Breaking: Labour MP Lisa Nandy just revealed in parliament the embarrassing inconsistencies between Prime Minister Theresa May and Home Secretary Amber Rudd over documents being hidden from the inquiry into allegations of child abuse by MP Cyril Smith. "The Home Secretary told me that some papers would be withheld from the Cyrill Smith inquiry for national security reasons," Nandy told the House of Commons, yet she added: "this week the Prime Minister has written to me to say we are...

By Michael McNulty You would find more enjoyment standing in a queue at the post office, ritualistically checking your watch and shuffling a quarter of an inch forward every 15 minutes than watching Mercedes Grower’s film, Brakes.  At 80 minutes, it instils a frustrating impatience that has you begging for the credits to roll.   Late in the film, one of the characters says, “I’ve just been pinned by the most boring person I know,” and you want to reach through...

Set in provincial Brooklyn during the last days of summer, Beach Rats follows Frankie (Harris Dickinson), a 19-year-old who spends most of his time fooling around with his posse of friends and his girlfriend Simone (Madeline Weinstein). He lives at home with his mother (Kate Hodge), younger sister, and bed ridden father who has cancer. Unbeknownst to everyone around him he also messages men on an online chatroom and meets them on the side of the highway for casual sex....

Suburbicon is set in 1957 within a suburban town of the same name. It is the kind of small American town that is synonymous with the work of Douglas Sirk and films like All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind, but it is a setting that has remained popular and has been seen more recently with Far From Heaven and Sam Mendes’ adaption of Revolutionary Road. It is here that we meet the Lodge family, headed up by...

Some of London's buses will run on waste coffee grounds from today. Biofuel made by blending oil from coffee waste and diesel will now be added to the fuel supply for the capital's public transport. Bio-bean, a technology company that recycles ground coffee, said it has produced enough coffee oil to run one bus in the capital for a year. Transport for London recently turned to using biofuels to reduce emissions from vehicles. Biofuels made using waste products are already...

Uber could work around rules governing workers' rights by running driverless cars. The ride-hailing firm has just snapped up thousands of autonomous vehicles from Volvo just weeks after it failed to overturn a landmark legal judgement over drivers’ working rights. A recent tribunal ruled that Uber’s drivers qualify as workers, which means they qualify for rights such as the minimum wage and holiday pay, a move that the company says could fundamentally damage the way it operates. But it could have found a work-around. Uber...

Wi-Fi  enabled home cameras so you can check security from your phone;  smart controls so you can close blinds and turn lights on and off wherever you are in the world…the list of new equipment to safeguard your home continues to develop and grow. But there is one area which hasn’t received due attention…and that is the new technology recently developed for modern garage doors.  A garage door can be a vulnerable entry point to a storage area used for...

A speeding drink-driver who killed a cyclist in a head on crash and then fled only to order another pint has been jailed for just three years and four months. Joseph Bills, 22, was one and a half times over the limit and behind the wheel of a van when he drifted into the path of Dave Thorman, 35, after taking cocaine and visiting two pubs. As others tried to save the life of chef Mr Thorman described by his...

A former kickboxing world champ who was forced to throw in the towel at just seven years old due to a disease has fought back to winning ways by breaking records. Brandon Murray became a world champion at just seven years old - beating nine-year-olds in the process. But the youngster was forced to give up kickboxing after being diagnosed with Perthes disease in 2012. Brandon, now 12, was in primary school when his mum Vicky and dad Brian noticed...