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UPDATE: British Police have searched Oxford Street and have found no evidence of reports of gunshots heard in Oxford Circus. Armed police responded to the incident as a gunfire one, British Police have said, but no evidence has been found yet and nearby stations have reopened. Oxford Circus is expected to reopen soon. Reports are emerged of armed police responding to an incident in Oxford Street Station on the busiest shopping day of the year as bargain hunters descended on...

  At least 235 are dead and 180 injured after militants launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Northern Sinai, Egypt during Friday prayers. As the death tolls mounts, reports on one of the bloodiest terror attacks in Egypt’s history suggest that gunmen in four off-road cars opened fire on worshippers trying to escape after an explosion at the al-Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abd. Other reports emerged of ambulances responding to the terrorist attack came under fire too....

Caroline Lucas says the government has been "backpedalling" since they voted to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill. Environment Secretary Michael Gove has hit out at social media for "corrupting and distorting" political reporting since the vote last week, but according to Green MP Lucas it is an attempt to backpeddle on the initial Commons vote. "What I was told in the chamber was that they had no need to take any account of my...

Heartbroken workers at the last ever iron foundry at Ironbridge hung their boots and masks on the gates yesterday after it closed for the final time. The Coalbrookdale Aga Rangemaster foundry has been in production in the Shropshire town since 1946 and was the last symbol of the industrial revolution. Ironbridge was the birthplace of ironworks after Abraham Darby I first smelted iron ore using coke instead of charcoal in 1709. The process, which was far more efficient than traditional...

News International CEO Rebekah Brooks told Ken Clarke that she was running the government with David Cameron just days after a dodgy deal helped the Tories win the 2010 General Election. Clarke, who served as Cameron’s Justice Secretary, said Cameron may have done “some sort of deal” with The Sun’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, to gain support ahead of the 2010 general election. In a meeting shortly after a victory, in which the Tories secured a majority in parliament, Clarke was told by Brooks that...

Thick black smoke is billowing from a Tottenham Hotspur warehouse and can been seen for miles across London. Twelve fire engines and 81 firefighters along with police officers were called to the industrial unit where a blaze has been raging for more than two-and-a-half hours this morning. Half of the ground floor, first floor and roof of the warehouse are currently alight, London Fire Brigade say. Emergency services were called to the scene after flames and smoke were seen coming...

The government's move to recognise animal sentience in UK law after Brexit has been welcomed by welfare groups. Concerns were raised last week after the government voted to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill. Prominent wildlife photographer Richard Bowler described the move as a "vote to say animals can no longer feel pain or emotions", adding that it "beggars belief that in this day and age the government no longer recognises animals as sentient beings". But following...

Shocking new analysis by the Resolution Foundation has revealed pay in real terms won’t be back to 2007 level until 2025. According to the research average annual pay peaked in the autumn of 2007 at £31,644 (in 2016 prices). Once inflation is taken into account, average pay will not be back at those levels until the start of 2025 - some 17 years since the financial crash struck. The Resolution Foundation's report, Freshly Squeezed, warns that Britain is on course for the...

As music industry lawyers say "where there's a hit there's a writ" and this one even by music standards is bizarre. Legendary hip hop brand the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA is unamused by a doggie day care centre in New York that has been trading under the name The Woof-Tang Clan. RZA Shankbone (real name Robert Fitzgerald Diggs) is suing the dogs walking and sitting service based in Brooklyn and offering services to "the illest group of dogs in New York...