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China sneezes: will the world catch a cold? This could be – and is – a phrase being used today to headline articles about China’s admission that its annual economic growth has sunk below 7%. It was also a headline ...

As voters trudged to polling stations on 7th May 2015, they knew they were participating in the UK’s largest exercise in practical democracy by freely casting their vote for the political party of their choice. Now it seems that they ...

The death has been announced of David Bowie, one of the giants of music who first found fame in the 1970s. It has been revealed that he had been living with cancer for 18 months. The shock is all the ...

“One guy was saying, ‘Get out! Do you have a bomb?’ And I said, ‘No – do you have a bomb?’” In the footsteps of the First Lady of Civil Rights Rosa Parks now walks another Rose – Rose Hamid, ...

Labour’s John Biggs has balanced his budget – by getting local residents to dig into their pockets to make up the shortfall. Gone is Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s cast iron pledge protect the most vulnerable in our community – replaced with ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5am on the morning of 3rd January. The epicentre was near Imphal, the capital of that Manipur state of India, just to the east of Bangladesh – about 200 miles from Dhaka. The ...

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The Christmas message slot has been taken – the Queen got their first – so UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been bumped into the New Year’s message slot. Take cover. Cameron is still a relatively weak Leader. Although his ...

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“I was stupid [and] there’s no fool like an old fool,” said Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale after apologising unreservedly for his “inappropriate” behaviour” in sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 17 year old woman. Within minutes rather than ...