TROOPS are being run ragged as the amount working excessive hours has soared, Labour say.  Five per cent of Army soldiers toiled for more than 70 hours a week last year, up from 2 per cent in 2020.  It means despite the Ministry of Defence’s desire for forces to work a normal 8.30am to 5pm […]

Americans BACK the end of affirmative action and want race kept out of college admissions, new poll suggests: Supreme Court now widely expected to ban it More than half of US adults are against race-conscious college admissions  Less than a quarter favor such affirmative actions scheme Democrats are bigger fans of campus diversity schemes than […]

The U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday said they were not actively monitoring cameras at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) San Francisco home when they captured a break-in that led to a violent attack on her husband, because the Speaker was in Washington, D.C., at the time. In a statement, the agency confirmed earlier reports by The […]

Mother, 43, and her two daughters aged 18 and 8 have vanished – as police launch desperate search for family #Police have launched desperate search for missing mother and two daughters Yvonne Chimanayi, Paris Rwambiwa and Ayesha aged eight have vanished They were last seen in Southend, Essex on Saturday at around midday  Police have launched […]

Banks are too slow in lowering mortgage deals to help cash-strapped families as financial crisis looms, MPs are told A mortgage expert told MPs that lenders have been withholding lower rates Despite brighter outlook, the average two-year fixed rate is now 6.47 per cent   1.8million homeowners are expected to remortgage as their deals come to […]

Migrants ‘are left at London Victoria station without accommodation after being taken out of crisis-hit Manston processing centre’ Group of 11 men understood to have been driven from Kent to London yesterday  Charity volunteers said that many were in flip-flops and without winter coats Police also called to reports of a group of asylum seekers looking […]

President of the National Union of Students, 27, sacked after probe into ‘antisemitism’ allegations says she was ‘discriminated against as a black Muslim woman’ as she mulls launching legal action over dismissal Shaima Dallali became the first president to be fired in 100-year history of NUS It came after she was suspended at the end […]

Is Russian President Vladimir Putin stepping back from the nuclear ledge? After weeks of apocalyptic atomic innuendo, Russia on Wednesday issued a bland statement reaffirming its long-standing policies on the use of nuclear weapons — a possible sign that the Kremlin is trying to cool the escalatory rhetoric it employed throughout October. “Russia is strictly […]

Police scour underground caves and sewers in hunt for ‘loving’ father-of-four, 58, missing for a month A ‘loving’ father of four who has been missing for a month has left ‘no trace’ Harjinder Takhar, 58, was last seen running towards a wooded area in Telford Mr Takhar suffered a panic attack just before his disappearance […]

The mayor of a small town in Oregon has been arrested for attempted murder following a road rage incident on Halloween that led to him firing multiple gunshots at a family of four, police said. The incident occurred at approximately 8:43 p.m. on Halloween night when a family of four — two adults and two […]