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Police were called to Church Road in Erdington Birmingham earlier today (Thurs)

The study was the first to pinpoint the "crucial turning point in the history of humanity" when the global population became animal herders

Sir David Attenborough has issued his harshest warning yet on the threat posed to life on Earth by climate change. As Extinction Rebellion protests hit 80 cities in 33 countries around the planet to highlight a “climate emergency” the veteran nature broadcaster warned we "irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies". Extinction Rebellion Blackfriars (c) Lucy Cartwright Highlighting the catastrophic extinctions facing the planet unless drastic action is taken, Attenborough says: “in the 20 years...

A racist who told David Lammy to “go back to the jungle” and threatened to kill other MPs over their opposition to Brexit was jailed today. Jarod Kirkman, 51, used a fake email address to target a cross-party selection of prominet "Remain" MPs - including Tory ex-cabinet minister Nicky Morgan and Labour's Yvette Cooper. Kirkman sent 19 emails telling his victims to “f**k off and die” and that their “days were numbered” between December 4 and January 21. But when...

A second opinion poll this week shows Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is set to command the most MEP’s in May’s European Parliament election. Just one week after the official launch of the Brexit Party in Coventry unveiled four of its candidates including Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata and Brexit profiting fund manager Ben Habib, it has topped a second poll of European elections voting intent. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has surged into the lead for the European elections, according to two...

Richard Dawkins has discredited the notion that Brexiteers are giving the “British people what they want” in a scathing tweet. The evolutionary biologist and writer said: “Have you noticed how the very people who keep telling us what we want are the most reluctant to actually find out what we want. “If they are so confident of what the British people want, why are they so terrified of a People’s Vote?” It’s not the first time Dawkins has let his...

Cathy Eastburn, 51, Mark Ovland, 35 and Luke Watson, 29, appeared in Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court

He suffered sat injury just after 5.45pm in Mathias Road

The cat - named Matilda - was found by refuse collectors in a large chest-height bin outside a block of flats in Croydon.