I was too young for Whitney-mania ('I Will Always Love You' finished its streak at No.1 the week I was born), but to my generation also she is always known as a massively talented individual. She is engrained as a purveyor of 'legacy' music, a voice and a performer that rightly became instantaneously legendary. Whitney dives into the star's rise and fall, filmmaker Kevin Macdonald's experience of Touching The Void surprisingly relevant for this painful tale of both Whitney's undeniable talents...

Things are heating up in the UK thanks to the heatwave and England’s newfound confidence in penalty shootouts during the 2018 World Cup. As the remaining teams all dream of holding the ultimate prize and fans eagerly await The Cup touching down on their home soil, someone is quietly footing the bill. Everyone talks about the price of hosting the World Cup, comparing estimated costs to their typically distant final numbers. But have you ever wondered how much money each...

Thought to have originated in northeast China around 2,000 years ago, kombucha is a fermented drink typically consisting of black tea and sugar – although the drink can also be made with green tea and with the addition of honey or various fruits. Known as the “immortal health elixir” in China, kombucha has multiple health benefits, containing a colony of bacteria and yeast, each responsible for initiating the drink’s fermentation process when combined with sugar. During the 1960s, kombucha became...

Financial consultant Sanjay Naker preyed on his victim after she was asked to leave a bar in London Bridge for being too drunk.

A tense video shows the moment a lifeboat crew saved nine illegal immigrants from an stricken inflatable boat in violently choppy swells in the English Channel. People smuggler Afrim Xhekaliu was forced to call police after the boat he was sailing from France with eight other Albanians got lost in freezing waters as a 47mph south-westerly blew, Albanian Xhekaliu, 40, had set off just a few hours earlier but would not say where he was. A RNLI lifeboat aided by...

This Government needs to start thinking of the lives of Britain’s workers – and their families – rather than internal Tory party bickering. GMB, the union for Jaguar Land Rover workers, has responded to the company’s warning they may have to close factories in the wake of a ‘bad’ Brexit. The UK's biggest carmaker, owned by India's Tata Motors, said its "heart and soul is in the UK". But without frictionless trade JLR said its UK £80 billion investment plans...

The Government must urgently reconsider the rollout of Universal Credit (UC) and heed the growing warnings about the damage the policy has caused, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said. The call follows an intervention by the National Audit Office (NAO), who highlighted a series of inaccuracies made in an address by Esther McVey, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Jordan Marshall, IPSE’s Policy Development Manager, commented: “It’s extremely concerning that the Government continues to assert...

Are you ready for your business to take its next step? When the time comes to expand your business and move to a new location, it can be difficult to know where to start. You need more space, of course, but how can you make sure that moving somewhere new doesn’t affect demand? It doesn’t matter whether you’re a retailer, a consultancy firm or an industrial supplier, it usually boils down to just one thing: location. Relocating your business can...

Josephine Iyamu, 53, used a powerful witchdoctor to exert control over her victims before forcing them into sex work