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The number of vans on UK roads has almost doubled in a decade, Government figures reveal today. The statistics show that road traffic reached a record high last year, after falling for three consecutive years between 2007 and 2010 and remaining stable until 2017. The rise is partly due to the growth in internet shopping and home deliveries which has caused the number of licensed vans on UK roads to increase by 75 per cent between 1997 and 2017, from...

This is the moment a brave diver reaches closer than most of us would to try to pull a hook from the mouth of one of the world's most dangerous sharks after tempting it over with a fish. The footage shows diver and marine biologist Leigh Cobb bait the oceanic white tip shark with a fish - before dislodging the piece of metal with her right hand. The fearless diver said that by placing her hand on the shark's nose...

Abolaji Onafuye, 54, Koffi Kouakou, 54, and 28-year-old Abdelkarim Rekaya are accused of claimed housing money or allowances from funds set up to help the survivors of the devastating blaze

Lib Dem Cllr Brian Greenslade, 69, has been found guilty of serious breaches of Devon County Council's Council's code of conduct

A tense video shows the moment a lifeboat crew saved nine illegal immigrants from an stricken inflatable boat in violently choppy swells in the English Channel. People smuggler Afrim Xhekaliu was forced to call police after the boat he was sailing from France with eight other Albanians got lost in freezing waters as a 47mph south-westerly blew, Albanian Xhekaliu, 40, had set off just a few hours earlier but would not say where he was. A RNLI lifeboat aided by...

This Government needs to start thinking of the lives of Britain’s workers – and their families – rather than internal Tory party bickering. GMB, the union for Jaguar Land Rover workers, has responded to the company’s warning they may have to close factories in the wake of a ‘bad’ Brexit. The UK's biggest carmaker, owned by India's Tata Motors, said its "heart and soul is in the UK". But without frictionless trade JLR said its UK £80 billion investment plans...

The Government must urgently reconsider the rollout of Universal Credit (UC) and heed the growing warnings about the damage the policy has caused, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said. The call follows an intervention by the National Audit Office (NAO), who highlighted a series of inaccuracies made in an address by Esther McVey, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Jordan Marshall, IPSE’s Policy Development Manager, commented: “It’s extremely concerning that the Government continues to assert...

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Another major business has signalled their fears for a Brexit deal that does not favour the UK. This time it is Jaguar Land Rover who has voiced concerns over the outcome of the UK withdrawal from the EU. The company is the UK’s largest carmaker and claim a Brexit deal could threaten £80bn investment plans for the UK, and may close factories, putting thousands of jobs at risk. Last year, the company made more than 600,000 cars, 20% of which...