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Chancellor George Osborne’s newly-released tax returns suggest he may have lied in 2012 when he said he didn’t earn enough to qualify for the tax cut for top earners mandated in his own budget.
- UN reopens Syria peace talks, pushes for new pledge to uphold truce
- Homeless Pole caused Amsterdam Airport evacuation
- Germany ‘to take days’ to study Turkey’s protests over Erdogan poem – Merkel
- Moscow says Czech refusal to accredit Russian journalists runs counter to press freedom
- Germany arrests 3 men over ‘sending money to ISIS’
- ISIS claims brothers in Brussels attacks were also behind Paris terror acts
- ‘Appalling’ welfare delays bring hunger & hardship for hundreds of thousands of Brits
Delays in processing benefit claims are causing severe hardship for hundreds of thousands of Britons, an inquiry by a veteran Labour MP has found. - Better off in jail? Women given tents & sleeping bags instead of homes when released from prison
Women released from British prisons are being issued with tents and sleeping bags because of a shortage of accommodation, it has emerged. - Monster hunters find ‘Nessie’ at bottom of Scottish loch (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
After years of searching, surveyors trying to get to the bottom of the Loch Ness mystery have made a surprising discovery - a decades-old movie prop of the fabled Scottish monster, Nessie. - Lost in translation: British military down to just 15 Russian speakers
No wonder Anglo-Russian relations are dogged by a communication breakdown. Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures suggest the British military employs a mere 15 Russian linguists.
- ‘Appalling’ welfare delays bring hunger & hardship for hundreds of thousands of BritsDelays in processing benefit claims are causing severe hardship for hundreds of thousands of Britons, an inquiry by a veteran Labour MP has found.
- Better off in jail? Women given tents & sleeping bags instead of homes when released from prisonWomen released from British prisons are being issued with tents and sleeping bags because of a shortage of accommodation, it has emerged.
- Monster hunters find ‘Nessie’ at bottom of Scottish loch (PHOTOS, VIDEO)After years of searching, surveyors trying to get to the bottom of the Loch Ness mystery have made a surprising discovery - a decades-old movie prop of the fabled Scottish monster, Nessie.
- Did George Osborne lie in saying he didn’t benefit from own tax cuts?Chancellor George Osborne’s newly-released tax returns suggest he may have lied in 2012 when he said he didn’t earn enough to qualify for the tax cut for top earners mandated in his own budget.
- Lost in translation: British military down to just 15 Russian speakersNo wonder Anglo-Russian relations are dogged by a communication breakdown. Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures suggest the British military employs a mere 15 Russian linguists.
- EU slated by charities for ‘half-hearted’ attempt to tackle tax dodgers
UK charities have condemned the European Commission’s new proposals intended to crack down on tax dodging corporations as simply being ‘business as usual’. - Is there an anti-Semitism problem in Britain’s Labour Party? Prejudiced members to be suspended
The Labour Party may soon make it easier to expel members accused of anti-Semitism as a growing number of MPs and activists warn action is needed to address hostility among its membership towards Jewish people. - Militants need ballistic missiles to strike London, capital is too well defended – defense expert
London’s high levels of security mean that militants may be forced to use long-range ballistic missiles to hit the capital, a defense expert says. - Criminals using social media to facilitate people smuggling into UK
Criminal gangs are using more than 200 different social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, to advertise their people smuggling services into the UK, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed. - Libyan unity government rejects British troops for anti-ISIS mission
British troops may not be deployed to Libya after all because the head of the North African state’s new unity government turned down the offer of Western soldiers to help eliminate Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). - Anal s*x epidemic: Porn blamed for sharp increase in ‘unwanted’ activity among teens
Anal sex is on the rise for UK teens, according to a report by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, citing porn and male competition as significant factors. - Expenses Scandal 2.0? British MPs want more perks on their taxpayer-funded credit cards
Outraged by MPs’ questionable tax affairs, British voters will be further scandalized to learn a majority of legislators want the parliamentary expenses watchdog IPSA to relax rules governing their use of taxpayer-funded credit cards.
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