News Headlines - 02 December 2017

ABC News corrects bombshell Flynn report

ABC News on Friday evening corrected an explosive special report that aired in the morning saying that Donald Trump, as a candidate for president, had asked Michael Flynn to make contact with Russians.

Record fall in net migration to UK in year after Brexit vote

Net migration tumbled by 106,000 to 230,000 people in the 12 months to June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Some 82,000 of the decline was due to EU citizens, cutting net migration from the bloc to its lowest level since June 2013.
The total fall in net migration was the largest since people moving to Britain started to outnumber those leaving in the 1980s.

Amazon staff complain about conditions in Tilbury | Daily Mail Online

Amazon's staff are falling asleep on their feet and being taken away in ambulances as they struggle to meet warehouse targets, an investigation has claimed.
Cameras monitor every move as employees try to process up to 300 items an hour, it has been alleged. Screens remind them if they are falling short.
Exhausted staff are said to cover clocks so they are not reminded how long there is to go on their shifts, and have to walk up to a third of a mile to use the toilet.

Action Hunger to unveil vending machine for homeless people - BBC News

A vending machine for the homeless is being set up in the UK by a new charity that wants to provide 24-hour access to food and clothing.
Action Hunger will work with Tesco and other partners to stock the machine in Nottingham with items such as fresh fruit, socks and toothpaste.
The machine will be activated by a key card handed out to street people by homeless charity The Friary.

James Cameron on Titanic’s Legacy, the Avatar Sequels’ Progress, and the Impact of a Fox Studio Sale | Vanity Fair

Cameron spoke with Vanity Fair recently about some of Titanic’s unanswered questions, what a sale of the 20th Century Fox movie studio would mean for him, and how his work on the Avatar and Terminator franchises is progressing.