Following the resounding success of Club Mexicana – a supper club renowned for serving some of the city’s best vegan street food – Founder Meriel Armitage has collaborated with Publicans Luke McLoughlin and Sherri-lee Estabrook to launch London’s first entirely vegan pub. Opening in Hackney next week (Friday 19th January), ...
In the first two of a series of trials over the next few weeks, nine out of ten activists were found guilty of Obstruction of a Highway today (12 January 2018) at Stratford Magistrates Court. Over 100 people were arrested in September 2017 outside the Excel Centre in east London, ...
One of the oldest, most celebrated classic cocktails in existence, an Old Fashioned has a typical base of bourbon mixed with Angostura bitters and a sugar cube, garnished with a sliver of orange peel (plus a cocktail cherry in some cases). No, there’s nothing wrong with the original, but the ...
This is a world first moment in which a kingfisher lands on a camera and captures a picture perfect photo of another kingfisher standing on a branch. Lesley Garven, 40, who has been a wildlife photographer for 10 years now, witnessed the incredible moment on 9 January at midday. The ...
An "arrogant" surgeon who branded his initials on the livers of two patients has been spared jail and fined £10,000 in the first case of its kind in British criminal history. Simon Bramhall, 53, told a nurse "I do this" when she saw him about using an argon beam coagulator ...
Tying in with World Cancer Day on Sunday 4th February, MasterChef 2016 finalists Billy Wright and Jack Layer will host a one-off supper club with a difference in support of Cancer Research UK. Taking over Plum + Spilt Milk, the Great Northern Hotel’s restaurant, in Kings Cross, Billy and Jack ...
A family have taken on billionaire Roman Abramovich in a David and Goliath battle after they objected to plans to extend Chelsea football ground in a 'right to light' dispute. Plans for £1bn new Stamford Bridge stadium could be derailed completely after Nicholas Crosthwaite, 69, and his family took out ...
Tragic example of failures of privatisation and outsourcing requires Government to intervene to protect public sector work, says GMB. GMB, the UK’s general union, demands the Government intervene and protect Carillion workers’ jobs and pensions – rather than focussing on bailing out a failing private company. Carillion, one of the ...
An activist who camped in a tree to protest a hotel development is facing a crippling legal bill of up to £50,000 after losing his appeal against a court ruling. Simon Byrom, 49, lived 20 feet above ground in a sycamore tree for a week to demonstrate against a 225-bedroom ...