The organisers behind Lovebox Festival wants to hold two new events at Wanstead Flats in east London next year, but could be thwarted by the local population of skylarks.

A psychiatric report then submitted to the court warned that continuing the experiment could lead to “sexual abuse, violence, injury or death”

It didn’t surprise anyone who saw his first film, Michael, to discover that director Markus Schleinzer used to work with Michael Haneke. Disquietingly still and at times striking, it was a debut that felt too in thrall to another filmmaker to be more than promising. Angelo, while sharing may of the same stylistic choices, is a more distinctive work. The Angelo of the title is the ‘court moor’ to several families in Viennese society in the 18th century, and the...

Firefighters tackled the blaze after the supercar exploded in a car park

Chuka Umunna is in line to get paid £65,000 a year to chair a new centrist think tank for just 12 hours a month. The Labour MP announced this month he will be heading up the advisory board of Progressive Centre UK, which has the “aim of connecting progressives from across the UK with the latest ideas and experience from across the globe”. But according to Buzzfeed News reports, his work will come at a cost of £5,420 a month...

Children are the biggest source of Islamophic and homophobic hate crime in the UK. Shock statistics show that Muslim and gay Britons faced more abuse from under-18s than any other age group. And there were "mini-spikes" in attacks on Jews in the wake of headlines associating anti-semitism with the Labour Party in parts of the press this year. The overall rise in hate crimes was blamed on the influence of social media groups by police and campaign groups at a...

A column by Jamal Khashoggi sent to the Washington Post by his translator a day after his disappearance warned that Middle Eastern governments are silencing the media. The reporter, who is alleged to have been killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2nd October, said the “Arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate” in his final op ed for the paper. He said: “There was a time when journalists believed...

Connor Freel, 24, has urged others not to suffer in silence as part of Hate Crime Awareness Week after being victim of vile taunts as a youngster

The richest countries in the world have this week collectively advised Britain to reverse Brexit or risk destroying its economy. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental economic organisation made up of 36 member countries, made the explosive suggestion of a further referendum to reverse Brexit after a report warned of severe consequences following the divorce. Its analysis suggests a “no-deal” Brexit would wipe up to a staggering £40 billion off UK economic growth by 2019, with...