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Global Warming is Spiralling Out Of Control

An animated graphic has been released highlighting the extent to which global warming is spiralling out of control. Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, used data from the Met Office Hadley Centre to show how rapidly the global temperature has risen in the past few decades. The pace of change is immediately obvious, especially over the past few decades. But perhaps most the most concerning observation is how global temperatures have...

Hammer attack on young transgender woman

Transgender Connie, 21, was horrifically attacked by her new flatmate just because she was born in the wrong body. Enough is enough.  When will hate crimes like this end? Brave Connie recently shared her harrowing real life story about having a quarter of her skull removed after being attacked with a hammer whilst seeping. Connie’s flatmate had discovered she was transgender before unleashing an astonishing hate attack on her. Every day, transgender people are living with abuse and prejudice. Even after the amazing...

VIDEO – Gay cyclist closes down ‘anti-LGBT preacher’ & gets applause

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor This clip shows a homosexual cyclist being applauded by a group of bystanders when he closes down a man preaching his views on the LGBT community. The video from Glasgow, shows the preacher holding what appears to be a bible in his hand. The preacher yells after him: 'god still loves you.' The cyclist then says: 'I love me, I don't need a god to do it.' His statement is met with instant cheering and clapping...

VIDEO – Mock terror attack at UK shopping centre

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Around 800 volunteers were involved in a mock terror attack at the Trafford Centre, Manchester the second biggest shopping mall in Britain. The clip is terrifying but thankfully bit real, but it shows how seriously security forces are taking the chance that a similar attack might happen for real. The exercise took place at midnight and went onto the small hours of today. The stunt began with a suicide bomber detonating a device and killing and...

Sats test were ‘leaked by rogue marker’

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Department of Education has blamed a “rogue marker” for the online leak of a grammar, punctuation and spelling test. The test is being taken by 600,000 ten and eleven-year-olds. The BBC said a DfE source blamed an "active campaign by those people opposed to our reforms to undermine these tests". The answers to the test appeared Monday night for four hours on a password-protected website. Only three weeks ago a primary school exam was...

Protest failure – 24 people arrive for Anti-Islam rally & walk 200 meters

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor An Anti-Islamic march managed to get two hundred meters up the road and lasted five minutes before the attendees packed off home. The police who were there to oversee the event outnumbered the protestors by four to one, that took place in Staffordshire. Only 24 protestors showed up for the demo in Burton, which had been organised by a group that have dubbed themselves “The Casual Infidels.” The group describes itself as a “freelancing movement”...

Transgender washroom bill doesn’t breach US Civil Rights, says North Carolina

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In March the state of North Carolina passed a piece of legislation restricting the lavatory use of transgender people. It forces transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. The policy was criticised across America and the world. The US Justice department, told the North Carolina state government they had until the end of Monday to bin the legislation or they could have millions of dollars cut from federal...

Khan may be ‘exception’ to Muslim ban, claims Trump

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Controversial figure and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had previously argued that he wanted to ban Muslims, for an indefinite period, from entering the US, assuming he was made President. Trump put forward the idea of the blanket muslim ban after deadly attacks by Islamist militants in Paris and California last year. However, this raises an issue for new London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a western European city. Khan is keen...

VIDEO – Dog’s ‘Nazi salute’ – man faces hate crime

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A video posted online which shows a dog making a Nazi salute in front of image of Adolf Hitler may lead to an arrest for its owner. The man a 28-year-old Markus Meechan from North Lanarkshire, now faces hate crime charges due to the nature of the video, Police Scotland have confirmed. In the footage the pug appears to be sitting in front of a TV set showing Hitler and making nazi salutes. The man...

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