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    Easy Jet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s budget food store, which charges just 25p each for everyday groceries, has been forced to close temporarily after less than two days as it has run out of stock. Easy Food store closed on Wednesday afternoon and is expected to re-open on Friday morning after it has re-stocked the shelves. A spokesman for easy Food store, in Park Royal, north-west London, said: “The level of interest has been completely overwhelming. The last people through the door today had travelled up from Canterbury. We anticipated we had enough stock to last a couple of weeks but it has just gone in a day and a half. The retailer, which has the slogan “No expensive brands. Just food honestly priced,” says it still plans to sell its items for 25p each througho...

    Two murder suspects remain on the run after a company boss was shot dead during an attempted armed robbery in which his business was specifically targeted. Akhtar Javeed was found fatally wounded in the street following the shooting at Direct Source 3 Ltd in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, West Midlands Police said. The 56-year-old was the director at the soft drinks distributor, and died in hospital shortly after police were called to the scene by someone inside the warehouse in Rea Street South at 6.40pm on Wednesday. The suspects, who were said to have been two masked men, remain at large and are believed to have used a getaway vehicle. Superintendent Andy Parsons confirmed the alleged gunmen sought out Mr Javeed's business specifically. He told reporters at the scene: ...

    The Irish general election will take place on 26 February, the country’s prime minister, Enda Kenny, has said, as he dissolved the Dáil and kicked off one of the shortest election battles in Irish political history. Political scientists, election number crunchers and bookmakers are predicting that Kenny will make history by being returned as Taoiseach. If the experts and recent opinion polls are correct, Kenny will become the first ever Fine Gael Taoiseach to be elected for a second term since Ireland became independent from Britain in 1922. While the odds are in favour of Kenny becoming Taoiseach again and thus taking the salute at the military parade on Easter Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Rising in Dublin against British rule, opinion polls indicate his pa...

    Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north-west London A pensioner bled to death after a spelling mistake meant blood intended for her during an operation was sent back. Irmgard Cooper, 85, died at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north-west London, as blood supplies were severely delayed. An inquest at North London Coroner's Court heard that her name had been spelt as Irngard instead of Irmgard, which resulted in the delay. In addition, the surgeon had not been told no blood supplies were available during the operation until he was carrying out the procedure on May 7 last year. By the time replacement supplies arrived, Mrs Cooper, who lived in Hayling Island, Hampshire, had lost all her blood and she died on the operating table, the Brent and Kilburn Times reported. The G...

    A student is demanding a lifetime supply of KitKats under the threat of legal action after she bought eight of the chocolate bars and none of them had the trademark wafer inside, reports Daily Mail from UK. Saima Ahmad, 20, bought the multi-pack from a supermarket for £2 last month, and has now written to manufacturer Nestle claiming that they ignored their duty of care to consumers. Miss Ahmad, a second-year student at Kings College, London, even included details of a legal precedent set in the 1930s to back up her case. She said: 'They go about advertising the unique concept of KitKat, but I'm so disappointed by what I have purchased. 'I'm hoping they will apologise to me and in future focus more on quality of their product. 'No one else in that industry has that unique ...

    The founder of easyJet has opened a discount food store that is selling everyday groceries for 25p each. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has launched easyFoodstore in an attempt to take advantage of the fast-growing discount market in the UK, which is led by Aldi and Lidl. The venture could eventually be another threat to the “big four” supermarket chains – Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons. They are already battling dramatic changes in shopping habits as families turn away from the weekly trip to a supermarket in favour of buying food online, in convenience stores and with the discounters. The supermarket chains also face the threat of Amazon expanding into groceries in the UK. The pilot easyFoodstore has opened in Park Royal in north-west London. It will sell items for 25p...

    The former defence secretary urged voters to reclaim Britain's "sovereignty" in the EU referendum, in order to protect the border as the European migration crisis grows. The threat from the migration crisis could be "much worse" than the sex attacks in Cologne, Liam Fox has said, as he warned that terrorists could enter Britain posing as refugees. The former defence secretary urged voters to reclaim Britain's "sovereignty" in the EU referendum, in order to protect the border as the European migration crisis grows. In the strongest attack from a senior Tory so far on the Prime Minister's pro-Europe campaign, Dr Fox told the Telegraph it was "beyond ridiculous" for David Cameron to claim that EU membership improved national security. He said Europe posed many threats to the ...

    David Cameron has launched a double attack on racial bias: in the courts and prisons and in Britain's elite universities. He has appointed a Labour MP, David Lammy, to hold an inquiry into why more black and ethnic minority criminals end up in prison that white offenders. And he is planning new laws to force universities like his own, Oxford, to reveal how many black applicants and students from poor backgrounds are accepted. "If you’re black, you're more likely to be in a prison cell than studying at a top university," said Mr Cameron. "There are no black generals in our armed forces and just 4% of chief executives in the FTSE 100 are from ethnic minorities. These examples should shame our nation and jolt us into action." "And if you're black, it seems you're more likely...

    Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abasi, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16 of Bethnal Green Academy school living in east London, ran off to Syria on February 17, 2015 to join the terror group under the influence of another female British member of the group. Photo: BBC Bangla Islamic State (IS) has been successful in recruiting quite a few British-Bangladeshi women, reports BBC Bangla. The women are being recruited online, only to serve as sex slaves to the IS men, the BBC report said on January 30. It investigates the reasons behind these women for running off to war stricken Syria to join the clan. It has almost been a year since the three British-Bangladeshi teenage girls fled from their homes in UK to join the extremist group. Their unsuspecting friends and family were baffled by the...

    Storm Gertrude is sweeping the country with winds of more than 90mph, leaving thousands of homes without power, buildings damaged and transport disrupted. A rare red Met Office alert is in place for Orkney and Shetland with dangerous conditions expected throughout Friday. Many other regions have yellow and amber warnings for strong winds, heavy rain, snow and ice as the extreme weather continues to batter the British Isles. Gusts of 91mph have been recorded in South Uist, while Inverbervie in Aberdeenshire and Orlock Head in Northern Ireland were hit by winds of 79mph. Speeds are expected to reach around 65mph in the Borders and the North East of England later in the day and pushing 80mph in North Yorkshire. Forecasters said: Winds are expected to widely gust 60-70mph, pos...