The Home Office has been called on to help a five-year-old with epilepsy whose mother says cannabis oil is the only treatment that can ease his suffering. Karen Gray, 43, launched a petition for Cannabidiol (CBD) oil to be prescribed to her son Murray, who was diagnosed with Myoclonic Astatic ...
Legalising cocaine and heroin would boost the economy by reducing the number of murders, according to new research. The finding presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference in Brighton suggests increasing access to education may prove more effective than trying to tackle criminals by force. Legalisation could reduce violence ...
New research of the Electoral Commission spending figures show the Conservatives paid over 50p more per vote than Labour, with Theresa May's embattled party outspending Jeremy Corbyn on all fronts. Each vote cost the Tories £1.36p compared to just 80p for Labour, with the Lib Dems having to shell out a ...
Jeremy Corbyn has been coming under fire from the Conservative Party, and his own party, for his stance over Russia in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. The Labour leader said that, although Russia is probably culpable of the attack, he wanted proof and a calm response to ...
By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to ...
Joy Smith says she won £84,000 after entering a Loose Women TV competition while stoned in bed
Warwick Thornton’s feature debut, Samson and Delilah, a sensitive, sad tale of two Aboriginal lovers living in Alice Springs, took home the Camera d’Or at Cannes and introduced an emerging talent to the stable of promising Australian directors. The 47-year-old cinematic jack of all trades, often serving as both Director and cinematographer on his ...
A Tory three-line whip instructed Conservative MPs to ensure we will not be finding out who funnelled £435,000 to the leave campaign in the last few weeks of the Brexit campaign. Whoever it was chose to do it through the DUP party in Northern Ireland to keep their identity secret ...
By Sammy Russell The EU released its draft exit treaty earlier this week, which formally spelled out the terms of Brexit and what it may mean in practice. It shows just how tricky preserving peace in Northern Ireland will be if the UK wants to stick to the red lines it ...