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TORY GOVERNMENT TO BLAME FOR OUTRAGEOUS AND UNFAIR SCRAPPING OF TV LICENCES FOR OVER 75s, GMB CONGRESS HEARS Stripping over-75s of their free TV licences is outrageous and unfair,claims the GMB Congress. Tories clearly don’t value pensioners – they’ve palmed off the responsibility free TV licences and snatched away the cash they Union has claimed. A motion put before GMB’s Annual Congress in Brighton yesterday condemned the announcement as “outrageous and unfair”. The Labour Party had originally awarded TV licences...

An embellished interpretation of Jeremy Clarkson’s column made the front page of the Daily Star this morning as the redtop made sensational claims that Jeremy Kyle was "axed in revenge for Brexit". Clarkson courted controversy on Sunday after claiming that the decision to cancel The Jeremy Kyle Show amounts to unfairly taking away the “plaything” of “fat, unintelligent Brexiteers”. The ITV daytime show was cancelled following the death of Steve Dymond, who had participated in an episode (that was not...

The Jeremy Kyle Show has been axed by ITV following the death of a guest who took part in the programme. Steven Dymond was found dead on 9 May a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test. The death has prompted an outpouring of criticism around how the show treats vulnerable people, with a decorated Gulf War hero who suffered from PTSD speaking out this week after he too was driven to the brink...

“After the show I just wanted the ground to swallow me up. If it wasn’t for my kids I would have ended it. "I am relieved the show has been taken off the air and I hope it never comes back. Mental health is a serious subject and this show exploits the most vulnerable."

Monday’s Jeremy Kyle show was pulled at the last minute after a guest died after appearing on the daytime talk show. ITV have confirmed that the controversial tabloid show in which people air personal conflicts which airs at 9.25am weekdays will be replaced by Dickinson’s Real Deal and suspended while an investigation is carried out. A statement by ITV explained: “Everyone at ITV and The Jeremy Kyle Show is shocked and saddened at the news of the death of a...

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Radio host Danny Baker has been fired by the BBC after tweet regarding the birth of the royal baby. Baker, 61, seemingly mocking Meghan Markle's racial heritage with an image of two people holding hands with a monkey dressed in a suit. The radio star posted it, moments after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their son, with the caption: "Royal baby leaves hospital." Baker's tweet received a huge backlash on social media. He confirmed his firing from the BBC on Twitter, writing: "Just...

An animated graphic illustrating the meteoric rise of Jeremy Corbyn is making the rounds on social media. The moving chart shows the top 20 UK MPs by number of Twitter followers between October 2015 and May 2019. While serving PM David Cameron ranks in the top position for the most part, Corbyn storms past the former Conservative leader in 2016 after he famously survived a leadership contest.   Come mid 2017- after Labour increased their share of the popular vote...

President Trump has embarked on the 2020 election campaign, gleefully deflecting attention from any further investigations of his affairs by going on the offence 'bigly'. In a rally in Wisconsin this weekend he whipped up his crowd of MAGA hat wearing followers by offending just about everyone from the “sick” news media to “scum” FBI investigators. In a rambling rant that was demented even by his standards, he turned to a myth he’s peddled before – that Democrats are “aggressively...