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This is the first picture of a SECOND lynx to die at a British zoo - after it was strangled to death in a freak accident. Bosses at Borth Wild Animal Kingdom confirmed that a second lynx from the zoo had died - a week after another was shot dead after making an escape. Nilly, an adult female Lynx, died from asphyxiation after she became twisted in a catch-pole a keeper was using. The employee in question is apparently devastated...

Almost two and a half thousand doctors are set to flee the NHS following Brexit. Worrying research has revealed that nearly a fifth of doctors working in the health service from the European Economic Area have already made solid plans to leave the country following the out vote. A total of 12,000 doctors - nearly 7.7 per cent of the medical workforce - is from the EEA and 18 per cent of them have made plans to leave, the British Medical...

Technology has brought a complete overhaul in how the society learns, collaborates and communicates. Digital transformation is an eventual social revolution that brings unavoidable changes to all industries, as opposed to a fleeting hype or trend. Most industry players in the contemporary society view this digital transformation in an information revolution era as a process that brings a lot of challenges with it. However, that perspective is wrong, and any successful endeavor needs to tap the strengths and opportunities provide,...

A series of Twitter messages between WikiLeaks and the President’s son during the period before and just after the US election has been leaked. The correspondence had been turned over to a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the US election - with WikiLeaks suspected of having been a conduit. And it makes embarrassing reading for WikiLeaks perhaps more than Trump Junior, as WikiLeaks which prides itself on being a transparency organisation attempts to help the Trump campaign spin against...

The Foreign Secretary finally gave the British mum detained in Iran an unreserved apology in parliament. - After the shadow foreign secretary demanded he say sorry for his colossal blunder in an urgent question in the House of Commons. Emily Thornberry also called on Boris Johnson to stop endangering Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by finally admitting he had made an error. "Of course I apologise for the distress, for the suffering that has been caused by the impression I gave that I...

BREAKING: Parliament will get a meaningful vote on the terms of the final Brexit deal implementation, Brexit minister David Davis has told MPs, staving off a Tory rebellion in the Commons. David David has announced a government u-turn and succumbed to demands from MPs that parliament has a vote on the final Brexit deal. There will be a parliamentary bill before the country leaves the EU, which will debate the terms that the government has agreed, including any changes to UK laws over citizens’ rights, the final...

Families that are "just about managing" are being discriminated against by punitive and unfair tax system, new research has suggested. The Chancellor is being urged to end the discriminatory tax regime that penalises families when compared to the other OECD countries after new research being launched tomorrow in Parliament by the social policy charity Care lays bare the alarming truth about family taxation in the UK. The report, ‘The Taxation of Families – International Comparisons 2016’, reveals that the tax burden faced by one-earner married couples with...

The power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia is causing a major human catastrophe in the Middle East after reports emerged that hundreds of Yemenis "will die within the next week" unless Saudi Arabia lifts its blockade and allows urgently needed medical supplies into the country. Yemen has become the "burden bearer" of the feud between the two Middle Eastern superpowers, with pharmacies across Sanaa struggling with a critical shortage of specialist drugs used to treat illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and...

Only six per cent of UK land is built on while five out of six people now live in towns and cities, according to a new atlas. And more than half the land is in agricultural use. The state of the art maps show England is the most urban of the home nations, yet still, only nine per cent of the land is built on. The new maps come from Professor Alasdair Rae, an academic in Sheffield University's Urban Studies...