Stephen Fry has announced that he has prostate cancer in a video posted on his site. The celebrated comedian, actor, writer and presenter posted a video entitled "something rather mischievous" online, explaining that doctors discovered the tumour during a routine check-up. Fry, who appears upbeat in the video, said he had ...
Reports are emerging of women on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre for women and families. According to reports from women held inside the detention centre over 120 of the women held there have refused meals since Wednesday breakfast. Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott visited the centre this ...
The Smoking Goat in Shoreditch has been crowned champion at the eighth Scotch Egg Challenge at The Canonbury in Islington. In a fiercely contested competition between 23 chefs, Robert Juer and Meedu Saad came out on top for their Thai spiced fermented crab with Tamworth pork egg. The illustrious panel ...
By Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald Ethiopia’s ruling EPRDF coalition is facing its biggest governance crisis since its rise to power in 1991. With last week’s resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn many are watching and waiting to see who from the EPRDF’s four major ethnic-based parties will be taking over as ...
Academics across the country are on strike due to planned pension reforms, which they claim will leave them in financial strife later in life. Students joined their lecturers holding mass walkouts across 57 universities up and down the country. Students and lectures man picket lines and hold a rally on ...
Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week ...
Former nurse Mandy Orton, 55, received a letter from solicitors demanding she pay £6,000 in arrears or have her home in Northampton repossessed
Kylie Jenner inadvertently wiped a billion pounds off Snapchat's stock market value yesterday after she tweeted that she doesn't use the app anymore. The reality TV star is followed by 24.5 million people on Twitter, and added to the unease around Snapchat's re-design when she tweeted: "sooo does anyone else ...
By Jack Granard An app is revolutionising the lives of vulnerable people in Kenya by helping them manage the burden of unexpected medical costs. Single mums and elderly people are signing up to the mobile health wallet service M-TIBA, which allows individuals to send, save and spend funds for their ...