Migrant workers from the European Union contribute £2,300 more in taxes than the average Brit, a government commissioned study has revealed. New research carried out by the Migration Advisory Committee on behalf of the Home Office found EU migrant workers pay in £78,000 more than they take out in public services and benefits over their lifetime. Immigration was a key part of the campaign to leave the bloc, with many dubious claims made over the impact it has had on the...

Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust’s (SIGT’s) manager, is gradually reducing the trust’s equity weighting over the next couple of years, in advance of a global recession it expects in 2020. Consistent with its view, the recent trend in developed economies has been one of falling unemployment, labour markets tightening, wage rates edging up and emerging signs that consumer prices are also on the rise. SIGT’s manager expects inflation to continue to rise, triggering a response from central banks, including in some...

I am obsessed with finding the perfect salon. I envy women who brag about having the same hairdresser for years. I salon-hop believing that this time will be the time I walk away with the hair I've always wanted. And it never, ever is. Okay, sometimes it gets close to it. But it never quite looks the same as film star hair. And so I carry on in blind hope that I will someday find the one. It is this quest for...

When Adam Handling opened The Frog in the grounds of the Old Truman Brewery, the chef’s menu was ambitious to say the least. At the chef’s first restaurant proper – following a stint at Caxton - Handling demolished the rule book, demonstrating skilled fine dining technique with dishes to be enjoyed in an intentionally casual, comfortable space. Street art adorned the walls while 1990s hip-hop sound-tracked the gastro parade of powders, smears and intense fermentations. Although the restaurant’s initial critical...

The men in their 30s were attacked in a residential street just after 6pm in Greenwich, south-east London.

A NEW revolutionary 'plastic-eating' vessel which could clean up the Pacific ocean in four decades has been revealed in a world first. Known as the Ocean Saviour project, the self-powering 70m tri-deck clean-up vessel is the world's first boat to find which will find and recycle plastic from the ocean. The vessel works by collecting plastic waste, which is finely chopped, milled and processed using plasma gasification, with the end product becoming fuel for the yacht. It is estimated her...

Asa Hutchinson, 22, has been jailed for three months

A researcher from the University of Plymouth has been awarded £990,000 from an American defence agency for the idea

The minerals were discovered on the Isle of Skye last year, and had never previously been found on Earth