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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Turkey's military say they have today shot down a Russian war plane near its border with Syria after the jet violated Turkish air space. It is claimed the Russian jet failed to listen to numerous warnings over a five minute period. The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter planes after ignoring nearly a dozen warnings, Turkish army officials said. However, Russia's Ministry of Defence claims the jet was in Syrian...

 By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  British shoppers say they will be avoiding the high street this Black Friday after the events of 2014 which led to police involvement in several major retailers. The research shows ‘Black and Blue Friday’ is now competing with boozy ‘Mad Friday’ as emergency services are pushed to the limit. Indeed, a whopping 82 per cent of those polled say the mayhem of last year’s event has put them off shopping instore because they would feel...

By Lewis Garland “Black Friday” evokes images of feral, foraging bargain hunters and TV screen tug-of-wars. Now in its fourth year, Giving Tuesday has become something of an antidote to these consumerist excesses. Taking place on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, GivingTuesday is a global day of philanthropy . The emergence of Giving Tuesday has created a valuable space for the voices of charities, altruistic causes and community projects, rarely heard amid the clunking of shopping trollies....

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A City University report has revealed that the Chancellor could be forced to borrow billions of pounds more than predicted by 2020 if he continues with his huge spending cuts. The Chancellor's autumn statement will be announced this week and the University study claims the Treasury has drastically underestimated the impact of departmental and welfare cuts on the wider economy. The report singled out the cuts to public sector investment as a major factor in...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor London Mayor Boris Johnson has called the plan for Hinkley Point "a disgrace." - just a few weeks after the PM announced a landmark deal with the Chinese to build it. Cameron called it a "flagship project of cooperation" between the two countries. But Boris has broke ranks and said the £18n cost for the first nuclear power in two decades underwritten with £2bn of taxpayers' money was an "extraordinary amount of money to spend"....

By Steve Taggart It is claimed that there have been 277 attacks against ambulance crews in the Palestinian territories since October. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society  is a humanitarian organisation providing hospitals, emergency medicine and ambulance series in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The society, part of the International  Red Cross, explained that the occupation forces wounded 131 Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics and volunteers, in addition to damaging 76 ambulances. The most eye-catching of all of the statistics is...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Footage has come to light which appears to show Greek coast guards attempting to sink a migrant boat. It is assumed they did this to ensure the Turkish authorities were forced to pick them up, meaning they wouldn't be able to enter Europe. Instead the passengers would be taken to the port of Didim in Turkey, the place where numerous refugees make their dangerous voyages towards Europe. The clip was allegedly taken on November 12th....

By Callum Towler  How different things could have been? If Ukraine had joined Nato in 2008, 2014 may have been the year an Obama-led coalition - acting under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty - began gearing up for all out war against Russia following the illegal annexation of Crimea. Fast forward just a year later (a year of economic sanctions and frozen assets placed on Russia) and Putin is the new diplomatic darling; the prized jigsaw piece of Obama’s...

By Rose Taylor Krishna Bahadur does not complain about his tin shack, quite the contrary. He says, compared to the tarpaulin cover under which he and his two sons spent two months it is like ‘a palace’. His sons Kamal, 12 and Ashok, 18, have said little to anyone since losing their mum Kusum. The 42 year old was killed instantly when the roof of their two-storey, mud house collapsed when an earthquake struck Nepal at 11.59am on 25 April...