Half of food firms don’t display hygiene ratings
Council chiefs want all businesses that serve food to customers in England to be forced to display food hygiene ratings - just like ones in Wales and Northern Ireland now have to
London Film Festival 2018 – First Look Reviews: Shadow and School’s Out
ShadowZhang Yimou’s three previous martial arts films have been explosions of both colour and action. Whatever else you thought of them, they were retina-searing spectacles of the highest order. Shadow sees Yimou returning to martial arts cinema, but with a very different aesthetic. The story manages to be simple yet convoluted, revolving round the town of Jing, which the kingdom of Pei also claims the right to. The King of Pei (Ryan Zheng) is outraged that his top military commander...
Rogue landlord stuffed a filthy and dangerous three-bedroom house – with 26 mattresses
Officers found more than 20 men living in "appalling and unsafe" living conditions and could barely enter the house because mattresses were "jammed up against the doors".
How bad a cold will be and how long it lasts depends on what is up your nose
Bugs living in the nostrils vary enormously between individuals and hold the key to how bad cold will be
Postman Pat creator John Cunliffe has died at the age of 85
The author delighted generations of children with his tales of rural postman Pat Clifton and his black and white cat Jess, who lived in the fictional village of Greendale
Eels microchipped to track mysterious movements of a species on the brink
The slippery customers are getting tagged so researchers can see what the critically endangered eels get up to when nobody's watching
Half the world’s killer whales ‘could be wiped out by chemical first banned 40 years ago’
Scientists say orcas are particularly threatened in heavily contaminated areas such as the waters near Brazil, the Strait of Gibraltar and around the UK
Police hunting for serial London sex attacker following reports of nine sexual assaults on lone women
Officers believe the "shocking" attacks are linked and are looking for a man who preys on lone women in the late to early hours of the morning.
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be the oldest prosthetic limb
The anatomically correct hand was found by metal detectorists in a field last year and was initially thought to be from the Middle Ages, but radio-carbon dating results have placed the prosthetic at about 1500-1400BC.