By Linda Marric J.K Simmons, Eddie Izzard and Luke Wilson stars in Ash Brannon’s new animation feature about a Tibetan mastiff dog who dreams of becoming a rock star. This cute and thoroughly likeable movie does a good job in keeping you entertained, but is sadly let down by a ...
By Michael McNulty Ed Mosberg opens Destination Unknown slowly dressing into his perfectly preserved concentration camp uniform. Its thick black stripes serve as a morbid metaphor for his continued emotional imprisonment, for although Ed and the 12 others who feature in this documentary are survivors of the horrors of the ...
Two fairground workers were today charged over the death of a seven-year-old girl who was crushed to death on a bouncy castle. Summer Grant suffered serious injuries while playing on the inflatable which was swept 'some distance' at a funfair in Harlow, Essex, on March 26, 2016. The youngster, from ...
Credit has poured in for Jeremy Corbyn's statesmanlike response to the Grenfell Tower disaster which has claimed at least 17 lives and left hundreds of people homeless. The Labour leader was pictured at the scene today hugging victims of the tragedy and meeting with local resident at St Clement's Church in ...
Thousands of people have signed a petition to stop a 'concrete cabuncle' being built on an island made famous by crime writer Agatha Christie. The owners of the luxury hotel on Burgh Island - where rooms cost from £500 a night - want to build a pool house on a ...
Experts at an British university have come up with a cutting-edge cooling system for football stadiums - which will be rolled out at the World Cup in Qatar. The tiny gulf emirate will host the world's biggest sporting tournament in 2022, with eight new stadiums due to be built according ...
By Linda Marric In Whitney Can I Be Me, renowned British documentarian Nick Broomfield lift the lid on the life of one of the most famous pop stars of our time, and does his best to discover the secret behind her untimely demise at the age of 48. Broomfield uses ...
The most popular story ever on this website was Labour's increasing share of the popular vote in the June 8th general election. Genuine surprise and from many real euphoria. But what is behind this and what does it tell us? The most embraced and it would seem obvious solution is ...
A week after Theresa May suffered a heavy blow at the hands of the British electorate she may be about to suffer her biggest set back yet - after she was made odds-on leave Downing Street before Arsene Wenger exits Emirates. The Prime Minister has come under fire after last week’s general ...
A photographer has released a book featuring pictures he took of more than 100 naked woman in his local area - to try and improve their body image. Snapper Jojo found 108 females willing to shed their clothes for his project. He has now published all the images in his ...
A 10 foot robotic bartender is set to start its first shift at an immersive London wine bar pop-up. The contraption will appear at Campo Viejo’s Fiesta de Color on Waterloo Millennium Green from today and will be dishing out wine until 11pm this Sunday. It is part of an immersive pop-up ...
The Government must look after ordinarily working people as growth lowest for four years. GMB union has called for urgent action on the cost of living crisis as retail sales growth slumped to its lowest level for four years. Figures from the ONS this morning show that the annual retail ...
Today marks the first ever National Clean Air Day, a chance for the whole country to come together and improve air quality through collective action. Air pollution contributes to 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK but progress on this issue has been glacially slow. Recently the government was successfully ...
On International Working Animal Day (15 June), Geoffrey Dennis, Chief Executive of the charity SPANA, argues that animals still play a vital but largely ignored role in keeping the world’s economy moving. If you’ve just spent another miserable morning fighting your way through rush hour traffic to get to work ...
There is no single "best" way to conduct personal financial affairs. In fact, since each person's resources, experiences, and financial goals are unique, there are actually countless approaches to money management - some more successful than others. While you may not exactly be able to copy another person's financial success, ...
Iron & Wine will release Beast Epic, his first new material in over four years, on 25th August via Sub Pop. The new LP features eleven new compositions that share a certain kinship with his earlier material. The video for lead track “Call It Dreaming,” is also out in the world ...
Last July Paul had a call that we all dread: an uncle of his had taken ill, and he knew straight away from the tone of the lady informing him, from the hospital, that it did not sound good. What made this situation more complex was that his uncle lived ...
Printing can be traced back thousands of years, with first recordings reportedly in 3000BC. It depends what you consider printing to be, as print can either be defined as quite literally a mark printed onto a surface, or a text or picture created by a printing process. However, you can ...
Recruitment entrepreneur James Reed is calling on business leaders to give generously to the Grenfell Tower appeal after donating £100,000 out of his own pocket. A Big Give fundraising page has been launched after a fire ravaged an apartment block in North Kensington on Wednesday morning. So far almost a quarter of a ...
Council penny pinching and accepting the lowest bid was to blame for a huge blaze in a tower block which killed at least 12 people, a former worker claimed. The woman, who worked as a property manager for Conservative controlled Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council for 20 years ...
Power price recovery boosts John Laing Environmental NAV - John Laing Environmental says its NAV at 31 March 2017 was 100.1p, up from 96.7p at 31 March 2016. They say that the increase in NAV per share was due primarily to the increase in both short-term electricity prices and forecasts for ...
UK Commercial buys Sheffield office from Ediston - UK Commercial Property Trust has acquired a single let, Grade A office building in Sheffield, from Ediston Property Investment Company for GBP20,165,000, reflecting a net initial yield of 5%. The asset is let to Capita Business Services Limited, which is part of Capita ...
Custodian REIT buys Next distribution unit - the company has acquired a 69,922 sq ft distribution unit on Eurocentral, Scotland's leading mixed-use business park on the M8 arterial route between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Nearby occupiers include DHL, Warburtons, Argos, Wincanton, Norbert Dentressangle and Morrisons. The unit is let to Next ...
