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An NHS hospital which last week failed a surprise inspection has taken the unusual step of reporting 563 of its own “serious failings” in the past two years, an admission of potential avoidable deaths, abuse, and infectious outbreaks, in the

A government minister in Ebola-stricken Liberia has blasted aid workers living the high life in the poor West African nation, spending thousands of dollars on stays in top hotels, driving round in expensive cars and routinely earning more than even

Last minute attempts to avert defeat in this week’s by-election in Rochester have taken a curiously middle-class turn, as the Conservatives have claimed voting UKIP will cause house prices to fall.  Tory spin doctors are appealing to Rochester and Strood’s

The Conservatives have announced plans to keep violent drinkers off the booze by fitting them with digital alcohol-sensing bracelets of the sort famously modelled by actress Lindsay Lohan after a drink-driving incident in 2007. The tags, worn in a similar

The disappointed father of Nasser Muthana identified his son in the new ISIS killing video released yesterday as one of a group of men in army-style fatigues beheading a party of Syrian army and air force officers. Muthana, 20, had

You can shoot them, but poisoning is illegal! In response to a surge in foxes terrorising residents, a London council has re-issued its advice leaflet on how to deal with the urban menace, and it’s remarkably strident compared to the

The UK Prime Minister has announced a new scheme to make it easier for members of the public to report extremist internet material to Scotland Yard’s dedicated censorship unit, with an online panic-button hosted by major internet service providers (ISP).

The Church of England has hit back at the government for imposing a “narrowly focussed” set of ‘British Values’ on schools in the wake of the Trojan horse scandal. The measures are designed to combat Islamic extremism but could instead

UKIP deputy chairman Suzanne Evans has hit back at Labour shadow health secretary Andy Burnham after he called their NHS policy “opportunistic”, in a scathing letter which calls out “Labour’s noted failure to improve” health in the UK, and their

Britain’s foreign secretary has dismissed as ‘bizarre’ the Lib Dem plan to enshrine the foreign aid budget in law by passing a bill fixing the amount of money the country gives away abroad at almost one percent of the gross

The Conservative pledge to slow immigration appears to be on the rocks, and those who warned of a flood of economic migrants after work restrictions for new members was lifted at the start of the year have been vindicated after

Despite not having been passed through rigorous clinical trials, or in some cases not having been tested on humans at all, three experimental Ebola treatments are going to be deployed in West Africa in coming weeks as part of an

A key terror suspect has skipped bail and fled to join the Islamic State in Syria after British police failed to confiscate his passport, merely asking him to hand it over instead.  Siddhartha Dhar, 31, was arrested with eight other

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has admitted that he would be willing to do a deal with Labour after the next election, adding “I’d be very comfortable supporting anybody that gave me an opportunity to get my country back”. Farage spoke

Britain’s National Health Service is going to start the largest ever patient recall today, after the discovery of a dentist who hadn’t cleaned his instruments properly in 32 years, exposing thousands to blood-borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis-C.  The Nottingham

The British Culture Secretary has blasted the European “right to be forgotten” ruling which he claims is being exploited by terrorists and criminals to expunge their past from the internet. Sajid Javid, who has been the cabinet member for the

A bomb attack on a school by radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed the lives of 48 students and teachers, with a further 79 injured after a suicide bomber entered the school morning assembly yesterday. The school, a boys

Police are appealing for witnesses after a British veteran was mugged by a gang of Asian teenagers, who robbed him of his medals, regimental beret, and poppy as he walked to a Remembrance Sunday parade to mark the centenary of

Taurine-loaded Red Bull has become the energy drink of choice for Islamist fighters in Syria, as it is revealed dozens of lorries are crossing the Turkish border every week, carrying cargoes of the drink to fatigued fighters battling militias and

Thousands of Germans marched in protest on Sunday against the possibility of the first hard-left government to rule a state since the collapse of the Berlin Wall exactly 25 years ago. Around 4,000 protesters, who carried candles in imitation of

Islamist forces have blown up a church dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the last Islamic Caliphate in 1915, burning the extensive library of manuscripts kept there and exhuming the bones of hundreds of

A German-born rap artist who signed deals with top record companies and later converted to radical Islam is at the head of the ISIS recruitment programme which filmed the beheading of four Western captives and is pulling in hundreds of

British trader Rurik Jutting, 29, was snapped smiling and laughing as he left court this morning, where he is on trial for the brutal murder of two sex workers at his luxury flat in global financial city Hong Kong last

Senior ministers have been warned that the sheer number of terrorist plots presently being planned in the UK means one slipping through the security service net is “almost inevitable”. Although the police, working with the security services and the government’s

The Islamic State (ISIS) has started a programme of school closures and has wiped all subjects except the Koran from the Syllabus as it works to remove all traces of Western “blasphemous” education from young minds. Teachers will be sent

The first passenger carrying flight by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space-plane service, which is already over a decade late, could be delayed by years more after the crash in the Mojave desert of the VSS Enterprise last week.  The crash

Armed police have swooped on four Islamic terror suspects in overnight raids, foiling a suspected imminent attack on tomorrow’s Remembrance Sunday parade which will be attended by HM the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Prime Minister. The raids,

Did you know that it’s illegal to take photographs of the Eiffel tower at night? Thanks to an obscure European Union (EU) law, publishing images of many buildings including the European Parliament is forbidden, and may result in prosecution. This

A German city has found a novel way to get unemployed alcoholics back into work, by employing them as street cleaners – and paying them in beer. The ‘Pick-Up’ programme, being trialled in Essen, Germany insists the main focus isn’t

Labour leader Ed Miliband has been criticised by the founder of street newspaper the Big Issue for giving money to a Romanian beggar, as part of a strident article in which he blasted the “cowardice” of Labour politicians and says

The UN ‘Ebola Envoy’ has spoken out about the present situation in West Africa and has warned “the outbreak is continuing to expand rapidly”, and without further international support of personnel and equipment the virus is not going to be

A high court judge has euphemistically called the “mutual loathing” felt by a pair of gay and lesbian couples who had children together the “potential pitfalls of modern life”, and has criticised the “harm” caused to the two daughters by

A long-term disability claimant who told investigators that “everyone exaggerates their claims” has been jailed after it was revealed that, far from being unable to walk, he was actually an award-winning body builder. Peter Beddoe, 49, had originally taken up

Some female devotees of ‘sexual jihad’ who have travelled to the Near East to marry terrorists are being used by organisations like the Islamic State to humiliate British Muslims into taking up arms by questioning their masculinity for staying at

Government forces opposing the radical Islamic militias in Syria have reported a sudden flood of advanced weaponry including long-range missiles being used as ISIS and others push towards the Mediterranean coast. An investigation, published by the Independent newspaper, reveals the