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    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have apparently already made an important addition to their family. Following the news that only one of Meghan's dogs was able to make the journey from Toronto to London, the Duke and Duchess of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have apparently already made an important addition to their family. Following the news that only one of Meghan's dogs was able to make the journey from Toronto to London, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have apparently adopted a new Labrador rescue dog. The Daily Mail is reporting, via a royal source, that Meghan and Harry's new dog is already happily ensconced at their cottage, meaning that their family has expanded since their May 2018 wedding. The source also reveals that the dog will divide its time between th...

    The Metropolitan Police is searching for the British-based leaders of the South American gang after multi-million-pound raids in London, north Wales and Somerset. More than 75 Chilean burglars have been arrested in the past two years in connection to burglaries in Hertfordshire, Surrey and south-west London. The thieves steal jewellery, watches and designer clothes, with one burglary netting as much as £400,000. In some cases, they have removed safes from walls. Despite arresting 36 suspected members of the gang this year, the Met is anticipating a new group of burglars, whose activity is thought to increase during the winter, The Times reported. A contact meets the burglars in south London and takes their belongings and any identification, before giving them a ca...

    Theresa May will fly to sub-Saharan Africa on Monday for the first time in a bid to renew a historic partnership with the continent and forge new trade links for post-Brexit Britain. The Prime Minister said the visit, which will see her become the first British leader to visit Kenya since the Eighties, represented a unique opportunity to foster new partnerships with Commonwealth nations and some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Mrs May will also travel to South Africa and Nigeria, where she will be joined by British business leaders, the trade minister, George Hollingbery, and Harriett Baldwin, the minister for Africa. On the first leg of her journey, Mrs May will give a keynote speech in Cape Town, setting out ambitious plans to increase British investmen...

    President Herman Van Rompuy said a no-deal Brexit was an Crashing out of the EU without a deal would risk breaking up the United Kingdom, the former president of the European council has warned. Herman Van Rompuy, the former Belgian prime minister who was council president until 2014, told the Observer that he believed the threat of a no-deal Brexit was a new operation fear tactic being used by the government. But he said it would not work with the EU and warned that such an outcome would end up creating new pressures over Scottish independence. He added: We could end up with a situation in which the EU27 becomes more united and a United Kingdom less united. This talk about a ‘no deal’ is the kind of nationalist rhetoric that belongs to another era. Nicola Sturgeo...

    A third of bobbies on the beat have been axed in three years amid a surge in violent crime- despite government promises to protect frontline policing. More than 7000 neighbourhood police officers have left the force or been assigned to other duties since March 2015, according to The Sunday Times. The number of police community support officers has also reportedly fallen by 18 per cent. But officers assigned to administrative roles have multiplied by a quarter in three years- despite government pledges to protect frontline policing. Sussex is the police force with the fewest police on the beat per head of population, where just 8.3 neighbourhood officers patrol 100,000 people. Villagers in Martock in Somerset have hired a security firm to patrol at night due to th...

    McDonald’s is under fire from animal-welfare activists who say the chickens it uses for food suffer heart failure and lameness because they are forced to grow fat too quickly. Menu items such as McNuggets, chicken sandwiches and salads come from birds that have been selectively bred over time to put on weight more rapidly than is natural, causing painful health problems, according to the campaigners. They claim the world’s biggest fast-food chain failed to address the issue of the fast-growing breed when it issued a new animal-welfare policy last year. The animal welfare campaigners have now launched a worldwide campaign, beginning with McDonald’s, lobbying against companies that use the breed in intensive farming systems. The new guidelines that McDonald’s issued...

    An Italian football fan has been jailed after a Liverpool supporter suffered a catastrophic head injury before the Champions League semi-final. Roma supporter Daniele Sciusco, 29, was handed a two-and-a-half year sentence after he admitted violent disorder ahead of the Anfield match on 24 April. Sean Cox, 53, is out of a coma but still in a serious condition after the violence, although Sciusco was not directly involved in causing his injuries. Filippo Lombardi, 21, denies violent disorder and inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mr Cox and is due to stand trial later this year. Recorder of Preston Judge Mark Brown said whilst sentencing Sciusco on Friday: The Champions League semi-final was a major international football event that was being televised across Europe...

    Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn has been reported to the parliamentary standards watchdog by a Tory MP over a comment he made suggesting British Zionists do not understand English irony. Helen Grant argued the comment, which also drew criticism from Jewish Labour members, breached the MPs' code of conduct and brought Parliament into disrepute. Footage emerged from a conference in 2013 in which Mr Corbyn said: British Zionists clearly have two problems. One is they don't want to study history and secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don't understand English irony either. Ms Grant, the Tory vice chair for communities, has written to Kathryn Stone, parliamentary commissioner for standards, asking that Mr Corbyn be investigat...

    Unusual street clouds have been spotted across Britain as the Met Office says the muggy weather is responsible for the dramatic display. Keen weather watchers from across England were quick to share their pictures of the weather phenomenon which occurs when cooler air arrives following a period of muggy weather. Horizontal convective rolls, more commonly known as cloud streets, form when warm air close to the ground rises to meet cooler air causing it to condense and form clouds. This paired with a strong breeze will cause the clouds to form a linear pattern similar to that seen in a ploughed field. These clouds can be very helpful to pilots as they are a strong indicator of the direction of airflow and air temperatures. The clouds were pictured by BBC Weather Wa...

    Chancellor Philip Hammond has risked infuriating Tory Brexiteers by warning of large fiscal consequences of a no-deal Brexit on the same day other ministers sought to reassure the public about such a scenario. In a letter to fellow Tory MP Nicky Morgan, the chair of the House of Commons' treasury committee, the chancellor repeated the findings of a government analysis of various Brexit outcomes from January. Mr Hammond highlighted how the document found a no-deal Brexit would see the UK's GDP suffer a hit of up to 10.3%. He wrote: GDP impacts of this magnitude, were they to arise, would have large fiscal consequences. The chancellor also pointed to how the analysis estimated government borrowing would be around £80bn a year higher by 2033-34, if the UK were to tra...