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Why Corfu is calling time on British louts: Once a holiday island loved by families, its hotspots have been overrun by drunks. Now locals are cracking down and vowing to take it back upmarket* Drunken tourists, mostly British, descend on Kavos every summer to party* The area is now unrecognisable from the paradise it was in previous years* But now disgruntled locals are taking back control with a strict clampdown
Diet drinks and food actually trigger weight gain and diabetes, says new study
Newcastle sex ring: People care more about being called racist than preventing child abuse, says Rotherham's Labour MPSpeaking on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme, Ms Champion said there was a need to 'acknowledge' that in all of the towns with similar cases 'the majority of the perpetrators have been British Pakistani'
Pig organs could soon be transplanted into humans after major ‘xenotransplantation’ breakthroughThe shortage of organs for transplants is one of the biggest challenges to modern medicine
Why Amazon's UK tax bill has dropped 50%
Modern slavery and trafficking 'in every UK town and city'
Significant rise in arrivals at Greek regional airportsThe number of arrivals at the 14 regional airports managed by the consortium led by Germany’s Fraport has risen significantly so far this year.After the summer, the majority of the airports will resemble work sites as the task of making improvements begins.
How long could my summer holiday flight be delayed?
Mandatory CCTV in slaughterhouses to ensure animal welfareCCTV is to become mandatory in all slaughterhouses in England in a bid to ensure animal welfare and to reassure consumers.Breaches of the rules could see slaughterhouses slapped with a welfare enforcement notice, the suspension of licences or even referral for a criminal investigation.The government also said standards for farm animals and domestic pets would be raised.
Cotswolds village residents shocked after DNA tests show they are less than 50% BritishNot one resident’s DNA was 100 per cent Anglo Saxon
QuotePig organs could soon be transplanted into humans after major ‘xenotransplantation’ breakthroughThe shortage of organs for transplants is one of the biggest challenges to modern medicinehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pig-human-transplant-organs-xenotransplantation-crispr-cas9-pervs-porcine-retrovirus-a7887071.html
QuoteWhy Amazon's UK tax bill has dropped 50%http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40884753[/quoteYou wouldn't have thought they could not have paid much less. Mainly it's because they made less (UK) profit on increased turnover. They've also found a loophole by paying staff in shares which can count as a business expense if they go up and can therefore be offset against tax. They must pay accountants a fortune to find all these wheezes. Tony
Greece coercing southern states to choose Germany to host London’s EU agencyAthens Deputy Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said he has contacted other European Union member states to form a united camp in the voting process to move European Medicines Agency (EMA) to Frankfurt.The German city is one of 19 bids to host the EMA when Britain unshackles itself from Brussels. Eurocrats will have to lay off about 72 UK nationals working at the EMA and the European Banking Authority (EBA) because it can only employ people from member states. But Margarida Marques, the Portuguese State Secretary for European Affairs, said the bloc’s southern countries were better positioned to host the EMA.She said: "Officials from the EMA prefer to go to the south more than the north because the weather and the food are better."
Greek authorities seize 2 tons of marijuana on Italian yacht
British snorkelling instructor, 19, dies in Zakynthos, GreeceA 19-year-old British water sports instructor has died while snorkelling and underwater swimming in Greece.Harry Byatt, who worked in Zakynthos, an island in the south-west of Greece, failed to resurface after diving into the sea, his employer said.The former Eastbourne College pupil's body was discovered on the seabed at a depth of around 30 metres on 6 August.
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