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Met Police shot a man to death after being called to reports of a gunman making threats
Firearms cops rushed to the scene at around 3:50am after receiving calls about a man making threats and claiming he had a firearm.
Banks commit to launching new European Union hubs in Frankfurt as Brexit looms
Nearly 20 banks have committed to launching new European Union hubs in Frankfurt since the Brexit vote with a further 60 firms still in the decision process. According to the economy minister for the state of Hesse, where Frankfurt is situated, the city is confident it will become home to many financial institutions fleeing Britain in the wake of the Brexit vote. Several big banks like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have already made their location decisions, with a swathe of...
Why the Kremlin is funding Europe’s far right and the links to Number 10
By Roger Cottrell, PhD Russian financial interests funding the Conservative Party, to a sum in excess of £800 000, may be directly linked to the manipulation of Britain’s Brexit vote and to the funding of Europe’s fascist Right. Core to this nefarious connection are the links between Aggregate IQ (AIQ), Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), recently exposed in a joint report by Channel 4 News, The Observer and The New York Times. Facebook has just banned...
Divorce or death in family can speed up the ageing of men’s brains
Fateful life events ages the brain by four months
Viktoria Skripal refused UK visa after claiming Sergei and Yulia Skripal had food poisoning
The Home Office have refused Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria a visa to visit Yulia and father Sergei, a former Russian spy in Britain were they are recovering from poisoning. The refusal came hours after Viktoria who had previously released a tape purporting to be a telephone conversation with her cousin to Russian media, alleged that they had not suffered a chemical attack, rather food poisoning. "I will stick with a simple theory that they ate something wrong at the pub,...
Wannabe terrorist discussed killing David Cameron, the Queen and Tottenham fans
Somalian Aweys Shikhey branded a "danger as jailed for eight years for trying to join Islamic State
Sadiq Khan and David Lammy pay tribute to murdered teen Tanesha Melbourne
They arrived and left with no fanfare, and politely declined to speak to press
“Insatiable” fraudster who claimed her husband died in the Grenfell Tower fire jailed
Joyce Msokeri, 46, pocketed over £19,000 in cash, goods and stays at a Hilton hotel
Simple blood test detects Alzheimer’s years before symptoms start
It distinguishes between toxic and healthy forms of a protein that collects in clumps in dementia patients - causing confusion and memory loss