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The woman was walking along a crowded London Underground platform at Finsbury Park station when she was approached by a man - who thumped her in the tummy.

With Brexit negotiations entering a crucial stage reports of wealthy Brexiters who pay vast sums to gain access to the Prime Minster have been making the rounds on social media. Lord Ashcroft, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s business partner, and two of the biggest donors to the Brexit campaign have had Theresa May’s ear over the last year. The wealthy group of campaigners part with £50,000 apiece for the privilege of joining the PM and other senior figures from the Conservative Party at...

“If the unpaid time I spent working on this film manages to raise Ben Bradley MP’s profile on social media, then it will have been unpaid time well spent.”

They raise fifty feet above the surface stretching across the whole equator - and beyond.

Greenhouse gas emissions must be cut almost in half by 2030 to avert global environmental catastrophe, says a damning UN report. The landmark UN document has concluded that if we don’t drastically cut Greenhouse emissions, then the earth will see the disappearance of Arctic Ice, loss of all coral reefs and the end of many island communities. The report says the planet will reach the crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by as early as 2030....

Serious doubts have been raised about the BBC’s impartiality during the Brexit referendum campaign. Former Business Editor Robert Peston, who spent nine years with the public broadcaster before switching to ITV in 2015, said the national broadcaster failed to deliver impartial and balanced journalism in its coverage of the referendum. It comes after new figures leaked by Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder show that there has never been a pro-EU MEP on Question Time. Some 33 UKIP MEPs made appearances...

The Conservatives have become a party of “far-right ideology and intolerance”, according to MEP Richard Ashworth. The former leader of the Conservative group in the European Parliament said he is extremely concerned that the party has “deserted the centre ground in favour of far-right ideology and intolerance”. His words come following actions of Conservative MEPs in a vote in the European Parliament to censure the Hungarian government, which was described as a “very distressing moment" by Tory peer Lord Finkelstein....

The Labour Chancellor has slammed the Government’s Universal Credit System, and confirmed Labour will scrap it if they get into power. The controversial new system has drawn heavy criticism from charities and campaign groups. Many people have struggled to receive money on time and have also been left with less income than on their previous benefits. Mr McDonnell said to Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme: “I think most people have now come to the conclusion it has got to be scrapped....

East London was once full of house sparrows, but annual surveys found the population has dropped steadily since the Seventies.