THE number of privately educated Army officer cadets jumped by a fifth last year, with equalities campaigners claiming the military continues to be dominated by ‘posh boys’. Figures released by the Ministry of Defence revealed 250 cadets entering the British Army’s officer training school at Sandhurst in 2016/17 were from ...
'If we had an effective electoral law leading Brexiteers would now be in jail' David Davis’ former chief of staff says Boris Johnson should be in prison. The striking comments come just a week after Lord Sugar also claimed that Boris Johnson and Michael Gove should be behind bars for ...
A former mayor was blasted for saying travellers should go “back to Ireland” with their "thieving and filthy ways". Chris Walker, 72, made the remarks in a heated email row in which he debated the number of travellers coming to the area with fellow councillors. One of his colleagues then ...
By Michael McNulty Jeff Nichols firmly established himself as a talented director with his 2011 psychological thriller, Take Shelter, and his 2012 coming of age story, Mud. But, his first film, the often overlooked slow burn feud thriller, Shotgun Stories, released in 2007, is where it all began. The imaginatively ...
We are delighted that DEFRA have announced that CCTV will be mandatory in all slaughterhouses in England under new plans announced today by Michael Gove. The demand for CCTV in slaughterhouses has been steadily building for years. The need for it has sadly been evidenced by many undercover investigations showing ...
Even in your wildest dreams, could you honestly imagine ever opening a restaurant called ‘Plum Plum’? Merging the Chinese (‘Mei’) and Japanese (‘Ume’) words for the firm, juicy stone fruit, Mei Ume is the latest restaurant to open within the Four Seasons at Ten Trinity Square, joining La Dame de ...
Ticket provider Skiddle have released a statement regarding refunds for Liverpool's Hope & Glory Festival, which fell apart in spectacular fashion last weekend. Ticket holders complained of lax security, overcrowding and heavily delayed bands, as well as lacklustre stages and facilities. The festival was organised in the aftermath of the ...
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunities invests in mobile phone distributor - VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunities becomes a major shareholder in FPT Retail, the second largest mobile phone distributor in Vietnam. As part of its divestment strategy, FPT Group (HSX: FPT) is spinning-off its retail distribution unit, and is selling 35% of the shares in FPTR ...
Snakes lose their stripes the nearer they live to man - because of pollution, suggests a new study. Researchers monitoring turtle-headed seasnakes living on coral reefs in the Pacific noticed something unusual about the snakes' colour patterns. Seasnakes living in more pristine parts of the reef were decorated with black-and-white ...