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The Trump administration is forcing children as young as 3 years old to represent themselves in immigration courts, it has been revealed. According to the Texas Tribune immigrant children are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings. The revelation comes as the White House faces a major backlash over separating families at the border. It is believed that some 2,000-plus separated children are being asked to deal with court proceedings as they grapple with the ongoing trauma of being taken...

Scientists have shown that electronic radio tags could be used to track the invasive insect and stop them colonising Britain and killing our honeybees

Police declare "major incident" in Amesbury, Wilts, after the two people were found unconscious

The world’s first Vegan electricity has been launched after "energy’s dirty secret" was exposed. Despite a growing number of people turning to plant-based diets, millions of ethical consumers could be unknowingly powering their lives with electricity and gas made using the by-products of the meat and dairy industries, including animal body parts. Euphemistically described by one of the Big Six energy companies as “recycling” – the practice of using animal by-products and even dead animals to make electricity and gas in...

Footage captured by an eyewitness shows fierce flames and thick smoke engulfing the field of grassland yesterday afternoon

A slavery victim was told that his benefits would be slashed and threatened with jail if he didn't pay a historical fine for committing a crime he was forced into by one of the UK's biggest human trafficking rings. The 51-year-old man, who was regularly beaten, starved and at one point forced to dig his own grave, was convicted of stripping a nightclub of scrap metal after being forced into it by the notorious Rooney family. It is thought the...

Thames Water had to hand out water bottles and pump water into the network to keep pressure up

“Cataclysmic” collision shaped Uranus’ evolution, reveals new research led by Durham University scientists

Business preparedness over Brexit was ranked almost unanimously red by the British Chambers of Commerce in their latest assessment. The independent business network revealed their RAG ratings today, with just two amber ratings among the 24 otherwise red classifications. RAG ratings are used in project management to flag issues or status reports, based on red, amber and green colours used in a traffic light rating system. The system was used by the BCC to give business answers to practical questions they...