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A major incident was declared after a huge inferno erupted at an oil and gas factory, sending flames more than 100ft into the air. Around 60 firefighters and 12 engines were called to the blaze, which ignited eight tanks of red diesel and oil and sent massive plumes of smoke into the air just six miles from Gatwick Airport. The massive fire broke out just after 1:15am on Monday morning at the Rowfant Business Park in Crawley Downs, West Sussex....

Region's industry nosedives in ‘massive problem for workers and local economy. The North West has haemorrhaged more than 77,000 manufacturing jobs in the past decade, a new study by GMB has shown. The figures were discussed at GMB’s annual Congress in Plymouth. They show that 77,700 jobs in the sector disappeared from 2006 to 2016, a massive fall of 18%. Between them the lost jobs have meant the North West has seen £725 million less paid in manufacturing wages in...

Progressive pan-Arab media outlet The New Arab has posted a hilarious retort following demands imposed on Qatar by the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to shut down independent media. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and The New Arab have outright dismissed calls for its shutdown as one of the demands made by several Gulf nations for an end to their efforts to isolate Qatar. AlAraby Al-Jadeed, whose print and online editions are created from offices in London, Doha and Beirut, has grown to become one...

Theresa May has been accused of finding a money tree to keep the Conservatives in power just weeks after using the issue against Labour in her general election campaign. The Conservative PM was accused of a "straight bung" after agreeing an extra £1 billion in exchange for parliamentary support from the DUP. It comes just weeks after she dismissed ambitious manifesto pledges from Labour as been dreamed up in fantasy land. Insisting there just wasn't the money. The SNP accused...

There has been a huge spike in the number of children been named Corbyn as expectant parents eschew celebrities for politicians. Following years of baby names inspired by the Beckhams and Kardashians it seems new parents are 'electing' to name their children after politicians - with Corbyn the hottest new baby-naming trend. After the Labour leader’s post-General Election popularity surge, over half of parents are now considering using the name Corbyn for their next child. The name has already soared 50 per...

Why we all need to demand an end to the secret Tory NHS ‘capped expenditure process’ hit-list        By Jonathan Ashworth, Shadow Health Secretary    A weak Prime Minister and unstable government have this week been forced to allocate extra cash to Northern Ireland in return for votes in the House of Commons. There isn’t a penny piece extra, however, for public services in the rest of the UK. In fact, and with the ink barely dry on this cash for votes deal,...

The NHS has been on its knees for a number of years. Austerity and creeping privatisation have slowly eroded away our once great national health service. Now polling by the BMA (British Medical Association) has indicated that public dissatisfaction with the public health service has double in two years. Over 1,000 adults were questioned and 43 per cent of them were unhappy with the NHS compared to just 21 per cent as recently as 2015 This is the first time...

Parents have blasted a school as “draconian” for measuring the length of girls’ skirts by ordering them to KNEEL on chairs to see how far their hems ride up their thighs. The bizarre measuring technique was outlined by the secondary school in a letter sent to parents in a crackdown on uniform “compliance”. If the hemline of the skirt is more than 5cm (1.9ins) away from the chair then girls will be ordered home to change into a longer garment....

Los Angeles has been named as the top global city in the third publication of the Schroders Global Cities 30 index, narrowly beating London which took second place. US mega-cities dominated the latest index taking 18 of the top 30 places, including four of the top five spots. Los Angeles jumped from sixth place to first, whilst Boston saw one of the biggest leaps in the index going from 24th place to third place. Chicago jumped from 10th place to...