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Students at a university are clashing over LIBRARY seats - as they battle to finish their dissertations. Undergraduates are reporting seeing furious rows over chair availability as deadlines approach. University of Bristol student Rob Angel tweeted after seeing two fellow student clash over a seat in the uni's Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL). He wrote: "Just seen a full blown argument between two students over a seat in the library. The end is near!" And the Bristol University Library's...

A top QC took £75 from his chamber's funds to pay for private treatment when his daughter got a splinter in her finger, an employment tribunal heard. And when fellow barrister Karen Gillard leaked the story about Anthony Metzer, QC, to website Legal Cheek she was sacked, the hearing was told. Miss Gillard, deputy treasurer at Goldsmith Chambers, told the tribunal how Mr Metzer would employ family members and their friends and pay them more than other interns. She said...

Toronto police have confirmed that nine people are dead, 16 injured after a driver drove a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians on a Toronto pavement on Monday afternoon. Authorities say the driver is in custody and have identified a suspect named as Alek Minassian. According to witnesses, the driver appeared to deliberately drive at people, leaving a trail of carnage nearly a mile long. Police have confirmed that the suspect is in custody. Police sources said that...

Tadeusz Polanski was seven years old when his parents moved from Poland to the UK

A man who was convicted of a hate crime after he filmed a pet dog giving Nazi salutes and put the footage on YouTube has been given a £800 fine. Mark Meechan was sentenced after a landmark ruling found him guilty of communicating a video which was "grossly offensive". Mark Meechan leaves Airdrie Sherriff Court, with girlfriend Suzanne Kelly, where he was fined after being found guilty of a hate crime. April 23 2018.  The 30-year-old has been given six...

The charity industry in London is "in crisis" and "at tipping point" according to a damning new report that reveals there has been a surge in demand for services from the capital’s disadvantaged and marginalised communities. City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable funder and the capital’s biggest independent grant maker, revealed many in the capital are facing widespread inequality, poverty and disadvantage. The research found that there is an opportunity for all charity funders, in a time of...

Today’s scandalous figures are more proof Theresa May’s Government has completely and utterly failed to tackle insecure work GMB union has criticised the Government after new figures released today showed the number of zero hours contracts creeping up to 2 million. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning show the number of zero hours contracts estimated to be in circulation in the economy rose to 1.8 million in November 2017 - up from 1.7 million a year...

Private Member’s Bill to protect emergency workers returns to Parliament on Friday and must cover sexual assaults, says union. GMB, the union for NHS workers, is demanding a change in the law as its investigation reveals that reported sexual assaults on ambulance staff have increased by 211 per cent over five years. According to the results of a Freedom of Information Act survey undertaken by GMB, there have been at least 688 sexual assaults on ambulance staff since 2012/13. In...

The majority of Brits would vote to remain in the EU if another referendum were held next week. A major UK-wide survey of more than 200,000 people revealed that a significant majority want the UK to stay in the European single market and believe Britain will be economically worse off outside the EU. The findings come as Prime Minister Theresa May faces growing pressure to concede on her so-called Brexit "red lines" of leaving the single market and customs union. Almost...