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Brexit has allowed concrete issues to be "swept under the carpet" while we deal with abstract notions of sovereignty, The New European editor Matt Kelly has said. Speaking on Media Masters podcast Kelly said we are facing many real problems in society that are being ignored because of the ongoing debate on the EU. The Conservatives have been allowed to skirt "real" issues such as the NHS, the North/South divide, the size of classrooms and waiting times at A&E because the...

The iron rich sediments are the likeliest place to find fossilised microbes dating back three to four billion years.

Cal Major started Paddle Against Plastic to bring positivity to the plastic pollution crisis

But the the winner of the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers' Joys of Nature contest was a lovely picture of a pair of harvest mice.

Inmates at HMP Long Lartin, near Evesham, Worcs, are also being forced to use makeshift commodes because of a lack of WCs.

The victim, who is believed to be in his 80s, was taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later

It was a bolt from the bleu

Boris Johnson has suggested that the biggest roadblock to Anglo-Argentina relations is the EU during his recent visit to South America. The prominent Brexiteer claimed he was the first Foreign Secretary in 50 years to visit Peru and the first in 25 years to go to Chile and Argentina, suggesting this was because being a member of the EU had made the UK "more Eurocentric and less instinctively global than we had been". His comments overlook the fact that the EU already...

The study suggests that it helps people become calmer in the face of suffering - and may benefit conditions ranging from social anxiety disorder to autism