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Firefighters tackling a blaze at the top of a high rise building in Glasgow
The fire broke out at the tower block, on Ballater Street, this morning (Thur) with smoke seen billowing out across the area from around 8.30am.
“Ministers will rightly come under pressure today over the job losses at Rolls Royce,” says Union
These type of quality, well paid and skilled jobs will not be easily replaced - it will have a devastating impact on workers but also the economy says GMB union GMB, the union for manufacturing workers, has criticised the Government following the news of 1000s of Rolls Royce job losses. The engineering giant is to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years as part of a major reorganisation. Today, Secretary of State for business Greg Clark faces an urgent...
Extensive ice sheets ‘repeatedly covered much of the UK and Ireland’
New research reveals the British Isles were repeatedly submerged under an ice sheet extending to the centre of the North Sea over a million years earlier than previously thought
One of Britain’s biggest drug dealers convicted of being head of international smuggling & money laundering gang
Gangster James Mulvey, 42, lived a life of luxury from his lavish Spanish villa earning up to #75,000 a week
Shaming the poor? Council changes council house roofs to green
People renting the houses say they are being unfairly shamed and identified as living in council-owned homes
Over 170 residents evacuated from London high rise tower block on Grenfell Tower anniversary
Eight fire engines and 58 firefighters were called to the 20 storey block in Lewisham, south east London
Global warming crisis: sea levels rising much faster than was feared
The amount of Antarctica's ice melting into the oceans tripled between 2012 and 2017 compared to the previous two decades
Children who have strict parents learn to avoid eye contact
They pay less attention to emotional facial expressions when they interact with others for fear of being told off and punished - meaning they miss vital social clues.
Study finds drugs such as LSD and Ecstasy rewire the brain
Experiments on rats and flies show they actually rewire the brain, offering hope of better treatments for depression, addiction and PTSD