Four out of five hospitals are unsafe, a new report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found, with too many providers not getting to grips with the basics of safety. The commission laid the blame on poor leadership, saying
A row has broken out between the Catholic Bishops attending the Church’s Synod on the Family in Vatican City, after a report on the proceedings – which included references to the “gifts and qualities” that homosexual people can bring to
European Union (EU) finance ministers have granted themselves new powers to collect and share bank account information including account balances, interest and dividend payments with tax authorities in other countries by 2017. The news comes after Luxembourg and Austria, who
Russia’s justice ministry has applied to the country’s supreme court to “liquidate” Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights organisation. The Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation has been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin for many years thanks to its
The “cash-strapped” BBC has been enjoying a spending spree on Apple products over the last few years, dropping £2.5 million on more than 4,000 iPhones, 400 iPads and 800 MacBooks for staff in just eighteen months. New figures reveal that
An ex-prostitute has walked 500 miles across France in protest against the shelving of a bill designed to criminalise paying for sex. Rosen Hicher, who worked as a prostitute for 22 years before quitting in 2009 told journalists assembled at
A senior Labour figure has taken to the pages of the Mail on Sunday to call on Ed Miliband to resign as leader of the Labour Party. Andrew MacKinlay, a former Member of Parliament for Thurrock in Essex, slammed the
Last week the Conservative party was accusing Ukip of ‘parachuting’ defectors Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless into seats they had held for years. Now they are planning to parachute in a candidate of their own, in the form of double
Five months after the landmark ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union ordering Google to remove links to webpages in a “right to be forgotten”, Google has released data on the more than 142,000 requests received from
A convicted rapist who is HIV positive is the subject of a Europe wide manhunt following his escape from a psychiatric ward in eastern Sweden. Although the man has been missing for two weeks, Swedish police only contacted European authorities
An Austrian primary school has been forced to scrap its popular yoga classes as one parent has complained on the grounds of religion. It is not known which religion the family in question belong to. The monthly yoga classes had
The German Taxpayers’ Alliance, Bund der Steuerzahler (BdSt) has launched its 2014 edition of the Black Book of local government spending in Berlin. This year the publication focussed on loss-making businesses owned by municipalities, including a failed health spa and
An International child porn ring has been toppled by Austrian police, after they caught a 37 year old man in possession of tens of thousands of photos and videos. Their investigations led to the identification of a further 52 individuals
A number of Italian mayors have vowed to defy an order from the interior ministry, banning gay marriages conducted abroad from being registered in Italy. The order came from Angelino Alfano, the interior minister on Tuesday, but mayors across the
A Labour Member of the European Parliament, Richard Howitt MEP has accused Ukip of wanting to “abort disabled children” and “put people with learning difficulties in camps”; allegations which Ukip branded “deeply upsetting” and “highly offensive”. Ukip’s disability spokesman Star
Riots have erupted across Turkey and Europe in the last few nights as Kurds took to the streets to protest against ISIS’s capture of the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani. Just one week ago Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Migrants living rough near the port of Calais in France have turned down free food hand-outs, claiming the food on offer was not spicy enough for their tastes in an incident branded “very disappointing” by charity workers. A small group
The Danish Foreign Ministry has altered its publicised travel information for 28 Muslim countries thanks to their military involvement against ISIS in Iraq and the general atmosphere in those countries. Although Danes are not explicitly advised to avoid the countries,
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the department tasked with collecting taxes from the British public, has been undertaking psychological experiments unbeknownst to the British people, in order to work out how best to elicit the tax payments as quickly as
Only 2 in every 10 Catalans back the controversial referendum for Catalan independence from Spain, due to be held on the 9th November, a new poll has found. The referendum is currently the subject of ongoing clashes between the Spanish
The Board of Deputies of British Jews is demanding an investigation into why a Surrey vicar travelled to Tehran, Iran, to speak at a conference described by the Board as an “anti-Semitic hate fest”. Rev Dr Stephen Sizer has attracted
Synagogues in Germany hired armed security guards for protection throughout the recent High Holiday season following a surge of anti-Semitism in the country. Only last month German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to do everything she could “to ensure anti-Semitism doesn’t
Tens of thousands have turned out in France to rally in favour of “traditional family values”, and against medically assisted fertilisation for lesbian couples and surrogacy, which campaign leader Ludovine de la Rochere said must be “fought at all costs”.
British-based e-cigarette manufacturer Totally Wicked has today won the right to formally challenge the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) at the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in Luxembourg. Lawyers for the company this morning presented their case to
