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The tide appears to be turning against leaving the EU. A new poll found that 54 per cent of Brits would now vote to stay within the European Union. The poll, by Survation, may indicate to the government that they should opt for a softer Brexit, as the majority of people would now prefer to remain in the single market. Interestingly their research showed that over half of respondents hope that their would be a cross-party coalition of parties working...

A US senator has been pictured sunbathing with his family on a beach after closing it to the public because of a budget impasse. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie closed Island Beach State Park over the holiday weekend amid the state budget standoff in Trenton. But one family were allowed to ignore the ruling: Christie's. T Aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showed Christie surrounded by wife, Mary Pat Christie, and others on Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to...

TWENTY per cent of the 100 largest payments under the European Union’s "direct" subsidy system now go to people or families on the Sunday Times Rich List. According to a new investigation by Energydesk billionaires and aristocrats last year scooped up an even greater proportion of the UK’s biggest farm subsidy payouts, with "basic payments" to the Top 100’s Rich List recipients totalling £11.2 million in 2016 – up from £10.6 million the previous year. Direct EU subsidies – now known as...

Labour MP Laura Pidcock's maiden speech to parliament has been lauded after she took an anti-establishment dig at Westminster. The speech has been likened to that of the SNP's Mhairi Black's first speech in which she launched a scathing attack on the Conservative Government addressing issues including benefit sanctions, the budget, and Harriet Harman's call on Labour MPs to abstain on a vote on the Government's welfare and work bill. Pidcock, the 29 year-old new MP for North West Durham, made a...

Coral exposed to radioactivity from nuclear bomb testing could hold the key to a cure for cancer, according to new research. The marine invertebrate at the bottom of the ocean floor has remarkable resistance to radiation exposure, say scientists. Now scientists hope to harness its innate gift in a bid to develop new therapies for humans. They are exploring how corals, which grow for centuries without developing cancer, have recolonised Bikini Atoll. The ring of sand in the Pacific Ocean...

A relieved father has posted an open letter praising paramedics after they saved his little boy’s life when he choked – on a GRAPE. Steve Hulbert feared his son Oli was about to die after he went limp and his lips turned blue after swallowing the fruit. Oli lost consiousness and after a 999 call paramedics arrived and quickly dislodged the grape – almost certianly saving his life. Dad Steve has now posted a picture of Oli in his hospital...

This is a full list of the MP’s who voted against an amendment to end the public sector pay cap imposed since 2010 and halt further emergency services cuts. Last night Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s Speech calling for an end to cuts to the police and the fire service, the end of the 1% public sector pay cap and to give emergency and public services a...

Far-right ‘Identitarians’ have paid to hire a ship in order to disrupt search-and-rescue missions in the Mediterranean. The "Defend Europe" group secured a ship with a range of 3000 nautical miles, a place for a crew of 25, and a crane for RIBs to disrupt the work of humanitarian search-and-rescue NGO ships, according to HOPE not hate. They plan to "defend" Europe at sea, and used the purchase as a publicity stunt, with videos uploaded later that evening and following morning announcing...

Damning new research has revealed public sector workers are turning to payday loans to make ends meet. The study has been revealed a day after Theresa May narrowly defeated a bid to end the pay freeze in the House of Commons. Labour’s amendment was defeated by 14 votes, with 309 MPs backing it and 323 voting against, with all ten Democratic Unionist Party MPs backing the Tories. But the issue is unlikely to be laid to rest there. A shocking...