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Desperate parents are pleading for help to cure their six-year-old daughter of a rare cancer that causes her eyes to bleed - and POP OUT. Brave Dhanika Tripura, six, was seemingly totally healthy until just six weeks ago when her eye area started to swell up, with blood building up beneath her skin. Medics diagnosed acute lymphocytic leukaemia and she needs £11,550 to pay for specialist treatment to save her life. Her desperate parents Dhanya Kumar Tripura, 45, and Shashikala,...

Over the last seven years of austerity the number of homeless people has sky rocketed. Around 80,000 families, couples and single people have been forced to live in temporary accommodation, as they have no home to call their own. The number of households living in temp accommodation was 79,190 in September. This figure includes numerous families who lost their homes in the Grenfell Tower frire. Back in December 2010 the number was under 50,000, a large figure but the increase...

A man is selling a Brexit number plate after being warned he won't get his Christmas dinner if he puts it on his car. Mark Hoyle, 58, bought the registration X17 BRE for his black VW Golf. Mark Hoyle is selling a Brexit number plate after being warned he won't get his Christmas dinner if he puts it on his car. But after the ultimatum from his partner he has stuck it on Gumtree for £750. Mark, of Torquay, Devon...

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines - three Republicans vs two Democrats to end Net Neutrality and the principle of a free internet that everyone can access equally. - A principle that heralded an era of innovation, freedom of speech and new forms of communication and social organisation predicated on everybody’s voice being able to be heard equally online. The Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai had been appointed by President Trump, an opponent of...

Paul Golding, leader of right-wing group Britain First, has been arrested in Belfast regarding speeches he made at rally in the city. The 35-year-old was arrested shortly after arriving at Belfast magistrates court. Golding was his deputy, Jayda Fransen, 31, as she made her first appearance after being charged with “using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour” at the same rally. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said: “Detectives investigating speeches made at the Northern Ireland Against Terrorism rally...

Donald Trump's vote for the New York City mayoral race had to be binned because he got his birthday wrong. The President was not in the Big Apple when voters went the polls, so he voted by absentee ballot. But things didn't go too swimmingly for the man who once owned a large chunk of Manhattan. According to the New York Daily News, which obtained his ballot and found the error, the President put his birth date as 14 July 1946, when...

The fate of 41 trees planted in 1919 to honour fallen Great War heroes was sealed yesterday (Wed) as council bosses voted to fell and replace them. Campaigners shouted "shame" at councilors as they revealed the WW1 memorial trees will be felled - because saving them would cost £500,000. Furious campaigners fighting to save the trees shouted out as they were told costly engineering solutions to retain the trees in Sheffield, South Yorks., would mean raiding its social care budget....

A former soldier has walked free from court after targeting Muslims on social media in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing. Geoffrey Reynolds, 53, sent tweets saying he was "trained and ready" for any of those who were set to "try it on" following the attack on May 22. He also posted a picture of a man on a toilet with the words "The Koran, now in two ply". Reynolds admitted one charge of sending offensive public communications on...

Latest study predicts sea rises of between 3.1ft and 8ft this century Heavily populated US Atlantic and Gulf coasts could face up to 11ft sea rise Homes of 153 million people in at risk areas around the world threatened If carbon emissions "immediately and aggressively” cut, rise could be limited to 1ft10 this century According to a new peer reviewed study of global warming using the latest scientific studies of Antarctica’s vast melting ice sheets, seas could rise by double...