A legal precedent has been set in Germany after a retired farming couple lost their legal battle to prevent their rural neighbours from releasing too much smell with their chickens. The North Rhine-Westphalia court ruled on Monday that smells are an
An estimated 5,900 children in England and Wales are living on as little as £1 a day because Europe’s open borders and an influx of economic migrants from further afield has allowed parents to travel to the United Kingdom without due care
Australians are facing the prospect of having to visit sex shops to buy cigarettes, in a bid by lobbying groups who say ‘adult only’ premises should get a monopoly on selling tobacco products. The Australian Sex Party, which has one member
A report by pollster ICMUnlimited has called into question the neutrality of the proposed European Union referendum question, suggesting ‘acquiesence bias’ could hand victory to the Europhiles. Claiming the chosen question for next year’s planned referendum, “Should the United Kingdom remain a
After a Danish research institute noted the protein content of wheat had dropped to the lowest ever, international buyers have shunned the grains, insisting on importing wheat from other European countries instead. Denmark instituted strict nitrate limits in 1991 to
The Polish government is enacting plans to legitimise and work with civilian militias while it grows and re-equips the official armed forces, as the attention of military planners continues to be drawn east. The apparent intent of Putin’s Russia to regain
Disagreements over the correct diet for a twelve-year-old boy became so heated for one divorced Italian couple, the father took the matter to court and won, meaning the mother must now cook him meat. The battle over the health of
A Roman-built ampitheatre has been used for the public execution of captured prisoners of war before an audience for the first time in perhaps 1,500 years, after ISIS forces captured the classical ruins at Palmyra last week. The Syrian Observatory
Even as the international aid budget grows, the Ministry of Defence has been asked to find £1 billion in savings. The cuts must be made before this parliament’s Strategic Defence Spending Review has even taken place. The Independent reveals military planners
Ten members of the “Gypsy community” were arrested in Paris this week, after police blew open a major pickpocket operation around France’s best known tourist destinations. French police report the gang had been employing sophisticated tactics to rob tourists for
The Christian Institute has warned measures introduced in the Queen’s Speech to tackle Muslim fundamentalism could be used to “clamp down on legitimate expressions of dissent”, with practising traditional Christians branded ‘extremists’. Director of the Institute Simon Calvert warned that without
An 11-year-old girl was sold from her home in Spain to be married off to a man who repeatedly raped and beat her. Spanish police have revealed the victim was also forced to pick fruit and vegetables without pay. Five members of
Greenland has legalised gay marriage in a parliamentary vote that follows the Irish referendum on the same subject by just a matter of days and legalisation in parent-nation Denmark three years ago. Greenland, which is three-quarters covered by sub-Arctic ice
The same secularism law which bans head-scarves and keeps religion out of French public schools has been used to convict a radical Salafist preacher. He was charged with attempting to disrupt services at one of France’s oldest mosques and earned a
Britain is to become a world leader in internet censorship, instituting ‘Chinese-style’ internet filters to block pornography, unless websites agree to check the identities of all visitors – risking creating a database of British porn viewers. Sold to the public
The European Union’s private border force is again expanding its own role and powers. Today it has extended its area of operations south, right to the limit of Libyan territorial waters. The new bounds of operation Triton, the European Union’s
Evidence of a global Islamist insurgency is mounting, as Nigerian government forces recover captured video footage showing foreign fighters at the top of terrorist group Boko Haram. It has long been suspected that the hard-line Boko Haram followers, who have
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker seemed unable to control his glee as he welcomed national leaders to the EU summit in Riga last week. The world watched as cameras caught him slapping, kissing and shoving some of the world’s
A Russian waitress has reached international attention on the internet after beating off a customer who reached for her neck and squeezed her bottom. After being called over by two men drinking at the bar, the waitress was subject to
The leaders of the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation have re-opened talks about defeating the Islamic State in a remarkable show of Solidarity against the rise of the self-proclaimed Caliphate. Despite serious differences in opinion over the Ukraine and
Officials in the Pakistani child rape gang scandal town of Rotherham are moving to ban protests against their own incompetence. They have appealed to the home secretary for emergency special powers under the Public Order Act 1986. The council first
Men wearing women’s clothes has long been a staple of vaudeville, burlesque, and certain underground sexual counter-cultures, but a new range of “sexy lingerie” designed specifically for men is aiming to bring it into the mainstream. Breitbart London reported the comments
Raza Ul-Mustafa Sabir kicked, beat, and dragged around children in his care when they came to the mosque every day for instruction in the Koran, but he has only been given a ‘slap on the wrist’ after the court considered
The “hotbed of sodomy” Eurovision Song Contest final has again been blasted by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), after the Primate called the international music event “repulsive”. The Leader of the ROC, the Patriarch of Moscow, made the comments last Thursday,
All fit adult males of fighting age, some 900,000 men, have been sent papers detailing conscription procedures, as concerns over Vladimir Putin’s designs on Finland deepen. The letters come as Russia and NATO, of which Finland is not a member but
David Cameron will today meet leaders at an EU summit discussing how the Union can cooperate with “independent and sovereign” nations closely allied to, but not part of the EU, and will attempt to force change in the UK’s relationship with
Elderly residents of the Millmark center in Sörmark, Sweden, were served with eviction notices on Friday after the new owner of their group retirement home declared it was to be transformed into a government asylum shelter. Although many of those who
Mainland Britain has been declared one of the safest places in the world in a new report, thanks in no small part to the security services preventing dozens of attacks in the past five years. At the other end of the
French authorities have revealed the corrupting effect of migrant camps in Calais, where thousands lie in wait to cross to the United Kingdom and are willing to offer locals as much as €2,000 per person to make it possible. Although more expensive,
Viscount Astor has blasted SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon over her plans to forcibly nationalise a million acres of privately owned land in Scotland, a move he has compared to Robert Mugabe’s ‘land grabs’ in Zimbabwe. His comments have come over
A figure from the “visual arts” is to compliment the Queen on the new £20 note and will be chosen with the assistance of the public in 2016. Stung by recent criticism of sexism after failing to put a woman
A London-based defector from the Pakistani Army has been named as the informer who led the United States to Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Brigadier Usman Khalid died last year aged 79 He is now the focus of global media attention
Newly-elected MPs from the Scottish National Party were first on the scene when Able Seaman William McNeilly leaked his dossier on the security and maintenance failings around Trident last week, renewing their calls for an end to British nuclear weapons. Now
The “spectacular brutality” of the Islamic State and raging conflict in the Levant is making the world less settled and more dangerous than it has been for decades. A report by a globally-respected think tank has revealed that despite the
A total of 32 ‘Danish’ terrorists have continued to claim state unemployment benefits amounting to kr.400,000 (£38,500) while fully employing themselves in the act of Jihad in Syria. Documents acquired by a Danish Radio24syv show the security service and labour ministry had
Eight men have been awarded £24,000 compensation after a judge ruled they had been unlawfully discriminated against by being barred from entering a public house on London’s Holloway road. London County Court heard how the manager of the JD Wetherspoon’s Coronet pub
A paper reporting on the ‘recent developments in the distribution of wages in Europe’ has singled out Britain for providing a home to too many rich people. The report claimed that wage inequality in the United Kingdom, measured with the controversial Gini
Missing submariner Able Seaman William McNeilly has, as promised, returned to the UK after releasing what he claims is a ‘dossier’ revealing the major security and maintenance lapses of the British nuclear deterrent. A statement by the Royal Navy released today said: “We can
The Old Bailey yesterday heard the terrifying story of two schoolgirls who were groomed and raped by an Aylesbury paedophile gang, when aged just 12 and 13. Eleven members of the gang, who are accused of carrying out the crimes
A mother has described how she broke down in tears after discovering the headmistress of her son’s school called the police to end a children’s playground game. Police spoke to nine year-old Kyron Bradley, who was playing a game of sword
