A West Sussex district council has boasted of spending a million pounds a year on a new litter picking initiative designed to “encourage” the cleaning of local streets and countryside. Trouble is, the scheme is hampering people who have been
Saudi Arabia blocked Sweden from transferring four pygmy marmosets to a zoo in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, last Thursday. The strange move is just the latest of many extreme measures designed to punish Sweden for questioning the Gulf state’s human
Nearly 6,000 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean between Friday and Sunday as smugglers took advantage of the good weather. The weekend exodus is the first telling sign of what is expected to be a record summer for migrants crossing
Waheed Ahmed, the son of a Labour councillor in Rochdale, has been arrested by anti-terror police in Birmingham. He was detained this morning after being returned from Turkey following a suspected attempt to join Islamic terrorist groups in Syria. Greater
A local translator who risked his life alongside British forces in Afghanistan has been shot and wounded alongside his two-year-old son. The victim is one of hundreds of translators who have been refused help by the UK – despite being
Hizb ut Tahrir (HT), a legal Islamist group in the UK with members and affiliates known to have previously run tax payer-funded schools and held elected positions in British universities, is operating alongside Al-Qaeda in Syria. Aided by the Nusra
The vice chairman of UKIP Bristol has been revealed as porn star Johnny Rockard. Rockard, whose real name is Johnny Langley, has been in the porn industry for 30 years and runs his own production company and website. He stood
UKIP MEP Diane James expressed sympathy with some of the actions of Russian president Vladimir Putin on LBC radio yesterday, while also noting the predicament of Russia as it faces-off with the EU. Not that you’d know it from some
A statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town has been removed after students launched an uncompromising campaign to have the great man expunged from history. The statue of the British businessman, mining magnate, philanthropist and politician has
The discovery of an estimated 100 billion barrels of oil near Gatwick Airport was announced this morning. The find marks what could be the biggest onshore oil discovery in England since the 1980s. The oil that lies below the area
A pensioner and his wife carried out a suicide pact after becoming overwhelmed in their fight to stop travellers setting up camp next to their idyllic country retirement cottage. An inquest has heard how John Knott of Bosbury, Herefordshire confided
The NHS is dishing out millions of prescriptions a year for everyday household essentials such as toothpaste, suncream and handcream. Those benefiting from the taxpayer-funded largesse include people already not required to pay for their prescriptions, such as those on
On Sunday night documentary maker Louis Theroux introduced British TV viewers to the rapidly growing American trend of “transitioning” so-called transgender children at the earliest possible age. The growing movement is not restricted to the US. The number of under
George Galloway is a man who likes respect. His campaign literature and online presence for the 2015 General Election confirms the fact by confidently asserting his status as a Member of Parliament – even if it is allegedly stretching the
Britain’s latest ISIS terror recruit is a resident of Britain’s most racially-segregated town and the brother of this country’s youngest convicted terrorist. Labour’s junior justice minister Shahid Malik dismissed any link, saying, “Lightning stuck twice.” Hassan Munshi, 17, from the
The UK “lags behind in [the] FGM fight” a top French lawyer has warned. Linda Weil-Curiel, who has been instrumental in France’s relative success at countering female genital mutilation (FGM), has described her shock at how far the UK has
The father of a 15-year-old schoolgirl who left to join ISIS and become a jihadi bride with two friends has admitted he took her on multiple Islamist marches – one when she was just 13-years-old. “The only reason we [he
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) have set a rigid six-month deadline for the next government to increase funding for schools or face a series of strikes. Hard-left delegates at the NUT annual conference at Harrogate amended a motion Sunday
A hundred and thirty darlings of the British political Left signed an open letter at the weekend decrying a “worrying pattern of intimidation and silencing” on university campuses. The response? Intimidation and attempts to silence them from the increasingly shrill and intolerant
I once thought of the internet as a place of unlimited free expression. In this surveillance age, it should be the wild west of free speech. But something unexpected happened when the first generation condition in the culture of PC
I have no idea whether or not a man can be born inside a woman’s body, or vice versa, or if people who regard themselves as such are in fact suffering from a debilitating psychiatric disorder called “body integrity identity
A decade on, and the Tories have finally brought fox hunting back into public discussion. Whether to appease rural voters, tempt back Ukippers or “pay the mercenaries” who fought for them at the last election, it isn’t clear. Either way,
