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Labour jumped from fourth to first in Halton-with-Aughton and from third to first in Thetford Priory in a huge night of council by-elections.  The party won Halton-with-Aughton (Lancaster) for the first time ever with a gain of +18.0. They edged out the Green Party and the Conservatives who picked up 27.2 per cent and 26.2 per cent of the vote respectively. Huge ground was also made up in Norfolk where the party took Thetford Priory from the Conservatives with a swing of +28.0. The...

By Benjamin Jenkins The co-founder of the Leave.eu campaign Richard Tice just delivered a shocking vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May on BBC Question Time. Watch the stunned look on the face of Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Culture and Media as the property entrepreneur and prominent Brexiteer delivered his damning verdict. Question Time host David Dimbleby asked the Brexit campaign chief: “do you think Theresa May is going to finish her full term and would...

First off, before we move on, we must remind you that you should do your own due diligence before investing because that’s how investors get rich and avoid losing money. Having said this, you should start looking for investment opportunities for the next year, and this article will share with you the top 3 promising stocks that are expected to have an excellent performance in 2018. #1 – Xperi Corporation (XPER): The previous year was bright and prosperous for Xperi...

A councillor has denied allegations that he said that "all Muslims carry sharp knives" at a formal meeting about Christmas lights in June this year. Councillor Martin Field of the March Town Council, accused his colleague, Councillor Kit Owen, also of March Town Council, of racist and sexist remarks at the committee meeting. Councillor Field said: "He has muttered such things under his breath before at council meetings and I have questioned him about it before." Carol Pilson, monitoring officer...

Serial offender Katie Hopkins is under fire again - this time for having arranged a speaking tour on topics such as Trump and Brexit - in secondary schools. The publicity mongering controversialist was fired from her talk show on LBC due to the  Holocaust connotations of her call for a "final solution" in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing. And earlier this year she was ordered to pay food blogger Jack Monroe £131,000 in court costs and damages for falsely trolling...

Saudi Arabian state television announced on Tuesday evening that women will be allowed to drive in the kingdom, with driving licenses to be issued to men and women alike from next summer. The order was issued by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and was announced by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ultraconservative kingdom is the only country in the world to have until now forbidden women from driving, and it is common for foreign male chauffeurs, mostly...

Red-faced police got a Facebook page which blasted the driving and parking habits of officers taken down TWICE after claiming they were being 'victimised', it was claimed today. The 'Unmarked police cars of Cambridgeshire' page was set up by traffic vigilantes to shame police for what it said was their poor parking and bad driving. It has more than 2,000 followers and receives up to 125 videos a week of officers acting like they are 'above the law'. The site...

Life on Earth really did begin around 4 billion years ago - increasing the chances it could be abundant throughout the universe, according to new research. Evidence of living organisms has been found in Canadian rocks dating back 3.95 billion years. They represent some of the earliest known life following a similar discovery in Australia two years ago in even older sediment going back 4.1 billion years. The latest finding published in Nature adds to evidence life began a remarkably...

The war in Yemen has taken a fresh twist after extraordinary claims emerged that Saudi government agents infiltrated a humanitarian charity to kidnap the most high profile face of the Yemen conflict, Buthaina Al Rimi. Mohammad Ali Houthi, President of the high commissioner the revolutionary Houthis, has exclusively confirmed to The London Economic that Al Rimi has been kidnapped from care after she became the face of an international appeal to end the war in Yeman. On Monday Sama Ahmed...