The NHS is having to remind doctors and nurses to give dying patients water to ease their suffering, it has emerged. The need to issue a reminder comes amid concern that the Liverpool Care Pathway – which denies people food
A woman who claimed that a security guard snatched her baby from her as she was breastfeeding in a shop will appear in court charged with intent to pervert the course of public justice. Store bosses said an investigation revealed no
A new paper on climate change has urged advocates and activists to “develop tailored climate communication strategies for individual nations” – reflecting on the fact that is mainly the world’s wealthier nations who are ‘aware’ of their propaganda, even though they see
A 34 year old woman has been found guilty of being at the centre of a paedophile ring which abused children for more than a decade in Norfolk and London. The court heard how she and three associates, also convicted,
Computers used by MPs, lords and their staff were used to access porn more than 20,000 times a month on average last year, new figures have revealed. In total, more than 247,000 hits were made to x-rated websites via the Parliamentary
A new front in the battle between homosexual rights and religion has been uncovered – in Britain’s hospitals. A new report has found that hundreds of health workers believe that gay people can be cured. However, the NHS employs high numbers
An Arctic expedition to study climate change has ground to a halt thanks to the worst ice conditions seen in the Hudson Bay for two decades. An icebreaker which doubles as a scientific vessel during the summer months was scheduled to
A Committee of MPs has chastised the Cameron government for attempting to unfairly influence the outcome of the British referendum on EU membership, calling attempts to remove the purdah period before the ballot “completely unacceptable.” The purdah period, which normally runs
Plans to crack down on people feeding seagulls – which encourages vicious attacks on people and animals by the birds – have been blocked because it may offend Hindus and Jews. Council officers in the Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno,
The grandparents of a three-year-old girl say she has been removed from their care and put up for adoption because social workers deemed them to be too old to look after her. The girl had been living with the couple
A Somali-born former Muslim has said that the “Islamic cancer” currently spreading around the world must be cut out. Aayan Hirsi Ali, the author of three books, the latest of which argues for a Muslim reformation, praised the Prime Minister David
London’s fleet of brand new hybrid buses, specially commissioned to be clean and green, may just be running on diesel thanks to persistent problems with the hybrid battery. Many of the buses have simply had their batteries removed, making the
A UK-based Palestinian rights group accused of being a front for Hamas is expected to be granted official NGO consultative status by the UN this week. Yesterday its director was caught removing anti-Semitic and terrorist-supporting posts from his social media
The American news network CBS has been accused of “lying” in a report on climate change in Greenland. The network ran an article claiming that Greenland has seen a whopping 62°F increase in summer temperatures over the last eight years;
Three senior Metropolitan Police officers were due in court today over allegations that the police are using anti-terrorism laws to snoop on the media. It follows a number of cases in which police were said to be using their powers
A senior Labour politician has been accused of sexually abusing a number of vulnerable boys over a period spanning at least a decade. Some of the boys were allegedly “delivered” to his hotel room, while others are said to have
Any chance of a Brexit has been put at risk as the people of Scotland are overwhelmingly in favour of staying within the EU, while the English are marginally in favour of leaving, a new poll has found. A spokesman for
The founder and chairman of Britain’s largest private firm has called for Britain to leave the EU, saying that he is not interested in a “United States of Europe”, and that he doesn’t think anyone else is either. He believes
Campaigners in Scotland are calling for a full, independent investigation into allegations that wind farms are contaminating water supplies across large areas of Scotland. They have written to the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Energy Secretary Amber Rudd calling for
Despite endless promises to the contrary, British money will be used to help rescue Greece in a bid to keep the Euro currency alive. Almost £850 million of British taxpayers’ money is to be handed over after Brussels decided that a
The EU Commission could “drop a bombshell” just days before Britain goes to the polls in the EU referendum by making announcements that sway the vote, MPs have been told. They heard that the Commission will be banned from donating
The City of London Corporation has boosted its presence in Brussels with the appointment of former U.K. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Jeremy Browne, a Liberal Democrat. His title from September 1 will be “Special Representative for the City.”
A row over whether hospital consultants should be required to work on weekends has descended into farce, with both the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) repeatedly telling each other to “get real”.
Italian government officials have threatened to use force to break up a barricade erected by the residents of a wealthy Rome suburb in a bid to keep African migrants out of their neighbourhood. Police have already been ordered to move
Support for a British exit from the European Union is rapidly growing on the left. Some trade unions and politicians are now even considering forming a campaigning organisation to lobby for an ‘out’ vote in the referendum on membership. The
