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A new law may allow Czech citizens to shoot Muslim terrorists themselves

The Czech Republic is a country of around ten million people with fewer than four thousand Muslims, however this didn’t stop Czech President, Milos Zeman, urging people to arm themselves in case a “super-holocaust” by Muslim extremists. Unlike most European states, the Czech Republic has a large number of citizens who own firearms. Currently there are around 300,000 people who have a weapon license and it is thought there are 800,000 weapons owned legally in the country. Obtaining a weapon...

Happy New Year! Pound slumps after May’s recent hard-Brexit comments

PM May’s first major interview of 2017 sent the pound into free fall after she made comments hinting at a “hard-Brexit.” She told Sky News that the UK will not try and keep “bits of EU membership.” During the interview she said: “Often people talk in terms as if somehow we are leaving the EU but we still want to kind of keep bits of membership of the EU. We are leaving. We are coming out. We are not going...

Is Brexit buyers’ remorse a myth?

Remain is down in Scotland, Leave is up in every English region and is unchanged in London. By all accounts, the notion of Brexit buyers' remorse following a rocky and calamitous start to negotiations could be misguided. That's according to a new poll conducted by Saga which shows Brexit support is up two per cent overall among over-50s, as well as being up in every English region. Meanwhile Remain support in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is down. The poll, leaked on political blogsite...

Managing money stress this January

Managing money stress: 8 top tips to help manage your finances Almost half of people in the UK are said to be suffering from stress in some form and the most common cause of this stress is money. Yet, if you are feeling that money is an issue for you then you don’t need to suffer in silence. There are things you can do to wrest back control. Here are eight top tips for you to try… Have a spending...

S.London road passes ANNUAL air pollution level in five days

A road in South London has already reached, and breached, the annual pollution limit for the entirety of 2017 just five days into the new year.  Brixton Road, the busy main road that cuts through Brixton, nitrogen dioxide levels have already exceeded EU limits set for an entire year. The road is often full of buses passing through Brixton into Central London, often leaving a large number sitting in traffic jams as the road bottlenecks, as it goes through the...

500,000 elderly people spend every day alone & at least 1.2 million chronically lonely

A report has revealed the shocking level of loneliness of the elderly people in the UK. Figures from Age UK found that for half a million people aged over 60 for up to 6 days a week without speaking or even seeing anyone. There is a hidden army of people who are totally isolated from society and are suffering in silence. In response Age UK has launched a report titled “'No one should have no one: working to end loneliness...

5 Important Principles for Successfully Investing in Forex

Everyone who joins Forex expects to get the best results at the end of the day. However, the outcome depends on the different formulas one employs when trading. The truth is that there is no single formula for trading in forex. It all depends on a combination of many techniques characterized by balance, talent and being mindful of trends. This article is to remind people who are trading about the key principles of successful Forex trading strategies. The Right Approach...

Binary Options Trading – The Truth

Binary options trading has become all the rage. It provides people who have no previous experience with finances the opportunity to make money through the Forex and commodities markets. Binary options trading basically gives you a “yes” or “no” option. You predict whether a trade will appreciate or depreciate over a defined period of time, and if you are right, you profit. It might sound to you like nothing more than a gamble, which is why there are those who...

Pupils at £25k-a-year private school break curfew to go on ill-fated cocaine-fuelled night out

Pupils at a £25k-a-year private school sneaked out of their hotel on a trip in Tenerife to go boozing and using cocaine - with one rushed to hospital. A number of students have been disciplined after the incident during which one is said to have bought coke from a local dealer in Puerto de Santiago. Letters have now been sent to all parents by headteacher Andrew Gordon-Brown at Truro School in Cornwall, outlining the "unfortunate incident" at the end of...

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