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By Tom Cotterill and Jamie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 12:13 EDT, 27 February 2023 | Updated: 18:22 EDT, 27 February 2023 This was MailOnline’s live blog covering the latest developments in the Rishi Sunak’s negotiation of the Northern Ireland Brexit deal terms with the European Union.  Share or comment on this article: Brexit deal as it happened: US President Joe Biden praises Rishi Sunak’s plan as ‘essential step’ Source link

By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 17:00 EDT, 25 February 2023 | Updated: 18:07 EDT, 25 February 2023 You don’t need to be surrounded by grass to struggle with hay fever as city-dwellers suffer from worse symptoms, a study suggests.Scientists from the University of Manchester analysed 35,000 reports of symptoms over five years by 700 people.Participants logged how often they experienced a runny nose, sore eyes and wheeziness on an app, along with where they lived.The researchers found that all three of these symptoms were twice as severe in urban areas than in rural ones.Increasing pollution may be to blame,…

Chinese surveillance cameras are being used at British Army bases despite Ministers banning them from Government buildings over fears they pose a major security risk.A Mail on Sunday investigation discovered CCTV cameras – which have also been banned by the US military amid concerns they could be used to send vital data back to Beijing’s spies – at numerous military sites, including barracks for elite troops who guard the King.Our exclusive photographs show the devices made by Hikvision and Dahua – companies controlled by the Chinese Communist party – trained on the entrances of barracks where they record the comings…

A cryptocurrency investment firm backed by MPs, Lords and a Premier League footballer appears to have vanished, leaving investors fearing they have lost tens of thousands of pounds. Phoenix Community Capital began last year as a cryptocurrency project and investment scheme, at one stage claiming to be worth an eyewatering $800million (£665million).The firm offered a cryptocurrency called fire, with 10 tokens earning investors a ‘nest’. Each of these was said to give a return of 0.225 fire tokens a day – allowing investors to supposedly recoup their original investment within 45 days. Phoenix cultivated links to politicians by sponsoring an All Party…

My father loathed me. I was conscious of this from my earliest days. In his eyes, I was a particularly difficult child. This was the basis of his persistent bullying of me, in which I never knew when I would be subjected to the next onslaught.His behaviour taught me much about the tyranny of arbitrary power, but also about how power could be lost. I was 15 when he came at me with a hammer. I took it from him and told him if he did it again, I would use it on him.The balance of power had changed. Before…

I didn’t believe a word of it.Like a stilted actress from the low-rent BBC Scotland soap opera River City, Nicola Sturgeon shakily tried to convince us that she was really quitting as First Minister to spend more time with her teenage nieces and nephews, and to allow a new generation of SNP zealots to pursue her deranged separatism fantasy, having insisted she was going nowhere just last month.She failed spectacularly.At this morning’s hastily arranged press conference, the woman who once believed she would end up the new Queen of Scots wasn’t even able to produce any actual tears on cue…

Western Australia has launched an audacious bid to ‘steal’ 31,000 British doctors, police officers and teachers to work in the land Down Under.In a nod to the ‘Ten Pound Poms’ scheme introduced after the Second World War, a delegation of government and industry officials will visit the UK later this month to lure workers away to fill more than 31,000 vacancies.They are also on the hunt for miners, plumbers, mechanics and builders.They promise hard-working Britons can ‘have it all’ and boast the UK’s energy bills – up to £2,600 this year – will cost almost half in Australia, with the…

Ben Wallace accused governments of raiding the defence budget since 1991He said reports Nato asked Berlin stay in charge of rapid reaction force ‘b****cks’By David Churchill, Chief Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 17:00 EDT, 15 February 2023 | Updated: 06:31 EDT, 16 February 2023 Ben Wallace has called for a return to ‘investing in defence properly’ as he hit out at successive governments for ‘hollowing out’ the military.The Defence Secretary accused ministers of ‘raiding’ his department’s budget since 1991 and said he faced an uphill struggle to get more cash ahead of next month’s Budget.But he said he…

On a chilly afternoon in November 2014, Nicola Sturgeon rose to her feet inside the Scottish parliament to deliver her maiden speech as First Minister. Wearing a sleek red dress, her hair immaculately coiffed, she lost no time in establishing her feminist credentials.’I hope my election does indeed open the gate to greater opportunity for all women,’ she told the chamber, her voice cracking with emotion.’I hope it sends a strong, positive message to all girls and young women across our land: there should be no limit to your ambition for what you can achieve.’Her outfit and demeanour might have…

She was, until the end, the consummate communicator, the master of spin, the untouchable queen of political evasion. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon strode into a press conference at her official residence in Edinburgh, Bute House, shortly after 11am yesterday and confirmed the rumour that had sent shockwaves through the Scottish political establishment in the hours before.Her resignation speech was littered with the sort of meaningless platitudes you might expect in such circumstances. Being First Minister of Scotland was the best job in the world. It had been a privilege beyond measure to serve.Those formalities dispensed with, Miss Sturgeon went on…