By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Footage has emerged of a huge Russian nuclear warplane flying over rebel-held territory in Syria, only a short distance from the Turkish border. There are concerns that relations between Turkey and Russia could deteriorate even more, from an already low point. The warplane was filmed ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In a shocking twist in the EU referendum campaign a Tory MP has switched sides. Sarah Wollaston has now left the Leave campaign and will now back the Remain side instead. She was instantly subjected to attacks from Leave campaigners on social media after she ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The on-line voting registration system had crashed, EU citizens had wrongly been given polling cards and both sides have predicted the world will end on the 23rd June depending on which box you tick. So unsurprisingly the EU referendum led today’s session. At one stage ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport It’s the start of the summer so that can only mean one thing – more football! The European Championships start in France on Friday with a new improved (expanded) format consisting of 24 teams (why? Money, obviously). The ...
An internal migration map of Britain has revealed London lost 68,000 residents in one year as 30-somethings ditch the Big Smoke for the Home Counties. A total of 2.85 million people moved internally in the UK in one year, according to the data, with many migrating towards the capital. However, a notable exodus ...
“Above all, it is criminal to excite anger and discontent without proposing a remedy, or only proposing a false remedy” --- Theodore Roosevelt, How Not to Help Our Poorer Brothers, 1987 Foreigners! Terror! Instability! Economic bombs! Elites! Democracy! Arrest warrants would fill several grand rooms if we were subject to ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor I was always told that goldfish have a two second memory, so assumed that fish were not the brightest of animals. It appears I was very very wrong. A team of scientists have shown that one tropical species of fish can recognise peoples' faces. Archerfish ...
Coca Cola has dropped out of the BrandZ ranking of the top 10 global brands for the first time. The brand report has been running since 2006 and sees the soft drink brand fall to thirteenth place as the top ten list gets littered by tech and social companies. Google hang ...
A thriller starring Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins took £97 in its opening weekend at the UK box office. Misconduct, a film about an ambitious young lawyer who takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, only showed at five screens on its debut ...