A mother whose pet dog was pecked to death by seagulls has been told that she cannot get rid of the birds as they are protected by law. Emily Vincent of St Columb Minor near Newquay in Cornwall contacted the
The battle to tackle radicalism on Britain’s university campuses is being severely hampered by student union leaders and academics, working in conjunction with British Muslim community leaders, a new report has found. Under the guise of protecting freedom of expression,
The Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that all companies who employ more than 250 people will now have to publish the average earnings for the men and women in their company. But the decree has sparked anger as free
An Australian woman living in Abu Dhabi has been imprisoned, fined and deported, all for posting a picture of a badly parked car on Facebook. Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said that this is not the first time Australian
Two prominent Christian peers have rejected the Pope’s recent encyclical on climate change as backwards and more likely to increase not reduce poverty. They accuse the Pope of falling foul of thinking on climate change that hankers for a time before
British doctors are calling for a 20 percent tax to be levied on sugar in a bid to cut the obesity epidemic. But low tax campaigners have said that such a tax would “hit the poorest hardest” and have accused
European criminal gangs have been flying into the UK on budget airline flights, going on ‘crime spree holidays’, and flying out again to avoid detection. Brian Donald, Europol’s chief of staff said that the gangs commit “volume crimes” – pickpocketing, house
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has described the German proposals for a deal with Greece as “tyrannical”, and has advised the Greek people to “rediscover the spirit of Marathon” and exit the euro. Eurozone leaders argued long into the night
The BBC is likely to be told to stop chasing audience figures and return to public service broadcasting in the largest shake up of its remit in a generation. The government is beginning consultations on how to scale back the
Britain receives less than half the money it puts into the EU back as subsidies thanks to the ongoing Eurozone crisis, a new report has found. The report also found that British households could be as much as £933 a
The Met Office’s claim that July 1 was the hottest July day on record has fallen flat after climate bloggers discovered that the temperature peak may have been caused by a plane landing at Heathrow. Early July saw Britain basking
The government watchdog which inspects police forces’ ability to deal with terrorism has admitted that it employed a notorious supporter of Islamic extremism for nearly two years, despite doing background checks on him before they hired him. By day, the
A 16-year-old girl from Manchester has been charged with two terrorism offences following an investigation by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit. The offences are in connection with a planned attack which aimed to target Memorial Day services in Australia,
Germany and France have volunteered to between them take in more than one third of the 60,000 asylum seekers that the European Commission wanted placed across Europe after many states objected strongly to mandatory quotas. Around 40,000 mostly Syrians and
The boss of Eurostar has blamed Britain for recent strikes which saw French workers blockade road and rail lines by setting tyres on fire, bringing the cross-Channel rail service to a halt. He said that “British protectionism” was behind the
A Jewish Member of Parliament has provoked outrage by accusing Israel of using the Holocaust to justify killing “thousands upon thousands” of Palestinians in Gaza. Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman, the father of the House of Commons was accused of
Ukip’s Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell was this morning mocked in the House of Commons for daring to ask whether the government would be willing to consider making the House of Lords more politically representative. During the last government, the
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain has praised immigration, saying that a Britain without it is a fantasy and that the mass movement of people involved has brought enrichment. He berated the west’s “weary”, and “secularised society”, praising immigrants
Almost 25,000 pro-life campaigners have taken to the streets of Dublin, many in opposition to Amnesty International’s lobbying efforts to liberalise abortion. The crowd was almost double the size expected, while pro-abortion counter protesters numbered no more than a few
The Greek people have “elected a bunch of lunatics,” according to Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary. The entrepreneur’s budget airline has invested heavily in routes to Greece, flying into eight airports across the country and its islands, and the company is
Strasbourg, FRANCE – The west has encouraged radical Islam by turning a blind eye to the extremes of Islam when it suits us to do so, UKIP’s deputy leader Paul Nuttall has said. Speaking in a debate on the recent terrorist
Strasbourg, France – A vote in the European Parliament on whether to continue with negotiations for an EU/US Trade deal has split Britain’s right wing parties, with the Conservatives backing the deal while UKIP is opposed. UKIP also failed to
As US President Barack Obama prepares to visit Kenya, the country of his estranged father’s birth, Kenyans are lining up to tell him: don’t come if you’re going to lecture us on gay marriage as we are still a God
Four Israeli school teachers have had their teaching licenses revoked after they and two other men were arrested for allegedly handing out pro-ISIS propaganda to students. The men, who are Bedouin Israeli citizens, are said to have been planning to travel to Syria
German-owned Patriot missiles stationed on Turkey’s Syrian border have been briefly hacked, according to reports in the German media. The nature of the technology hack, and the culprits, are unknown. The American-made anti-aircraft missiles were stationed in Turkey by Germany to protect their
