Strain on the budget of the Metropolitan Police was recognised by the London Assembly today – as Members formally supported the Met’s application to the Home Office for one-off financial support. Due to the recent unprecedented events in the capital, the Assembly agreed the Chair should write to the Home ...
How did the collective come together? Bang Said The Gun was born 19 years ago in the Wheatsheaf Pub, Soho, by Martin Galton and Dan Cockrill, as the antidote to the boring, navel gazing poetry nights that existed back then. What can people expect from your show? Bang Said the ...
Garforth Liberal Club was once a proud and prominent building. It stood at the heart of a satellite suburb a stone's throw away from the Yorkshire cities of Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds, but after 128 years in the summer of 2015 staff were instructed to prepare the building for closure with tears been ...
The Iraq war and the fall-out afterwards has left a dark stain on Blair's time as PM. His legacy will forever be tainted by the war and the reasons for it. Now the man who led the investigation into the war has broken his silence. Sir John Chilcot has said ...
Jeremy Corbyn is to speak to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival about their use of zero-hours contracts, taking the gloss off the festival, heralded as one of the best in a number of years. The Labour leader made a triumphant performance in from go a huge crowd. Corbyn appeared on ...
Two dozy agency workers have been suspended after they were pictured appearing to be ASLEEP in the lounge of a care home. It is believed that the women, wearing their uniforms, napped for nearly three hours while they should have been looking after elderly people and dementia sufferers. One ...
A council is being sued by a tenant because he can't do his washing - after 8PM. Steve Norman took action when the opening hours at a communal laundry in a housing development changed without notice. The facility, with two washing machines and two tumble dryers, had been open ...
A quirky couple are living a real-life fairytale after turning their semi into a medieval CASTLE. Martin and Jayne Townley have painted the rear of the house to look like a grey stone fortress complete with battlements and archways over the windows. They have banners and flags flying from ...
A lucky pilot has told of his miracle escape when he plummeted 2,300ft to earth after a wing on his microlight collapsed in mid-air. Eric Rhodes, 57, managed to radio his wife Denise, 65, as his aircraft was falling to tell her: "I love you lots, sweetheart. Goodbye, I'm going ...