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Backstop issue will not be solved with positive thoughts, says business leader
The first meeting of a group set up to find backstop alternatives had full and frank discussions, according to one member. Aodhan Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, attended the first meeting of the business group set up to examine other options to the Brexit backstop on Wednesday. “I can say that there was very frank discussion and a chance for people to look at the parameters of what alternative arrangements would mean for the Northern Ireland border,”...
London sixth form giving students elocution and etiquette lessons to compete with private school peers
Newham Collegiate sixth form have introduced a “finishing school” where students learn how to sound more polished and confident and are given the necessary skills to succeed at interview and beyond.
Teachers at outstanding school protest against regular attacks and pupils bringing knives into class
Behaviour levels are so bad at Starbank Secondary School in Birmingham staff have been issued with 'panic buttons' on their computers
Teenager died after he was stabbed outside greengrocers in West London
Police say they were called at 9.20pm to Shepherds Bush, west London to reporters of a stabbing.
Sexual violence victims get terrible deal from justice system
Victims of sexual assault are getting a “terrible deal” from the criminal justice system and are often only believed if they have behaved like saints, Baroness Newlove has warned. The outgoing Victims’ Commissioner said those who alleged rape or sexual violence were being badly let down, with many victims finding the criminal justice process as harrowing as the crime itself. Writing in her final annual report as Victims’ Commissioner, Lady Newlove said her time in the role had highlighted “many”...
Johnson pledges to take back control of immigration with Australian- style system
Boris Johnson has moved to seize the initiative in the Tory leadership race, pledging to deliver an Australian-style points-based immigration system if he becomes prime minister. The frontrunner to succeed Theresa May said he wanted to rebuild the public’s faith in the UK’s immigration system and to be “tougher on those who abuse our hospitality”. “We will restore democratic control of immigration policy after we leave the EU,” he said. Meanwhile, his rival for the Tory crown, Jeremy Hunt, has...
Anti-Brexit campaigners take aim at Johnson with Glastonbury billboard
“There is no plan for no deal, because we’re going to get a great deal” promised Boris Johnson… only to resign as Foreign Secretary when the Brexit deal was actually being negotiated and describe it as Britain wearing a “suicide vest" A billboard has been unveiled at Glastonbury Festival which its creators say shows “how little we can trust” Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson. The billboard, created by anti-Brexit campaigners Led By Donkeys in collaboration with Cold War Steve,...
The story behind the photo that shook the world. Will it change a thing?
The UN refugee agency today compared the photograph to the 2015 image of the three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi who drowned off the Greek island of Kos. But will it move enough hearts to change Trump’s hardline immigration measures?