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A national celebration of Ed Balls has broken out on Twitter to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the politician's first tweet. On this day five years ago Balls famously started a Twitter account by simply posting his own name, which was subsequently re-tweeted almost 70,000 times. Ed Balls — Ed Balls (@edballs) 28 April 2011 Since then 28th April has become Ed Balls Day, with the #EdBallsDay hashtag making 50 million impressions so far and been mentioned 7,627 times. This is the...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor On Monday night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to reject a plan for Britain to accept 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian child refugees have ended up in mainland Europe without a parent or guardian. The amendment had been proposed by Labour’s Lord Dubs, who himself arrived in Britain as a child refugee fleeing the Holocaust in the 1930s. Here are the MPs who voted to turn away the 3,000 refugees who had travelled to Europe: Adams,...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Cassetteboy is at it again, this time he is using his unique mixing skills to take Jeremy Hunt to task to the sounds of YMCA.

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor South Yorkshire Police's chief constable David Crompton has been suspended over his response to Hillsborough. Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham said there had been a "27-year cover up" and "those responsible must be held to account". On Tuesday a jury concluded the 96 victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster had been unlawfully killed. The jurors also found there had been police failings. Many of the relatives of the deceased demanded that people who were responsible...

Denmark could introduce a tax on red meet after a government think tank concluded that it is "necessary to include food" if the country is to live up to the Paris Agreement. Cattle contributes to a tenth of global emissions but is widely ignored in climate talks. A cow releases between 70 and 120 kg of Methane per year on average, which contributes significantly to climate change. The negative effect on the climate of Methane is 23 times higher than the effect...

A recent report conducted by the World Retail Congress and Green Park, has claimed that many current retail bosses aren’t ‘fit for purpose’, with a distinct lack of digital and data driven skills raised as the biggest concern. The details of the published report come after BHS and Austin Reed have both and announced administration as a declining high-street is pushed to the forefront of the industry, giving a timely reminder that the high-street is not in the best of shape. Launched at the...

The average worker is paid £678 a year to slag off their boss, according to new research. According to a poll of 2,000 office workers Brits spend more than six working days a year moaning about management, with six in ten admitting to regularly laying in to them during lunchbreaks, on social media and even while sat at their desk. This adds up to a total of an hour and five minutes of each working week spent grumbling about their boss...

Venezuela's Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz has announced that the country's two million state employees will only work Mondays and Tuesdays until the energy crisis that has crippled the country is over. The announcement follows news that the country is to put the clocks forward by half an hour to reduce demand for electricity in the early evening. The government has also told shopping centres to reduce their opening hours and generate their own energy Isturiz spoke on national television, saying: "We are requesting...

On Monday Labour MP Dennis Skinner told Jeremy Hunt to 'wipe that smirk of his face' and 'start negotiating now and sort the matter out', referring to the impending doctor's strike. The junior doctor's strike took place yesterday and is due to take place again today. Just two weeks after Dennis Skinner (known as the 'Beast of Bolsover') was ejected from the House of Commons for calling David Cameron 'Dodgy Dave', watch Skinner's fresh attack on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.