We live increasingly, it seems, in an age of protest. Sales of cardboard and marker pens must surely be at an all-time high, as the public laces up it boots and takes to the streets in favour of, or, more commonly, against any number of causes. Fracking being proposed in ...
A timelapse video has been released showing Chicago River being turned green in time for St Patrick's Day. The system of rivers and canals running through the US city is dyed green annually and usually lasts around five hours once it has been turned fully green. The tradition actually arose ...
A tragic GP who had a "sixth sense" for diagnosing illness has died suddenly after failing to spot he had life-threatening sepsis. Shiv Sekaran, 48, passed away after the immune system attacking infection led his kidneys to fail last Saturday (March 11). His death from sepsis comes just a week ...
A thrifty bride stunned her guests and passengers when she travelled to her wedding - onboard a regular bus. Yvonne Gorman, 34, opted to take public transport after deciding it would be too difficult for guests to find parking spaces near her city-centre wedding venue. She stunned passengers - and ...
Dwindling audience figures seem to have taken a hit on participation rates in the much maligned talent show X Factor. After record-low audiences for the 2016 series finale it looks like 2017 has got off to a rough start with audition queues resembling more of a parish church talent contest than a ...
By Michael McNulty Hello and welcome to this week’s instalment of Forgotten Film Friday. Dubbed the voice of Generation X, Richard Linklater’s 1991 film, Slacker, put him on the map. Helping to propelling independent filmmaking in the nineties, Linklater’s film marked the birth of Austin, Texas’s filmmaking culture and inspired ...
From a charging great white shark to sunlight streaming into a sinkhole these are just some of the amazing prize winning underwater pictures in a worldwide competition. More than 5,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from above water, to wide angle,sharks and even underwater ...
Education Policy Institute study claims £74,000 will be slashed off primary school budgets while secondaries stand to lose £291,000 GMB, the union for school support staff, warned today every school in the UK faces a real-terms per-pupil funding cut thanks to the Government’s brutal national funding formula. According to a ...
Have you ever been to a high-rise restaurant so bad, so incomprehensibly grim, that you’ve genuinely considered jumping from the top floor, if only to spite them? Madison, owned by D&D London, is a rooftop restaurant and bar on the top of the One New Change shopping centre in the ...