The Department for Exiting the European Union confirmed UK officials will stop attending meetings from September 1, as the deadline to leave the EU looms. Via: PM vows to break off nearly ALL contact with Brussels to focus on taking the UK out of the EU
Around 124,000 children in the UK are living in temporary accommodation arranged by councils after their families became homeless. The homes were branded dangerous and not fit to live in. Via: Thousands of homeless children are living in shipping containers
A man has threatened to blow himself up after barricading himself in a block of flats in east London. The man has blocked himself into the 7th floor flat at Earlsdown House in Barking. Via: Police evacuate a block of flats after man threatens to blow up the building
‘Various contacts’ made, says embattled president, amid reports he is negotiating a way to stand down Nicolás Maduro has confirmed top Venezuelan officials have been talking to members of Donald Trump’s White House, after reports his second-in-command had been negotiating his downfall with the United States.“I confirm that for months Read more
Displaced families selected for repatriation say they will not go back, with lack of citizenship a sticking pointMuslim Rohingyas housed in sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh are refusing to return to Myanmar, United Nations and local officials have said. Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner, Abul Kalam, said on Tuesday that only 21 Read more
Total of £5.5bn pumped in since January, £3.1bn of it from the US and Asia, says government data Fast-growing UK tech companies secured a record £5.5bn in foreign investment in the first seven months of this year, according to research for the government’s digital economy council.The study for the Department Read more
Several of the alleged foiled plots appeared to involve men espousing far-right viewpoints and racist ideologiesIn the two weeks since a gunman killed 22 people in El Paso, law enforcement officials say they have thwarted six separate mass shootings or white supremacist attacks across the US.At least four of the Read more
Police declare ‘critical incident’ as negotiators speak to man on seventh floor of 12-storey building Via: Scores evacuated from east London tower block after man barricades himself in flat and 'threatens to burn the building down'
Writing in 2005, Shaun Bailey said: ‘Everyone talks about more policemen. Absolutely useless.’ Via: Tory mayoral candidate criticised after it emerged he said increasing police numbers 'useless' in deterring criminals
‘It shouldn’t take a tragedy to have this debate,’ chair of Police Federation says Via: Tasers must be funded for frontline police officers after violent attacks, government told