It’s easy to end up homeless: twice I ended up sleeping on the capital’s streets
I was on my own, fighting a system that was stacked against me
Leave Means Leave post heavily doctored rally figures as 700k turn out for People’s Vote march
Leave Means Leave has attempted to trump today’s People’s Vote march with a press release declaring they have had over a million people in support at their rallies. The heavily doctored figures appear to include views of content posted on their social media channels as well as views of content posted by Nigel Farage, which may not have all been from people sympathetic to their cause. Some 700,000 people are thought to have turned out at today’s People’s Vote march...
Some of the best signs from the historic People’s Vote March
With over half a million people arriving in London today from all over the country, and even ex pats worried about their future arriving from Europe, The People’s Vote March was the biggest march the country has seen since the lead up to the Iraq War. The People’s Vote campaign argue that Britain did not vote for a bad deal or devastating no deal and that neither are inevitable. Though Theresa May is so far ruling out a People's Vote. If...
“Barbaric” Coventry family who used vulnerable mum and daughter as domestic slaves jailed
Jean and Michael Kelly, along with their daughter and her partner, subjected their victims to appalling abuse and violence
Marchers from all over UK arrive for biggest march in decades for People’s Vote on final Brexit deal
“today is about coming together and wanting to have the right, the democratic right, the moral right to say what happens to our future now we know what the true options are.”
Blackpool hit by 4 earthquakes days after fracking begins in the area
Blackpool has been hit by four earthquakes just days after fracking got underway in the area. The controversial drilling technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock has been met with vehement opposition in the North West after previous attempts to drill caused similar earth tremors. But extraction companies were given the go-ahead to “proceed with caution” two years after the last attempt, despite protests led by Vivienne Westwood and other anti-fracking campaigners. Gas firm Cuadrilla started drilling...
False Widow spider panic spreads as first school outside Newham epicentre shuts
More than 4,000 pupils have already been stay at home after ten schools in the east London borough closed following outbreaks of the UK's most venomous spider.
Carnage in Amritsar with 50 feared dead as train ploughs into firework spectators
The people were standing on the railway line and watching the Ravana idol burn while the train came and mowed them down
Bar of the Week: Purl London
Named after an old English drink of warm ale, gin, wormwood and spices, Purl London occupies a vaulted cellar in Marylebone. Opened in 2010, the bar was one of the first to join a new wave of prohibition-era speakeasy bars, having since become renowned for an innovative approach to cocktails, often using culinary techniques. A venture from the team behind Worship Street Whistling Shop and Dach & Sons, Purl’s cocktail menu changes regularly, adhering to current trends while championing seasonal...