European ferry operator DFDS has announced it will donate £5 for every booking made on its Dover to Calais or Dunkirk services to charity Breast Cancer Now. The fares, booked through a dedicated ‘Think Pink’ page on the website, start from £35 each way for a car and up to nine people and gives customers the option to match DFDS’ donation and add-on an extra £5 to the charity if they wish. Breast Cancer Now is the UK’s largest breast cancer charity, dedicated to funding research into breast...

Artists and philanthropists alike gathered at Old Homestead on the evening of October 25 for Caron Treatment Centers’ “Save a life Event.” Hosted by Jacquelyn Coombe, Pamela Hanson, and Aura Arslanian, the event featured Hanson’s project Drugfree.org, a short documentary. This event is one of Caron Treatment Centers’, a leader in the field of addiction and behavioural healthcare treatment, largest regular benefits, but is especially poignant in light of the current opioid epidemic, the deadliest drug crisis in American history....

Women will have to wait more than two centuries to achieve equality in the workplace, according to new research. According to a damning study it will take 217 years for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end. This is significantly longer than the 170 years its researchers calculated a year ago - signalling that things are only getting worse. Commenting on the World Economic Forum study, Professor Marianna Fotaki of Warwick Business School said: "Cultural assumptions...

I suspect it’s safe to say few, if any, Londoners consider themselves novices when it comes to dim sum. With an extensive number of Chinatown restaurants including it on the menu, we like to think there’s nothing that could possibly surprise us. Enter Courtesan. This restaurant, tea room, cocktail bar and events space in Brixton relaunched in September after an extensive refurbishment, promising not only a food menu designed and executed by an all-female chef team - under the leadership...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates today for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate has been lifted from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent, the first increase since July 2007. Almost four million households face higher mortgage interest payments after the rise, raising concerns as families struggle to battle rising inflation and stagnant wages. Of the 8.1 million households with a mortgage, 3.7 million, or 46 per cent, are on either...

An OAP was left with a two-inch gash on his face after being attacked by menacing seagulls in a seaside town - which stole his £1 STEAK PIE. Samuel Spencer, 81, was set upon by the vicious flock of at least three birds who left him 'bleeding like a pig' and missed his right eye by just inches. Gull attacks have been increasing across Britain with the birds becoming ever more bold with stealing food. Wyre Council in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancs.,...

Premier Energy & Water becomes Premier Global Infrastructure - The Board of Premier Energy and Water Trust PLC has announced that the name of the company has changed to Premier Global Infrastructure Trust PLC in order to reflect a change of investment emphasis within the portfolio. The name change has been registered at Companies House today and is effective immediately. The change will be reflected on the London Stock Exchange and trading in the ordinary shares will commence under the new trading...

Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell is now facing more calls to stand down from her £451,000-a-year post in charge at Bath. One of her fiercest critics is former Labour peer Lord Adonis who described the figures as 'tragedy in the making'. He said he would do her job for nothing in a bid to restore the university's reputation. He said: "The vice-chancellor is steadily undermining her own university and her council refuses to stand up to her. “It is obviously time...

Shocking new research by a leading UK thinktank has revealed that the number of children living in poverty is set to soar to 5.2 million in the next five years. With government welfare cuts hitting the households with young families the hardest, more children than ever will be plunged into the depths of poverty under the Conservative government. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts an increase of more than a million in the number of children living...