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The leader of a Tory council apologised to food campaigner Jack Monroe after a tweet citing her blog said a family unable to live off £10 a week were “dysfunctional” . Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North Somerset Council, apologised for the Twitter post, which cited Ms Monroe's blog about struggling to feed her child. The Twitter post, sent from the Bath Conservative Association account, read: "The reality may be indolent or dysfunctional parents or more likely parents who...

A new report has indicated the EU zone may be able to vastly increase its share of renewable energy into its overall energy mix by 2030. The report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) concluded that renewables could add up to 34 per cent into energy mix, more than double it’s current level. However, it would come at a price. To reach the 34 per cent figure the EU would need to pump in £55bn per annum into the...

RBS have come under fire from the Government after a full report into RBS business practices have been branded “disgraceful.” The Treasury Select Committee released its report into RBS' restructuring unit and "profit centre" GRG and it is damning. RBS claimed that the problems were caused by a few rogue employees, but the report has dismissed that as false. Royal Bank of Scotland operated the GRG from 2005 to 2013. At the unit’s peak it handled 16,000 ­companies. In 2008...

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...