Nick Hallett

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband will today promise to cut state benefits for people under the age of 21. According to the Sun, he will also say that the unemployed should not receive dole money unless they have worked for

Magazine editor and quiz show panellist Ian Hislop has resigned from the free speech campaign group Index on Censorship after they appointed Steve Coogan as a patron. Comedy actor Coogan has been an outspoken supporter of the ‘Hacked Off’ campaign

Felipe VI has acceded to the Spanish throne after the abdication of his father became official at midnight Central European Time (11pm BST, 6pm EST). Spanish daily ABC reports that the new king will formally swear an oath in front

More than 90 percent of Britons think homeowners should be able to use force against intruders, according a report by insurers RIAS. A further one-in-six people said they would personally attack an intruder on their property. Just 33 percent think

Prime Minister David Cameron claimed this afternoon the extreme Islamist group ISIS are planning to attack Britain. Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons today, Cameron warned that the threat is now bigger than jihadis returning from

An NHS Hospital Trust has issued an “unreserved apology” after mistakenly sending a patient with an injured shoulder for a testicle scan. The Express reports that father-of-three Paul Clegg, who lost his wife to cancer, found himself at the centre

Half a million Scottish people have fallen out with friends and family over how they will vote in the independence referendum, according to YouGov poll for the Sun. The poll finds that 10 percent of Scots, amounting to around 500,000

A wind turbine near Ruthton, Minnesota suffered substantial damage after being hit by lightning.  A photograph by a group of storm chasers from Tea, South Dakota, who call themselves the ‘Tea Storm Chasers’, shows how one the blades has been

The British government is allowed to perform mass surveillance of Britons’ social media and email accounts because the servers are based abroad, a security tribunal has heard. The Daily Mirror reports that Security and Counter-Terrorism chief Charles Farr said the

Video footage has emerged of a man who bravely stopped a bank robbery and chased the robber out of the bank. James Rowley started shouting abuse at the robber when he realised his gun was fake, before chasing him down

The Imam of Oslo’s largest mosque is recuperating in hospital after being attacked with an axe by a masked assailant. The Local reports that the man attacked Nemat Ali Shah as left home to lead prayers at the Central Jamaat

White working-class Britons are “marginalised” due to immigration and badly paid jobs, according to a study by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). The group, set up by billionaire George Soros, spent a year talking to residents of the Higher Blackley

Telecommunications firm Inmarsat has said that the most likely crash site of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has still not been searched. The firm, which supplied the satellite data that helped search teams pin-point a number of potential search areas,

People in Britain have tougher attitudes on immigration and state welfare, and are setting a higher requirement for what it takes for an immigrant to be regarded as British. The British Social Attitudes Survey found that 95 percent of Brits

A Chinese football fan has reportedly died after spending days awake watching the opening games of the World Cup in a marathon TV session. The 25-year-old man from Suzhou, a city of eastern China, stayed up “for days” to watch

Jenny Jones, the only Green Party peer and former London Mayoral Candidate, is on a police list of potential “domestic extremists”, according to the Guardian. Files show the police tracked her over an 11-year period, including during her bid for

The Nottingham City branch of the Liberal Democrats has refused to back party leader Nick Clegg and called for a leadership election. In a vote held on Saturday morning, local activists voted by 75 percent to 25 in favour of

A Greenpeace employee has been sacked after losing the environmental organisation a whopping €3.8 million (£3m, $5.1m) in a failed international currency gamble. Greenpeace raises money through philanthropic donations, and the loss of hundreds if not thousands of people’s contributions

Members of an Islamist group condemned by Tony Blair and David Cameron have been appointed to the governing bodies of schools in London. The Sunday Express reports that members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been, or currently are, governors at two

The head of one the Birmingham schools at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse’ controversy has revealed that parents of Pakistani origin wanted her to “get rid of the white kids” at her school. Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, head teacher at Anderton