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PETA Flash Mob Calls for Everyone to Wear Their Own Skin, Not Animals' A group of female PETA supporters braved the winter weather and bared their skin for a radical vegan protest at the start of London Fashion Week today. With the slogan "Wear Your Own Skin" painted across their bodies, the activists encouraged passers-by to stand up for animals by leaving fur, leather, shearling, and other animal-derived materials out of their wardrobes. "Whether it's the fur of a frightened fox...

A furious Oxford University dean has branded his own students as "entitled" after they smashed glasses and abused catering staff at a traditional college dinner. The second-year students at the university’s Trinity College were warned they face a “collective fine” for their drunken antics at the Halfway Hall bash on Tuesday (13/2). More than 200 students attended the boozy ceremony which marks the halfway point for students in their university career. Dean Dr James McDougall has ordered the students to...

The thugs grabbed the £1,400 necklace from 45-year-old Menaka's neck while she was out walking with her family.

An Islamic fanatic who used Twitter and Instagram to spread "poisonous" propaganda to promote ISIS has been jailed. Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, used more than 20 Twitter and Instagram accounts to share his pro-Daesh messages between 2016 and 2017. Detectives from the Met arrested at him home address in East London in April 2017 after investigating his online activities. One of Saleem's tweets included an image of two 'zombie knives', with just the word "itching". Another showed a second man...

A cannabis law reform lobbying group has hit out at a Tory drugs minister for what they call “hypocrisy” for opposing drugs reforms while her husband’s company has a lucrative contract growing cannabis. Victoria Atkins husband's company is in partnership with GW Pharmaceuticals, a UK biotech firm, which is developing Epidiolex, a synthetic drug made from cannabis plants and used to treat childhood epilepsy. Families with children with epilepsy around the world have been medicating the condition with natural cannabis...

Boris Johnson’s ‘unity’ speech sparked an "overwhelmingly negative response" on social media, with 44 per cent negative sentiment displayed compared to just seven per cent positive. Mr Johnson was attacked for a lack of substance and a lack of understanding of the EU following his speech which kick-started the government's "road to Brexit" plan. Exaggerated optimism, incredulity over continued engagement with Europe and failing to address key issues such as the Good Friday Agreement and Irish border were also among the...

Jeremy Corbyn has said the powerful "can't carry on walking by" after a rough sleeper was found dead just yards from the entrance to Parliament. The Labour leader said it is time MPs took up the moral challenge to properly house everyone as the tragic case unfolded next to Westminster. Police were called to Westminster tube station just after 7.15am on Wednesday, following reports of an “unresponsive” man in an area where rough sleepers are known to gather, just outside...

Ferruccio Lamborghini had launched the Trattori in 1948, with his early tractors utilising war surplus truck and military vehicle engines.

Inspirational Sinead McCall also has a message for the gunman and said defiantly: "You did not take my life. I'm beautiful, I'm happy and I'm going to make it"