Britain is unprepared for prolonged blackouts, which consequently could trigger riots and cause the dead to be left unburied, according to a secret Government security assessment. It is also likely that the transport networks would be in chaos which may
Next year, Pope Francis will issue a rare encyclical calling on Catholics the world over to do their bit in reducing emissions, the Observer has reported. The pontiff also plans to make a series of speeches and summit appearances in
They are as much an iconic image of London as black cabs, red busses, or indeed the landmarks they protect, but now the Royal Guard are being removed from their sentry boxes to stand behind iron bars in an “honourable
One of the nation’s best loved countrymen, Winston Churchill is best remembered for his role in overcoming the Nazi threat, and later for denouncing the Soviet regime’s Iron Curtain. But few are aware of his fascination with the orient and
Further evidence that public interest in Global Warming is cooling has been unveiled by the science news website EurekAlert!, who have released their list of the top ten most read science articles this year. Climate change and global warming doesn’t
Since their invention more than 150 years ago, Christmas crackers, with their terrible jokes and paper hats, have become just as much a part of the Christmas tradition as the carols, tree and presents, and as such as loved by
AirAsia fight QZ8501 has gone missing with 162 people on board. It was travelling between Indonesia and Singapore, where it had been due to land at 08:30 local time (00.30 GMT) this morning. It made a request for a “deviation”
As the British public let their belts out a notch to feast on chocolate and eggnog, NHS bosses are calling on doctors to report patients who put on weight. The head of the NHS has said schools, the food industry
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has cancelled his Christmas homily at the last minute. Lambeth Palace said that the archbishop is suffering from a “severe cold”, which he has had for several days, and decided this morning that he
The Dutch Postcode Lottery has funded environmental vandalism, piracy and the persecution of indigenous peoples in 2014, through its donations to various environmental organisations. It is one of the largest donors to Greenpeace, and also fills the coffers of the
Giving cohabiting couples the same rights as married couples is a “lawyer-driven idea” which “gives the impression that marriage doesn’t matter”, a former top family court judge has said. Sir Paul Coleridge, who is a retired High Court judge, made
Three adverts for e-cigs have been banned from British TV by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) on the grounds that they glamourise tobacco, despite not being a tobacco product. The ruling came just over a month after the first ‘vaping’
The NHS is straining under the weight of demand, leaving patients queuing before dawn to get an appointment with their doctor, others being offered quick-fire two minute appointments, and hospital patients left on trolleys for up to 12 hours in
The government’s chief scientific advisor Sir Mark Walport has slammed an article published in the Guardian that drew comparisons between fracking, asbestos and thalidomide as examples of innovations that had unforeseen consequences. In doing so they were attempting to discredit
Britain’s poorest 10 percent spend nearly half of their income on taxes. At the other end of the scale, the wealthiest 10 percent spend 35 percent of their income on taxes, but on average pay out more than £30,000 more
Lesbians earn 12 percent more than their straight counterparts, according to a global study. Researchers have said that the result is “puzzling”, but postulated that lesbian women may be more willing to take on jobs traditionally associated with masculine traits.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has called for streets to be reclaimed for pedestrians. The recommendation comes in a list of ten “geometric principles” designed to relearn from traditional approaches to architecture, which place human beings and nature
A BBC boss has admitted that the corporation is struggling to compete with rivals, including online streaming services such as Netflix which are ‘able to blow them out of the water’. He has conceded that the BBC will have to
Proposals to double the target response times for some serious conditions have been revealed. The changes would see patients suffering from strokes and seizures having to wait up to 19 minutes for an ambulance, double the current target of eight
As the hordes of Christmas shoppers descend upon Covent Garden, police have put up notices in the area deterring would-be pickpocketers – written in Romanian. Just a mile away, Hyde Park corner is becoming notorious for scores of Romanian rough
Household energy bills are set to rise by 40 percent by the end of the decade thanks to government energy policies, but the hike pales in comparison to the 77 percent increase that medium sized businesses are likely to face,
They may look cute and harmless, but squirrels and beavers are contributing to climate change far more than previously thought, climate scientists have claimed. However, their discovery doesn’t let us humans off the hook, as the scientists still insist that
The NHS has been accused of “panic buying” foreign nurses to plug staffing gaps, as new figures reveal that four in five nurses recruited within the last year came from abroad. The scale of foreign recruitment has raised concerns over
ISIS is raking in millions of pounds for its war chest by selling looted artefacts and antiquities pillaged from across Syria and Iraq, directly to western collectors, including some British residents. The illegal trade is so lucrative that the Islamists
Manchester Council has approved 292 taxi licences for convicted criminals since 2007, including rapists, sex offenders and paedophiles. The figures were uncovered by a freedom of information act request lodged by the Manchester Evening News. The Council insist that they
