Some Chinese meals should carry a health warning, say campaigners

By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to do something about it beyond throwing their toys out of the pram. After all, the implication of the Kremlin and of Vladimir Putin’s “murder incorporated” in this heinous and actually...

The Historians Committee On Culloden is calling on the Scottish Government to intervene following claims officials approved planning permission after being given incorrect information.

Forget the wind, forget the rain, forget the beast from the east and instead turn your attention to the west in anticipation of the summer thanks to this guaranteed anthem from Cornish folk rockers ENNOR. With their musical and emotional roots embedded in the far corners of Cornwall, ENNOR are bringing a slice of 'Californwall’ indie-folk to break through the bleak British winter with their new single ‘Farewell To Atlantis’. The four-piece’s infectious sound has already garnered attention from London...

A rare cancer-busting mineral which has only ever been found in space has been discovered growing on plants - in the UK. The mineral, called vaterite, has so far only been traced on a few sea creatures, rocks and meteorites from outer space. But it has now appeared on alpine plants - part of a collection called European Saxifraga - at Cambridge's Botanic Garden. The incredible discovery could be groundbreaking for cancer sufferers as the substance has special properties that...

Many schoolchildren don’t think women can be builders, footballers or lorry drivers.

A council have launched a crackdown on homeowners that dump rubbish outside their homes - by threatening them with huge fines. Greenwich Council have released images of two households that let rubbish pile up so high in their front gardens the windows were blocked. Both houses which saw the small gardens overflowing with rubbish were in the same London borough. The rubbish was piled so high residents could barely see the windows of the ground floor. After receiving complaints from...

A new drug for the deadliest form of breast cancer has been developed by scientists. The drug is particularly effective in treating the triple negative aggressive breast cancer that often kills women under 40. It attacks cells in the 10-15 per cent of aggressive cases that are resistant to hormone therapy. Left untreated these 'triple negative' cancers are more likely to spread and often recur. Now an international team has found a way to transform these aggressive tumours making them...

A mother of ten said she was devastated when she came home to find her landlord had tossed all of her belongings out of her second floor flat into the rain. Five TVs and a sofa bed were hurled 30ft out the window of the flat where Donna Newby and her family have lived for the last nine years. The 41-year-old found her children's toys and a memory box of things from her baby daughter, who died at just five-weeks-old,...