Campaigners in the battle for Scotland's future say the referendum result is too close to call with less than two weeks until the vote ( Read more... )

Action man comedian Eddie Izzard has revealed he would like to mix comedy with politics after announcing plans to run as the next mayor of London ( Read more... )

A couple have had three foster children removed from their care because they belong to the UK Independence Party.

Rotherham Borough Council said the children were "not indigenous white British" and that it had concerns about UKIP's stance on immigration.

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Areas reporting so far have average turnout of 15%, with one polling station seeing no voters at all ( Read more... )

The Conservatives could close Labour's poll lead to just one point if they made Boris Johnson the leader of their party, according to a poll published on Thursday ( Read more... )

Prime Minister Tony Blair was briefed on the UK's files about UFO sightings in 1998, newly declassified MoD documents have revealed ( Read more... )

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Boris Johnson has won a second term as London mayor, beating Labour rival Ken Livingstone by 3%, after a far closer contest than expected.

Mr Johnson won on second preference votes after failing to gain more than 50% in the first round.

He bucked the national trend after heavy Tory losses elsewhere.

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Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, was on Tuesday night facing demands for his resignation after emails released by the Murdoch family disclosed that his office offered “absolutely illegal” advice to News Corporation executives.In a series of disclosures on by far the most dramatic day so far of the Leveson Inquiry, the Cabinet Minister’s key ( Read more... )

Town councillor Simon Parkes: My mum was a 9ft green alien
Town councillor Simon Parkes has claimed his mother is a green alien and extra-terrestrials abducted him as a child.

Parkes believes a 2.7m (9ft) lifeform stood next to his cot when he was a baby and ‘two green stick things’ appeared.

‘I thought “they’re not mummy’s hands, mummy’s are pink,’ ( Read more... )