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Legalising cocaine and heroin would boost the economy by reducing the number of murders, according to new research. The finding presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference in Brighton suggests increasing access to education may prove more effective than trying to tackle criminals by force. Legalisation could reduce violence by vastly decreasing the profit margins the gangs stand to gain. It would also curtail the resources they use to defend and expand their operations. But this carries such political...

  An NHS oncology nurse forced to crowdfund treatment for her own terminal cancer - as the drug is not available on the NHS has raised tens of thousands of pounds in days and is commencing treatment today. As we reported three days ago brave Laura Harris, 42, has devoted her life to helping cancer patients but has been told there is no treatment available on the NHS for her own fight with the disease. She was diagnosed with stage...

Romanian David Lupu, 29, lured fellow nationals into the country with the promise of demolition work for £50 a day and free accommodation

Wayne Domeney, 51, convicted in his absence after he failed to turn up to court for his trial

London's congestion charge has increased deadly diesel pollution by a fifth putting inhabitants at a higher risk of severe lung and respiratory problems, scientists warned. The charge, introduced by Ken Livingstone in 2003 for peak time traffic, reduced some forms of pollution such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter and nitrous oxide. But it has had the unintended consequence of increasing more damaging forms of pollution - nitrogen dioxide (No2) emissions because of the increase in diesel buses and taxis, In...

A whistleblower has come forward to claim that the campaign to leave the EU, during the Brexit vote, was illegal. Shahmir Sanni who for worked for BeLeave, accused Vote Leave of bypassing spending limits, by funnelling cash into the BeLeave campaign, as a way to get around the Electoral Commission’s funding rules. Sanni told Channel 4 News that he ‘knows that Vote Leave cheated’ and that the outcome of the ‘referendum wasn’t legitimate’. Mr Sanni claimed: ‘In effect they used...

Hundreds of thousands of students marched across the US and in cities across the world to demand an end to school shootings that have occurred on average once a week this year in the United States. 500,000 students were expected in the main march on Washington DC led by pupils of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida, where 17 were shot dead, with sister marches in over 830 cities across the globe. President Trump was not in Washington to hear the...

Sick group locked up for decades

Humans are sleepwalking into a mass extinction of species not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, British scientists warned. Man-made global change is threatening the diversity of different creatures that have taken millennia to evolve to live in niche habitats. Creatures that have moved into delicate ecosystems such as coral reefs often live in symbiosis with others and are the slowest to recover their diversity if damaged. But global warming and rising sea levels threatened to wipe out many...