Watch – A man is fuming after he fell foul of a restaurant’s dress code – for wearing a bright orange basketball VEST
Paul Bruton, 29, claims the comment was a personal remark about him bearing his tattoos
Plastic contact lenses ‘could be served up in the food we eat’
Flushing them down the sink and loo is fuelling the tide of pollution in seas and rivers, according to the study
Fourth knife murder in four days in London
Man in his fifties found with multiple stab wounds in Catford
Quiz: How good are your geography skills?
Millions of Brits struggle with basic geography knowledge - with more than one in five unaware Europe is a continent, a study has found. Researchers found two thirds have no idea the world is made up of seven land masses, with one in four wrongly believing there are only five. And three per cent - or the equivalent of 1.5m people - even think Great Britain is its own continent. Another one in four don’t know Antarctica is home to...
Five reasons to make St Lucia’s Jazz Festival your next big break
If there’s only one thing more exciting than jetting off to the paradise Caribbean island of St Lucia, it’s heading there during Jazz Festival week in May. As visitors go through immigration at the airport, they’re invited to get a festival stamp, such is its level of prominence on the island. Now in its 27th year, it’s become one of the biggest events on its calendar, and earned a global reputation. Among musicians, it’s the one they aim for, not...
Boy, 15, charged over South London knife fight that left teens disembowelled
The youth, one of six teenagers arrested in connection with the shocking violence, has also been charged with a drugs offence
Film Review: The Equalizer 2
In 2014, Antoine Fuqua’s screen adaptation of the popular 1980s series The Equalizer took the box office by storm and went on to break more records by making almost 4 times more than it cost to make, not least thanks to the star power of its lead actor and all around Hollywood nice guy Denzel Washington. Now back for a second outing with the unimaginatively titled Equalizer 2, Fuqua offers up pretty much more of the same action-packed vigilante themed...
Water likely on 1 in 3 planets outside solar system bigger than Earth
Scientists say the discovery bodes well in the search for alien life
How New Technologies Are Improving Public Services
With the increasing availability of smartphones and connected devices, the general public expects to be able to interact with public service providers in the same way that they do with businesses. In an effort to provide this, agencies are using the latest technologies to find new and better ways to engage with the public and to deliver the services that local communities want. Here, we’ll examine some of the ways that new technologies are making this happen. Smart ticketing solutions...