If you're looking for a demonstration of how Western society has decayed into an internet-fuelled rot then look no further than the viral social media trend that is paedophile hunting. With a warped sense of social responsibility that harks back to Medieval lynchings Britain's streets are now home to vigilantes ...
By Ben Bird Tech giants Google and Facebook have come under fire recently for providing a platform giving users of their social channels access to large volumes of news content, whilst doing nothing to support its origination. But should they be made to pay, or should advertisers be doing more to ...
A solitary figure dressed in fatigues hunches over a dusty patch of ground. He scratches away at the earth and pulls from it a pot flecked with gritty, dried soil. As he adjusts to stand straight, there is a marked stiffness in his right leg and a curious crease in ...
Innis & Gunn has become one of the UK’s most successful international craft beer businesses since launching in 2003. In 2016, for instance, the brewery sold more than 27 million bottles of beer around the world. Operating from a site in Perth, Scotland, Master Brewer Dougal Gunn Sharp and his team develop and barrel-age ...
Union goliath Len McCluskey has laid into Labour MPs who, in his opinion, used the anti-Semitism row to attack Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Mr McCluskey accused MPs Chris Leslie, Neil Coyle, John Woodcock, Wes Streeting and Ian Austin of "polluting" Mr Corbyn's bid to tackle the problem within the party. He ...
When a man on a motorway bridge in Michigan was threatening to jump off, trucks lined up underneath to prevent a suicide attempt. The Michigan State Police came up with the ingenuous plan of calling in passing trucks to pull up and park under the bridge to prevent a fatal ...
In a keynote address at the CBI Northern Ireland Annual Dinner on Thursday, CBI Director-General, Carolyn Fairbairn, will reflect the deep concern about political uncertainty and Brexit shared by businesses and communities across Northern Ireland. 20 years on from the Good Friday agreement, politicians from Northern Ireland, Britain and the ...
The Deepwater Horizon disaster turned into one of the biggest environmental tragedies in history - because of the sun, suggests new research. Dispersants used to clean up major oil spills are almost a third less effective in sunlit waters - such as those in the Gulf of Mexico, according to ...
Banking heiress Kate Rothschild had hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of jewellery stolen as her children slept at their London home. The haul taken from the £3.5 million property in leafy Barnes, south west London, included the 35-year-old's wedding and engagement rings, according to reports. Ir is understood that ...