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MPs were told that seafood should be given special free trade status after Brexit to ensure Grimsby’s industry is not damaged.

Fossils of the oldest mammals related to mankind have been discovered for the first time on the 'Jurassic Coast' of Dorset. The two teeth are from small, rat-like creatures that lived 145 million years ago in the shadow of the dinosaurs. And one of the fossils has been named after the landlord of a pub near to where they were discovered by an undergraduate student. They are the earliest undisputed fossils of mammals belonging to the line that led to...

The British mainstream media is refusing to cover the Paradise Papers because most of the avoiders own the newspapers, James O'Brien has claimed. Speaking on LBC today O'Brien launched a scathing attack on Telegraph owners David and Frederick Barclay, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth and The Sun and The Times owner Rupert Murdoch for gagging the damning financial data leak. The Paradise Papers investigation showed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens, but it has been largely...

Boris Johnson has been dubbed a "f****** disgrace" by a senior Conservative MP, according to Channel 4's political correspondent Michael Crick. The Foreign Secretary has once again found himself in hot water after a colossal blunder in the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case. The British mum is being held in an Iranian prison following accusations by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that she was plotting to overthrow the government. And she now may have her prison sentence extended thanks to a mistaken statement made by...

Senior EU officials are putting the chance of a Brexit no-deal at over 50 per cent and making detailed impact assessments about what it mean for the EU, sources in Brussels claim. Jonathan Lis, the deputy director at pressure group British Influence, has exposed the reality of Brexit negotiations in a scathing Twitter thread which shows Theresa May could retreat to the "comforting insanity of Redwood/Mogg Brexit utopia" rather than meet EU demands. If the PM continues to insist she can't...

The husband of a British mum whose sentence in an Iranian prison may be extended due to a colossal blunder by Boris Johnson, has demanded action. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been languishing in a prison in Tehran since last April, since attempting to fly home to London after visiting family in Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard have accused the 38 year old of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government - claims her husband Richard Ratcliffe denies as he campaigns from London...

A Brit detained then released in Dubai for a rude hand gesture claims he could now lose his job - because the UAE secretly placed him on an Interpol watch list. IT expert Jamil Mukadam, 23, was held for five weeks for allegedly flicking his middle finger at a motorist who was tailgating him. Jamil of Leicester was released in October and returned to his UK Government job a few days later. But he says he has been told by...

Alien life may be thriving in a warm, underground ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, according to new research. Scientists say tidal forces could have kept the subterranean sea liquid for billions of years - enough time for organisms to have developed. The mysterious world has a very fragmented and porous rocky interior, ideal conditions for flowing water with the friction creating 10 gigawatts of heat. This amount of energy would light and heat more than 7 million homes -...

This clip of one of the Conservative Party’s biggest bankrollers, former Tory Party Treasurer Lord Ashcroft being chased by intrepid Panorama reporter Richard Bilton across the Conservative Party conference floor until he hides in a toilet is going viral. While ordinary Brits pay their full taxes and government peers were under pressure to pay their proper share of taxes, leaked documents show that between 2000 and 2010, Lord Ashcroft received payments of £150 million from a Bermuda offshore trust. The...