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Greenpeace activists have boarded a 24,000-tonne ship carrying Volkswagen diesel cars to the UK – and say they won’t leave until the vehicles are returned to Germany. The campaigners used kayaks and boats to approach the boat in the Thames Estuary, before climbing on-board at 8.30am this morning. Greenpeace volunteers in kayaks and boats board a 23,498-tonne ship on a major import route bringing Volkswagen diesel cars into the UK. The clean air campaigners draw up alongside the huge car...

Giant plant eating dinosaurs were snacking on shellfish 75 million years ago - as a side dish, according to new research. Crustaceans, possibly crab, have been found in the sung of horny beaked hadrosaurs that once roamed present day Utah - showing they weren't strictly meat eaters. Eating foods rich in protein and calcium was probably a seasonal behaviour that boosted the huge beasts' reproduction. The remarkable discovery adds to growing evidence dinosaurs really did evolve into modern birds -...

GMB analysis of ‘appalling’ new official wage figures reveals the shocking scale of the real-terms pay cuts endured by NHS workers. The latest official estimates of staff earnings, which were published this morning show ambulance staff have had their real terms pay slashed by £7,500 a year compared to their 2010 wages. The average NHS worker’s salary is now up to £3,800 lower than it would have been in if wages had kept pace with inflation. Staff nurses’ earnings are...

Students were left fuming after an anti-abortion charity set up a booth at a university fresher's fair - with models of foetuses. Undergraduates complained to organisers about the tasteless demonstration by charity Life, and they were told to remove their foetal models because they were too “political and offensive”. Brunel University London had stalls of societies, clubs and support groups at the fayre designed to welcome new students and help them settle into university life. The models that where on...

A small but highly-important ceramic dish from Imperial China is expected to sell for more than £10 MILLION next month. The brush washer is around 1,000 years old and was commissioned by the imperial court during the Song dynasty. And it was made by Ru guanyao, which is one of the most revered of the Five Great Kilns used during this period. The dish, which has a diameter of just 13cm and would have been used to clean brushes, has...

Turkey has submitted almost 2,000 content removal requests to Twitter this year according to The Spectator Index. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been heavily criticised on the global stage for censoring the media in his country. The 2016–17 purges in Turkey brought about in reaction to the failed coup d'état have resulted in many journalists being locked up and several news outlets being shut down. Last year the president shut down an unprecedented number of television channels, radio stations and daily...

How safe is the air we breathe on airplanes? Britain's largest union is calling for a public inquiry into toxic air in passenger planes as it emerged that one of Britain’s biggest airlines is set to fit new filters to stop particulates entering cabin air next year. Unite the union, which represents over 25,000 cabin crew working for airlines operating out of the UK, is calling on the rest of the airline industry to follow suit now. Unite also want...

Donald Trump's approval ratings have jumped up following his speech to the United Nations where he threatened nuclear war. Following a low of 39 per cent in the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll last month Trump is back at 43 percent in this week’s survey, with other surveys showing similar results. The president once again courted controversy this week when he threatened to "totally destroy North Korea" in a highly-combative debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Addressing world leaders and...

A major undercover exposé of the white supremacist-linked ‘alt-right’ movement is launched today, revealing the year that a gay anti-racist activist from Sweden spent deep inside the world’s most active far-right network, on both sides of the Atlantic. Included as part of a groundbreaking new report into the ‘alt-right’ and its sister movement, the ‘alt-light’, The International Alternative Right: From Charlottesville to the White House has been compiled by British anti-extremism organisation HOPE not hate, which today is launching a...