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A 4.7 megawatt wind farm which is set to be built in one of the most deprived parts of the UK has won the 2016 Community Renewable Energy Project Award. The community energy project, which has been running for 18 years, has raised £1.2 million so far and trained up ten local unemployed people in consultation techniques and then employed them for a year. The Community Energy England and Community Energy Wales convened on Saturday to celebrate the achievements the sector made after a...

It is news that will not shock any Corbyn supporters, but the mainstream media outlets appear to be deliberately biased against the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. We have reported on this situation before in previous articles. A YouGov poll has discovered that 51 per cent of people polled agreed that the mainstream media have gone out of their way to be biased against Corbyn. Under a third thought that the media was fair on the left-wing leader. Unsurprisingly, among Labour’s own...

The Japanese government has used the start of the G20 Summit to warn Britain of the "great turmoil" that is to come if Brexit leads to the loss of single market privileges. An official Japanese government task force has collected views of big corporations in the country and produced a 15-page list titled "Japan's message to the UK and the EU", detailing requirements from Brexit negotiations and the consequences if these requirements are not delivered. The report concludes that "Japanese businesses with their...

Our new Prime Minister, Theresa May, has announced that she will not introduce an Australian style points system to control the types of EU migration able to reach UK shores. May, who wanted the UK to remain part of the EU, said that the point-based idea is not workable. When asked about the subject she replied: "One of the issues is whether or not points-based systems do work. A lot of people talk about a points-based system as always being...

Piers Morgan is not everyone’s cup of tea, I’ll level with you he isn’t mine, but today he took on two big-game hunters. A twelve-year-old called Aryanna Gourdin and father Eli had suffered a huge backlash on social media after posting a picture of a giraffe she had just killed. In her reaction to receiving death threats she said: "I'm very upset that people would value an animal's life over another person's. "I try to ignore most of the comments...

As junior doctors announced their plans to strike for five days, they have been warned they could be struck off for their decision to pursue industrial action. The GMC (General Medical Council) has demanded that they call off the strike as they fear it will put many patients at risk. The GMC have issued the harsh warning, which means anyone is struck off can’t work in the medical profession again, to try and stop the strike, which is due to...

There will be a debate today in parliament to discuss the possibility of a new referendum over the UK’s decision to leave the EU. The session today will make no difference to the result, but it will give MPs who have objected to the result a chance make their feelings felt. David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, has been particularly vocal in his calls for the decision to leave the EU to be ignored by Government. The Leave vote showed...

Locals in Majorca have lashed out over the influx of British holidaymakers with signs reading "Tourists Go Home, Refugees Welcome". Tourists in the Spanish resort have been branded "terrorists" by local residents, with a series of inflammatory slogans sprawled across the walls in the Old Town of Palma. "Tourist you are the terrorist".#Tourism #Tourists #Economy #Travel https://t.co/KSKkmPzmFI — Nick Lewis (@ncplewis) August 13, 2016 New figures reveal 15 million Brits will have visited Spain this summer, with the tourist capital of Majorca...

Only two years ago Scottish voters rejected the chance to break from the UK, but after the result the SNP went from strength to strength, almost wiping out Labour in Scotland in the last election. Labour now find themselves in third place behind the Conservatives. However, since the Brexit vote, where Scotland voted to Remain in the EU, the SNP leader believes that the political landscape of Britain has changed so much, and a new Scottish vote is a necessity....