A truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a riverside path in Manhattan before crashing into a schoolbus in what appears to be the first terrorist attack in Manhattan since 9/11. The attack described by New York city mayor Bill de Blasio as a “a particularly cowardly act of terror” occurred ...
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. Fiume – Battersea His third restaurant in collaboration D&D London (following Sartoria and Radici), Francesco Mazzei will launch Fiume this month. Literally translated as ‘river’, ...
Unable to count on Conservative Party members, the electorate, her DUP allies, and now even her own MPs, Theresa May’s government is now so weakened that it’s being mocked by Tory backbenchers in the House of Commons. Philip Davies is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Shipley in West ...
We are in the 8th year of the celebrity shoe auction, now the biggest in the world, with more A-listers taking part in our small charity’s fundraiser than Comic Relief. How? Almost a decade ago when I founded Small Steps Project, helping children surviving off landfill sites, Celebrity endorsed charity ...
David Davis has conceded that Brexit withdrawal agreement with EU will 'probably favour the union' in one key way - financially. Speaking in the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, the Brexit Secretary said: “In the infamous – or famous – words of the European Union nothing is agreed ...
Millions of Brits are facing a never-ending road to financial recovery, with one in eight believing they will never be debt-free. That’s according to new research which reveals a growing reliance on credit has led to the highest debt levels in recent history. The average person with debt is in the ...
One of my very favourites in a long, long list of literary anecdotes is drawn from the late Dick Seaver's posthumous memoir The Tender Hour of Twilight. Seaver more or less discovered Samuel Beckett in Paris after World War Two, at least in terms of the larger world markets, and ...
A Met Police firearms expert who blamed himself for the shooting of Mark Duggan blasted himself in the head in the street during a standoff with armed cops, an inquest heard. Civilian employee Tony Hanley, 51, turned the handgun on himself when negotiations with armed officers broke down near his ...
A zero hours worker has won a court battle to force his former employer to pay him for annual leave. Helier Heath, 23, is now calling on others to know their rights after he took his former employer to court over unpaid holiday. Helier worked as a security guard with ...