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With barely hours left until the end of the year, Donald Trump may have just tweeted his dumbest tweet of the year yet. There have been quite a few contenders this year, especially this tweet incriminating himself. But the climate sceptic President hell-bent on removing science from government departments as well as removing the USA from the crucial Paris climate change agreement that every other country signed up to against all odds, turned to the topic of global warming with...

Lord Adonis, The Government’s infrastructure adviser has announced he is quitting his role blaming the fallout from Brexit for his decision. He has chaired the National Infrastructure Commission since 2015 and has been an outspoken critic of Theresa May’s approach to Brexit and The European Union Withdrawal Bill, which he calls "the worst legislation of my lifetime." And his damning letter makes clear that he "would have been obliged to resign from the Commission at this point anyway because of...

A single mum has been left suicidal and fearing for her children's lives after getting 'trapped' living in a mouldy, slug-infested house for almost SEVEN YEARS. Jessica Sparrow-Lewis, 29, has endured years of misery in her rented home which is filled with damp, black mould and exposed wiring that has been deemed a "risk to life". One of the rooms is so cold it is practically uninhabitable, with Jessica's children Freya, nine, Alfie, six, and Arlo, one, are sharing one...

Lord Adonis, The government's infrastructure adviser has announced he is quitting his role blaming the fallout from Brexit for his decision. He has chaired the National Infrastructure Commission since 2015 and has been an outspoken critic of Brexit from the start. Adonis called Brexit a "populist and nationalist spasm," and that the PM was “pursuing a course fraught with danger” over the UK’s decision to leave the European project. In his resignation letter, he accused Mrs May of "allying with...

Two men arrested days before Christmas accused of planning to build a bomb and carry out a terrorist attack have appeared in court. Andy Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, were arrested six days before Christmas in a series of early morning raids in the Chesterfield and Sheffield areas of South Yorkshire. Today both appeared in custody at Westminster Magistrates Court via video link from Leeds Magistrates Court. Both men, of Iraqi origin, spoke only confirm their name, age and...

2017 marked the year that the bitcoin finally entered the mainstream. If you’re the kind of early adopter who stays on top of the latest trading technology or the gradual shift away from standard currencies then you’ve been aware of the bitcoin and other digital currencies since they began to emerge shortly before 2010. This year, however, was the point at which bitcoins began to be discussed and considered by the kind of people who wouldn’t normally consider anything more...

A high flying executive who was called 'pikey', 'gyppo' and 'paddy' during board meetings has been awarded nearly £300,000 by an employment tribunal. Father-of-one Edward Bell, 52, was also told he looked like a "tinker" and asked where he had left his "horse and cart" - before being wrongfully fired for 'whistle-blowing'. And at one social event, Mr Bell was told he was the only person who could wear good clothes and still 'look like a gypsy'. Belfast-born Mr Bell,...

Lighting up the night sky with greens and reds, these are the spectacular aurora by a photographer in the world's northern regions. These amazing pictures of the northern lights were taken by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado in Greenland, Iceland and Finland. He said: "Auroras are one of the most spectacular natural phenomena that can be seen. Bursting with colour in the night, these aren't fireworks but aurora lighting up the northern skies. "They are global spectacles, in the sense that...

Being exposed to short term spikes in air pollution even below legal limits leads to an early grave for the elderly, a study warned. When levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone were higher on a particular day, it leads to more deaths two days later. And the risk of a premature death was 25 per cent greater for elderly poor white and minority women than those who were male or white. Previous studies found evidence that short-term exposures...