A kind-hearted seven-year-old girl has filled a police force with admiration after she left a heart-warming note and chocolate on a cop car windscreen. North Yorkshire Police officers quickly took to social media to highlight the 'lovely' good will gesture from the youngster called 'Florence' over the festive period. Two PCs were on duty in Scarborough, North Yorks., when they returned to their vehicle to see a note on the windscreen alongside a bar of Toblerone and some chocolate coins....

Two men arrested days before Christmas accused of planning to build a bomb and carry out a terrorist attack have appeared in court. Andy Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, were arrested six days before Christmas in a series of early morning raids in the Chesterfield and Sheffield areas of South Yorkshire. Today both appeared in custody at Westminster Magistrates Court via video link from Leeds Magistrates Court. Both men, of Iraqi origin, spoke only confirm their name, age and...

A petition has been launched calling for heroic Bradley Lowery to receive a posthumous knighthood from the Queen. The cancer fighting youngster lost his battle against neuroblastoma in July at just six years old. To continue his legacy of raising awareness of childhood cancer, a petition has already attracted a whopping 1,200 signatures to make him Sir Bradley. However, the campaign may come unstuck as knighthood titles are currently handed out to people who are living - so the petition...

2017 marked the year that the bitcoin finally entered the mainstream. If you’re the kind of early adopter who stays on top of the latest trading technology or the gradual shift away from standard currencies then you’ve been aware of the bitcoin and other digital currencies since they began to emerge shortly before 2010. This year, however, was the point at which bitcoins began to be discussed and considered by the kind of people who wouldn’t normally consider anything more...

Well as far as years go this was certainly one of them. I recall remarking somewhere around the end of 2016, the year when All the Celebrities Died, that we would some day look back at that year as the Good Old Days. Who knew that would almost be immediate? But you know, it wasn’t all bad, just a sweeping majority bad; the same kind of sweeping majority that Theresa May thought was hers to be had until she discovered...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week 9 preview here, Week 10 preview here, Week 11 preview here. Week 12 preview here. Week 13 preview here. Week 14 preview here. Week 15 here. Week 16 here. Week 17 here. Well, the rocket I served up last week...

I’ve never been one to tamper with Wikipedia entries, but if I was the first thing I’d do is refer all traffic for the page “2017” to the one entitled “reap what one sows”. The page, which is depicted by John F. Knott’s “It Shoots Further Than He Dreams”, seems to adequately summarise what happens when populism meets realism –  a collision we have become all too familiar with this year. A year on since the US presidential election and...

With Dunkirk sitting comfortably in many of this year’s top 10 best of 2017 lists, it seems fitting to revisit another great World War 2 film. Stuart Cooper’s Overlord, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, is a quiet, elegiac tale that took the Special Jury Prize at the Berlinale upon its release in 1975. The film, failing to find distributors, quickly faded and would have disappeared into the annals of film history had it not been for its rediscovery and...

Hollywood may be slowly stumbling towards a more equal society, but the dearth in female representation both in front of and behind the camera remains plain to see. Indeed, it’s telling – and indeed quite troubling – that many end of year film lists remain almost exclusively populated by the work of leading male directors, particularly given the wealth of female filmmaking talent we’ve seen in 2017. And so it’s only right that we celebrate the female directors who broke...