Meet the real life ‘Kick Ass’ – a ten-year-old British girl who is the best junior kickboxer in the WORLD. Tiah Ayton took up the martial art four years ago after her parents noticed she enjoyed play fighting with little sister. Her coaches were instantly impressed and within months she was fighting BOYS who were three years her senior just to get a fair match. Nicknamed ‘Girl On Fire’ the determined fighter trains six days a week and has already...

Incredible footage of the Birmingham Second World War bomb being detonated - from a drone flying hundreds of feet above the scene. West Midlands Police released the astonishing clip, hours after a two-day drama came to an end when army experts safely blew up the 550Ib German bomb . The clip shows the potentially-deadly explosive being detonated - with huge plumes of sand and smoke flying into the skies. Meanwhile, it has been revealed the device was one of the...

Foreign secretary Boris Johnson blundered again yesterday when he talked about whisky during a visit to a Sikh temple - a religion which bans alcohol. The gaffe-prone Tory - whose wife is of Sikh descent - found himself in hot water when he went on the campaign trail in Bristol. He wore a ceremonial orange turban and joked he was pleased to have worn socks with no holes. But the mood turned sour when he addressed the congregation inside the...

By Mark Brill, senior lecturer in Digital Communication and Future Media at Birmingham City University Social Media has become a key battleground for political campaigning. Ahead of the upcoming UK election the main parties are putting social media at the core of their campaigns. The question is, how will all that activity impact on the final vote on June 8th? The first significant use of social media in elections was Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008. Hiring a team...

Recently, I found myself in Surbiton, where I had arranged to meet an old friend who lives in deepest commuter-land. I had never visited the place before. Indeed, I have to confess that it was well into my adult life that I discovered it was a real place at all; previously, I had assumed it was a fictional entity, invented by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde for The Good Life. The name just seemed so apt, Surbiton, with its hint...

“Go fuck yourself” Sven Ratzke says, kindly. Ratzke has cleverly managed to be both Dutch and German, and therefore merrily walks the line of being very easy to chat to whilst taking absolutely no nonsense from anyone at any time. Ratzke has been touring the world as the creator and star of Starman for the last two years, and in June it’s finally coming to London. At this juncture a writer will normally tell you what their interviewee is wearing,...

Technology is evolving a huge range of markets, and with automation and artificial intelligence beginning to take the limelight, there are a huge number of ways that this is affecting investment management. Investment management is extremely important when it comes to building up a successful portfolio across a range of assets, and reports of new technologies and software being introduced is said to making this easier than ever. Here, we’re taking a look at the changes in the industry and...

Strength: 5.7% ABV Brewed: Žatec, Czech Republic Brewed in the cellars of a 14th century castle in the historic Czech town of Žatec, CELIA produces two different beers. Both are notably vegan-friendly and gluten-free, thanks to a silicon filtration technique used during the brewing process. As a result, the brewery takes great pride on providing beer that doesn’t leave drinkers feeling uncomfortably bloated, without compromising on flavour. CELIA Dark, a dark lager, for instance, is hand-crafted and brewed with premium...

A new video has been leaked showing the moment President Trump plagiarised a speech from Legally Blonde when addressing university students in the US. The video, made by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, reveals striking similarities between Trump's words and the graduation speech given by Elle Woods at the end of the 2001 comedy film. Speaking at Liberty University in Virginia on Saturday, Trump says in Fallon's clip: "You must go forth into to the world. Passion, courage in...