An English restaurant chain has launched a new ‘super-burger’ that features cuts from nearly every part of a cow. For £25 ($42), diners at Red’s True Barbecue, which has restaurants in the northern cities of Leeds and Manchester, can try
A memorial to murdered British soldier Lee Rigby will be built near the spot where he was killed by Islamist extremists last year. The local authority in South London had originally opposed a memorial out of fears it would become
A group of French police officers are under investigation after photos of them at a “negro party” emerged on social media. The officers, based in a Paris suburb, are shown covered in black make-up and wearing frizzy-haired wigs at a
Britain’s school inspection organisation Ofsted has told its inspectors that segregating boys and girls in the classroom is acceptable in Muslim schools and need not be criticised. The Times reports that inspectors have been sent instructions saying that boys and
An image of UKIP leader Nigel Farage has appeared on a poster advertising a website specialising in extramarital affairs. The picture shows Mr Farage smiling, with a pint in his hand, and reads: “German wife? British Mistress? Now I Can
The government is considering granting itself new powers to order newspapers to remove articles from their archives. Attorney General Dominic Grieve wants the powers to stop jurors looking up past convictions of suspects in court cases, but an influential parliamentary
The Labour leadership are telling MPs to hold coffee mornings with voters to show they are “listening to their concerns”. In a leaked document, seen by the Sun, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Labour must been seen to be
New research has revealed the bias of different UK polling firms. A team of researchers at Manchester University, called the “Polling Observatory” measured what they called the “house effect” as part of a big change in calculating averages. Although it
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has agreed to be blasted with a water cannon after approving the purchase of three of the devices for the capital. In an interview on radio station LBC, presenter Nick Ferrari challenged the mayor to
A part of Newcastle University had to be evacuated yesterday following reports of “suspicious items”. The university’s INTO language skills centre was closed and students and staff asked to leave amid concerns the items could be dangerous. BBC News reports
Seven men have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a woman in Tahrir Square as thousands celebrated the inauguration of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The arrests come after a video was posted on Youtube purportedly showing
A range of spring waters flavoured like alcoholic beverages is set to launch later this month. Despite the flavour, the water, named Tipsy, will contain no alcohol. The Publican’s Morning Advertiser reports that the water has been developed by Imperial
The head of school inspectors Ofsted has written to Education Secretary Michael Gove warning that schools in Birmingham are at risk of an extremist take over, and made urgent recommendations to the government. His letter summarises the findings of an
Just one in 70 suspected illegal immigrants is arrested, according to new government data. Home Office figures reveal that 28,442 suspected illegal migrants were detained in the past two years, despite estimates of the total number of people here without
Cybercrime is costing businesses worldwide nearly half a trillion dollars a year, with the UK particularly badly hit. The increasingly problematic situation also has an impact on 150,000 jobs in the EU, according to new research published by McAfee and
A super-computer has passed the iconic Turing Test by fooling humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy. The machine, one of five tested at the Royal Society in London, achieved the feat during a text-based conversation with judges who
Half of all babies aborted because they have Down’s Syndrome are missing from official records due to poor administration at British abortion clinics, according to a government investigation. The report says that doctors have consistently broken the law by failing
Leaked documents reveal that Labour are planning a “triple tax whammy” that will disproportionately affect London and Southern England. The report, marked “very sensitive”, contains provisions for a “property owner’s tax” that will affect all shop owners, emergency laws to
Scottish musicians, poets, writers and actors are too afraid to declare that they are voting ‘no’ in the forthcoming independence referendum due to the amount of abuse they face from fanatical nationalists. Composer James MacMillan made the claim on Twitter
An 89-year-old veteran who went missing from his care home in Hove, England was found in Ouistreham, Normandy, after escaping to join his former comrades at the D-Day commemorations. The Telegraph reports that Bernard Jordan was originally told by his
The founder of an Islamic private school who also heads ‘pro-Palestine’ group Interpal, has refused to condemn the stoning to death of adulterers during an interview on the BBC’s Newsnight programme. Asked repeatedly by presenter Jeremy Paxman over Sharia punishments,
Barack Obama has urged Scotland to remain a part of the United Kingdom, and also called for the UK to remain a part of the European Union, in an intervention that is likely to draw mixed responses within Britain. The
A man walked away from a crime scene wearing his wife’s clothing after murdering her in a so-called ‘honour killing’. Ahmed Al-Khatib was caught on CCTV wearing Rania Alayed’s clothes to give the impression that she was still alive. The
Madrid’s city council yesterday approved a proposal to name a square after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The local Madrid Diario reports that the council approved the name ‘Plaza de Margaret Thatcher’ for a previously unnamed public space situated
Telling children fairy tales and getting them to believe in Father Christmas is “pernicious” and could cause them hard, according to scientist Richard Dawkins. Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival, the biologist claim it was “rather pernicious to instil in
A hard line vegan who compared farming to the Holocaust has been defeated in her attempt to get onto the ruling council of animal welfare charity the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Peta Watson-Smith, whose
The Australian government will no longer refer to Eastern Jerusalem as “occupied”, the Attorney General said in a statement on Thursday. The Times of Israel reports that Attorney General George Brandis said that Foreign Minister Julie Bishop believes that using
Britain has offered to send an armoured battle group of 25 tanks to join NATO exercises in Poland as a show of force against Russian President Vladimir Putin. This deployment would see up to 1,000 British soldiers join NATO war
A new poll suggests that weeks of negative headlines about UKIP from the establishment press did have some effect on the party’s ratings. Despite a barrage of scandals and smears on various candidates, the party still won the European elections
Stopping immigration would mean British women would have to have “a lot of children very quickly” to keep the economy afloat, according to a Labour MP. Stella Creasy, the Labour & Co-operative MP for Walthamstow, said that Britain either needs
The Home Office and Department for Education (DfE) have clashed over alleged plots by Islamist extremists to take over various schools in Birmingham, with sources in the Home Office accusing Education Secretary Michael Gove of failing to do enough to
MPs have called on Home Secretary Theresa May to set up an inquiry into historical cases of child sex abuse. Former Children’s Minister Tim Loughton and fellow Conservative Zac Goldsmith are among the names calling for a national investigation into
Immigration is the main reason driving people to vote UKIP, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by ComRes and commissioned by UKIP donor Paul Sykes, says that 74 percent of people who voted for the party in the
Intermittent and unreliable wind and solar power pose a serious energy security risk and threaten to undermine the reliability of energy generation in the UK, according to a new report. The paper published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation says
