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MEOLANS-REVEL, France, March 26 (UPI) — Some airlines are changing their rules to require two people in a cockpit at all times after a French prosecutor said it appeared as though the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 intentionally crashed the plane while alone in the cabin.

Last night was the first of the greatly anticipated election debates hosted jointly by Channel 4 and Sky News, featuring the Conservative leader David Cameron and Labour’s Ed Miliband. I say “debate” with a pinch of salt; after Cameron’s blatant

The Scottish National Party has been accused of “infiltrating” local schools in order to “brainwash” pupils into supporting Scottish Nationalism. Michael McCann MP claims to have seen evidence from a local SNP meeting, where delegates boasted of “sterling work” being

The Liberal Democrats have suspended a candidate ahead of the General Election after he was questioned over allegations of historic child sex offences. Jason Zadrozny, who was standing in the constituency of Ashfield against Labour MP Gloria de Piero, who

More than 100,000 students in Britain are working in the sex industry, a new study has claimed. The three-year survey of 6,750 students by the ‘Student Sex Work Project’ found that one in 20 are involved in sex work to

The Germanwings story is mutating with incredible speed. At first we were assured by the company that young co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who evidently crashed the plane on purpose and killed 150 people, was “100% fit to fly,” with no physical or mental problems whatsoever. Then we were told Lubitz took an extended break from pilot training for counseling to deal with “burnout” and emotional stress, but that was back in 2008, so it wasn’t necessarily relevant to his behavior this week.

Modern politicians are often accused of only being in the job for themselves. Tory Aidan Burley did nothing to allay those concerns as he bowed out of life in Westminster yesterday after just five years in the job. He gave

An inquest has heard how Albanian Artur Doda, 24, was killed by the rotating propeller of one of the world’s largest ferries as he made a desperate attempt to illegally gain re-entry to the United Kingdom. Doda was one of

MONTABAUR, Germany (AP) — Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said

Home Secretary Theresa May has sharpened her blade ahead of the General Election by announcing a new policy on illegal immigration should the Tories win office. Mrs May says her party would implement a ‘deport now, appeal later’ policy for

A bakery in the French Riviera has been told by a court to remove a range of cakes after the delicacies were declared racist. The patisserie in Grasse, South-Eastern France, was told his confectionery was “obscene” and could “incite racial

Until yesterday, I had imagined that the historical debate surrounding Richard III was a fairly simple one. Was he a) Richard Crookbook, the evil, scheming, hunchbacked tosser who murdered the Princes in the Tower and got his just comeuppance at

The campus rape panic that dominated western media for well over two years suffered a severe blow in late 2014 thanks to the credulous reporting of hoax allegations in Rolling Stone. Those who had long harboured doubts about the panic,

While hundreds of families are mourning the loss of loved ones who died in the Germanwings air crash in the French Alps, hundreds of over-emotional Brits have been calling into work asking for compassionate leave due to a member of

James May has indicated that he might quit TV and become a teacher following the sacking of his colleague Jeremy Clarkson. He said that the success of Top Gear, which the pair co-presented along with Richard Hammond, had been an

A Christian street preacher has been found guilty of using “threatening” language for quoting the Bible on the streets of Taunton, Somerset. The presiding judge advised Mike Overd, a former paratrooper, on which Bible verses he was and was not

Up to 42 police officers are being investigated over their handling of historic child sexual exploitation cases in Rotherham. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says it has received 30 new complaints containing more than 100 allegations about officers involved

We should be mindful that accident investigators are often looking for the quickest possible explanation, and MSM journalists are typically eager to take the bait. Just on Wednesday, the news from the Germanwings crash in France was that investigators were examining the possibility that a flaw in the Airbus avionics gave the planes a dangreous tendency to lose altitude.

Thomas Kuhn, in his classic book on the structure of scientific revolutions, points out how difficult scientific paradigms are to shift. He suggests they become even more so when there is a moral element involved. I will suggest that projected

Police have searched the homes of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in two German cities in search of an explanation for why he may have crashed a passenger plane into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. German tabloid Bild

Ukrainians fleeing the civil war between the rump western government and de-facto breakaway eastern state have arrived in European Union member states in record numbers, as figures released by the EU show applications have surged by over 13 times the

The reaction in the press room at Sky HQ as last night’s leaders’ interviews came to a close was unanimous. Ed Miliband had, almost unbelievably, won. Of the two men vying to be Prime Minister, against all odds, it was