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A German Conservative candidate in next month's council elections has come under fire for comparing the SNP to the Nazis. German-born Reiner Luyken, a retired journalist, has had a running battle with SNP politicians who have branded the comparison "ridiculous and offensive". Hours after the candidate selections were published, Moray MP and SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson took to social networks, urging people to search Mr Luyken's name on the internet to see "some of the offensive stuff" he had written....

An emperor's gold Rolex is set to become one of the watchmaker's most valuable timepieces when it sells for more than £1.5 MILLION. The iconic Rolex Reference 6062 is widely considered by the collecting community as being amongst the most desirable Rolexes. One of only three made, the 1952 model is known as the "Bao Dai" after its first owner, the 13th and last emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam. Dai bought the watch himself in Switzerland in 1954...

Patients are to lose the "automatic right" to see a doctor as part of a rescue plan to ease pressure on a dwindling workforce of GPs. Health bosses at Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group are understood to be the first in the UK to introduce the measures county-wide as part of a care plan overhaul. Patients who call up asking for a same-day appointment with a doctor will not "automatically" get one, under the plans approved this week. Instead, callers to...

The UK has left the EU and is also leaving it’s poorest families starving. Theresa May has promised that Britain will flourish in this brave new world, but before that happens (which many feel is unlikely) she needs to ensure the population can eat three meals a day. A new survey by the FSA (Food Standards Agency) found that eight per cent of those questioned are facing low food security, so around four million adults in Britain are not able...

Brexit Britain is good news. For Brexit Brussels. Lloyds of London looks set to become Lloyds of London and Brussels with one in six staff of one of the world's biggest insurance markets moving to Belgium to secure a post-Brexit foothold in Europe. The announcement will be a major embarrassment for sections of the press cheering this morning what Theresa May called an opportunity "to shape a stronger future for Britain."  The humiliating reality check comes just one day after Theresa May set out her...

Donald Trump has hired his daughter Ivanka to join her husband in his presidential administration. Ivanka Trump will join as an unpaid employee with the title Assistant to the President, the White House says. With her husband, Jared Kushner, already a senior adviser to the President. In a statement, the White House said it was "pleased that Ivanka Trump has chosen to take this step in her unprecedented role as first daughter". Ivanka has already been seen attending meetings with  world leaders, including...

The government has missed the teacher recruitment target for the fifth consecutive year - this time by a significant amount. The latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show that acceptances to teacher training courses for this year have dropped by seven per cent. Only 26,000 individuals were accepted on to teacher training courses for 2016-2017, meaning that government targets for teacher recruitment in England have now been missed for five consecutive years. Commenting on the drop...

  Campaigners chained themselves to a jet to stop a mass deportation charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana last night. There were 17 arrests on suspicion of aggravated trespass after the protestors chained themselves to a wing of the plane and each other, forming a human chain blocking the jet on a non-commercial runway at Stansted airport in Essex. The activists in this unprecedented action said that there were asylum seekers on board the plane, and that the flight was returning people to countries...

It was a momentous occasion, and the house was full (for once) at PMQs, and the triggering of Article 50 statement that followed. However, it was as boring as ever, more drab than a windswept March weekday in Bridlington, and that comes from experience. Jeremy Corbyn didn’t ask any questions on Brexit during PMQs, he would leave all that it until after May’s statement, which kind of mirror’s his whole referendum campaign. Corbyn asked some fairly searching questions over education and...