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Guatemalan girl, 7, tragically dies in US custody from ‘dehydration, shock’

A seven-year-old girl has died after being taken into custody by the US Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) . The girl, from Guatemala, died of dehydration and shock eight hours after she was taken into custody, the Washington Post reported. The child and her father were being held by immigration authorities in the US state of New Mexico it said in the article. However, on December 7th, the girl was found to have a 41-degree-Celsius fever and was taken by...

No-deal Brexit will “near-bankrupt UK,” says Sir Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson thinks a no-deal Brexit would "near bankrupt" the UK. Branson made these comments to the BBC.  He was "absolutely certain" that leaving the EU without a deal would cause the closure of "quite a few British businesses". Sir Richard was speaking from the Mojave desert in California when he said: "I think Theresa May needs to be 100% honest with the public. "She's admitted that a hard Brexit would be an absolute disaster for the British people. "From...

Rough sleeping has increased 120% in England but fallen in Scotland

More then 24,000 people will be forced to sleep rough over Christmas according to research by charity Crisis. These people will try and find shelter in cars,trains, busses or tents or anywhere else they can try and get some rest. Crisis believes that official figures are not correct and are higher than the Government has reported. Crisis estimates that 12,300 people are sleeping out on the streets, while official numbers claim that 4,751 are. Another 12,000 will be in tents,...

EU leaders reject May’s desperate pleas for help

Theresa May was back in mainland Europe, after winning her vote of no-confidence, hoping to get some extra concessions from EU power brokers. However, it looks like her desperate requests havefallen on deaf ears. May was hoping they would concede ground on the Irish backstop, but Jean-Claude Junker knocked back her plan, to impose a 12 month limit on the plan to avoid a hard border with Ireland. May is desperately trying to appease her party who have descended into...

Is WPP doing what the other ad agencies are sure to follow? 

The largest ad agency group in the world, WPP, has announced plans to simplify its business model by closing or merging offices and cutting 3,500 jobs worldwide. The move has led to a sharp rise in the company’s share price (currently872.0), giving it a market value of around £11 billion. Should other agencies follow its lead? The announcement comes at the end of a tumultuous year for WPP, with a change of CEO and some disappointing third-quarter figures, which led...

Who are the Tories’ European Research Group (ERG) faction?

They've been dubbed a shadowy Brextremist government within the government. And they have probably been called a lot worse by Theresa May and her team, constantly critisising her Brexit agreement and trying their best to unseat her as leader for a harder Brexit. Some even advocate a no deal Brexit, with Britain crashing out of the EU on WTO rules with shortaged of food and medicine predicted among the chaos and recession that would entail. This week the ERG were...

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