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Brexit has given people license to be openly racist according to Baroness Lawrence. Speaking to LBC this morning the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence said instances of racism are on the rise in Britain, and the Brexit vote is to blame for bringing it to the surface. Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist attack in Eltham 25 years ago, the murder that led to the Macpherson Report which revealed an institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police. According to the latest...

Police investigating the Hatton Garden robbery have made another arrest - almost three years after the massive heist. Flying Squad detectives investigating the April 2015 raid have nicked a 57-year-old man. They arrested the man at an address in Islington, north London, on Tuesday morning, on suspicion of non-residential burglary. A Met Police spokesperson said: "The man was arrested after a search warrant was carried out at an address in Islington at approximately 07:30hrs. "A number of items were seized...

Sue Ann Cornwell, 52, led mum-to-be Miriam Finch, 21, to safety and laid on top of her to shield her from bullets as gunman Stephen Paddock gunned down 58 concertgoers

Britain's biggest butterfly faces being wiped out by climate change, say scientists. The Swallowtail is only found in the fens and marshes of the Norfolk Broads - making it the rarest in the UK. Global warming is placing it at risk of extinction - along with the picturesque county's bees, bugs, birds, trees and mammals, a groundbreaking study warns. David North, head of People and Wildlife at Norfolk Wildlife Trust, said: "The likely impacts of climate change on our wildlife...

A crime scene investigator has been accused of sexual assaulting a victim while working for the police. Kevin Dowley, 61, will appear before Basildon Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with two counts of sexual assault. The charges relate to allegations about conduct while undertaking his work for Essex Police in July and August 2016. He has worked for the force since 2013 and previously worked as a police officer for the Metropolitan Police. Dowley, of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, was suspended from...

An Oxford student who was spared jail after stabbing her boyfriend in a drug-fuelled rage has been denied permission to appeal her sentence. Lavinia Woodward, 24, who has a history of cocaine and MDMA abuse, was given a suspended sentence after plunging a bread knife into Thomas Fairclough's leg but challenged the judgement. The appeal was denied, however the aspiring heart surgeon can still apply to have her case heard by a full court of two or three judges. Woodward...

A student at one of the UK’s leading boarding schools was suspended after he tried to force feed a Jewish pupil - PORK. The victim "suffered psychologically" after the incident involving a ham pizza at £35,000-a-year Clifton College in Bristol, it was claimed. The Jewish teenager remained at the prestigious school alongside his alleged attacker, who was allowed back into classes after a short suspension. Insiders revealed the suspended boy was on the periphery of another incident at the school...

Bill Oddie is to deliver 70,000 signatures calling for a Foie Gras free Britain to parliament today. The celebrity joins Chris Packham, Ricky Gervais and Evanna Lynch in calling for an import ban post-Brexit. Animal Equality, the animal protection organisation behind the campaign, has documented the extreme suffering of ducks and geese on dozens of foie gras farms in France and Spain. The group launched the petition in June 2017 after a poll found overwhelming support for a UK import ban...

Despite the atmosphere of fear created in the Brexit debate: European workers in general do NOT take British jobs. They do NOT drive down wages or undercut minimum wages. They are less inclined to come to the UK in the current climate. Our economy is set to suffer if fewer arrive to work here. This could also lead to shrinking populations in some regions of the UK. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) interim report into the effects of Brexit on...