Craft beer has reached the grasps of big business and they are gobbling up distribution channels at an alarming rate.

GMB, Unison and Unite have submitted a police staff pay claim to break the government imposed pay cap. Police staff, along with other public sector workers, have had thousands of pounds pinched from their wages due to a government imposed 1% pay cap which forces them to foot the bill for the 2008 crash. GMB analysis shows that most police staff salaries have lost between 9.4 per cent (CPI) and 13.5 per cent (RPI) of their value since 2010. The...

Theresa May should take some notes on how to get the Brexit negotiators onside and hopefully get a better deal for the UK. Corbyn was using the carrot rather than stick method when he met with the EU's Brexit team. The Labour leader made a bid to charm the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. He decided to give Mr Barnier an Arsenal shirt, with the official's name printed on the back. Both Mr Corbyn and his Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir...

A flytipper who illegally dumped more than 60 TONNES of rubbish was let off with a £50 fine. Lance Morris, 47, dumped the waste - including old tyres and timber - in Croydon, south London, over a three-year period. But the litter mountain cost Croydon Council thousands of pounds to clear up. Morris didn't have the necessary licences to carry or store the waste, and gave the "false impression" that he was working as a builder. He claimed the waste...

  Battling dad Jason Liversidge is set to become of the few disabled people to tackle one of Britain's highest peaks. Jason, 41, suffers from Motor Neurone Disease (MND) but is determined to climb the 3,500 feet high Mount Snowdon next week in a specially-adapted wheelchair. The dad-of-two was diagnosed with MND in 2013 and watched his motor functions slowly decline, leaving him with a "season ticket to A + E". Jason, 41, was forced to give up his job...

Cillian Murphy at the world premiere of Dunkirk at the Odeon in Leicester Square. It tells the story of soldiers being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk during the Second War War. July 13 2017. Cillian Murphy at the world premiere of Dunkirk at the Odeon in Leicester Square. It tells the story of soldiers being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk during the Second War War. July 13 2017. Mark Rylance at the world premiere of Dunkirk at the...

Thousands of people lined the streets today for the funeral of brave little Bradley Lowery. Bradley died aged six on Friday (July 7) after a five-year battle against the cancer Neuroblastoma. Thousands line the streets for the funeral of Bradley Lowery, the cheerful boy made famous by his approach to fighting neuroblastoma, in Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, July 14 2017. The youngster captured the nation's heart in his fight against the disease and had made a firm friend in Sunderland...

A man left with 'life changing' injuries following a spate of acid attack robberies was left screaming in agony as dozens of people rushed into the street to try and help him, witnesses said. He was targeted in a suspected robbery last night (Thurs) during a series of five attacks by men on a moped across north London in just 72 minutes, which police believe are linked. A major investigation has now been launched and a teenager has been arrested...

A student paralysed from the neck down two weeks before he started university has now graduated - with a FIRST. Brave Rob Camm, 23, was left with horrific injuries in September 2013, just two weeks before the start of his first term. He was one of six passengers in a car driven by a teenager who was later jailed for two years for drink and dangerous driving. But determined tetraplegic Rob did not let being paralysed from the neck down...