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The National Rifle Association is expected to score its first big legislative win of the year just two months after the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The new gun bill will force states with strict gun laws to recognise firearms permits from states with lower thresholds - even if they're from states that don’t barre convicted stalkers or people with histories of domestic violence. It has been described as the NRA's "highest legislative priority in Congress", and is expected to...

Survation the most accurate pollster of the General Election in 2017 has indicated that Labour’s lead over the Tories is growing. This will strike fear into the Conservative Party, who are struggling to get to grips with Brexit and have been mired in a number of recent scandals. The poll reads as followed Labour 45 % (+1) Conservatives 37 % (-1) LibDem 6% (-1) UKIP 4 % (-) Green 1% (-) With pressure increasing on Theresa May on a daily...

Villagers have been left seething after the remains of a Grade II-listed church building and its graveyard could be demolished to make way for the HS2 rail line. The threat posed to Heath Church from the HS2 scheme has been labelled 'authorised vandalism'. Church leaders have been further aggrieved that the plans, which are still in the earlier stages, were only brought to light 'incidentally' during a consultation meeting. The church is believed to have been established around 1162 but...

Nigel Farage today defended Donald Trump's retweets of extremists Britain First and told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "I've done more than anyone else to stop the rise of the far right in this country." "I did it by taking away those people who were going and voting for the BNP and holding their nose," insisted Farage. "So when it comes to dealing with the far right I have got a very good track record." The former Ukip leader and LBC...

This is the moment firefighters cut free 11 'illegal immigrants' who were SUPERGLUED into the back of a lorry by traffickers. The ten Iraqis - including six children - and one Afghan national were discovered when the lorry pulled into a lay-by and people in a nearby cafe heard "shouting". Police arrived but were forced to call the fire service for help to open the lorry from Europe because the locks had been glued shut, onlookers said. Fire crews cuttung...

In an astonishingly stupid tweet - even for Donald Trump - the US president tweeted today that he "had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937007006526959618 It wasn't long before people started pointing out that Trump's tweet technically meant that the President just confessed to obstruction of justice. Soon after firing his national security adviser Michael Flynn, the President had told James Comey, then the head of the FBI to back off...

Breaking News: All four members of the board of the government's Social Mobility Commission have stood down in protest at the lack of progress towards a "fairer Britain". All four board members of the government’s Social Mobility Commission have resigned Chair Alan Milburn said Theresa May’s government had betrayed Brexit voters. The Ex Labour Minister said there is “little hope” that the “necessary” progress would be made. The government are paying no attention to social mobility as Brexit their only...

Here is an obscene fact for you: Bitcoin uses more electricity than 159 of the planet's countries. The cryptocurrency worth under $1 in 2011 hit a new record this week, making headlines as it soared above $11,000 on Wednesday morning, after which its value has been going up and down like a rollercoaster.   But the other record that Bitcoin is breaking is as the world's most obscenely energy-guzzling currency. Bitcoin is the world's first payment network that's completely decentralized,...

With the dust yet to settle on the 2017 General Election the banks are already running scared at the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Prime Minister. Following comments from a Goldman Sachs banker that Britain would be like "Cuba without the sunshine" under the Labour leader a strategist at Morgan Stanley has claimed Corbyn is a "bigger risk than Brexit" to Britain's slowing economy. The comments were made in the bank's annual outlook for the European stock markets, which...