English football clubs spent a record £1.4 billion this transfer window, with £210 million was spent alone on deadline day - also a new record. This whopping amount of money spent by Premier League clubs could have been higher if a number of high profile signings had gone through. The ...
Rum is finally getting the moment in the sunshine it deserves. Once the reserve of popular (read: mostly terrible) cocktails such as Mojitos and Daiquiris, the spirit’s premium, sipping expressions are finally beginning to receive some apposite recognition across the globe. The first in a new limited-edition run of ultra-premium ...
This week’s Cycling Weekly caused controversy when an editorial error saw a text holder (A caption to accompany an image which is updated before the publication goes to press) read 'Token Attractive Woman'. Twitter user Carlos Fandango who noticed the mistake published the image on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chapeau_Velo/status/903333298361032704 Upon the issue ...
This chilling interview in which LBC’s James O’Brien speaks to journalist Mike Hind who has been investigating thousands of accounts flooding Twitter with right-wing, anti-immigrant, pro-Brexit and pro-Trump propaganda is truly eye-opening. There are 63,000 accounts with names followed by eight digits like @DavidJo52951945 - outed this week in ...
A highflying banker was chased down The Mall by angry teachers after they noticed his manhood was 'poking out from his shorts' as he sat next to young girls. Robert Moore, 56, was confronted after the Italian teachers became concerned over how 'unusually close' he was to four schoolgirls on ...
A shocking video shows a group of 30 youths launch a vicious attack on a special needs victim that witnesses feared could have killed him. The disturbing footage, which was widely shared on social media, appears to show a teenager initially shoving the defenceless man to the floor. Several members ...
There is a huge increase in the number of people who are taking time off from employment due to mental health problems, according to new figures. One in three sick notes are handed out for mental health issues, in total 5730,000 cases were reported last year. The stigma around mental ...
Based on Duncan Falconer’s book The Hostage, Stratton follows John Stratton (Dominic Cooper), a Special Boat Service operative, who along with a secret services team is trying to intercept a batch of deadly biochemical weapons. The weapons find their way into the hands of former Soviet operative Grigory Barovsky (Thomas ...
Forget monotonous mojitos, Club Tropicana Mai Tais or mawkish, emetic ‘coolers’ - the humble Negroni is the ultimate summer cocktail. A perfect balance of bitter, herbal and underlying sweet flavours, the Italian icon makes for an ideal aperitif; refreshing thanks to its succinct bitter notes. Since its initial creation, allegedly ...
For those of you who have come to this review expecting to read about the newest novel featuring The Silence of the Lambs' Dr Lecter, oh dear. So sorry to inform you but the book we're looking at doesn't have anything to do with cannibalism. (Thinking) Which is rather a ...
Nine staff have been suspended from a G4S immigration centre after claims of abuse and assaults against detainees. An investigation into allegations made by BBC's Panorama programme of "chaos, incompetence and abuse" at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick, has also been launched. The undercover filming operation has raised serious issues about the ...
If ever an article didn’t need a title, this is one such occasion. Arsenal's problems are at once simple and complex, their descent from the top table has been a slow, painfully gradual affair which has kept alight the flame of hope in their supporters’ hearts. It feels like the walls ...
A Tory Peer, who is in the top 1,000 richest people according to the Sunday Times, has argued that Brexit is a good idea, as young people can work even longer hours. Retail tycoon, Lord Harris, is worth around £100m and said during a radio interview that “I just feel ...
With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month. Hoppers St. Christopher’s Place – Marylebone Following the resounding success of the Soho original, a new, larger Hoppers will launch this month. Opening in Marylebone, ...
An estate agent who famously survived eight days locked in a box after being kidnapped by crazed killer Michael Sams in 1992 has died of cancer. Michael Sams Stephanie Slater, 50, was held in a cramped wooden coffin for over a week after she was taken ...
A devoted barber chose to give his one-legged client a fresh trim OUTSIDE - because his mobility scooter wouldn't fit inside the shop. Kieran Worthington, 28, moved his clippers and scissors outside to give Billy, whose in his 70s, a short back and sides in the reflection of the ...
A homeless man has appeared in court charged with killing a mum and her teenage son during a triple stabbing. Aaron Barley, 23, is accused of murdering Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her son Pierce, 13, at their detached family home. Businessman Peter Wilkinson, 47, was also knifed six times at ...
A thug who killed a grandfather with a single punch following a petty pub row has been jailed for six years. Ashley Lawman, 25, got into a row with 60-year-old John Olver after exchanging no more than five words. They took their disagreement outside, where Lawman felled the grandfather-of-seven with ...
A former police officer who worked as part of a child protection team has been jailed after being caught with indecent images of children for the second time in a year. Robert Branney, 71, who served in the police for 28 years, was initially caught last year after he went ...
A legal secretary lost almost six stone and claims she looks a decade younger thanks to a diet which sees her eat 95 per cent FRUIT. Fresh-faced Rebecca Rosenberg also says she has banished her lifelong acne problem and cured herself of MS since becoming a fruitarian. The 33-year-old munches ...
A pregnant mum has created a buzz after posing for maternity photos - with 20,000 BEES swarming around her baby bump. Brave Emily Mueller got the honeybees to settle on her stomach by holding the queen bee in a cage in her hand. The 33-year-old is a full-time beekeeper who ...
By Michael McNulty Released in 1951, Samuel Fuller’s The Steel Helmet was the first Korean War film ever made. Fuller’s third feature, made on a budget of roughly $ 100,000, was a smash hit with audiences and grossed over $ 2 million at the box office. Many a great war ...
MPs are reporting their own constituents to immigration enforcement using a new Home Office hotline and webpage. A Freedom of Information request submitted by Politics.co.uk has revealed that the Home Office has received 482 tip-offs from MPs between 2014 and 2016, raising the possibility that MPs are reporting their own constituents to the ...
The Mayor of London has today launched a new vision for tourism in the capital after figures revealed more than 40 million people expected to visit the city by 2025 - an increase of 30 per cent on last year. The Tourism Vision for London, which is backed by more than ...
Rolo Tomassi have announced their only UK headline show of 2017. The band will play The Borderline in London on Saturday November the 4th, with support from Conjurer. You can pick up your tickets for the show here from 10am today! The show follows the bands slots at 2000trees and Tech Fest ...
