With the recent success of Wonder Woman still fresh in our minds, director Angela Robinson brings us the real life story behind 2017’s most memorable superhero. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is told in flashbacks and switches between scenes where William Marston (Luke Evans) is having to justify the Wonder Woman comics he created to the censors and the previous experiences that influenced and inspired them. The flashbacks start in 1928 at Radcliffe College, a women’s only university that partnered the then all male Harvard,...

There are few experiences in life comparable to the trials of parent-child horse riding. The hobby requires a lot of hard work, no doubt, but it is an immensely rewarding experience that will leave you and your children all the richer for it. Let’s start with the obvious. Horse riding is a great exercise. And because it’s so much fun, it doesn’t even feel like it! Just one hour of gentle trotting can burn up to 360 calories. And it’s...

More than 300,000 people moved out of London last year, according to Land Registry data. New research has revealed the South East saw the biggest influx of people, with close to quarter of a million people relocating there in 2016. The South West region saw the largest net levels of growth – with the overall population growing by more than 30,000 people. London had almost 200,000 people move in to the capital but correspondingly saw close to 300,000 move away to...

A mystery Liverpool fan has gone to great lengths to declare his love for his favourite team - by carving their initials into a hillside with letters measuring 100 metres long. The intricate etchings - spelling out LFC - were spotted on the north side of Titterstone Clee Hill in a field on the Shropshire Hills on Tuesday (7/11). Images taken from the Ordnance Survey's flying unit captured the massive 328ft letters -each the same length as the famous Anfield...

Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure - Delivering the goods 171109 EGL Update QD The manager of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust (EGL), which invests in utilities and other economic infrastructure equities, says that the company’s portfolio has benefitted from having an overweight position in continental European stocks, good stock selection and an upswing in power prices which have moved higher on the back of rising commodity prices. Earlier this year the manager trimmed exposure to UK utilities, which have...

Two police officers have lost their jobs after they were caught saying they hoped a vulnerable teen "got raped" - on the boy's mother's answer machine. PC Samuel Dexter and PC Hannah Mayo did not realise their shocking conversation was being caught on voicemail. The officers had driven over to the family's house after receiving a phone call from the 14-year-old's mother. PC Dexter had previously attended the address earlier that same evening, when the boy's mother had phoned the...

In recent weeks, a tide of allegations about sexual harassment and violence have engulfed the Palace of Westminster, with numerous stories emerging of women being subjected to abuse by men in senior positions on both sides of the political spectrum. The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour are all running investigations into various charges of sexually inappropriate behaviour by MPs and other party members. They are also examining claims that previous reports were brushed under the carpet by top officials. The...

A recent survey conducted for Brooke Action for Working Horses and donkeys, has found that the U.K. public are largely unaware of how many horses died in the First World War, despite the fact that the majority (80%) knew that horses were used in the conflict. Only 12% of the U.K. public knew that between 1914 and 1918, eight million of these animals died on all sides. Brooke has today launched Every Horse Remembered, a new campaign to highlight the...

This is the comical moment a red squirrel gets behind the camera to show a professional wildlife photographer how it's done. The cheeky creature clambered up to the lens after spotting the Fuji Film X-T2 camera set up in nature reserve. He looked just the part as he looked through the view finder ready to take the perfect shot. Wildlife photograph Alan Hewitt was stunned to see the bushy-tailed rascal taking the reigns but managed to snap the squirrel in...