This morning's Metro led with the news that British taxpayers footed a £1 million bill for the Daesh bomber who is suspected to have blown himself up in Iraq. Manchester-born Ronald Fiddler had been freed from Guantanamo in 2004 following a legal case that reportedly ran into the millions. On ...
It's a strange state of affairs when the prospect of an all non-league FA Cup quarter final isn't the wackiest thing that could happen in the news this week. But move aside Lincoln, Sutton too perhaps, because regardless of the outcome of tonight's clash no tangible news can any longer compete ...
If you have driven anywhere around Britain during the winter you may have noticed the sickening volumes of rubbish strewn along our roads. Ask any visiting tourist who has taken the time to drive outside of the normal British tourist traps and they’ll tell you that our country is filthy. In ...
As if Britain's local shops weren't beleaguered enough already with giant corporations showing up on every corner and the majority of people preferring to use online retailers than spend their money with small businesses, the government is about to deliver what could be the sucker punch for small shops when business ...
Extremism is increasing significantly in the UK - from the right-wing groups who claim to be fighting it. Suspected Right-wing extremists now make up a quarter of people referred to the Government’s flagship counter-radicalisation programme, the terror watchdog has revealed. David Anderson, QC, said the large numbers being identified as ...
Britain is set for decades of been overworked and underpaid as a perfect storm of stagnant wage growth and low-paid work meets inflationary pressures in the most pronounced real income squeeze of our generation. Although the Tories will most likely be celebrating the latest employment figures showing flat unemployment the ...
In a year when police conduct at Orgreave came under renewed scrutiny and the families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster learned the real "truth", it is with a certain sense of dismay that Scotland Yard has today come under criticism for destroying the evidence needed for an inquiry into ...
Following Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to issue a three-line whip on the Brexit vote fresh calls for his resignation are once again ringing around the halls of Westminster. Yawn. Ever since the Labour leader was voted in with the biggest mandate in the party’s history he has had to fend off ...
By Wyndham Hacket Pain With a McDonald’s seemingly in every town centre and motorway service centre in the world it’s hard to imagine a time before the fast-food chain. Whether in the small island of Réunion off Madagascar or the Negev Desert in Israel you know the familiar burger and ...