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Images have emerged on Twitter of armed police making a woman remove her “Burkini” while resting on Nice beach, next to the Promenade des Anglais where 84 people were tragically murdered in a terrorist attack. The photographs appear to show a number of armed officers, congregating around a women lying on the beach. She appears to be wearing a headscarf. Reports have said that the police spoke to her and demanded she removed the headwear and it there have been...

The Labour leadership contest is becoming increasingly fraught, Corbyn is dealing with “traingate” and whether he actually had to sit on the floor during a train journey from London to Newcastle. Now Owen Smith has been criticised for referring to his rival as “some lunatic” during a rally in London. Jeremy Corbyn has asked for Owen Smith to withdraw the comment and demanded he makes an apology to people with mental health issues. The Labour leader has made increased support...

There is no doubt that Team GB were hugely successful at the Rio Olympics and many people took to Twitter to celebrate, after they finished second in the medal table, seeing off China, the country with the biggest population in the world, who came a close third. The USA were the clear winners and were the only country to reach treble figures in their medal tally. However, one Tory MP may have taken her support for Great Britain a bit...

In a move that some people might find sensible and others might find slightly over the top, Germans have been asked to ensure they have enough essential supplies to keep them alive at home if there was ever an extreme terror attack. They have been told to buy enough water for five days and food for ten. One would assume these emergency rations would only be used in the case of a natural catastrophe or terror attack. The terror attack...

Donald Trump has more psychopathic traits than Adolf Hitler and fell within a whisper of Henry VIII on the psychometric scale. Using the Psychopathtic Personality Inventory – Revised (PPI-R), Dr Kevin Dutton of Oxford University ranked both Trump and Hilary Clinton amongst a series of historical world figures, finding the Republican candidate ranked fourth on the list behind Saddam Hussein, Henry VIII and Idi Amin. Trump scored 171, achieving two more points than Adolf Hitler. The PPI-R method scores candidates based on eight traits, including fearlessness,...

Over two hundred Scottish schools that have been constructed under PFI (private finance initiative) are in some way owned by investment funds located offshore. This means that 80 per cent that could be at least partly located outside of the UK. PFI schemes have come under criticism recently as schools, hospitals and other large public sector build projects are locked into huge payments over a number of years, that can typically range up to 30. Many public institutions are struggling to...

Another day another senior Labour figure has backed Owen Smith over Jeremy Corbyn to become the next Labour leader. Yesterday Sadiq Khan decided to announce he was backing Smith and said in his opinion that Corbyn couldn’t win the next election. Now Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale has said that she will also be backing Owen Smith to become the next Labour leader. Dugdale said: "Owen Smith gets my vote. I believe Owen can unite our party, and move us...

There was a worrying spike in racially motivated attacks after the UK decided to leave the EU Referendum, across the UK. It has been reported that there were over six thousand reported race crimes in the UK in the four weeks after the UK opted for Brexit, which was showed an increase of a third on the same period on 2015. Now new shocking figures released have shown an increase of race hate attacks on Britain’s railways. The data was...

After London Mayor Sadiq Khan decided to back Owen Smith for leader rather than Jeremy Corbyn in yesterday's Observer, he was always going to face some amount of criticism. It didn't take long for Corbyn supporters to vent their anger, they roundly booed Khan at a Corbyn rally last night. The divisions in the party continue to grow and as Corbyn loses even more support from senior figures in his party, the grassroots support appears to grow and appear certain that...