Brexit: I had no choice but to approach Labour – May
Craig TaylorDowning Street says the PM had to hold cross-party talks or risk letting Brexit “slip through our fingers”. BBC News – UK
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Birmingham Pub bombings: Victims were unlawfully killed
A botched IRA warning caused or contributed to 21 deaths in Birmingham in 1974, an inquest finds. BBC News – UK
Morrisons to sell paper shopping bags
bethkent ✅Morrisons supermarket is to start selling paper shopping bags in all its stores from May after customers concerns about plastic use. The UK’s fourth biggest supermarket will use paper bags next week in Wales followed by England and Scotland. The scheme will take 1,300 tonnes of plastic out of the environment each year. Morrisons have…
Ministers accused of covering-up migrant health reports
Ministers have been accused of a cover-up for refusing to release official reports into whether migrants’ health has been harmed since they began charging upfront for NHS care before they can be treated. The leaders of Britain’s doctors, nurses and midwives are demanding the release of three government reviews into how environment immigration policies have…
Quick Update: JK Rowling’s Former Assistant To Pay £19,000
jordonc ✅A former personal assistant to JK Rowling has been ordered by a court to pay almost £19,000 to JK Rowling, the author of the hit Harry Potter series, after fraudulently using her credit card for personal use back in 2017. 35 year old Amanda Donaldson who resides in Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, must pay £18,734…
How Your Diet Might Be Killing You
A study shows that the food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. According to the researchers, salt shortened the…