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A Tory councillor has come under fire for urging her local authority to pull down tents used by homeless people. She took to Twitter to share he thoughts on the homelessness issue in the city she represents. Kathryn Kelloway, a councillor for the Cyncoed area of Cardiff, tweeted to the city council’s leader a picture of herself standing in front of tents pitched on a shopping street. “Cllr Thomas, if you seek safety in our city centre, if you seek prosperity for...

The campaign by activist collective Led By Donkeys is meant to highlight the predictions made by top politicians in the run up to Brexit.

Zoe Ball makes her breakfast show debut

Footage of an audience member on Question Time destroying Theresa May’s attempts at leadership has gone viral. She said why she did not feel sorry for the prime minister and just less than 2 minutes managed to pull apart May, who is no longer looking very “strong and stable”. She said: “Could we get over feeling sorry for Theresa May? I don’t feel sorry for her. “She’s the woman who for many, many years has led the hostile environment for migrants...

Piers Morgan has been hilariously trolled on Twitter after he used a 1400 year-old olive tree in Puglia to give "perspective to Remoaners", only to learn that the EU intervened with €7 million of funding to save the trees in 2015. The outspoken media personality tweeted at the weekend that he had driven past an ancient tree which has survived "over 1350 years longer than the European Union has existed". He added that it should offer "hysterical Remoaners a little perspective",...

Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith was trending on Twitter last night following the television debut of I, Daniel Blake. Ken Loach's drama showed on BBC 2 in a prime time spot this weekend, telling the story of an out-of-work carpenter who is denied employment and support allowance despite his doctor finding him unfit to work. Clips of Loach and Mark Steel lamenting the Department of Work and Pensions and the benefit sanctions regime emerged. They said the...

A woman broke down on live television yesterday after describing the emotional impact that Brexit has had on her life. Appearing on the Jeremy Vine show the caller said her family is going to suffer because of Britain's exit from the European Union, which she says has "ruined the country". "We're going to struggle to put food on our table because a few of you don't like foreigners", she added, saying her husband’s construction business was now in trouble because of a...

We're just two days into the year - also 'Veganuary' as animal product avoiders like to call this month - and Greggs bakers have caused a social media storm. By announcing a vegan sausage roll. In perhaps the news of the year for plant-eaters, and anyone else concerned by the World Health Organisation's recent warnings about processed red meats, Greggs are rolling out the vegan treat with pastry made with vegetable oils and a “bespoke Quorn filling” in 950 high street...

“Revealing them casually, through an unusual media exposure even if it’s the commander in chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group. There would be no denying who you are and what you do.”