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Anyone who has ever been to university knows the first year is essentially a write-off from an academic point of view. You join clubs, you drink, you watch more Friends episodes than you read books and take an overtly laissez faire attitude to your degree in the knowledge that nothing you do in the first year really counts anyway. Which is why, in response to mounting debt and impossible dreams of ever getting a foot on the property ladder, two year...

This week’s Cycling Weekly caused controversy when an editorial error saw a text holder (A caption to accompany an image which is updated before the publication goes to press) read 'Token Attractive Woman'. Twitter user Carlos Fandango who noticed the mistake published the image on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chapeau_Velo/status/903333298361032704 Upon the issue being flagged to them, Cycling Weekly issued an apology on their official Twitter account. The apology read: "Unfortunately during the magazine's production process a member of the sub-editing team decided...

This chilling interview in which LBC’s James O’Brien speaks to journalist Mike Hind who has been investigating thousands of accounts flooding Twitter with right-wing, anti-immigrant, pro-Brexit and pro-Trump propaganda is truly eye-opening.   There are 63,000 accounts with names followed by eight digits like @DavidJo52951945 - outed this week in the Times for having Russian links. The tweets of the self-styled “passionate Brexit supporter" with a Union Flag profile picture, over 100,000 followers on Twitter tend to support Brexit, Ukip, anti-Islam...

Nine staff have been suspended from a G4S immigration centre after claims of abuse and assaults against detainees. An investigation into allegations made by BBC's Panorama programme of "chaos, incompetence and abuse" at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick, has also been launched. The undercover filming operation has raised serious issues about the treatment of detainees in the UK. Recent outbreaks of disorder in some of Britain's jails paints a worrying picture of the standard of incarceration centres across the nation. Jerry Petherick,...

A Tory Peer, who is in the top 1,000 richest people according to the Sunday Times, has argued that Brexit is a good idea, as young people can work even longer hours. Retail tycoon, Lord Harris, is worth around £100m and said during a radio interview that “I just feel we would be better off out of the EU.” Harris was the chairman of Carpetright plc and was appointed to the board of Arsenal Football Club as a non-executive director...

An estate agent who famously survived eight days locked in a box after being kidnapped by crazed killer Michael Sams in 1992 has died of cancer. Michael Sams Stephanie Slater, 50, was held in a cramped wooden coffin for over a week after she was taken captive by the convicted murderer at the age of 25. She was snatched and held at knifepoint by one-legged Sams who pretended to be a potential buyer of an empty property in Great Barr,...

A homeless man has appeared in court charged with killing a mum and her teenage son during a triple stabbing. Aaron Barley, 23, is accused of murdering Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her son Pierce, 13, at their detached family home. Businessman Peter Wilkinson, 47, was also knifed six times at the £600,000 property in Stourbridge, West Mids, on March 30, but survived the brutal attack. He was discharged after two weeks in hospital and has since spoken of the agony...

MPs are reporting their own constituents to immigration enforcement using a new Home Office hotline and webpage. A Freedom of Information request submitted by Politics.co.uk has revealed that the Home Office has received 482 tip-offs from MPs between 2014 and 2016, raising the possibility that MPs are reporting their own constituents to the authorities when they have come to them for help. The news comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan said police officers were "duty bound" to report both victims and witnesses of crime...

A terror suspect who attacked police outside Buckingham Palace with a four foot long samurai sword had left a suicide note to his sister, a court heard Mohiussunnath Chowdhury (correct), 26, told her "by the time you read this Insha'Allah I will be with Allah," it was said. He added: "The Queen and her soldiers will all be in the hellfire they go to war with Muslims around the world and kill them without any mercy." He had driven his...