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Donald Tusk has said there is a "special place in hell" for "those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely". The European Council President was speaking after talks Irish premier Leo Varadkar in Brussels in which he emphasised that there were 50 days to go until the UK's exit from the European Union with no agreement yet reached. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1093123941877641217 He said he believed "a common solution" over the Irish backstop is possible,...

The RSPCA and the British Veterinary Association are urging parliament to repeal the legal exemption that permits animals to be slaughtered without pre-stunning, because it causes them unnecessary pain and suffering.

The land in Essex was bought two years ago by the local authority with plans to build a luxury 'TOWIE-style' hotel

Labour MP Richard Burgon has won £30,000 damages from The Sun newspaper over a ridiculous story the newspaper ran with a Nazi “slur” about the Shadow Justice Secretary. MP Richard Burgon who has been outspoken against antisemitism said he would be using the payout to fund an internship for a young person in his constituency. “Delighted to have won my High Court case against The Sun,” announced the Labour MP for Leeds East. “Their slur attempting to link me to...

Labour officially calls for Brexit to be delayed. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary – standing in for Jeremy Corbyn– said: “The sensible, cautious thing to do at this late stage is to seek a temporary extension of Article 50 so we time to see if the negotiations succeed or, if they do not, to pursue a different plan.” The reason they have made the move is because the PM has ran out of time to get her deal through the Commons before...

Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, all died when the blaze tore through their family home on Sycamore Lane, in Stafford.

The "unique agreement" between British Transport Police (BTP) and Royal Military Police (RMP) will mean the red hats and brown uniforms could become the norm at the capital's busiest stations.

The Secretary General of NATO has just announced that the next meeting of NATO heads of state is to be in London in December. It will be NATO’s 70th anniversary year and there may well be a repeat of the tensions of the last NATO meeting where Donald Trump berated other bemused heads of state. He has repeatedly criticised NATO and demanded more funding from other NATO states. Even in his State of the Union address on Tuesday he insisted...

The girl, who has not been named, was airlifted to hospital in a "critical" condition following the horror smash in Eltham, south east London