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A Transavia flight from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency airline when a passenger wouldn’t stop farting. According to reports that have blown up in the Dutch press this week, the man’s constant wind wound up two fellow passengers who demanded he stopped blowing off. The men got eggy with his constant egging especially when crew on the low cost airline insisted they could not intervene to stop the flatulent passenger quacking. When he refused to stop...

Britain has significantly lowered its expectations for Brexit, giving few assurances other than that it is unlikely to end in "Mad Max-style dystopia". Despite significant promises being made for Britain's exit from the European Union in the run-up to the referendum, two years down the line the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU today only managed to give assurances that we will not be "plunged into a Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction". Addressing business leaders in Vienna, David Davis referred...

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The elderly victim was stung in a so called ‘Courier Fraud’ after a conman called her home posing as a police detective claiming her bank account had been hacked

Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last Wednesday have vowed to march on Washington to embarrass politicians in the sway of America’s powerful gun lobby. The mass shooting in Florida left 17 dead and 15 wounded.  It is the 18th gun-related incident in the US this year and the country’s 30th mass shooting. And we are only in February. Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. He is alleged to have set...

These chilling images show the squalid lair where Matthew Falder preyed on more than 200 victims before sharing many of their abuse pictures on the dark web. Footage shot inside Falder's pokey flat shows clothes, food containers and socks strewn over the floor - as well as a roll of toilet paper on his bed. His desk is piled with rubbish as well as golf balls, an iPhone docking station and what looks to be a tub of dried up...

Bennell coached at Crewe Alexandra & Manchester City Predatory paedophile convicted of abusing 12 boys May have abused over 100 - 86 more people came forward Ex-football coach Barry Bennell has been jailed for 31 years at Liverpool Crown Court for 50 counts of child sexual abuse. Bennell, described as the "devil incarnate" by the judge, was convicted of abusing 12 boys aged eight to 15 between 1979 and 1991. Sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Clement Goldstone QC said...

Theresa May today acknowledges the electorally toxic policy of making the England's higher education system the most expensive in the world. “We now have one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world,” the Prime Minister will admit. - Though according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), England has overtaken the US, where states are trying to reduce the cost of higher education and now actually has the most expensive university education in the world. And...

Published today (19 February), the largest study of its kind measuring the subjective wellbeing of 2,263 looked after children and young people across 16 local authority areas has revealed that 83% feel being in care has improved their lives, and that the longer children and young people have spent in care, the more likely they are to have moderate to high levels of wellbeing. However, whilst the majority of young people are positive about their experiences of care, the findings...