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Labour is set to cast its gaze on the Tory "crown jewels" in the May local elections, chasing some seats which have been Conservative-held for more than 50 years. Jeremy Corbyn's party sent tremors through the Conservative ranks in last year's General Election when it stole several safe seats in the capital. And now they are looking to replicate that success, targeting Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea for the first time, as well as Wandsworth council and Barnet, which is currently...

A leaked Home Office document has confirmed suspicions that a fall in police numbers is likely to have contributed to a rise in serious violent crime. Former Met Commissioner Ian Blair echoed sentiments of Jeremy Corbyn last week saying "if you take 20 per cent of the Met’s funding away something gives". And now an official document leaked from Amber Rudd's office has hammered the last nail into the coffin, confirming that a lack of resources and fewer charges may have "encouraged"...

Firearms cops rushed to the scene at around 3:50am after receiving calls about a man making threats and claiming he had a firearm.

Nearly 20 banks have committed to launching new European Union hubs in Frankfurt since the Brexit vote with a further 60 firms still in the decision process. According to the economy minister for the state of Hesse, where Frankfurt is situated, the city is confident it will become home to many financial institutions fleeing Britain in the wake of the Brexit vote. Several big banks like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have already made their location decisions, with a swathe of...

  By Roger Cottrell, PhD Russian financial interests funding the Conservative Party, to a sum in excess of £800 000, may be directly linked to the manipulation of Britain’s Brexit vote and to the funding of Europe’s fascist Right. Core to this nefarious connection are the links between Aggregate IQ (AIQ), Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), recently exposed in a joint report by Channel 4 News, The Observer and The New York Times.  Facebook has just banned...

Fateful life events ages the brain by four months

The Home Office have refused Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria a visa to visit Yulia and father Sergei, a former Russian spy in Britain were they are recovering from poisoning. The refusal came hours after Viktoria who had previously released a tape purporting to be a telephone conversation with her cousin to Russian media, alleged that they had not suffered a chemical attack, rather food poisoning. "I will stick with a simple theory that they ate something wrong at the pub,...

Somalian Aweys Shikhey branded a "danger as jailed for eight years for trying to join Islamic State

They arrived and left with no fanfare, and politely declined to speak to press