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Home Office threatens to deport distant cousin of the Queen
A grandmother who is 18th cousin of the Queen is facing being deported to South Africa after she was refused a visa to live in the UK. Brenda Ackerman, 71, traced her family tree back to the 12th Century which revealed her to be a distant relative of King John James 1st and Robert the Bruce. The family have written to the new Home Secretary Sajid Javid. Immigration barrister Jan Doerfel has launched a judicial review into the case. He said:...
A BBC weatherman has blasted “years” of noise from disruptive ‘mega basement’ building work
TV favourite weather forecaster Stav Danaos kicked up a storm and claims he is struggling to get any rest because neighbours keep building mega basements.
Life could be widespread in other universes – just as Stephen Hawking predicted on his deathbed
A 'multiverse' - where ours is among many - would not be as inhospitable as previously believed
Sobering images show how Norfolk coastline has disappeared over last decade
The once-full clifftop at Hemsby, Norfolk, has been battered by strong winds and high tides
New analysis reveals shocking Tory bias from BBC in run-up to local elections
New independent analysis into political coverage in the run-up to the local elections has proved that the BBC had a de-facto bias towards right-wing newspapers. Despite strong editorial guidelines around election coverage the BBC managed to shun media titles that are sympathetic to Jeremy Corbyn in its newspaper round-up. Those with a Conservative sway, on the other hand, dominated its coverage at the start of the month, accounting for over 70 per cent of the stories discussed on five days out...
Campaigner calls for disabled people to have secret voting ballot
Charlotte McMillan, a Home Office worker, has a rare degenerative condition known as Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, which means she has very poor central vision.
Bet you can’t guess who is selling this £615K Lamborghini for charity:
Lamborghini donated the Huracan to the Catholic Church last year but there isn't much use for a 198mph supercar in the Vatican City
Finding plastic – how Nemo’s underwater world is polluted by packaging
The baby clownfish was snapped playing next to a Nestle food wrapper in the South China Sea
Jeremy Corbyn calls for all Navy ships to be built in UK
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for all Navy vessels to be built in the UK. There has been speculation that a £1bn contract for three new Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ships could go to a foreign shipyard. The Ministry of Defence contract is expected to go out to international tender later this month. Visiting Glasgow, the Labour leader said building the ships somewhere in the UK could secure more than 6,500 jobs - 1,800 of these in shipyards....