The London housing market is a juggernaut that just keeps on going. The most recent batch of figures showed that prices jumped another 14 per cent in the last year, with the average home in the capital costing about £470,000. For that, you’d need about £60,000 in deposit and Stamp Duty alone, with moving costs and fees on top of that. If that’s the price of the average property in the capital, then it’s clear that the cost of your...

A new survey has revealed that energy professionals who work or live within the EU (i.e professionals working in overseas energy jobs) don’t want the UK to leave, but it’s close. A sample of energy sector workers in overseas energy jobs took part in the EU referendum survey. The results of the poll indicated that 47.3 per cent want the UK to remain part of Europe, while 43.2 per cent want Britain to withdraw from the rest of the member states....

Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portuguese colleagues have had a torrid start to Euro 2016 filled with tantrums and strops, but things have just got a whole lot worse. The Real Madrid star has been filmed throwing a reporter's microphone in a lake. The incident happened as the reporter approached him for comment, which provoked another outburst from the star. Fernando Santos' men were enjoying a morning stroll around the lake behind their hotel in Linas-Marcoussis ahead of tonight's game against...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A mystery man named only as Laurence Taylor took out a full page advert in the Metro newspaper to make the case for Remain. Mr Taylor is “fed up” and demands people discuss immigration “based on facts not fear” – he claims he paid for the ad out of his own pocket, rich man, or maybe the advertising prices have dipped at the paper, maybe a bit of both perhaps. The advert shows a simple pie chart...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor John Barnes, former England and Liverpool footballer and occasional rapper shot down Michael Gove down for claiming that he backs Brexit. Following news Beckham supporting Remain, the Justice Secretary claimed on Sky that, "there are lots of people like Sol Campbell and John Barnes" who want Out. A few hours later, Barnes called up the news network to contradict Gove. Turns out if he very much for Remain, oh dear Gove, oh dear. Watch video...

A huge spike in the uncertainty index has been registered a day before Brits go to the polls. Research from Warwick Business School measuring political and economic uncertainty in the UK has revealed uncertainty has increased rapidly. Ilias Filippou, Assistant Professor of Financial Economics, said: “It is interesting because there was a huge spike in the volatility of the pound in March after Boris Johnson announced he was joining the leave campaign, but this was not reflected in our measurement of...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A Tory councillor decided to take to social media to make his own twisted donation to the murdered MP Jo Cox. Tory Dominic Peacock said he would "donate the steam of my piss" in memory of her brutal murder. The member for East Riding of Yorkshire Council, claimed he was "sick and tired" of hearing about the mum's murder by a deranged man with far-right beliefs.   On a page asking people to donate cash...

The leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Ruth Davidson received an ovation last night after outing the Leave campaign's lies and inaccurate figures used in their propaganda. Facing Boris Johnson and other key 'Outers' Davidson said she "can't let it stand that you sell a blatant untruth two days before a referendum", citing the Leave campaign's claim that 60 per cent of our laws are made in the EU, which is "simply not true". Only 13 per cent of our laws,...

A new report released this week will warn that right-wing extremists inflict more fatalities and injuries than Islamist terrorists in “lone actor” attacks. The report, from the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London, says that 94 people were killed and 260 injured in attacks carried out by right-wing extremists across Europe between the start of 2000 and the end of 2014. That compares with 16 deaths and 65 injuries caused by religiously inspired lone wolf attacks. The think tank...