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UPDATE: The fire us still being tackled by firefighters with one casualty taken to hospital for smoke inhalation. It appears to be under control. https://twitter.com/manchesterfire/status/947161047324078080 https://twitter.com/MotherLeopard92/status/947159526104584192 Breaking News: Reports are emerging of a rapidly spreading fire in an apartment block in the Northern Quarter of  Manchester city centre this evening. ...

With barely hours left until the end of the year, Donald Trump may have just tweeted his dumbest tweet of the year yet. There have been quite a few contenders this year, especially this tweet incriminating himself. But the climate sceptic President hell-bent on removing science from government departments as ...

Lord Adonis, The government's infrastructure adviser has announced he is quitting his role blaming the fallout from Brexit for his decision. He has chaired the National Infrastructure Commission since 2015 and has been an outspoken critic of Brexit from the start. Adonis called Brexit a "populist and nationalist spasm," and ...

I’ve never been one to tamper with Wikipedia entries, but if I was the first thing I’d do is refer all traffic for the page “2017” to the one entitled “reap what one sows”. The page, which is depicted by John F. Knott’s “It Shoots Further Than He Dreams”, seems ...

When Nigel Farage hasn’t been moping about how sowing division and campaigning for Britain to leave the EU has left him broke, single and without a knighthood, - or claiming  credit for the the giant victory of British passports turning blue, the former Ukip leader has been watching the Queen’s ...

Choose your favourite press photograph from the best 100 taken this year. SWNS is the largest independent press agency in the UK, supplying up to 20 per cent of our daily news content. Each year the SWNS news wire supplies newspapers and magazines around the world with some of the ...

Destiny 2's first major DLC release, The Curse of Osiris, dropped a fortnight ago. As is usual for most Destiny updates there were a range of weird idiosyncrasies and bugs, including one example of particularly wild balancing issues (RIP Prometheus Lens) which Bungie handled in either the most tactical or ...

In an embarrassing defeat for the Government, the High Court this week ruled that part of the rules governing the unpopular Personal Independence Payments (PIP) which replace Disability Allowance are unlawful and discriminate against people with mental health impairments. In February the Government limited the amount of PIP people can ...

UK councils are on a “cliff edge” as vital services face another 54% cut while council tax rises add £100 to our bills from April. This week the Government was slammed for sneakily passing the buck to councils to try to plug the massive gap in the finances needed to ...