Articles by Mark Banham

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Boris Johnson says 'no' vote in EU referendum will mean Brexit, not a new membership deal

David Cameron has stated there is no 'third way' if the UK votes to leave EU on 23 June.

Feb 27, 2016

EU Referendum Brexit David Cameron George Osborne

World could be headed for a chocolate drought

Demand set to outstrip supply as cravings for the sweet treat increases in developing countries.

Feb 13, 2016

India Brazil

Jeremy Hunt vote of no confidence Downing Street petition passes 213,000 mark

Health secretary is under fire after threatening to impose extended working hour contracts on NHS junior doctors.

Feb 13, 2016

NHS Google

$NSPCC\'s Peter Wanless with David Cameron$

NSPCC helpline launches to help UK employees blow whistle on child abuse

Service to be run by children's charity has received £500,000 of public funds.

Feb 13, 2016

Holocaust survivors face alleged Nazi war criminal accused of Auschwitz atrocities

Reinhold Hanning in court to face charges that he was an SS leader at Auschwitz.

Feb 13, 2016

Confidential bank details available for sale on easily found website

Credit and debit card details of thousands of individuals available for £2, claims newspaper.

Feb 13, 2016

Elton John reveals 40-year rift with the late David Bowie

Pair fell out after the Ziggy Stardust star called the Rocket Man "rock 'n' roll's token queen" in a Rolling Stone article.

Feb 13, 2016

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter tells the UK to keep Trident nuclear weapon programme

Carter says the nuclear weapons are 'important part of the deterrent structure of Nato'.

Feb 13, 2016

Jeremy Corbyn NATO

David Cameron tells Hamburg business leaders the UK must stay in the EU

UK prime minster said that he will campaign for the UK to stay in the economic union.

Feb 13, 2016

David Cameron EU Referendum

Five skiers killed in Austrian Alps avalanche

Dead were part of a group of around a dozen located Lizumer Hütte in the Wattental valley.

Feb 6, 2016

Guernsey minister Jonathan Le Tocq blames island's Islamophobia for refugee snub

The island will not receive any migrants under the UK's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme.

Feb 6, 2016

Iraq

Dublin boxing shooting: Victim named as local man David Byrne

Four gunmen stormed into a weigh-in event at the Regency Hotel and opened fire on the gathered crowd.

Feb 6, 2016

Mentally ill transgender man Kayden Clarke shot and killed by Arizona police

Kayden Clarke gained fame after posting YouTube videos showing his struggle with mental health problems.

Feb 6, 2016

YouTube Arizona

Sixth man on the moon Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell dies aged 85

Mitchell believed that alien civilisations had visited the Earth and UFOs are real.

Feb 6, 2016

NASA

Twitter mulls significant change to service in wake of stock price decline

Proposed algorithm system faces barrage of criticism on social media and creation of hashtag #RIPTwitter.

Feb 6, 2016

Twitter Facebook

Refugee Mediterranean crossing numbers top 55,000 for January 2016

35x as many people attempt the crossing as in January 2015, leading to 244 deaths at sea.

Jan 30, 2016

Italy

Russia accused of killing nearly 1,400 civilians during Syrian bombing campaign

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the dead include 332 children, 195 women and 853 men.

Jan 30, 2016

Syria

A further 16 people die in siege of Syrian town of Madaya

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières says death toll has risen with numbers expected to increase.

Jan 30, 2016

Syria

Refugee boat sinks off Turkish coast with at least 33 drowned

Five children drowned as more migrants attempt the perilous Mediterranean Sea crossing.

Jan 30, 2016

Turkey

Man has hand torn off as he attempts to pat caged Russian bear

Incident took place in Murmanskaya Oblast, Russia and was captured on his friend's cameraphone.

Jan 30, 2016

Russia

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