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The world's first vending machine which is exclusively for homeless people has been unveiled in a British city letting rough sleepers order food and even SOCKS. People living on the streets are able to get hold of water, fresh food and warm clothes from the altruistic device. The machine, which was installed by charity Action Hunger, was unveiled at the Intu Shopping Centre in Broadmarsh, Nottingham, on Tuesday (19/12). The world’s first free vending machine for the homeless supplying food,...

Labour MP Dennis Skinner has accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for running the NHS into the ground to the point where privatisation is the only option. The "Bolsover Beast", who became the longest continuously serving Labour MP ever this week, launched a scathing attack in parliament over hospital closures. He said: "There's a growing suspicion that what this secretary of state is up to is to leave them, lose all those beds in the hospitals forever so that the private...

The Scottish Labour Party will start their campaign to reclaim Scotland today after leader Richard Leonard unveiled his Shadow Cabinet in Holyrood. Four weeks on from being elected Scottish Labour leader Leonard announced a senior team with no place for the party’s former leader or deputy leader. Kezia Dugdale, who courted controversy when she appeared on I'm a Celebrity, has been dropped from the front bench, with prominent left-winger Neil Findlay coming in to look over Brexit, Campaigns and Party Engagement. Other newcomers...

President Donald Trump celebrated the fifth anniversary of the notorious Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings by inviting the CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) - America’s chief gun lobbyist for Whitehouse Christmas drinks. Five years to the day troubled Adam Lanza shot his mother dead, followed by six school staff and 20 children aged 6 -7 with a semi-automatic rifle, then himself, Donald Trump entertained the head of the NRA - the biggest financial backer of his presidential campaign....

In the irony of all ironies Britain's divorce from the European Union is now costing the country £350 million a week. According to figures released in the Financial Times the value of Britain’s output is now around 0.9 per cent lower than was possible if the country had voted to stay in the EU. That equates to almost exactly £350m a week lost to the British economy — an irony that will not be lost on those who may have backed...

Brexit-backing national newspapers The Sun and The Mail are seen to be having the most negative impact on society, according to a new poll. Rupert Murdoch's red top rag was ranked as having a negative impact on society by half of people who participated in the survey compared to just five per cent who said it has a positive influence. The Daily Mail, run by Paul Dacre, ranked in close second with just ten per cent saying it has had a...

Posh residents fitted trees with ‘anti-bird spikes’ in a bid to protect their expensive cars from droppings, outraging environmentalists. The spikes – which are usually used to stop birds resting and building nests on ledges and nooks on buildings – have been nailed to two trees in an exclusive part of Bristol. The trees, in the front gardens of Essendene House and Heathfield House, both privately owned flats near Clifton Down, have been described by a local Green councillor as...

Jonathan Ashworth, Shadow Secretary of State for Health: "Virgin Care recently won a £100 million contract for children’s health services in Lancashire, but in the Secretary of State’s own backyard of Surrey, Virgin Care recently took legal action against the NHS, forcing it to settle out of court. This money should be going to patient care, not the coffers of Virgin Care, so why will he not step in and fix this scandal so that his Surrey constituents and the NHS...

Billions of pounds worth of compensation money is at stake because most Brits don’t know when the PPI claims deadline is, a financial specialist has claimed. More than 80 per cent of people in the UK are unaware they have just over a year left to claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) before a looming cut-off date. Just 12 million people have claimed for the toxic financial product out of around 64 million policies sold, the authorities say. And...