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Police force which tasered its own race relations adviser will be given new fingerprint scanners to avoid future mistaken identities
The scanners will be rolled out to officers over the next 18 months, the force said.
UK’s 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 2002: Met Office
Digitising historic weather data has extended the records back to 1884, bringing in new coldest years but the warmest years are all recent.
Car production down by more than a fifth amid Brexit fears
Manufacturing for domestic buyers has fallen by 16.4 per cent, while overseas orders are down by 21 per cent.
Metro mayor plans for climate change teachers in every school
Labour’s Jamie Driscoll is proposing that every state school in his North of Tyne area should have at least one UN-accredited climate change teacher.
Corbyn snubs Cuadrilla boss as he tells protesters Labour will ban fracking
The Labour leader made the pledge as he visited a controversial site in Lancashire.
Donald Trump says African Americans are ‘happy as hell’ with his criticisms
The president made his remarks as he departed for an event in Virginia that some legislators planned to boycott.
New battery is powered by SEAWATER
Dubbed 'blue energy', the breakthrough could lead to the oceans meeting all our needs
Soaring price of ivory ‘poses major threat to elephants’
The global price of ivory increased ten-fold since a trade ban was introduced by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1989, according to the study.
Regime and coalition forces killing most civilians in Afghanistan, report says
The US ended its combat mission in the country in 2014 but still provides military support to those battling militants.