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Labour extends lead over Conservatives in polls as Theresa May threatens General Election
Labour have opened up a five point gap over the Conservatives in the polls. According to the latest Westminster voting intention 41 per cent of Brits would vote for Jeremy Corbyn's party if there was an election tomorrow. Just 36 per cent said they would vote for the Conservatives and nine per cent backed the Liberal Democrats. Theresa May threatened Conservative rebels with a general election this summer if they defeated her plans on customs after Brexit. Latest Westminster voting...
Primary school becomes first in the UK to abolish traditional marking
Teachers and pupils will have conferences to decide on scores instead
Cash-strapped NHS trust pays out over £1.2 million to cover hospital boss who was absent for three years
Stewart Messer, 57, continued to be paid £120,000-a-year even after he left in 2015
Ukip councillor guilty of wife’s murder after she found out about his affair with son’s partner
Stephen Searle, 64, strangled 62-year-old wife Anne at their £400,000 family home in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Constituents slam John Woodcock for stabbing Corbyn in the back and ignoring local issues
Barrow and Furness constituents have slammed John Woodcock following his resignation, saying he has stabbed Jeremy Corbyn in the back ahead of a crucial day in the House of Commons. Woodcock resigned today with an outlandish attack on the Labour leader just hours before he is set to face the beleaguered Theresa May in parliament. He said the party had been "taken over by the hard left" and "tolerated" anti-Semitism, as well as claiming that Labour was not a "credible" alternative...
Ofcom TV figures confirm that the way we consume media has “fundamentally changed”
New Ofcom figures that show TV streaming services have overtaken pay-TV in Britain confirm that the way we consume media has "fundamentally changed", a TV expert has said. The number of Britons subscribing to TV services like Netflix, Amazon and Sky’s NOW TV, has overtaken traditional satellite and cable TV for the first time. Streaming services attracted 15.4 million subscribers in the first quarter, ahead of 15.1 million pay-TV contracts. But pay-TV subscription revenue of 6.4 billion pounds in 2017 was...
Watch – A dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter have been discovered by astronomers… by mistake
They were hunting a possible massive planet beyond Pluto when they stumbled upon the mysterious satellites - one of which has been described as an "oddball".
Former Olympian admits daubing insults in pig’s blood on walls of Tory peer after he had affair
Scorned woman sprayed 'lady slut' and 'big dick lord' after Tory slept with wife of another Lord
Winston Churchill’s grandson wants Brexit “blown up & started again”
The Brexit mess is leaving many people inside and outside of parliament totally at a loss at where is can go from here. Today Winson Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames launched into the debate, in a nonsense speech in Parliament. He was furious after the Vote Leave campaign broke electoral law during the EU vote. A massive £600,000 was handed over to a 23-year-old in the lead up to the crucial 2016 vote. This transfer of cash meant that Vote...