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Workers in Bathford have demanded answers from local MP Jacob Rees-Mogg after the decision was made to ship production of the UK's new blue passports to Europe. GMB, the union for De La Rue workers, is demanding Jacob Rees-Mogg stand up for workers at the firm which currently make British passports - from attack by his own Government. De La Rue which has a manufacturing site at Bathford in Rees-Mogg’s North East Somerset seat, has held the contract to manufacture British...

A web page linking Leave.EU to Cambridge Analytica has been leaked online after being deleted in the wake of the Facebook scandal. The data-mining company was exposed by whistleblower Christopher Wylie in the Observer for harvesting 50 million social media profiles of US voters which was used by Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon in the election. But Brexit links to the firm have largely been buried until now, with this Guardian article currently the subject of a legal complaint on behalf of...

Animal welfare charity Viva! is celebrating another victory after supermarket chain Lidl caved to public pressure to end its trade in kangaroo meat. With frozen food giants Iceland dropping sales earlier this year, Lidl had remained the only UK supermarket carrying the meat on occasion as part of their weekly promotional deals. Marketing the ‘deluxe kangaroo steaks’ as nutritious and inexpensive Lidl consumers were unwittingly buying into the largest slaughter of land based wildlife in history. Hunted at night in...

Former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis used the madness and conflict of Shakespeare's characters to demonstrate how we can humanise economics in a powerful speech delivered at the Rose Theatre. The leading economist highlighted the seminal influence Shakespeare has had on his thinking as he took centre stage following an invitation from Kingston University. A committed Europeanist but outspoken critic of the European Union, Varoufakis explored how the complexities and contradictions of the Bard's characters have shaped his own take on...

Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov was found dead at his home shortly before 11pm on a Monday evening, an inquest heard. At the opening of his inquest today (Thurs) West London Coroner's heard an ambulance was first called to his home in New Malden, south-west London and he was pronounced dead by paramedics. He died from a compression to the neck. A murder inquiry has been launched by Scotland Yard. Coroner's officer Gary Waple said: "I hereby open the inquest into...

A millionaire has today (Thurs) been jailed for causing the death of a handyman by ignoring safety pleas - telling him: 'F**k that, it's getting stupid money now.' Former UKIP parliamentary candidate Keith Crawford, 73, tried to cut costs while having a leak in his outside pool repaired. Builder Peter Clements, 48, died when the trench he was excavating at Crawford's home collapsed on top of him. Crawford had refused to pay £480 for health and safety precautions – telling...

These pictures show the desolate remnants of five coastal homes which are on the brink of falling into the sea. The houses are perched on a cliff edge and at immediate risk of collapsing on to the beach below. The properties on the coast of Hemsby, Norfolk, have already spilt many of their contents out after being battered by severe weather. They will now be demolished due to the irreparable damage caused by the recent storms known as 'the Beast...

Complaints about Nigel Farage fly tipping fish have been submitted to Westminster Council after yesterday's protest by the former Ukip leader on the Thames. Farage joined a raft of protesters campaigning for a revision of fishing quotas during the Brexit transition. The red, white and blue fishing boat sailed down the River Thames before stopping in front of Parliament and dumping the crates of dead haddock, which symbolise the stock that gets thrown back into the sea because of stringent...

  The US Senate just passed an important bill to tackle the loopholes used by internet companies that facilitate ads for sex trafficking. Senators voted yesterday to pass the historic FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). This bill establishes criminal and civil liability for websites that knowingly facilitate sex trafficking, such as by hosting ads and other content linked to a sex-trafficking enterprise. Now it has been passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate,...