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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"

An exiled Azerbaijani rapper who uses his music to challenge his country’s dynastic leadership, a collective of Russian lawyers who seek to uphold the rule of law, an Afghan seeking to economically empower women through computer coding and a Honduran journalist who goes undercover to expose her country’s endemic corruption are among the courageous individuals and organisations shortlisted for the 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowships. Drawn from more than 400 crowdsourced nominations, the shortlist celebrates artists,...

Julian Assange has lost his legal battle to walk free from the Ecuadorian embassy after a judge ruled he should still be charged over an outstanding UK arrest warrant. The Wikileaks founder has been in his Knightsbridge bolthole in central London since 2012 after rape and sexual assault allegations were made in Sweden and he skipped bail. The 46-year-old denied the accusation and feared extradition would lead to him being sent on to US authorities over leaking sensitive documents including...

Tory cuts to immigration staff mean they can’t cope with existing workload, let alone prepare for Brexit. Government refuses to show clarity over post Brexit immigration. 3 million EU born citizens still face unnecessary uncertainty. British businesses with EU employees unable to prepare. Austerity-hit immigration department regularly makes mistakes. EU born citizens detained in Britain’s cruel immigration detention system. Theresa May’s Hostile Environment which passes immigration enforcement from government to landlords, bosses and doctors may be pointlessly cruel. Policy flip-flops...

A Democrat candidate who has campaigned against lobbyists, especially oil lobbyists buying access to politicians in her area of West Virginia which has been heavily affected by fracking, was thrown out of a public hearing for attempting to detail some of the vast array of donations that lawmakers behind it had been given by the oil industry. Lissa Lucas who is running for the West Virginia House of Delegates, District 7 (Ritchie and Pleasants) this year was attending a hearing...

The trade association for the amusement and gaming machine industry has called for a cut down in fixed odds machines after new research revealed they are causing huge welfare losses in the most deprived areas of Britain. According to new research costs of problem gambling associated with fixed odds machines (FOBTs) has topped £10 million and is concentrated in economically deprived areas. A worrying 121,000 FOBT users could be classes as problem gamblers, each suffering an average annual loss in...

Children as young as TEN have been caught in school with knives, razor blades and even MACHETES, shocking police figures have revealed. West Midlands Police reported that 119 children have been caught carrying and using blades in the last 18 months. The force also revealed that two counts of attempted murder were both reported in Birmingham schools since September 2016. Cops received 69 reports of children carrying blades to school in Birmingham - with one 13-year-old found with shards of...

A joint select committee inquiry into the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion have criticised the big four accountancy giants. They were accused of “feasting” on the beleaguered company and one of the four had managed “to play all three sides.” Evidence was brought to the inquiry that indicated that these accounting juggernauts have billed for £71m worth of work from Carillion since 2008. KPMG, acted as Carillion’s auditor for 19 years, billed the construction giant £20.2m. PwC, Deloitte, and Ernst and...