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  By Chloé Farand   Chloé Farand is a reporter at Desmog UK investigating climate change denial - where this report first appeared. In a packed lecture hall a few hundred metres away from the Conservative Party Conference, climate science denier and hard-Brexiter MP Owen Paterson told the cheering crowd: “We are the mainstream of the Conservative Party.” As the rift between different factions of the Conservative Party deepens over Brexit, Paterson, a political advisor to the group Leave Means Leave, was preaching to an audience...

The fungus provides a powerful medicine for honey bees to fight off viruses carried by the varroa mite

Newham Council has evacuated two primaries and two secondary schools to treat the invasion of False Widow Spiders "immediately, before the eggs start hatching".

1000's of petrol canisters can be seen waiting in a queue

The maverick MP for Mid Bedfordshire's former PA Andrea Gordon planned to sue the ex I'm A Celebrity.. contestant for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination

Dorset medic Paul Ermitano and his family have been told they can STAY in the UK by the Home Office - after a long fight to stay.

Despite Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove promising that chlorine-washed chicken would be staying off British menus after fellow Brexiter Liam Fox avoided the question, the Tories’ former Brexit minister suggested it may be on post-Brexit menus after all. The EU has banned chlorine-washed chicken as it is associated with worse conditions for rearing chickens and so the issue has become a touchstone in the debate about whether British food safety standards would drop to...

Roughly the size of Neptune, it is fifteen times bigger than our own satellite - and is some 8,000 light years away

Joe Sneddon, 21, founded Access Oxbridge after becoming frustrated at the "huge advantage" middle class children have getting into Oxford and Cambridge.