Scientists have made the "first step" to being able to predict when earthquakes will happen after a major breakthrough hailed as the "holy grail" of geology. British and American researchers have used Artificial Intelligence to accurately predict earthquakes a week before they occur in laboratory simulations closely mimicking real-life tremors. They came up with a machine-learning algorithm that can analyse hidden warning signals modelling real-life "pre-cursor quakes" previously been written off as noise. Geologists have tackled the problem of predicting...

17.10.17 Village Underground, London Support: Klein Liverpool's Forest Swords swung through the capital last week to deliver an atmospheric wave of experimental electronic. The caverns of the Village Underground were illuminated by Matthew Barnes' searing projections, as two planes of light cut through the gloom, silhouetting the figures on stage. Visually moody and sonically jarring, Barnes' work on 2017's Compassion twinkles particularly brightly tonight.   Photos: Grant Bailey

K&C REIT hopes for transformation - tiny K&C REIT has big ambitions. It plans to consolidate its shares on a 10x1 basis and issue up to £150m shares at 100p to fund the acquisition of portfolios of residential property. It hopes to top up the £150m equity issue with £100m of debt. Duncan Walker, previously investment director at Helical Plc, will be appointed as an additional non-executive director of the company when the new shares are admitted to trading. In...

After the Tories decided not to bother to turn up to vote to "pause and fix" the mess of Universal Credit you would think the Sec of State, responsible for the policy implementation, would turn up for a debate on it...well you would be wrong. Today's debate was granted by John Bercow after he criticised the government's response to the Opposition day debate last week which Labour won by 299 to 0. Debbie Abrahams demanded to know why David Gauke,Secretary of...

Arm yourself. There is a war raging across our information systems. Whilst no bombs are being dropped, the impacts of this war will have far reaching consequences. At the same time Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America, 2016 witnessed the rise of populist and extremist movements all over the globe. The success of many of these causes, groups and individuals came as an unexpected surprise, even a shock. Many asked ‘how could this happen?’ In...

On the ground floor of the Marriott Hotel, just off Edgware Road, The Pickled Hen promises a ‘selection of authentic British food and drink, with a pickled twist’. I enjoy good pub food and pickles as much as the next person, but the signature Pickleback (Jameson with a chaser of hen pickle juice) fills me with concern. Opened at the end of the summer, this new ‘gastro-pub’ is not this year’s first new opening with a name suggesting a heavy...

This is the moment rowdy football away fans were given a lift to the PUB after a match - in the back of a police riot van. Leeds fans said officers spotted them heading towards a pub popular with Bristol City fans after their 0-3 victory on Sunday and quickly ushered them away. But instead of marching the 40-strong gang of fans three miles to the train station in the pouring rain, officers from Avon and Somerset Police offered them...

A man 'chiselled' a cross into his forehead so he would be taken to hospital for treatment - and then abused a Muslim doctor by telling him to ‘get back to Iraq’. Joe Edgar, 50, hurled racial insults at the A&E doctor in front of other patients and hospital staff which made him feel ‘degraded, distressed and disgusted’. Edgar was admitted to Scarborough Hospital after he carved a cross into his forehead, a court heard. While he was being seen...

From the 16 October 2017, the old £1 coin will no longer be accepted as legal tender. As a result, it’s being reported that £450 million has been lost. But what does this equate to in property terms? Even in a market as expensive as the UK, home buyers could have clubbed together with their old £1 coins and put down a ten per cent mortgage on 19,895 properties, or bought 1,990 properties outright at the current UK average of...