Barcelona: The perfect destination for holidays and business

Barcelona is a thriving European business centre, it is now regarded as an international business destination. There are major conferences, exhibitions taking place throughout the year ensuring that the Catalan culture hub is a huge draw for businesses. The culture, cuisine, architecture and the temperature throughout the year are a big attractor as a holiday destinations, Barcelona has a lot to offer whatever the purpose of your trip. One of the most famous passions and activities in Barcelona is football....

These are the top 50 most affordable university towns in the UK

Lincoln is the most affordable university town in the UK, according to new research. The East Midlands city, which boasts a student population of over 12,000 people, has been ranked above Cardiff, Leicester and Newcastle in a new list of the top 50 cheapest places to be a student. The study takes into account factors like rent, travel costs, gym memberships and even the price of a kebab in compiling the index. Attendees of Lancaster University are shown to have...

London’s Best British Restaurants

British food isn’t boring, and these best British restaurants in London prove it. Over the past 60 years, British food has received a, somewhat unfairly, horrendous reputation. Yes, some of our most iconic “national dishes” are famously bland or borrowed from other cultures. But with such a vast melting pot of cultures on offer throughout London, British food (both classic and contemporary) is back on the menu. And with so many outstanding British restaurants operating across the city, it’s gradually...

Horror on streets of London…Terrifying weapon made out a Lucozade bottle filled with acid

This is the makeshift weapon that is terrifying people across the capital - a Lucozade bottle filled with ACID. Cops swooped after a man was seen carrying the bottle near Bow Road station, east London on Tuesday. Officers were called to the scene after reports of a suspected robbery in Eleanor Street, Bow, at 2.50am A group of men were searched nearby and one of them was found to be carrying a squeezy plastic bottle filled with the suspect substance....

London non-league guide: Hampton & Richmond Borough FC

By Rob Overfield Hidden away in a leafy area of affluent suburban SW London, Hampton & Richmond Borough have ambitions beyond the National League South after finishing 7th in the league last season. Formed in 1921, for nearly 40 years, Hampton FC were just another village club in the Middlesex local leagues, with varying amounts of success, before attaining senior status in 1959 and entry to the Surrey Senior League. Improving year on year, Hampton won the Surrey Senior League...

Pull the other one! Liam Fox claims EU trade deal after Brexit should be ‘easiest in history’

Delusional Liam Fox has told BBC Radio that the Brexit deal with the EU will be the easiest in history. As it is the first time anyone has left the EU that could literally be true, I guess. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that: “The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history. “We are already beginning with zero tariffs, and we are already beginning...

Research reveals the top 25 social media sins

Too many selfies, ranting about politics and ‘Liking’ your own profile picture have been named among the top 25 social media sins, according to research. A poll of 2,000 phone-mad Brits also found four in ten get wound up by cryptic, attention-seeking status updates designed to elicit sympathy from friends and family. It also emerged Brits commit more than four social sins per week, and half reckon that trolling someone online is the worst thing you can do. The study...

Full-time carer left without gas for three months

A full-time carer has been left unable to bathe, wash her hair or heat her home after a gas leak cut off her supply for more than three months - leaving her unable to care for herself. Carmen Robinson was told the work would be completed within four weeks while pipes were replaced. But months later, the 49-year-old is still without gas in her flat in Roehampton, south west London. She has described the situation as “an absolute nightmare” and...

Mechanism that triggers Alzheimer’s disease discovered

A drug to slow dementia could be on the horizon after a breakthrough by British scientists. Devastating neurological conditions - including Alzheimer's disease - are caused by breaks in DNA, according to new research. The fault triggers the death of nerve cells. But it can be corrected by boosting the DNA's natural repair toolkit, says the team. The breakthrough could pave the way to developing medications that slow dementia, Parkinson's disease and motor neurone disease. In lab tests on cells...

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