brexit rally in Birmingham last night. He said: All the countries who are least interested in their people call themselves ‘people's’, don’t they? “So the People’s Republic of China? Oh, that’s communist. “And the People’s Republic of Jam Jar, or something like that, of Libya, was what it...

A barrier outside the Conservative Party Conference has been making the rounds on social media today ahead of the Conservative Party Conference. Delegates convened yesterday for the first day of the annual meeting in Birmingham with several big issues on the agenda. But despite international issues such as Brexit dominating most of the headlines it was opportunities at home that grabbed most attention on social media. A tweet by Channel 4 correspondent Ciaran Jenkins went viral after the reporter spotted...

 Bristol-based animal welfare charity Viva! is launching its new campaign, Trash. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the forgotten victims of the dairy industry – male calves – and forms just one part of their ongoing campaign to highlight the dark side of dairy. To mark the launch of Trash, Viva! has commissioned two giant vegan billboards to appear on one of the busiest stretches of motorway in the UK for the first two weeks of October. The emotional billboards feature young calves...

Administrators that run an anti-EU group on Facebook were left red faced after a poll created to gauge the nation's appetite for leaving the union returned a strong Remain consensus.  The poll, posted on "Nigel Farage - Leave Means Leave", garnered almost a million votes since it was posted on 22nd September. It asked members of the anti-EU group how they would vote in a second referendum "knowing what you know", but returned a shocking outcome.  Some 63 per cent...

Patrick Kielty’s family are sadly well aware of the price of instability in Northern Ireland.