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    Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK could be moved from London to the Midlands, it has been reported. The change of location is apparently being considered to allow the President to address a rally and raise money for veterans through ticket sales. It is thought the reasoning behind the move is to allow Mr Trump to face a more sympathetic crowd in the Brexit heartland. It would be his biggest rally with 85,000 people coming together to celebrate the US-UK special relationship, a source close to Mr Trump said, according to the Telegraph. If he is not speaking to the Houses of Parliament, let’s go to the people. The only person who gets screwed is the Speaker of the House of Commons. The plans for the Trump rally include performances by cheerleaders from America’s National ...

    Labour MPs who rebelled against Jeremy Corbyn’s three line whip and opposed the Government’s Brexit bill in a Commons vote this week will receive a formal warning from the party but can remain in their shadow cabinet posts, it has emerged. Labour sources said the chief whip met with Mr Corbyn to discuss disciplinary issues arising from the Article 50 Bill. It is understood the chief whip will be taking action in the form of a formal warning to all Labour MPs who broke the whip. They will also be under strict instructions to comply with the whip in the future, the source said. But the rebels, some of whom are whips themselves, will be able to keep their jobs. When Mr Corbyn was asked earlier in the week if he intended to fire 13 members of his own team who rebelled against ...

    Before wedding bells can ring for Prince Harry and girlfriend Meghan Markle, they’ll need to secure the Queen’s permission. And it’s not just a sign of respect for the 90-year-old monarch as fifth in line to the throne, Harry must have Queen Elizabeth‘s blessing to marry. This is due to a law, first established as the Royal Marriages Act 1772, which gave the monarch the right to veto the marriage of a member of his or her family. That law has since been repealed and was replaced by more relaxed restrictions. Now, the law only applies to the first six in line to the throne, which as of now are Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Harry and Prince Andrew. Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie used to be included in that list, but were mo...

    Friday is set to be particularly cold and some parts of the UK could see snow ahead of a chilly weekend, the Met Office has said. Temperatures of 2-3C (36-37F) in the Midlands, London and eastern areas, and scattered snow showers are forecast. Any snow is unlikely to settle, although there could be some icy patches. Elsewhere will be a degree or two warmer, with highs of only 5C (41F) in the South West, Wales and western Scotland. Overnight into Saturday, temperatures could potentially dip as low as minus 10C (14F) in some mountainous parts of Scotland, Met Office forecaster Sophie Yeomans said. The lowest temperature recorded so far this winter was minus 11C (12.2F) which at Cromdale in Moray, North East Scotland, on 5 December. Ms Yeomans said: "The very lowest that we c...

    Prince Harry and Suits star Meghan Markle have only been together since last summer, but the couple are already settled into a rhythm together. PEOPLE confirmed in October that Harry and Markle had been seeing each other for three months and since the start of the new year the pair have been, according to an insider, inseparable while using Harry’s cozy two-bedroom Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace as a home base. They are really just enjoying spending time together, a second source tells PEOPLE of the couple, who vacationed in Norway together in early January and were last photographed hand-in-hand in London on Feb. 1. Markle’s humanitarian work took her to India for a week in January. But with the actress not expected back on the Suits set until April, palace i...

    Jeremy Corbyn mocked for pathetic Brexit rallying cry Jeremy Corbyn has been mercilessly mocked for saying the real fight starts now after MPs overwhelmingly voted to back Brexit. The Labour leader took to social media after the Commons vote, in which the majority of his party backed the Government, to say he would now begin work to make a success of Britian's departure from the EU. The futility of Mr Corbyn's so-called fight was summed up in a series of memes on social media. He has faced a number of resignations from his Shadow Cabinet from Labour MPs who refused to follow the party whip in voting with the Government to trigger Article 50, which begins the Brexit process. In total, 162 Labour MPs backed triggering Article 50 while 52 voted against and 13 did not vote. Ov...

    Freezing winds are set to bring snow to the east coast of the UK this week. Plummeting temperatures will hit the coast from Wednesday accompanied by the chance of wintry showers. The Met Office has issued warnings about high winds in Northern Ireland and parts of western Scotland as the working week begins with a belt of rain crossing the UK. Emma Sharples, from the Met Office, said temperatures are likely to dip by at least two or three degrees by Thursday for much of England with day time maximums unlikely to rise higher than around 5C. Ms Sharples said: We'll definitely be seeing low single figures by the end of the week. And, of course, overnight, where skies remain clear and away from coastal areas, we'll see temperatures dipping down to negative figures The wind will...

    Great Britain are through to the Davis Cup quarter-finals after Denis Shapovalov of Canada was defaulted in the deciding rubber on Sunday. In a very bizarre end to an exciting tie in Ottawa, the 17-year-old Shapovalov accidentally hit umpire Arnaud Gabas with the ball, meaning he had to be defaulted by tie referee Brian Earley. Already two sets up, Kyle Edmund broke for 2-1 in set three when Shapovalov hit the ball out, and the youngster smashed the ball in anger towards the stands, only for it to fly straight into the face of Gabas. Shapovalov, who won Junior Wimbledon last year, was distraught after the incident, while Gabas was given ice and TV pictures showed his left eye badly swollen. Great Britain therefore triumphed 3-2, Canada's Vasek Pospisil having earlier produ...

    Jeremy Corbyn is braced for a fresh rebellion this week over the party’s stance on invoking Article 50 as the historic Article 50 bill reaches its final stages in the Commons. On a day in which one of his key allies, Diane Abbott, came under mounting pressure to quit after she abstained on the first vote last week due to a migraine, the Labour leader also refused to be drawn on whether he would discipline those who voted against triggering the mechanism for exiting the EU. The Independent understands Mr Corbyn is not likely to replace those who resigned from the shadow Cabinet after the leadership imposed a three-line whip until after the final reading and vote on Wednesday evening. It is expected that more MPs could join those who rebelled last week, if the party fails to...

    European leaders launched a series of attacks on Donald Trump over his anti-EU rhetoric on Friday, accusing him of a lack of respect, as Theresa May’s attempts to position herself as a bridge with the new US president were roundly rejected at a summit in Malta. Trump’s conduct was scorned by prime ministers and presidents, with the French leader, François Hollande, warning there would be no future for Europe’s relations with the US if this future isn’t defined in common. At a working lunch at the talks in the Maltese capital, Valletta, the British prime minister appealed to other leaders to work “constructively and patiently” with the American president. Addressing reporters, however, Hollande said: “Of course it is not about asking one particular country, be it the UK or ...