News

Border controls should be kept at Calais after Brexit to prevent more illegal migrants and asylum seekers entering Britain, according to council chiefs in Kent. The leaders of both Dover and Shepway councils have warned Brexit minister David Davis that bringing back controls to the UK as part of any deal risks further increasing the number of migrants that would have to be dealt with. A joint letter signed by the leaders of both local authorities states: “Dover and Shepway...

A homeless man has been beating the autumn cold - by living in a fridge. Eyebrows were raised when his den was discovered – inside a massive refridgerator. The rough-sleeper set up home in the industrial fridge, which was dumped near an abandoned grocery shop, and set up camp. His abode was stumbled upon by unwary council workers investigating the rubbish-strewn back alley in Harrow, north west London. The massive fridge in which the homeless man had made his home....

Volcanoes on Mars grew a thousand times slower than those on Earth, according to new research. Scottish scientists have reconstructed the evolution of a volcano on Mars for the first time using space rocks that fell to Earth. Analysis of the meteorites from the Red Planet uncovered more than 90 million years of information about the supersized mountains - and identified from which volcano they came from. Martian volcanoes - including Olympus Mons which is over 13 miles high and...

Monday was the saddest day ever measured on Twitter, according to Hedonometer. News of Las Vegas shootings combined with political turbulence in Europe, protests in Britain and natural events meant that sentiment dropped to an all-time low at the start of the week. The reading was lower than the terrorist attack in Orlando last year and the bombing of Boston marathon, along with several high profile deaths. Interestingly people were sadder about Donald Trump becoming president than Michael Jackson dying....

This week’s 24 hour walk out by tube train drivers has been suspended after talks between union Aslef and London Underground. The strike would have caused disruption to the capital, especially with the England v Slovenia World Cup qualifier football match at Wembley on Thursday evening. The dispute centres on broken agreements underground staff say they had with tube bosses over the shifts they work since the Night Tube made sections of the London underground run 24 hours. London Underground...

The giant panda's future is being threatened by hungry horses and cows, reveals new research. More than a third of the panda's habitat in China's Wanglang National Nature Reserve has been damaged by grazing livestock, suggests the study. The destruction of the habitat coincides with a nine-fold increase in livestock numbers within the park over the past 15 years, according top findings by Chinese and American scientists. Study leader Doctor Binbin Li, assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University's Environmental Research...

More beavers are set to be released into the wild in Scotland in an attempt to give the current small population a better chance of survival. A small number of Norwegian beavers were introduced to a mid-Argyll forest in 2009 to ensure their progress could be monitored through the Scottish Beaver Trial. But now up to 28 additional Eurasian beavers will be released in Knapdale Forest over the next three years thanks to a new licence granted by Scottish Natural...

Adventurer Bear Grylls has faced a social media backlash following his decision to appear at the Conservative Party Conference. Britain's Chief Scout appeared at the conference in an appeal to the Conservatives to back the organisation for a "relatively small investment" of £50 million. Thousands of new volunteers are needed to enable the 55,000 children waiting to join a group - the largest waiting list the Scouts Association has ever had. But while some people admired the TV star's cause,...

NB: UPDATE: The London Underground Strike has been suspended, but South Western trains set to have a walk out. MORE FOLLOWS. READ UPDATE. If there is no breakthrough in talks between London Underground and Aslef the union representing most tube drivers, Londoners are looking at a walkout by underground staff from the early hours of Thursday morning. Any breakthrough is beginning to look less likely this afternoon. The dispute centres on broken agreements underground staff say they had with tube...