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Severed fox paw found in illegal trap in south London garden
Ruth Thomas, 37, made the grim discovery while she was searching for an injured fox in a suburban garden in Forest Hill, south east London
£1tn wiped off public sector since 2008 leaves UK public finances among weakest in world
An IMF report has concluded that the UK’s public finances are some of the worst on the planet. Since the banking crash of 2008 nearly £1tn has been slashed from the public sector, which is 50% of GDP. Bailing out the banking sector and public sector pension liabilities hugely contributed to the poor state of the UK’s public finances. Of 31 countries only Portugal was in a weaker position. The Gambia, Uganda and Kenya rank above the UK. Norway ranked...
Watch: Driverless cars set to become smoother after making them behave like humans
One of the stumbling blocks with autonomous cars has been their inability to interpret visual cues from pedestrians, making them overly cautious.
City set to become first in the UK to go completely plastic-bag free
Ely in Cambridgeshire has launched a campaign to create and distribute fabric bags around the city
Universal Credit could lead to Poll Tax scale riots, says Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown has warned that Universal Credit could lead to civil unrest, akin to the Poll tax riots. The Labour grandee will predict “a return to poll tax-style chaos in a summer of discontent.” The Thatcher administration introduced the poll tax in 1990 and it caused major rioting and it was one of the main reasons that her leadership came to an end. He will say at a speech in Edinburgh: “Surely the greatest burning injustice of all is children...
Corbyn tells May that austerity very much isn’t over
Happy PMQs (Austerity is over)…only it isn’t really Rejoice! Walk out into the streets and hug your fellow humans. Austerity is over, the PM literally said: “Better times are coming.” This was just the news we need on World Mental Health Day. But it took that party pooper Corbyn to spoil all the fun. At today’s PMQs the Labour leader asked the PM why there are 5,000 fewer mental health workers. His point seemed to be irrelevant to May as...
UK one of the top EU member states selling Golden Visas to the super-rich
Britain is one of the top EU member states opening its doors to criminals via Golden Visa schemes that allow corrupt individuals to gain residency-by-investment. A report released today by Transparency International and Global Witness has revealed at least six thousand passports and nearly 100,000 residency permits have been sold in the EU in the last decade. Spain, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal and the United Kingdom have granted the highest numbers of these – with over 10,000 each. Golden Visa schemes...
Air pollution linked to heightened mouth cancer risk
The first study of its kind discovered that high levels of fine particulate matter and to a lesser extent, ozone, may be key
Sturgeon says Brexit will make Scottish independence more likely
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said that Brexit is likely to mean Scotland will leave the Union. She was speaking at the SNP party conference and she blamed the chaotic Brexit negotiations as proof that Scotland would be better off as a stand alone country within the EU. She said: “Brexit is about turning inwards, pulling up the drawbridge, retreating from the world. Independence is about being open, outward looking, aspiring to play our full part in the world around...