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Deadly heat waves, floods and storms could kill at least 50 times more Britons by the end of the century if climate change is not tackled, a study warned. Around 2,515 Britons but as many as 7,484 Britons a year could be killed by extreme weather events by the 2080s - up from around 90 Britons now. Heatwaves will be the biggest threat killing up to 7,358 Britons, followed by coastal flooding killing at around 56, river flooding 36 and...

Stunned water officials discovered an ALLIGATOR basking in the sun on the side of an English lake today. The hissing reptile - which is two feet long - was spotted clambering out of the water at Chew Valley reservoir in Somerset. Staff at Bristol Water caught the alligator with a net before putting it in a box while waiting for a member of the RSPCA to collect it. An ALLIGATOR was discovered at an English lake  It is unknown how...

Right to Buy, the policy no one wants to talk about, is decimating local councils’ housing stock and costing us all dearly in state subsidy. In London alone, this amounts to £104,900 per discount. The Grenfell Tower fire has justly led to widespread debate about the state of social housing in 21st century Britain. However, the aspect no one seems to want to talk about is the devastating impact the right to buy policy (introduced by PM Margaret Thatcher as...

Do you remember Shari Lewis? I try and avoid describing women in sexualized terms, however sometimes it suits, as she was an astoundingly beautiful ventriloquist on American television when I was a child thus becoming my first and fondest celebrity crush. She had several puppets, however the best known was a little sheep named Lamb Chop. (As I think of it now, that's really a rather ominous name, like calling a chicken KFC.) Lewis recorded several albums of children's songs...

Murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich has been confirmed as being a Wikileaks source by Seymour Hersh in a leaked telephone call. The journalist, who has high level FBI sources, discussed what he knows about the murder in the call and revealed some interesting details about what is in the FBI report following the cyber unit investigation. Seth Rich was an American employee for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) who was fatally shot in the Bloomingdale neighbourhood of Washington. His murder has...

Donald Trump dubbed New Hampshire a "drug-infested den", boasted about his election victory and urged his Mexican counterpart to remain quiet about a border wall in a telephone call which has been leaked by the Washington Post. The transcript provides a rare glimpse into the private conversations of a new US President testing his negotiating powers on foreign counterparts, with the phone call taking place just seven days after Trump entered office. More than 30 references to "the wall" are made in the...

Residents and agency staff are digging in to clear mountains of rubbish which has been piling up on the streets of Birmingham for five weeks - after a strike by binmen. Dozens of fed-up homeowners in the Sparkhill area of the city have not had their refuse collected while binmen take industrial action over possible job cuts. The strike started on June 30 after Birmingham City Council announced restructuring plans, which trade union Unite claim will threaten the jobs of...

Britain's top university came under fire today (fri) when it emerged that less than one in seven of its top paid staff are female. Just 17 out of 123 Cambridge University's staff earning over £140,000 a year are women, according to figures released after a Freedom of Information request. The gender pay gap was branded "shocking" by Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner. It comes in contrast with rivals at Oxford University where a bursar has slammed the "grossly excessive" £410,000 pay...

A bishop is 'waging holy war' against Muslims and lefties who want to wrest control of a cathedral away from the Catholic Church - who stole it from the Moors 800 years ago. The bitter row has broken out over the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba in Andalusia, southern Spain. The consecrated site is believed to have originally been a Christian church dedicated to Saint Vincent the third. The city was seized in 711 by a Moorish army, and it became a...