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A barrier outside the Conservative Party Conference has been making the rounds on social media today ahead of the Conservative Party Conference. Delegates convened yesterday for the first day of the annual meeting in Birmingham with several big issues on the agenda. But despite international issues such as Brexit dominating most of the headlines it was opportunities at home that grabbed most attention on social media. A tweet by Channel 4 correspondent Ciaran Jenkins went viral after the reporter spotted...

 Bristol-based animal welfare charity Viva! is launching its new campaign, Trash. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the forgotten victims of the dairy industry – male calves – and forms just one part of their ongoing campaign to highlight the dark side of dairy. To mark the launch of Trash, Viva! has commissioned two giant vegan billboards to appear on one of the busiest stretches of motorway in the UK for the first two weeks of October. The emotional billboards feature young calves...

Administrators that run an anti-EU group on Facebook were left red faced after a poll created to gauge the nation's appetite for leaving the union returned a strong Remain consensus.  The poll, posted on "Nigel Farage - Leave Means Leave", garnered almost a million votes since it was posted on 22nd September. It asked members of the anti-EU group how they would vote in a second referendum "knowing what you know", but returned a shocking outcome.  Some 63 per cent...

Patrick Kielty’s family are sadly well aware of the price of instability in Northern Ireland.

As Donald Trump is forced to announce that the FBI will (have just a week to) investigate sexual assault allegations against his chosen candidate for Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, 90 organisations representing human rights and women have written warning that survivors of abuse should not be subjected to public attacks. The 90 bodies from Amnesty International USA and Equality Now to the College of Law and YWCA USA placed a full page ad in The Washington Post expressing concern about increasingly...

If Michael Gove is serious about taking back control he must put England’s water back in public hands, says GMB Union Shock findings show that almost three quarters of England’s water industry is currently owned from overseas. At least 71% of shares in England’s nine privatised water companies are owned by organisations from overseas including the super-rich, banks, hedge funds, foreign governments and businesses based in tax havens. The revelations showed the need to end the scandal of water privatisation...

The waters appear to completely overwhelm restaurants on the beach and damage a local mosque next to a busy shopping mall.

In an unusual move head teachers have protested against cuts from school budgets. They large group gathered in Parliament Square before converging on Downing Street, where a delegation delivered a letter to Phillip Hammond over what they say are "unsustainable" funding cuts. Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which show that funding per pupil fell by 8% between 2010 and 2018. Compared to last year, England's schools have 137,000 more pupils but 5,400 fewer teachers, and 2,800 fewer teaching...

In a bid to learn more about the famous Tawny Owls, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is appealing to the British public to help track their movements by listening to their calls.