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A homeless woman said she was told by a "cruel" waste collection man she could not take a bit of cardboard from a skip to sleep on - as the company gets MONEY for it. Mum Stacey Himkinson, who has been sleeping rough for more than six months, said she was looking in bins for a bit of cardboard to keep her off the cold, wet ground. But she said a waste company employee told her she could not take...

A teenage boy who raped a young woman at gunpoint after breaking into her home has been jailed for 15 years. Aquib Ahmed, 19, knocked at a window of his victim's home in the early hours of April 1 last year, a court heard. When she opened the window Ahmed, then aged 18, burst into the property and pointed a gun at his victim's father - telling him to go and lie on his bed. Sheffield Crown Court, South Yorks.,...

Yellow meadow ants weighing more than an African elephant have completely changed the landscape of one Royal Park in just a century - with half a million ANTHILLS. Citizen scientists studying Richmond Park in south west London found that three billion ants had created anthills in the 17th Century park, some of which are more than 150-years-old. The Royal Parks’ Mission: Invertebrate project saw 55 volunteers count and measure the size of mounds built by the yellow meadow ant in...

After Carillion collapsed with huge losses, news emerged that hedge funds made around £300m since the Government contractor began to fail. BlackRock – which recently hired former chancellor George Osborne on a salary of £650,000 for one day a week – the world’s biggest fund manager made over £16 million across its funds. Now as outsource giant Capita said that dividends would be suspended and the share price plummeted, hedge funds made £90m. IHS Markit indicated that 8.2 per cent...

The average worker will earn more than £1.1 million in wages during their life, a study has found. Researchers who studied the earnings of 2,000 people revealed they will typically bank £1,123,164 in pay over an average 48-year working career. According to the study, the average worker earns £23,399.25 a year. Workers in London currently bring in the highest annual salary, an average of £31,217.62, while those living in South West earn the least each year, pocketing £18,428.13. Greg Tatton-Brown...

@BenGelblum As Tory donors turn against Theresa May and she runs out of Conservative colleagues leaping to her defence, one of her ministers has been rebuked by the Chief Tory whip for asking an obvious but embarrassing question: "whether a government could legitimately lead a country along a path that the evidence and rational consideration indicate would be damaging." If the facts suggest Brexit will leave the country poorer, should Theresa May still be pretending otherwise and pursue a course...

A 1,300-year-old gold cross which was found buried with the body of an aristocratic Anglo-Saxon teenager is to go on display for the first time. The Trumpington Cross, made of gold and garnet, was discovered on the skeleton of a female between the ages of 14 and 18 who was laid to rest in an extremely rare ‘bed burial’ ceremony. Only a handful of Anglo-Saxon bed burials - in which the deceased person is buried in the ground, lying on...

@BenGelblum With Britain's police budgets set to lose £700m a year, amid rising crime, and yet more cuts planned for border forces, parliament today heard of the tragic consequences of less money to fight a growing drug-fuelled gang crime epidemic. Knife crime is not being driven by minors and teenagers. It is being driven by organised criminals exploiting children, arming our young people and fighting turf wars over a £12bn drugs market, Tottenham David Lammy told the House of Commons,...

Feisty Emily Thornberry stood in at PMQs today, for Jeremy Corbyn, with David Lidington standing in for the PM as she in China. Thornberry said that the DUP and Tories were a “coalition of cavemen” because of their opposition to lower the voting age to 16, which all other main parties support. A concern for the Conservative Party is that 16-18 year-olds might be less likely to vote for their party. As the lively debate continued Thornberry said there was...