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Snow showers and icy conditions are storming the UK with weather warnings in place for part parts of the country. The Met Office have issued four yellow warnings for snow and ice and had predicted up to 10 cm of snow fall on high ground. A number or roads and schools have been closed in…
After it was found Iceland were still selling their own brand products with palm oil in, they have now removed 17 of the products rather than cutting out palm oil from them. The retailer promised to remove palm oil from all their own brand products by the end of 2018, but they could not meet…
Violent crime recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by 19%. The number of homicides including murder and manslaughter has risen from 649 to 739 an increase of 14%, it is the highest total since 2007. Robbery went up by 17% as did the recorded sexual offences according to the Home Office data…
Supermarket, Iceland, has continued to sell own-brand products containing palm oil despite saying they were removing it from their own brand products by the end of 2018. The retailer made a promise last April saying the demand for the oil was devastating rainforests in Asia. They also had their Christmas advert around stopping palm oil…
Drug-resistant superbugs are as big as a threat as climate change, a new twenty-year plan will be done to tackle the problem. The overuse of antibiotics is making infections harder to treat and leading to thousands of deaths a year through drug-resistant superbugs. The government plans to change the way it funds drug companies to…
A teenage girl feared she would be sexually assaulted when an attacker got into her bedroom shortly after he murdered a man, a court has heard. Ben Harvey, 22, is accused of killing William Rudiak,26, before going on to the girl’s home. In a video interview played to the Winchester Crown Court, the teenager describes…
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