The Centre of Brexit studies is set to visit the UK’s ten biggest Leave voting constituencies to find out their thoughts and feelings on the Brexit process nearly 18 months on from the landmark referendum. Researchers from Birmingham City University’s Centre for Brexit Studies will be spending three weeks on the...
Royle Family actor Ralf Little outed Jeremy Hunt for lying to the public over a boast that he has overseen the "biggest expansion of mental health provision in Europe". Health Secretary Hunt bragged on the Andrew Marr Show that other countries are looking at we're doing in terms of mental health...
Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown. Geoengineering – the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols...
Millennials in the US have it worse than previous generations on almost every conceivable metric, according to new statistics. Measured on wealth, debt, student loans, home ownership and inheritance members of Generation Y come off worse than the Baby Boomers and other ages that precede them. The statistics, compiled by Credit Suisse,...
Britain's last remaining mud-horse fisherman says his business is sinking - because of building work on a new nuclear power station. Dedicated Adrian Sellick, 59, is the fifth generation of his family to use the method - which sees him push a wooden sledge across the treacherous mudflats. The age-old...
A young couple who struggled for ten months to sell their home are offering it as a raffle prize - for £5 a ticket. Jack and Charlotte Smith had their two-bedroom flat on the market for almost a year and despite reducing the price twice, had no buyers. The couple...
A six-month-old baby girl suffering from a heart defect died after a life-saving operation was cancelled three times due to a lack of beds, an inquest heard. Iris Ann Day was born with Down Syndrome and an atrio-ventricular septal defect - - a hole in her heart which causes blood...
Almost two and a half thousand doctors are set to flee the NHS following Brexit. Worrying research has revealed that nearly a fifth of doctors working in the health service from the European Economic Area have already made solid plans to leave the country following the out vote. A total of...
In any other situation a Twitter feud between two men trading insults about being "old" or "short and fat" would take pride of place in the basin of social media banality, but when the two people concerned are sitting on a nuclear arsenal and a combined army of over a million...