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Former shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe is returning to politics to join Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. Declaring the former UKIP man the “most successful politician since Margaret Thatcher” she told the Daily Express that the public needs to send “a very clear message” that we expect the vote to be “respected” as she joined the Brexit Party ranks. She said the "last thing" she wanted was "a full-on return to the political fray" but she felt it necessary to re-affirm...

Ali Sadjady has decided to step down from the list of potential candidates put forward by Change UK following revelations that he made derogatory comments about Romanians. The Independent's Europe Correspondent Jon Stone published an article yesterday bringing to light comments by Mr Sadjady in 2017 in which he said: "When I hear that 70% of pick pockets caught on the London Underground are Romanian it kind makes me want Brexit". He also posted a tweet in the aftermath of...

This shows that the interaction between smell and taste, the primary components of food flavour, may begin on the tongue and not in the brain as previously thought.

The newly-re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Biyamin Netanyahu vowed today to name a settlement in the Golan Heights after Donald Trump.  The move by newly elected Netanyahu is to thank Trump for flouting international law and recognising Israeli sovereignty over the lands just before the Israeli elections. Israel captured the region to its North along the Syrian border during the Six Day War in 1967 and it has been occupied ever since despite UN resolutions against Israel’s annexation of the strategic...

George Beauchamp was working as a fire stoker below deck when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean on April 14 1912

Public toilets, zoos and mountain tops have been named among the most weird and wonderful places people work from as hot desking turns to ‘not desking’. Research of more than 5,000 sole traders, entrepreneurs and small businesses has revealed people are increasingly turning their backs on the office and running company operations from their mobile phone. Those running animal care businesses were found to be most likely ‘not desking’, with a quarter running their firms remotely. People working in arts...

The Labour Party has put clear water between itself and rival parties, taking a lead in 10 Westminster polls. According to the latest voting intention Jeremy Corbyn’s party has an average lead of five percentage points over Theresa May’s Conservatives. The latest polls, conducted by ComRes, ORB and YouGov, give Labour a +10, +3 and a +1 lead respectively.   Other polling houses put Labour up by as much as nine points, with Hanbury giving them 40 per cent of...

The man has assaulted a number of women across London.

The 16-year-old founder of the school strikes against climate change previously said hoped to join the protesters in London.