Bill Oddie is to deliver 70,000 signatures calling for a Foie Gras free Britain to parliament today. The celebrity joins Chris Packham, Ricky Gervais and Evanna Lynch in calling for an import ban post-Brexit. Animal Equality, the animal protection organisation behind the campaign, has documented the extreme suffering of ducks and...
What happens when populism fails to deliver on its far-flung promises? With a year to go until Britain's official break from Europe that is a question that seems to be gaining relevance as a likely outcome of the process gets pieced together. There will be no "taking back control" at...
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities...
A florist has teamed up with innovative cheese specialists Norseland to create the world's first bouquet made out of cheese and biscuits. The bouquet, which consists of ten mini Jarlsberg cheeses, five packs of Peter's Yard biscuits and the new edition of handmade straw chicks, was sculpted by the Oxfordshire florist...
An estimated 50,000 importing businesses across the UK were negatively impacted when the pound dropped 20 per cent against the euro in the aftermath of the EU vote – with the average importer seeing their profits fall by 12 per cent over the past year, new research has revealed. With...
Boris Johnson was given a dressing down by Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow for sexist remarks aimed at Emily Thornberry today in parliament. The Foreign Secretary used Thornberry's husband's title to address his shadow counterpart, calling her a "noble and learned lady" in a condescending spat at the Labour front...
The shortlist for the 2018 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year was revealed this morning. It features over 500 images selected from 8,000 entries from 60 countries across the world. The judging panel is chaired this year, for the first time, by David Loftus, who has shot more cookery books than...
The Sun has issued a retraction of an article it published at the end of February which listed potential savings British shoppers would see on goods once European Union tariffs are removed after Brexit. The "Vote for bargans" was even cited by Jacob Rees-Mogg who claimed it showed the "huge savings for...
The Great British public would re-elect a Tory government if Theresa May were to call a snap election today, according to the latest odds move from Betway. Betting on the outcome of the next general election has swung in favour of the Conservative Party for the first time since the...