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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor This clip shows a homosexual cyclist being applauded by a group of bystanders when he closes down a man preaching his views on the LGBT community. The video from Glasgow, shows the preacher holding what appears to be a bible in his hand. The preacher yells after him: 'god still loves you.' The cyclist then says: 'I love me, I don't need a god to do it.' His statement is met with instant cheering and clapping...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Around 800 volunteers were involved in a mock terror attack at the Trafford Centre, Manchester the second biggest shopping mall in Britain. The clip is terrifying but thankfully bit real, but it shows how seriously security forces are taking the chance that a similar attack might happen for real. The exercise took place at midnight and went onto the small hours of today. The stunt began with a suicide bomber detonating a device and killing and...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Department of Education has blamed a “rogue marker” for the online leak of a grammar, punctuation and spelling test. The test is being taken by 600,000 ten and eleven-year-olds. The BBC said a DfE source blamed an "active campaign by those people opposed to our reforms to undermine these tests". The answers to the test appeared Monday night for four hours on a password-protected website. Only three weeks ago a primary school exam was...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor An Anti-Islamic march managed to get two hundred meters up the road and lasted five minutes before the attendees packed off home. The police who were there to oversee the event outnumbered the protestors by four to one, that took place in Staffordshire. Only 24 protestors showed up for the demo in Burton, which had been organised by a group that have dubbed themselves “The Casual Infidels.” The group describes itself as a “freelancing movement”...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In March the state of North Carolina passed a piece of legislation restricting the lavatory use of transgender people. It forces transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. The policy was criticised across America and the world. The US Justice department, told the North Carolina state government they had until the end of Monday to bin the legislation or they could have millions of dollars cut from federal...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Controversial figure and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had previously argued that he wanted to ban Muslims, for an indefinite period, from entering the US, assuming he was made President. Trump put forward the idea of the blanket muslim ban after deadly attacks by Islamist militants in Paris and California last year. However, this raises an issue for new London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a western European city. Khan is keen...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A video posted online which shows a dog making a Nazi salute in front of image of Adolf Hitler may lead to an arrest for its owner. The man a 28-year-old Markus Meechan from North Lanarkshire, now faces hate crime charges due to the nature of the video, Police Scotland have confirmed. In the footage the pug appears to be sitting in front of a TV set showing Hitler and making nazi salutes. The man...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor  At 6pm at offshoreleaks.icij.org. 200,000 more account details from the Panama papers leak became available. This data dump will show how some of the most affluent firms and high net worth individuals use offshore organisations to avoid paying tax. The database belong to Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, and the source of the leak is only know as “John Doe.” "John Doe" has issued a statement citing "income equality" as his reason for sharing this...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Three hundred leading economists have said that tax havens serve no useful purpose and only increase inequality. The charity Oxfam organised the open letter and has been released ahead of an anti-corruption summit this week in London. In the letter to world leaders the economists, including the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, say that tax havens “undoubtedly benefit” rich individuals and multinational corporations, but this benefit is at the expense of the rest of society. The...