In a bid to learn more about the famous Tawny Owls, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is appealing to the British public to help track their movements by listening to their calls.

A charity Wheelchair Basketball Tournament held at the Olympic Park has raised over £20,000 to support women in disability sport, with further funds expected to be raised over the next month. The tournament took place at the iconic Copper Box Arena and was organised by leading disability charity Path to Success. More than 100 people attended the tournament, as ten corporate teams took to the court to battle for the title of ‘Corporate Wheelchair Basketball Champion’. Teams were coached by...

Far from being a 21st Century form of torment, Scottish scholars found that the controversial technique dates back more than 700 years to 14th Century France

More than a quarter of British workers say they have experienced discrimination in the workplace, research has revealed. The study found prejudice towards gender, race and age is still commonplace in UK businesses, but a youth-driven revolution could be underway to counter it. Generation Z (under 25s) are twice as likely to believe employers should do more to promote inclusion than Baby Boomers (over 55s). And they are twice as likely to question the status quo on equal opportunities too,...

Plans have been submitted to erect six homes complete with James Bond-style subterranean car ports which rise out of the ground

Fr Brian D’Arcy, who has spent almost half a century in the Church, says leaders urgently need to consider making clerical celibacy optional, as well as ordaining married men and women.

Three mutations linked to the condition have been identified by scientists

Chris Hobbs is a retired Met police officer who worked extensively at border controls in both the UK and Jamaica. Government proposals that EU nationals and non-EU nationals will ‘be treated the same post-Brexit’ is being greeted with a mixture of hilarity and incredulity by UK Border Force officers. After a summer of chaos at our major UK airports in terms of queues with woefully inexperienced civil servants being drafted in to staff passport controls, it is clear that our...

In Björn Runge’s The Wife, Glenn Close offers a truly outstanding performance as the long suffering wife of an insufferably vain novelist (played by Jonathan Pryce). Adapted for the screen by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel of the same name, the film is a beautifully understated, thought provoking and deeply affecting study in codependency and deceit, which is only slightly let down by a needlessly stagey style. After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Close and Pryce) seem very happy...