A conceptual artist from Norway cooked his own hipbone “on a whim” and ate the flesh with potatoes and a glass of wine. Alexander Selvik Wengshoel made the claim at the opening of his graduation show, saying that the meat
The chairman of the inquiry into the Mid-Staffs hospital scandal has warned that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is so unsafe they if it were an airline “planes would fall out of the sky all the time.” Robert Francis QC,
The UK Independence Party are on course to win the European Elections in the UK in what looks set to be a historic victory for the insurgent anti-EU party. With the majority of UK regions having declared their results, at
UKIP look set to come first in the European Elections following a series of encouraging results in the British regions that have already declared. The anti-EU party have so far finished first in the West Midlands, South West, South East,
UKIP have won the largest share of the vote in the Eastern region, with 542,812 votes and three seats. The Conservatives finished second with 446,569 votes, also winning three seats. Labour were in third place with 271,601 votes and one
North East England is the first region to declare its European Election results. Labour came first with 221,988 votes and two seats, with UKIP in second with 177,660 votes and one seat. All other parties failed to win any representation
A judge in Manchester has ruled that police cannot seize the £200,000 home of convicted terrorist Munir Farooqi as a criminal asset, according to BBC News. Police had wanted to take possession of the house and sell it in order
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband faced a series of humiliating attacks yesterday after members of his own party criticised his election strategy. Some critics also called him “weird” and suggested that his personality could alienate him from voters. The Daily
Energy Minister Michael Fallon has said that fracking should take place in Tory heartlands in south east England “in the national interest”, after a new report revealed 4.4 billion barrels of shale oil could lie beneath Kent, Sussex, Surrey and
Three Conservative MPs last night called for an electoral deal between their party and UKIP at the next General Election to prevent a split in the anti-EU right-wing vote. Douglas Carswell, Peter Bone and Jacob Rees-Mogg said that such a
Britain’s Labour Party has failed to take the key council of Swindon from the Conservatives, despite the Tories previously controlling the council with just a one-seat majority. Swindon is a key battleground between Labour and the Conservatives, with Labour holding
UKIP leader Nigel Farage yesterday hinted that he may be prepared to accept joint Conservative-UKIP candidates in next year’s General Election. The Daily Mail reports that he suggested that some sitting Conservative Eurosceptic MPs may support the idea in order
A leaked memo has revealed that the Liberal Democrats are planning to lose all their MEPs. Party figures have been told to react to a severe defeat in today’s European Elections by claiming they “expected” to lose all of their
A new poll for the Sun predicts that UKIP will shake off weeks of negative headlines and win today’s European Elections. The YouGov projection, based on a larger-than-usual sample of 6,124 voters over the past two days, gives the anti-EU
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the BBC of hiring two actors to pose as relatives of miners killed in the Soma mining disaster. In a news report filed by BBC Turkey journalist Rengin Arslan, the two veiled
Several MPs have previously made remarks very similar to Nigel Farage on immigration from Romania, but have not been called racist by mainstream political parties or the media. Before immigration restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian nationals were lifted at the
The Royal Navy’s newest submarine has been revealed in Barrow, Cumbria after leaving the vast hangar where she was built for the first time. The ship weighs 7,400 tons and is over 300 foot long, yet it will be near
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
Local residents in Florence are angry at plans by hip hop star Kanye West and reality television celebrity Kim Kardashian to get married in the city later this month. New site The Local reports that wedding ceremony will take place
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
