The Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave of Russia nestled between Poland and Lithuania but unconnected by land to greater Russia itself, is causing growing unease to its European neighbours. Two countries accuse Russia of militarising the area formerly part of East Prussia.
A coalition of EU naval forces had a busy weekend across the Mediterranean, rescuing large numbers of desperate migrants and asylum seekers as they attempted the dangerous crossing to Europe. Italian forces comprising the navy, coastguard and paramilitary police reported
Weeks of protests against a building to be used to shelter refugees coming to Germany from abroad have apparently culminated in it being burnt down, in what local authorities are calling an act of arson. Remarking that the culprits should
The latest government risk matrices, visual aids designed to help civil servants and ministers make informed decisions on risks to the nation have shown the enormous threat of disease, which far outweighs that of terrorism, extreme weather, and widespread public
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit have arrested a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism, in a move that is unrelated to the ongoing investigation to the local family of nine who are
Dental repair kits, available in high-street chemists and frequently even ‘pound shops’ are taking the place of proper dental care for an increasing number in the United Kingdom as the cost and accessibility of ‘free at the point of use’
Sajid Javid, the first ever elected Muslim minister in the British government, has spoken out against the “cultural problem” being created by the behaviour of many Muslim men in the UK, calling the norms practised in their communities “totally unacceptable”.
Revelations made by American defector Edward Snowden have delivered another lever to the politics of grief and victimisation spun by the Argentine government over the Falkland Islands, after he claimed they had been the focus of British spies. Documents released
Just days after nine close relatives of a Rochdale Labour councillor were arrested in Turkey attempted to make ‘hijrah’, the holy journey to join and fight for the Islamic Caliphate, a local Imam has warned the “tentacles” of the Islamic
Southwark council has been forced to erect a wooden wall around a housing estate after a concerted campaign by a protest movement to prevent the area being redeveloped. Efforts to improve the area by demolishing the pre-fabricated concrete late 1960’s Aylesbury estate
After a successful trial involving converted buses with on-board clinics equipped to treat the most common alcohol-related injuries, the NHS plans to roll out the vehicles nationwide in a move that could save the taxpayer millions of pounds. With emergency
A provocative work of ‘art’ created by a Dresden collective to celebrate the lives of refugees coming to Europe, and to castigate the European Union for not having more open borders, has been burnt down. The ‘House of 28 Doors’
The ‘Muslim Youth League UK’ (MYLUK) has declared jihad on Islamic State and its local followers, which it claims have together deviated from the true path of its religion. Concerned that terrorist groups were using the more violent passages of
Popular twitter troll and Sun columnist Katie Hopkins has accused Rochdale Labour MP Simon Danczuk of using the police as a smokescreen to deflect attention from his own problems, after he reported her to the police for hate speech. Speaking at a Sun
Naval exercises in the Plymouth Sound have been blamed for a mobile phone black spot in the PL1 and PL2 postcodes on Friday, after the Royal Navy claimed it was testing new “communication equipment”, most likely electronic counter measures. After
A UKIP candidate has said money spent trying to stop young men travelling to the Islamic State is wasted and could be better spent on one-way airfares. Keith Fraser, who is standing in Hackney North and Stoke Newington made the comments in
Former Chief of the General Staff Lord Dannatt has broadsided the government with a warning to heed voter concerns over defence while at the same time cautioning over an increasingly militaristic Russia and the potential for the Conservatives to leak
It has been a difficult year for Pakistani men in Rochdale and a number of other English cities. Members of the community have been handed significant jail terms for systematically grooming and raping young children over the course of many
Fusilier Lee Rigby, drummer and machine gunner of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers murdered in broad daylight in South-East London by a pair of Islamist terrorists has been honoured in his home town with a bronze memorial. Standing in the Middleton
The 30-aircraft exercise comes amid a backdrop of an increasingly belligerent Russia, but is just as much a message to Whitehall as it is the Kremlin. Whoever wins the forthcoming British general election will have the casting vote over how
Letters seized from the compound of executed terror leader Osama bin Laden have revealed the deeply prosaic bureaucracy of running a global terror group, and the concern shared by senior members over climate change. Even as American drone strikes were
After the announcement this week that Britain would be boosting the defence of the Falkland Islands, senior figures in the Argentine government have protested their innocence in the matter, and have insisted the move was purely for electoral purposes. Speaking
London police are calling a ten-hour spate of shootings in the capital “unrelated” despite two of the attacks happening only streets away. A 17-year-old man was hospitalised on Tuesday, and a 25-year-old received non life threatening injuries in broad daylight
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
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
Electric vehicles were once a common sight on Britain’s urban roads. Their silent approach, which could catch both pedestrians and cyclists unaware, earned them the nickname ‘Whispering Death’. Now over 40 years since the last electric trolley-buses were replaced by
The British Social Attitudes Survey, running annually for over 30 years, has tracked the slow acceptance of new moral standards by the general population. Now it reveals at least one group of citizens is bucking the trend and retaining social
Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin says passengers on the doomed Germanwings flight could be heard screaming just before the crash. He said the co-pilot, who has been named as 29-year-old Andreas Lubitz, was initially courteous, but became “curt” when the captain began
As a think tank publishes a new study advocating a new defence forum for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, former secretary of state for defence Liam Fox MP has said the “huge geological reach” of the Commonwealth makes it
Norwegian police have revealed the gruesome clips they have discovered on the phones of new arrivals, but have admitted proving whether the asylum seekers have a hidden evil intent is prohibitively difficult. The films found while making inspections of the
Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed at three of the dead in the French Alps are British, a total thought to include a mother and son from Manchester. Although the crash site is extremely remote and most easily reachable by air, the
An inspired freedom of information request has revealed the most popular book in the Bank of England Library – and it’s a curious choice for the brain-box staff who run the control-room of the British economy. The library, which is
Defence secretary Michael Fallon has indicated he will be deploying re-enforcements to the British islands in the South Atlantic in the face of continued sabre-rattling from rival claimant Argentina. Details of the Falklands deployment are expected in the House of Commons
The Barbadian parliament has announced plans to engage in constitutional change, ending the era of it existing as a constitutional monarchy and declaring a republic. The Times reports both major parties in Bajan politics are in favour of the change, which would
It is “relatively easy” for jihadists to gain access to the European Union by coming with an influx of refugees, the head of the European Union’s counter-terrorism group has warned. Although jihadists have to this point seemed to find no
Despite maintaining the deployment of legions of soldiers on the streets of French cities, a senior defence official has admitted the threat hasn’t diminished – and isn’t going away anytime soon. Speaking to English-language news service theLocal.fr, an anonymous official has
‘London’s most corrupt policeman’ was caught and jailed for 13 years after the force ‘Ghost Squad’ of counter-corruption police bugged his car, recording shocking conversations about his double life as a violent kidnapper and gang criminal. Former Police Constable Mesut Karakas
Latest figures from the European Union show a remarkable leap in volumes of people coming to Europe, and major point of entry Italy especially, as 64,625 applied for refugee status in the country last year. The figure is a significant
A week after revelations about the performance of an Islamic service in a consecrated Church of England building in London, the radical-progressive Canon Goddard who led the service has made a mealy-mouthed admission of error. Promising he would only use
To some he is an innovative best-selling rapper. To others he is the intolerable enfant-terrible of the music world. It is thought even more still have no idea who he is. But the booking of Kanye West to headline at
