Our activists were leafleting in Stanton Hill yesterday, where planning permission is being considered for over 100 new houses. Ashfield District Council has been inundated with objections since the application for 100 new houses was made. The people of Stanton Hill have made it abundantly clear that they do not want any more houses in […]
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Some heartbreaking news from Skegness about a tiny toddler who has been found to have starved to death. Bronson Battersby, a 2-year-old boy, was lying next to his father, Kenneth, who had tragically died of a fatal heart attack. A Lincolnshire County Council social worker contacted Lincolnshire police twice to locate Mr Battersby at his
In my previous article, I note that the “press latches onto any accusation of racism, no matter how transparently trivial or outright bizarre.” Here we have just another example of such a case, which takes its place amongst a sea of cases which have become as routine as they are tiring. Andrea Mairs, a black
No matter where you reside in the UK, you’ve most likely witnessed the abundance of potholes springing up left, right and centre if you drive. You’d be wrong if you thought it was just a problem local to your neck of the woods. I counted twelve of them only yesterday during a quick ten-minute trip
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said that 20,000 soldiers will be stationed across Europe as part of a NATO exercise known as Steadfast Defender 24. Mr Shapps has outlined a plan for the UK’s loss of the “peace dividend” that the West has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War. After the UK government
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From 2004 to 2005, a significant criminal investigation into child sexual exploitation was conducted in Manchester. Recently, a report on this investigation has been released. As is often the case in such investigations, the outcome is damning for both the police and local government, who were complicit in this horrific betrayal. This report will be
The BBC reported that a boy 16 has been charged in court with the murder of Harry Pitman. He remains in custody and will appear at the Old Bailey. The Met Police said three other teenage boys – aged 15, 16 and 18 – who were arrested in connection with Harry’s death would not face
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It has been rumoured that former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is mulling over a move to start a new political party in the next few weeks. The 74-year-old, if he did start a new party, could poach voters who are dissatisfied with the current direction of the Labour Party. There would certainly be space
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Humza Yousaf has defended his stance on not following the UK government ban on XL Bully dogs. The first minister believes that Scotland has strict enough laws on dogs that a ban would be unnecessary. New legislation known as the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act came into force in Scotland in 2010. It sets out
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Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has issued a warning to Sir Keir Starmer that failure to deliver in his first tenure as Prime minister could see a dramatic shift to populist “far right” parties. Mr McDonnell, in an opinion piece he wrote in the Guardian, stated that Starmer’s election strategy seems to be that he
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