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EIGHTH London school shut due to false widow spider invasion
The primary school is the eighth to have been closed in East London due to False Widows.
Young Tories at Oxford University banned from joining Bullingdon Club – once home to David Cameron & Boris Johnson
The Oxford University Conservatives Association have added the infamous drinking society to their list of proscribed organisations.
Conservative Government’s new Suicide Prevention Minister made jokes about suicide
During yesterday’s PMQs Theresa May announced the Government had appointed a suicide prevention minister, the first time this role had been introduced in the UK. It has now emerged that the new minister, Jackie Doyle-Price has made jokes about suicide. She had previously told a newspaper in her Thurrock constituency, that she would rather jump off Beachy head (a notorious suicide spot) than defect from the Tories to UKIP. The comments were made back in 2014 after Douglas Carswell had...
Trump’s visit to UK cost the police nearly £18m
The National Police Chiefs’ Council have said that the US President’s four day trip to the UK cost almost £18m The police used thousands of officers, over four force areas, to ensure his safety during his visit. This show of force was the biggest mobilisation since 2011, when London, and other cities, faced large scale rioting. NPCC chair Sara Thornton said: "Nearly every force supported the operation with nearly 10,000 officers deployed from all over the country, performing over 26,000...
Famous London Club bouncer thanked by Judge for cracking case of “evil” mugger
The victim was found with serious head and facial injuries near Farringdon station in central London
John Major becomes second PM in less than a week to criticise Universal Credit
Sir John Major has become the second former Prime Minister in less than a week to criticise Universal Credit, warning the Conservative Party could run into the same problems they had with poll tax in the late 1980s. Riots broke out across Britain under Margaret Thatcher’s tenure in protest against the Community Charge (colloquially known as the "poll tax") which were considered regressive taxes that shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor. And the same arguments are...
Theresa May shamed by suicide attempts of disabled welfare claimants subjected to hated policy doubling
"A series of secret internal inquiries reveal that Conservative Ministers were repeatedly warned of the policy’s shortcomings"
‘I was subjected to FGM. Now I want to help girls by being our first policewoman’
“I don’t think about being cut much now because even if I did, I won’t get it back again so what is the point. But I don’t want the same thing to happen to others.”
Mount Etna ‘is sliding into the sea – and may trigger a tsunami’
Europe's most famous volcano in Italy was already known to be edging slowly towards the Mediterranean