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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will today use a speech to give a coded attack on UKIP, accusing it of wanting to “pull up the drawbridge and shut Britain off from the world.” Although not mentioning the party by

A UKIP poster mysteriously appeared on top of a crane in the City of London over the weekend.  The poster, which has a purple and yellow design and simply reads “Vote UKIP”, was put up above the Balfour Beatty construction

A student who was caught with €20,000 in cash hidden in her underwear on a flight to Turkey has denied attempting to fund terrorism. Nawal Masaad, 26, stands accused of attempting to smuggle the money through London’s Heathrow Airport en

King’s College London has cancelled a lecture featuring Hamas’ “special envoy to the UK” after fears that it would glorify a holocaust denier. The event organised by Middle East Monitor (MEMO), a Hamas-friendly publication, would have featured speaker Azzam Tamimi

A top divorce judge who stepped down after being rebuked for speaking out in favour of marriage has said he would have been “publicly hanged” had he spoken out again, according to the Daily Mail. Sir Paul Coleridge, who has

Former Conservative Party vice-chairman Michael Fabricant has said that he warned Prime Minister David Cameron and the party leadership about the rise of UKIP, but was repeatedly ignored. In an interview with the local Express & Star newspaper, the Litchfield

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has declared that Britain will no longer be a “first world country” for millions of ordinary workers unless we get control of our borders. Launching his final push ahead of Thursday’s European Elections, Mr Farage vowed

Despite weeks of attacks from the media and political establishment, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) is still in the lead among those certain to vote in next week’s European Elections. A poll by ComRes for the Coalition for Marriage (C4M)

Gillian Duffy, whose encounter with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown led to him making one of the worst campaign gaffes in recent British political history, has criticised Labour Party leader Ed Miliband as too “privileged”, and said the party needs

A nine-year-old German boy was taken to hospital on Wednesday after he and four other members of his family were struck by lightning. German newspaper Bild reports that the family were struck when they were in their garden gathering furniture

A British man has been been jailed for nine years after telling his girlfriend to plunge her 21-month-old daughter’s head into a bucket of water, leading to the toddler’s death.  Ammaz Qureshi was in London when he made a Skype

Gibraltar police have arrested two Spanish journalists for a “breach of the peace” after they annoyed locals by raising the Spanish flag in the British territory, AFP reports. The two journalists raised the flag on the beach of La Caleta

The Conservative Party have selected an Islamist leader with links to George Galloway as a local election candidate in the London borough of Newham. Mufti Shah Sadruddin has no known previous links to the party, but has been an enthusiastic

British police are planning a crackdown to stop Islamists intimidating Muslims into not voting in next week’s European and local elections. The Times reports that the independent Electoral Commission has identified 16 areas as “hotspots” for electoral fraud or voter

A self-styled “community activist” for British Muslims has claimed to have held 34 jobs over the past 15 years, despite also receiving state benefits. In an exposé by journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, Mo Ansar is revealed to have claimed to be

A sacked BBC staff member who applied to the corporation on a scheme for the disabled is suing her former bosses for unfair dismissal after they claimed to be unaware of her mental health issues. Jayne Lutwyche, who has Asperger’s

The former royal editor of the defunct News of the World newspaper has admitted hacking the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s phones nearly 200 times. Sky News reports that Clive Goodman told the Old Bailey that he accessed the voicemail

Two £3.5 million wind turbines that were installed half a year ago have still not been switched on following concerns they could interfere with the radar system at the nearby airport, the Telegraph reports. The blades on the 430 foot

A prominent health campaign group has expressed its concern at the poor English skills of immigrant nurses working for the National Health Service (NHS), saying that they put patients at greater risk of mistakes being made. The Patients’ Association, who

Lord Howell of Guildford, the father-in-law of Chancellor George Osborne, has warned that the Conservatives will lose thousands of votes if they allow fracking to go ahead in Tory heartlands in southern England rather than the industrial north. He said

The Church of England was forced to re-state its opposition to same-sex marriage after its most senior cleric appeared to suggest that he thinks it is “great”. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was giving an interview to gay publication PinkNews

Government censorship is not helping to combat Islamist extremism, according to a new report. The counter-extremist Quilliam Foundation instead calls on legislators to create a new “social media outlet” that debunks extremist propaganda and clarifies government policies. The report says

Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has told schools to destroy Second World War gas masks and First World War soldiers’ helmets because they may pose a small health risk to children. The Times reports that despite both items already

As NASA scientists publish another report warning of the impact of global warming on the Antarctic ice shelf, new figures have been released showing that the level of sea ice around Antarctica has hit record levels. According to Australia’s National

A new poll by ICM for the Guardian puts the Conservative Party in the lead for the European Elections, with 27 percent. This puts them on a statistical dead heat with UKIP, who are one point behind on 26 percent.

A book claiming that genetics lies behind the rise of Western civilisation has been denounced as “racist” by some scientists. A Troublesome Inheritance by science writer Nicholas Wade says that there is mounting evidence of genetic variations within humanity, and

Two students at the University of Birmingham have suffered abuse after displaying a sign on their door in the run up to the European Elections saying: “Only Conservative or UKIP leaflets welcome”. The Tab reports that the students were abused

A Serbian man has the remarkable ability to withstand million-volt electric shocks that would kill a normal person. Biba Struja, who grew up in a tiny village in Serbia, can even store energy like a battery and cook food with

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has become embroiled in a racism row after one of its student leaders called Prime Minister David Cameron an “English twat”. Roisin McLaren, president of Edinburgh University SNP, said that David Cameron’s pleas to save

A Muslim covert who was jailed for trying to impose sharia law on Britain’s streets claims to have converted numerous prisoners to a radical form of Islam during his time behind bars, according to the Times. Speaking to tonight’s BBC Panorama

Nottinghamshire Police risked breaking equality laws after letting black and ethnic minority (BME) candidates know about job openings before other candidates. The force sent an email round to 57 BME potential candidates letting them know that 20 posts were up

A group of scientists have written to Britain’s Energy Secretary Ed Davey to protest American forests being cut down and pulped to provide biomass for UK power plants.  Under the government’s biomass scheme, power stations are asked to stop using

British government ministers have admitted they are powerless to stop the European Union forcing car manufacturers to put GPS tracking chips in all cars sold in the UK by October 2015. The chips, called ‘eCall’, will record every movement the