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UK’s international intelligence service, MI6, has launched their first ever TV ad to attract mothers from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, in a bid to create a more diverse and emotionally intelligent spy workforce.
- Columbine-obsessed teens guilty of plotting copycat killings at Yorkshire school
Two teenage boys with a "very real interest in violence" and obsessed with the Columbine school massacre, have been found guilty of planning a similar-style attack on a North Yorkshire school. - Yulia Skripal’s first post-poisoning TV appearance: What we did and didn’t learn
In Yulia Skripal’s first televised statement since being poisoned by a nerve agent, she looked better than could be expected given her ordeal. So what did we learn from her public appearance, and what new questions were raised? - ‘Corbyn takes money from Kremlin’: Russian phone pranksters appear to fool Boris Johnson (AUDIO)
Boris Johnson appears to have been caught in the crosshairs of Russian rascals Lexus and Vovan. The prankster pair managed to get the foreign secretary on the phone for an 18-minute chat about some pretty serious state matters. - ‘Duress cannot be ruled out’: ex-UK Ambassador Craig Murray unconvinced by Yulia Skripal interview
Yulia Skripal has spoken out amid concerns from Russia that she is being held in the UK against her will. Her appearance may have put some at ease, though others – like Craig Murray – have been left with more questions.
- David Lammy and Toby Young battle on Twitter over accusations of Oxford University ‘racism’
Labour MP David Lammy and Toby Young, the Spectator writer and free schools advocate, have rekindled their war of words on social media concerning the explanation to Oxford University’s lack of black British students. - Columbine-obsessed teens guilty of plotting copycat killings at Yorkshire schoolTwo teenage boys with a "very real interest in violence" and obsessed with the Columbine school massacre, have been found guilty of planning a similar-style attack on a North Yorkshire school.
- ‘MI6 – secretly we’re just like you’: Creepy spy TV ad aimed at ethnic minority mumsUK’s international intelligence service, MI6, has launched their first ever TV ad to attract mothers from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, in a bid to create a more diverse and emotionally intelligent spy workforce.
- Yulia Skripal’s first post-poisoning TV appearance: What we did and didn’t learnIn Yulia Skripal’s first televised statement since being poisoned by a nerve agent, she looked better than could be expected given her ordeal. So what did we learn from her public appearance, and what new questions were raised?
- ‘Stand up’ to the Daily Mail - crowdfunding campaign aims to take down Brexit bullies
A funding drive, launched by an anti-Brexit campaign group, aims to raise millions of pounds so it can take on “Daily Mail bullies” and continue with what it calls the “fight for our right to stop Brexit.” - ‘Corbyn takes money from Kremlin’: Russian phone pranksters appear to fool Boris Johnson (AUDIO)Boris Johnson appears to have been caught in the crosshairs of Russian rascals Lexus and Vovan. The prankster pair managed to get the foreign secretary on the phone for an 18-minute chat about some pretty serious state matters.
- Easy come, easy go, will EU let them go? German-led clique oppose UK staying in Galileo sat program
It’s all going a bit ‘Mean Girls’ over at the European Commission, as a German-led clique is opposing a British request for continued participation in the Galileo satellite program following Brexit. - ‘Poster boy’ of neo-Nazi terrorist group jailed over racist & anti-Semitic social media posts
A man known as the ‘poster boy’ of banned neo-Nazi group ‘National Action’ has been jailed for posting racist and anti-Semitic material online, including an image of a man with a Star of David on his forehead being hanged. - ‘Duress cannot be ruled out’: ex-UK Ambassador Craig Murray unconvinced by Yulia Skripal interviewYulia Skripal has spoken out amid concerns from Russia that she is being held in the UK against her will. Her appearance may have put some at ease, though others – like Craig Murray – have been left with more questions.
- May will ruin Brexit, Tories are a 'trainwreck' that will lead Corbyn to power - Vote Leave leader
‘Vote Leave’ campaign director, Dominic Cummings, has attacked Tory preparations for leaving the EU and warned that a Corbyn government is possible if the May-Hammond partnership isn’t removed. - 'You're being reported': Royal Navy chases away Spanish military's patrol boat from Gibraltar
A British Royal Navy vessel chased away a Spanish military ship from its territorial waters off Gibraltar. With Brexit on the horizon tensions are mounting over ‘the Rock’s’ sovereignty. - ‘We must do serious business with Russia’: Ex-ambassador eyes thaw in London-Moscow relations
The former British ambassador to Russia has said that the government knows they must rebuild positive relations with the Kremlin, after the relationship crumbled over the Skripal poisoning in March.
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