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Netflix has established itself as the go-to place for documentaries over the past few years. But deciding which doco to watch next can be a challenging feat. The ‘suggestions for you’ filter is as useful as a chocolate fireguard (‘Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men’, seriously?). And there’s no longer an option to list documentaries by rating. Luckily, to save you hours of unnecessary trawling, we have created a rolling list of our favourite documentaries available on UK Netflix right now. Jim:...

Lots of Jamie Lenman news, people. First, there's a new video for his latest single, 'Hell In A Fast Car' and it's colourful and kissy and well worth some eyeball time if you get it. Check it out below. Secondly, Jamie has also announced details for his brand new studio album Devolver, which is set for release on October 27th through Big Scary Monsters. Produced by Space (The Prodigy, Idles), the album sees a departure from Jamies' debut solo album (the...

July's playlist is running a bit longer than usual, which is a sound indicator that this has been the strongest month for new releases of 2017 so far. What a month! Sheer Mag lived up to the hype on their eagerly-anticipated debut Need to Feel Your Love,  The Xcerts returned with an extra coating of sugar on their sound and Matt Caughthran of The Bronx confirmed he can still handle a bowlful of razorblades for breakfast on 'Sore Throat'. Converge returned...

With just one week to go until Liverpool’s newest boutique festival HOPE & GLORY takes over the city centre, the festival have announce more additions and surprises to the bill, taking place across the weekend of the 4th, 5th and 6th of August. Alongside the previously announced Black Grape, the first 1,200 early birds to purchase festival tickets, will also be treated to a headline performance from Liverpool’s very own Cast on Friday 4th August at St. George’s Hall. This ‘not so’ secret...

Frankly I blame beer for it, this whole obsession over sporting records. If it wasn't for beer's foaming head giving the men who drink it equally foaming heads would we really care who scored how many goals or runs in however many games in the year of one's father's birth? Such statistics are shouted, scribbled on napkins, or carved into foreheads in certain waterfront drinking establishments in order to settle arguments. Those arguments in turn begin in order to settle...

A two-thousand-year-old Buddhist sculpture has been put on public display as part of an exhibition of objects collected by Scots in India. The stone Buddha head is said to be one of the earliest physical depictions of the ascetic from ancient India. And it shows his enlightened status through a cranial mound, disguised by an "elegant" top knot, and elongated earlobes. The sculpture originates from the ancient kingdom of Gandhara, situated in modern northwest Pakistan and has now been put...

A glorious sunrise caught on a mackerel sky over Normanton, West Yorkshire. A glorious sunrise caught on a mackerel sky over Normanton, West Yorkshire. The term is used when the sky is full of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying in an undulating and rippling pattern similar in appearance to the fishes scales. A glorious sunrise caught on a mackerel sky over Normanton, West Yorkshire.

An exhibition of pictures has gone on display painted by a paralysed artist - using only his MOUTH. Talented Richard Wood, who died this year aged 46, grew up with a keen interest in art. In 1991, at the age of 21, he became paralysed from the shoulders down after he hit a sandbank while diving. Mouth painter Richard Wood. But the determined artist was keen to carry on painting and used his mouth to hold paintbrushes so he could...

John Lennon's priceless Rolls-Royce has arrived back on British tarmac for the first time in more than 40 YEARS. The 'carparazzi' have been lining London's streets and visiting hotel car parks this summer to take photos of the exotic motors owned by Middle-Eastern playboys. But the rarest and most valuable car to arrive in the capital could be the 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V first owned by the legendary Beatle. John Lennon’s priceless Rolls-Royce is back on British tarmac for the...