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Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has admitted that the party "is collapsing" as it prepares for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to decide the fate of leader Henry Bolton.

British negotiators are reportedly preparing to push for the kind of Brexit favoured by the UK's financial services sector, despite Brussels having already rebuffed such a plan.

Andrzej Mazurek jailed for three years after turning three rooms at his house in Stoke into cannabis farm.

Police seek "well spoken" suspect who assaulted a schoolgirl in Ladywell Park in a Scottish town over the weekend.

A new report has called on the government to give £10,000 to everyone under 55 years of age as part of a move towards a national universal basic income (UBI).

The notorious "Croydon Cat Killer" is being hunted down by a team of 15 Metropolitan Police officers.

Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show young middle earners are struggling to get on the property ladder.

Tories fear that the housing crisis affecting middle-class millennials could be an 'iceberg' issue that sinks the party in the upcoming election.

The Ministry of Justice will enact an early release scheme freeing thousands of prisoners to ease overcrowding in British jails.

Madan Lal, 45, of Ponteland, Northumbria, was planning to meet a 15-year-old boy from gay dating app Grindr as he is spared jail and handed a community order.

The pair, Thomas Woodhulme, 27, and William Henderson, 34, were both found not guilty of causing actual bodily harm to Strangeways prisoner Nigel Halfacre at Manchester Crown Court

A London Uber driver is accused of grooming a 'tipsy 14-year-old schoolgirl' he was giving a ride to by telling her she was 'hot' and 'had nice lips'.

Married father Shuaib Muhammad, 24, of South Shields, committed a sex act in the house, hacked her Facebook and made silent calls to the woman who has had to move home.

Mihai Varga brought Eastern Europeans into the UK then paid them less than £2 per hour for 12-hour shifts in a food processing factory. He has been jailed for slavery offences.

Baby born in one of England's richest areas will live 8.4 years longer than child born in poor neighbourhood, study into life expectancy by Longevity Science Panel (LSP) reveals.

A former science teacher who filmed schoolgirls and teachers in female toilets at three schools he worked at has been jailed.

National Express has launched an investigation after footage emerged of one of its drivers attempting to drag a screaming woman off his coach.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said a probe was required to find out if there was "excessive profit-making by those who make Freddos".

Labour's shadow Northern Ireland secretary Owen Smith has said that Theresa May should force the devolved government to accept same-sex marriage if power-sharing talks fail.

Club say John Broome, who is now dead, also linked to serious abuse allegations after former coach convicted of string of offences.

Labour leader dismisses story in The Sun which suggested he had close ties with a Czechoslovak agent at the height of the Cold War.

On being quizzed about her sex life with the spirit, Amanda Teague, to the surprise of the Loose Women panellists, revealed that she once had a pregnancy scare.

Boris Johnson said it would be "intolerable and undemocratic" for Brussels to impose its laws on Britain after Brexit.

Police arrest 32-year-old man in connection with incident in Charleston which left victim with severe injury.

According to a former British ambassador to Tokyo, Japan views the United Kingdom leaving the European Union as an act of medium and long-term political and economical "self-harm".

The 23-year-old journalist from Lancashire has a phobia of dogs and will get to use a guide horse instead.

Emma Matthews, from Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, was accused of being an escort when screenshots of private messages to men were taken from her phone and posted to Facebook.

Joseph McKeever, 54, was found dead in a burned-out Ford Focus in Liverpool in June 2017. Jamie Grimes was found guilty of his murder at Liverpool Crown Court.

Fikri Yarasir, 53, who owns Yummy's pizza and kebab shop in Glossop, Derbyshire, is accused of trying to import 210 kilos of heroin, alongside six others at Manchester Crown Court.