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Scottish Labour have announced their new leader -Richard Leonard – a big victory for the left of the party, which will be seen as Jeremy Corbyn shoring up his hold on the party. The candidate of the left immediately called for unity after a hotly fought and bitter Scottish Labour leadership campaign. Centrist Labour figures such as Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham had given their support to rival candidate Scottish Labour leadership Anas Sarwar, as had most of Scottish Labour’s MSPs...

  Reports have emerged that US Navy pilots appearing to draw a giant contrail cock in the skies above their Whidbey Island base North of Seattle. The talented top guns' artistry was spotted near the town of Omak, in north-central Washington. https://twitter.com/anahi_torres_/status/931266469869977600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrive.com%2Fthe-war-zone%2F16181%2Fapparently-navy-pilots-from-nas-whidbey-island-drew-this-massive-penis-in-the-sky https://twitter.com/adamrg/status/931388092149153792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2017%2Fnov%2F18%2Fpenis-in-the-sky-us-navy-pilots-grounded-over-obscene-drawing A humourless US Navy spokesman commented: "The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable."   RELATED: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/weird-news/ufo-clouds-leave-holidaymakers-bewildered-popular-seaside-resort/26/10/ https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/weird-news/secret-ufo-files-released-cia/20/01/ https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/weird-news/ufos-getting-ready-invade-devon/13/01/ https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/satire/donald-trump-never-sounded-brilliant/16/11/

The Labour Party has removed a candidate for a safe council seat in next year's Bradford Council elections after an outcry over antisemitic posts on social media. Nasreen Khan was a former Respect party activist who had joined the Labour Party and was on the shortlist for a Labour council seat despite a series of comments she made in 2012 on a video posted on Facebook called "The Palestine you need to know." The prospective councillor posted: “It’s such a shame...

Several are feared dead after a plane and helicopter fell from the sky after crashing mid-air near a country estate. Emergency services were called to the scene after the aircraft came plummeted into the Waddesdon Manor National Trust site just after midday today. Both aircraft came from the pilot training centre Wycombe Air Park some 20miles away from the estate at High Wycombe, Bucks. An air ambulance has landed near where plumes of smoke have been seen rising from the...

Britain is set to pay a long-standing debt of £450 million to Iran to help free imprisoned mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. According to new reports Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond have authorised government lawyers to settle the 38 year-long dispute over a tank deal. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been locked up since April 2016 on trumped up propaganda charges. Her sentence was extended after the Foreign Secretary made a colossal blunder over her intentions while in the country. According to exclusive reports Iranian hardliners have told...

Theresa May's husband has become embroiled in the Paradise Papers tax haven scandal with the revelation of emails between his company and Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the tax avoidance leaks. Private Eye have seen correspondence between Capital Group where Philip May works and Appleby, whose stolen "Paradise Papers" documents have unearthed how the world's elite squirrel away investments in offshore tax havens, depriving countries of tax revenue that would pay for policing, hospitals, schools, defence,...

Scuffles broke out as students protesting about the salary of Britain's best-paid university vice chancellor were bundled out of meeting. Action group Bath Students Against Fees and Cuts is calling for the resignation of £451,000-a-year boss Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell. They stormed into the university's annual 'Let's Talk' event and unfurled a banner reading "Resign Now". Security guards grabbed one student and forcibly ejected them from the building after they were seen handing flyers to staff leaving the talk. The...

Prominent wildlife photographer Richard Bowler says the government's vote to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill is a vote to say animals can no longer feel pain or emotions. The move to reject sentience in the bill has been largely under-reported in the mainstream media despite Michael Gove facing criticism over his high animal welfare pledge. Eighty per cent of current animal welfare legislation comes from the EU, but after March 2019, European law will no longer apply...

Parliament today heard the full horror of the Tories’ flagship policy that has left many families looking at the prospect of going hungry for weeks as Christmas approaches. The roll out of Ian Duncan Smith’s brainchild - the Universal Credit welfare overhaul has been criticised by MP’s from all quarters, as well as charities and housing associations whose tenants have been left unable to pay their rent for weeks. Opposition MP’s today called for the six week wait their constituents...