Crime has surged while officer numbers have hit a record low, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures. The results make for bleak reading for the Conservatives who after years of austerity cuts are starting to see the real impact on communities. The number of police officers hit a record low this year and the proportion of recorded crimes that result in someone being charged or summoned to court fell to another record low at 9 per cent – fewer...

Setting films in one place or over one night run the risk of not being able to gain enough depth to the characterisation or theycan feel hemmed in by their own surroundings. Hotel Artemis attempts to tell its storyboth over one night and in one location, drawing the audience in with a tasty mix of funk and pop, neon lights and the promise of close quarter action and several, sometimes unnecessary, f-bombs. The premise of Hotel Artemis is simple, Jodie...

The 76 million year old Akainacephalus johnsoni was named after Randy Johnson.

According to the Office for National Statistics, £66.3 billion is spent on foreign currency during visits abroad each year; 75 per cent of this is exchanged in UK banks, bureaux de change, travel agents, supermarkets and Post Offices before departure. But, blinded by an abundance of rate options and hidden charges, British travellers are losing a sizeable chunk of this hard-earned holiday cash to the currency exchange players. Founder of currency comparison aggregator and ‘Skyscanner’ of the money transfer world,...

Upmarket fashion label Burberry destroyed £28.6 million worth of unsold clothes, accessories and perfume last year to protect its brand, BBC reports have revealed. The practice of destroying unwanted items to prevent them being stolen or sold cheaply is common in the fashion industry, but it appears to becoming more prominent. Burberry burnt six per cent more products in 2017 than the company disposed of in the previous financial year. According to Maria Malone, principal lecturer on the fashion business at Manchester Metropolitan University, the...

A senior Labour figure has slammed the government over new crime figures that indicate a worrying increase in murder and robberies. The number of police in England and Wales hits new record low and ratio of solved crimes drops The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that “after falling in recent decades, the overall level of crime is now stabilising”. In the year to March, homicides recorded by police rose by 12 per cent, knife crime offences were up by...

International biotechnology - Outperformance and income 180719 IBT Initiation QD Under the leadership of its manager, Carl Harald Janson, International Biotechnology Trust (IBT) is building a track record of outperformance of both its benchmark, the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index and the average of its peer group (see page 13 of this note for the figures). The biotech sector, which IBT focuses on, benefits from long term structural growth drivers (listed on page 3) such as ageing populations in the developed world and an...

Over the past 6 years, the NHS has had a total of 7,629 successful claims for misdiagnosis brought against it, totalling £1.024bn in compensation in England since 2012. With such staggering numbers, it’s easy to see why people often feel a strong sense of anger at the situation. It is polarising, with some angry about understaffing and underfunding causing such mistakes, and some angry that people would make a claim against one of our greatest public services. In the case...

Scientists have shown how much sea level would rise if Larsen C and George VI - two Antarctic ice shelves at risk of collapse - were to break up