This is the bizarre moment a Mission Impossible-style raider was caught on CCTV crawling across the floor of a village pub during a late night burglary. The crook was seen wriggling between bar stools and tables to avoid triggering the alarm system in the third break-in at the pub in 18 months. The latest raid took place at Smithy’s Marina Bar in Shardlow, Derbys., just before 3am on Wednesday (26/4). The thief used tools to force open the door and...
The Liberal Democrats chances of mounting a serious General Election challenge have been cast in doubt following revelations that they have already come a cropper in two seats. Following the announcement by Daisy Benson that she would run for the party in Yeovil, the LibDem candidate stood down because: “Although I’ve been preparing for the past year, this election unfortunately comes at precisely the wrong time for me. I’m just in the process of completing purchasing a house.” Yeovil is a key...
Richmond Virginia's Municipal Waste are back with their latest piece of toxic detritus, Slime And Punishment. Their sixth album will be released on June 23rd via Nuclear Blast Records. Ryan Waste states, "We've been getting punished for the last five years by people asking for a new album. Now we're here to return the favour with an aural onslaught of speed metal punk. Enjoy a taste of slime courtesy of the Waste." Slime And Punishment is the first Waste album to be...
Hollywood’s famous comical “dumb blonde” character actress, Marilyn Monroe, had been one of the most sought after and remembered American actress in the industry. Biography reported that her movies grossed beyond $200 million. Her death in 1962 at the age of 36 was even labelled as the death of a legend. Since then, more Monroe memorabilia were sold. Presently, her first and last home in Brentwood, California, a single-story hacienda-style house, is for sale at $6.9M. The goddess of glamor...
Millions of pensioners feel unsafe in their own home, a study has found. Falling ill or having an accident with no-one nearby to help, anti-social behaviour and having no support is leaving almost one in five pensioners fearful in their own home as they get older. Others admit to worrying they are going to be targeted by burglars or forceful cold callers when at home alone. Worryingly, despite four in ten saying they wouldn’t want to go into a care...
Plans revealed by Labour this week to ban all zero hour contacts, put a halt to unpaid internships and end the cap on public sector staff may have been received as dreamy leftwing rhetoric by most political commentators, but they are in fact our only chance of rebalancing the spiralling levels of inequality that currently exist in Britain. Included in the 20-point blueprint is commitments to double paid paternity leave to four weeks, promises to increase the minimum wage to...
With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. MEATliquor - Queensway Since starting life as a food truck, MEATliquor has become one of London’s, if not the UK’s, best-loved comfort food institutions. The restaurant’s first permanent site opened behind Oxford Street in 2011, and 10 more venues have since opened across London, Brighton, Bristol and Leeds. This month, the twelfth site is set to open...
It’s rare that you gear up for a sporting event in the knowledge that the result doesn’t really matter since you were going to witness something truly historical. Either outcome and in whatever fashion would define one man’s legacy; his entire career. So it was for Anthony Joshua, the young gun on the precipice of greatness and Wladimir Klitschko, the old hand whose own legacy was already cemented. It was a coming together of two titans of the heavyweight boxing...
If you’re thinking of expanding your business internationally, then you’re probably envisioning new opportunities for business growth, market share, and corporate profits. While this is an exciting proposition, it’s not easy to go from a national business to an international one. Expect to take on significant risks and meet with unusual challenges. Your global business will need a large and diverse talent pool to keep things running smoothly. Besides an able management team in your home country to coordinate things,...
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