Shocking new research by a leading UK thinktank has revealed that the number of children living in poverty is set to soar to 5.2 million in the next five years. With government welfare cuts hitting the households with young families the hardest, more children than ever will be plunged into the depths of poverty under the Conservative government. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts an increase of more than a million in the number of children living...
Right wing activist Laura Loomer has been banned from Uber after she tweeted about her inability to find a car driven by a “non Muslim.” The former Project Veritas operative tweeted that she was late to a New York Police Department press conference on the recent terror attack because she was unable to find an Uber that was not driven by someone who did not look like they were Muslim. According to news sources her comments then escalated to asking for the creation of...
Theresa May’s government faced more humiliation last night, unable to contest a vote in Parliament that the opposition had brought calling on the government to reveal reports they had commissioned into the possible effects of Brexit. For months, Labour has called for reports into the economic effects of Brexit into 58 sectors of the country to be made public so that the public is aware of the possible consequences that the government are covering up. Yet another defeat for the...
The Conservative sexual harassment scandal has claimed its first scalp as Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has resigned, admitting he has "fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces." As even more serious allegations of sexual assault and date rape drugs emerged from Tory Party workers this evening, adding to the scandal that has threatened to engulf the party since last week, Michael Fallon wrote to the Prime Minister to resign his position after it emerged he...
As a list of 36 Tory MPs mired in sexual sleaze compiled by Conservative MP's researchers, secretaries and office staff going viral on social media, Theresa May was challenged in parliament about repeated warnings to her that party whips were using information on sexual abuse by their MPs to blackmail them. Theresa May was accused of ignoring THREE warnings that political enforcers or “whips" "used information about sexual abuse to demand loyalty from MPs” “Three years ago I brought evidence to...
Sea slugs are the pirates of the underwater world when it comes to feeding time - targeting prey that have just eaten to "supersize" their own meal. Scientists who identified the behaviour have named it kleptopredation. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth are the first to have observed the brutal feeding strategy in the natural world. Senior lecturer Dr Trevor Willis led the research into the behaviour of nudibranchs, a family of sea slugs, off the coast of Sicily. He...
This is the moment surgeons retrieved 639 massive nails from a man's intestines - using a MAGNET. The 48-year-old had apparently gobbled down the two-inch spikes which miraculously didn't pierce his digestive system on the way down. Doctors in Kolkata, India at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital conducted a surgery on a schizophrenic patient and were able to extract 639 nails from the patient's intestine. . Doctors found them inside his intestines with an endoscopy and cut him open...
This is the incredible moment conjoined twins with two heads and one body were born by caesarean section. Video footage shows doctors pulling the two wailing 8lbs tots from their mother's stomach before wiping them clean. But tragically the babies - who share a body, two arms and two legs - lived for just a day at a hospital in Ambejogai town in Maharashtra, India. This is the incredible moment conjoined twins with two heads and one body were born...
A student caught up in the New York truck attack has told of her horror at seeing terrified children "holding onto their moms and saying, 'I'm scared.'" Maddie Clark, 21, was one of the first at the scene of the bloodbath assault which killed eight people and says it was "frantic". Disturbing footage filmed on her cell phone shows casualties being rushed into ambulances by first responders as sirens flash. New York police described the incident - which reportedly saw...
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