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The government is splashing stretched education cash on affluent pupils as the gap between rich and poor grows, union GMB has claimed. Theresa May’s first flagship grammar school, set to open in Croydon in 2019, highlights the yawning chasm between the haves and the have-nots, it says, with the school allowed to cherry pick 1,000 pupils and get direct Government funding. GMB, the union for school support staff, says the decision to give cash to a selective school in the midst of...

Boris Johnson’s response to Trump’s Muslim ban ‘inadequate and insulting’, says Britain's General Union. The foreign secretary has addressed the Commons following Donald Trump's controversial immigration crackdown, which prohibits refugees and citizens from countries including Syria, Iran and Iraq from visiting the US. He told the house British citizens were still welcome in the US -  however he then emphasised the ‘vital importance of this county’s alliance with the US’. More than 1.3million people have already signed a petition calling for...

As a petition to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit reached over 1,200,000 the London Mayor Sadiq Khan has stood by the protestors. Around 250,000 Londoners have signed this petition. Donald Trump has come under fire for various executive orders since he became president, but banning refuges from seven mainly Muslim countries has angered people across the world, and led to chaos at many airports. Muslim Mayor Khan said that Londoners will “not roll out red carpet” for Trump and will...

Britain's most popular painkiller can damage the liver in the same way as cancer, a study shows. Scientists have known for decades that paracetamol in large amounts is dangerous for the liver. But the reasons have eluded them, until now. The breakthrough could open door for new drugs for liver damage. It may also offer valuable insights into poisoning caused by an excess dose which can be difficult to treat and prove fatal. Paracetamol is the leading cause of acute...

As an island just off the coast of mainland Europe it is hardly surprising that UK trade with the EU is huge and access the single market encourages this level of commerce. Now the UK is about to invoke article 50 and leave the EU, a thinktank has investigated the level of trade British cities have with the single market. The findings indicate that our urban areas conduct a huge amount of business with our EU partners, however they will...

A baby girl would weigh 28 stone by her 3rd birthday if she grew as fast as the average supermarket chicken. An open letter penned by RSPCA Assured CEO Clive Brazier has revealed the inhumane conditions most factory farmed animals live in, congratulating Jamie Oliver's support of higher welfare chicken. He said: "The RSPCA thinks most people probably don’t realise that the majority of meat chickens we eat are bred to grow so fast millions of them are dangerously heavy for their age,...

When girls reach the tender age of six-years-old they begin to doubt their own intelligence and start to believe that boys are actually smarter. It is thought that this change in thought process damages girls’ ability to reach top jobs in the future and limits their aspirations. This leaves these senior posts open to men at the expense of women. Research found that females get an inferiority complex at such a young age and they don’t fee they can be...

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer appears to be the mantra of HMRC as a parliamentary watchdog has claimed they offer advice to the super-rich, so they can pay less tax. It isn't the politics of envy, it is simply unfair. It is feared that this will undermine the entire tax system, and lead to those further down the chain, possibly those on self-assessment, feeling the system is broken, and why should they pay their fair share....

Money that was pledged by the Government to convert failing schools into academies has been clawed back by central government. The money was going to be used to force every school to become an academy, but a backlash, including a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs, led to the Government ditching the policy. In total £384m will return to the Treasury, in a move that has exasperated teaching staff who hoped the funding could still be used to improve the educational...