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Yesterday a man went on a murderous rampage through the streets of London in a car, killing three people and injuring many others, some remain in critical condition, and the death toll could rise. A police officer, PC Palmer, was stabbed to death, and another woman jumped into the Thames to avoid the vehicle. John Bercow, the Speaker, even closed Parliament, and kept MPs' inside the building for hours until the terror threat subsided. Mrs May paid tribute to PC...

UK airlines may be forced to relocate their headquarters and sell off shares to EU nationals if they want to continue flying routes within continental Europe, the Guardian has revealed. Prominent 'Remain' campaigner Michael O'Leary warned that flights between the UK and Europe might be significantly affected if the government opts for a hard divorce, which looks to be the likely course based on recent revelations. Executives from easyJet along with the British Airways owner IAG, Ryanair and the Tui Group...

A British freedom fighter has documented his bloody stint spent fighting so-called Islamic State in a photo diary. University student Josh Walker, 26, wanted to fight for “a better world” so lied to his parents to fly over to the Middle East and join up with The People's Protection Units better known as YPG. His primary role was to translate and help other volunteers integrate into the militia forces, made up of Kurdish, Arabs, Western volunteers and the Syriac Military...

Education is always a sore point with politicians; so many of them (on all sides to be fair) are privately/grammar/Oxbridge educated. Most of us mere serfs are not, and that only adds to the detachment from our elected members. During today's PMQs Corbyn laid into May for cutting funding to schoolchildren, as ever May said they were actually spending more. Hard to know for sure, but the IFS are pretty certain the Tories have delivered the largest cut in education...

Britain's hardest hit schools are facing a financial cliff edge despite the Prime Minister being able to find £1 billion for her pet grammar schools scheme. The government’s ‘flawed’ new funding formula will see the hardest hit schools facing a “financial cliff edge” in 2020, according to a new study. A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests 1,000 schools will be forced to take a massive hit of seven per cent per pupil when ‘transitional protections’ run out....

They say there's no such thing as a free lunch, but in Brexit Britain there may not even be such a thing as a free mug of tea following Waitrose's announcement that it has "refined" its complementary offer. As things stand punters simply have to be in possession of a My Waitrose card in order to claim a free hot beverage every day, but from April 3rd customers will only get the drink after they have paid for their shopping. It has...

Customer service will become a thing of the past by 2020 after new data revealed that 85 per cent of customer engagement interactions will be managed without people. Talking at the Systems in the City Conference (SITCC) held at the London Stock Exchange, Microsoft's Richard Peers suggested that "automated intelligence" will overtake people allowing firms to "engage with customers in a natural way, conversationally and in context". Hmmm....  I wonder how many mobile phones have been destroyed because of automated call centres?...

Are you in the process of planning your retirement for that beautiful future you have always imagined?  Great! If your answer is yes. That’s a step in the right direction. However, a well planned  strategy from an informed perspective on how to protect your retirement savings should be incorporated into your retirement planning, considering the potential threats certain factors can pose to the security of your life savings. “There are specific strategies and approaches to financial management in retirement that...

Foundation calls for urgent review ahead of the launch of 'Beyond the Bars: The Welfare of Captive Animals in 2017', Westminster, 22nd March On the eve of a high-profile event at Westminster, international wildlife charity, the Born Free Foundation, has today sounded the alarm over the viability of current regulations for monitoring and inspecting the UK's more than 250 zoos. This comes on the back of a series of disturbing incidents in UK zoos which have included animals being killed, attacked or...