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A huge row has broken out in Surrey after Virgin Care was handed a £328,000 payout after taking legal action against six Surrey clinical commissioning groups, Surrey County Council and NHS England, reports the Get Surrey. Virgin Care lost out on a lucrative contact to provide healthcare in the county and was able to sue over contractual issues, after missing out on the bid. Local residents have launched a campaign to get Virgin care, owned by Richard Branson, “return the...

Max Clifford, who was once known as a goliath in the media world, before he was found guilty of sex crimes, has died in prison. Clifford died of a heart attack in his cell, at Littlehey Prison in Cambridgeshire. He was aged 74. Mr Clifford was serving an eight-year custodial prison term for historical sex offences. In May 2014, Clifford was jailed after being convicted of eight historical indecent assaults on women and young girls under Operation Yewtree - the...

Wildfires in California have burned across Sky News owner Rupert Murdoch's $30 million winery. Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel in America along with News International properties The Times and The Sun in the UK, has had his winery scorched as the blaze rips through Bel-Air. Many on social media have said it is comeuppance for his climate skepticism while others have pointed to his controversial publishing record. The media mogul has endured a shaky year already with News Corp recording a loss...

Donald Trump seems to be doing nothing to distance himself from extreme far-right groups in the US, and today appears to be supporting a UK far-right group by retweeting three unverified anti-Muslim videos posted by far-right group Britain First. The unverified clips, which have been shared with his 43 million followers show, what is described as, 'Muslim destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary'. Another video was described as 'Muslim migrants beating up a Dutch boy on crutches'. A third...

Yesterday the President of the United States Trump tweeted to boast that Time Magazine had called to say he was "probably" going to be named "Man (Person) of the Year." - This was the front cover accolade the prestigious publication had already bestowed upon Donald Trump last year when he confounded pundits to win the Presidential election. The Donald tweeted: "Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year,...

After the #StopFundingHate social media campaign persuaded Paperchase that the Daily Mail isn't in keeping with its values, the stationary chain apologised for a marketing campaign with the Mail and vowed not to work with it again. The campaign came after a series of pieces in the Mail singling out the trans community for abuse. And the paper reacted to Paperchase's announcement with customary dignity, blaming “internet trolls orchestrated by a small group of hard-left Corbynist individuals” endeavouring to “suppress...

Access to any nursery rhyme or kids’ TV favourite characters with a quick search on YouTube or its safe child-friendly YouTube Kids platform is a boon to busy parents who want something safe for young children to watch. But ‘Elsagate' is a sinister phenomenon that has surfaced - and all parents need to know about how children’s favourites are being subverted to bombard impressional youngsters with creepy content. The scandal is nicknamed after the character from Disney’s family favourite animation...

The British mainstream media is refusing to cover the Paradise Papers because most of the avoiders own the newspapers, James O'Brien has claimed. Speaking on LBC today O'Brien launched a scathing attack on Telegraph owners David and Frederick Barclay, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth and The Sun and The Times owner Rupert Murdoch for gagging the damning financial data leak. The Paradise Papers investigation showed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens, but it has been largely...

For anyone not familiar with Britain First, it's a single Facebook page for people to share hateful and largely illiterate ideas that sink to a whole new level of stupid. Britain First describes itself as a Political Party standing up for nationalism and British Sovereignty, opposing colonisation and promoting Christianity. Britain First generally share fake pictures of foreigners going about their business in Middle Eastern cities, claiming the snap was taken in York or Swindon. Photos of Pakistani cricket supporters...