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One of the stumbling blocks with autonomous cars has been their inability to interpret visual cues from pedestrians, making them overly cautious.

Ely in Cambridgeshire has launched a campaign to create and distribute fabric bags around the city

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...

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...

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...

The first study of its kind discovered that high levels of fine particulate matter and to a lesser extent, ozone, may be key

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...

After his first-round victory, Jair Bolsonaro has attempted to quell fears that Brazil could return to a dictatorship under his command Here are some of his most worrying quotes and you can make your own mind up… “I’m not going to rape you, because you’re very ugly” – to a female representative in Congress. “They don’t do anything. I don’t think they’re even good for procreation any more” – referring to quilombolas, the black descendants of rebel African slaves. “I’d rather have my...

Dozens of police in riot vans were forced to blockade the entrance to the glass skyrise where the company is based, in Aldgate, amid fears of violence.