Scientists at Anglia Ruskin University are carrying out research that promises to make some of our favourite processed foods healthier. A talk in Cambridge this Saturday, dubbed "Burgers, bacteria and heart disease: Making sense of the processed food debate", will unveil how some of the nation's most loved meals could become...
A new pop-up kitchen has launched in the heart of London Shoreditch to raise funds for a children’s hospital in Syria. Run by Syrian refugee Imad Alarnab and charity Help Refugees, Imad’s Choose Love Kitchen invites customers to ‘experience the true taste of Syria’. Tucked away from the hustle and...
Animal welfare charity Viva! is celebrating another victory after supermarket chain Lidl caved to public pressure to end its trade in kangaroo meat. With frozen food giants Iceland dropping sales earlier this year, Lidl had remained the only UK supermarket carrying the meat on occasion as part of their weekly...
The Glenlivet has unveiled a new dram that pays tribute to the famous British codebreakers of WW2 by hiding a hologram in a bottle in a unique test of the senses. The mysterious Single Malt Scotch whisky is released without any cask information or tasting notes, leaving it up to the...
Former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis used the madness and conflict of Shakespeare's characters to demonstrate how we can humanise economics in a powerful speech delivered at the Rose Theatre. The leading economist highlighted the seminal influence Shakespeare has had on his thinking as he took centre stage following an invitation...
Complaints about Nigel Farage fly tipping fish have been submitted to Westminster Council after yesterday's protest by the former Ukip leader on the Thames. Farage joined a raft of protesters campaigning for a revision of fishing quotas during the Brexit transition. The red, white and blue fishing boat sailed down...
This is the moment a hungry orca circles a trawler desperate to catch any fish that fall from the sides. The killer whale went after the fishing boat as it caught herring off the coast of Kvaenangen in Norway. The orca bull seemed reluctant to let the fish go and...
Britain's post-Brexit blue passport, which has been used by politicians to symbolise the country's break from the European Union, will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm after they won the race for the £490m printing job. UK-based firm De La Rue, which makes the current burgundy version, lost the contract to make...
European national science academies are urging further action on climate change adaptation after new data confirmed the increased frequency of extreme weather events. Man-made climate change has been proven to have increased recent extreme rainfall and associated floods as well as increasing the risks of wildfires with implications for humans...