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Frivolous spends are leaving Brits out of pocket to the tune of £400 a year, new research has found. Three quarters of Brits are frittering cash on purchases they don’t need on a daily basis, from takeaway coffees to nail varnishes. These unnecessary spends cost around £32.66 a month, leaving people almost £400 out of pocket every year, money which they could be saving instead of wasting. Almost half of adults admit their extravagant spending means they often buy things...

Scotland has become the first of the home nations to offer a drug which drastically cuts the chances of being infected with HIV. It will be offered by NHS Scotland. The drug, Prep, has just been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium, which will roundly offer the drug to patients who are eligible. At present time the drug is given to those who have HIV in Scotland, but after today's decision it will be used to prevent infection. It is...

A Spanish woman who fell to her death at a notorious suicide spot feared she was going to be kicked out of Britain because of BREXIT, an inquest heard. Miriam Macarron’Arroyo, 42, was found in the Avon Gorge on January 10, four days after she was reported missing. The care worker’s housemate Claire Tidman told an inquest that she feared she would be forced to leave her home in Easton, Bristol and sent back to Spain. She said Miriam, who...

The Labour party has been struggling with internal conflict and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has constantly come under attack, leaving little time to launch any policy initiatives. Now the Labour party has pledged to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour if they win the next election. The policy would leave full-time employees on basic earnings better off by more than £2,500 while 21 to 24-year-olds on lower wage rates would be in line for a £4,500 hike. The polls...

A police officer has been dismissed - after punching a man in the face on a train. Former inspector Chris Davidson of the Thames Valley force assaulted the man on a journey to High Wycombe, Bucks. He initially said he went over to the man to 'calm the situation' and his approach caused the man to swing and punch him on his right eye. But a misconduct hearing panel concluded that Mr Davidson from High Wycombe hit the man first...

Southern rail have consistently failed to run its trains on time, making commuters lives a misery while increasing the price of tickets. On top of that there has been a series of strikes. There have even been reports of people moving house to be nearer a better train operator, to ensure they can get to work on time. So the news that the boss of Southern rail, Charles Horton, increased to almost half a million pounds a year, as the...

Over a third of domestic violence cases are discontinued because the victim has withdrawn their support for a prosecution, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. Law firm Simpson Millar has obtained figures from 38 police forces regarding instances where domestic violence crimes were recorded, with the majority been dropped by the victim. The research brings to light how frequently women especially find themselves unable to provide evidence, or to support a charge and prosecution due to very real fears...

A leaked document has revealed secret government studies into the impact of a hard Brexit, with the Department of Health finding the NHS could be hit by a shortage of more than 40,000 nurses by 2026. Union GMB has appealed to the government to release the data, asking "what else has Theresa May got to hide?" after a whistleblower revealed the findings. There are thought to be dozens of impact assessments already carried out by the Government into its chosen course of...

A British tourist on holiday in Stockholm has described seeing "lifeless bodies" covered with towels at the scene of the suspected terror attack. Reporter Harriet Rose-Gale, 26, was eating lunch metres away from the spot where a truck ploughed into pedestrians in the Swedish capital. Harriet, of Marlborough, Wilts., described scenes of panic as dozens of emergency vehicles flooded the streets. She said: "We were literally 100 or 200m away having lunch when a couple of police cars went by...