When Dabbous closed, I felt bereft. Ollie Dabbous had cooked (or at least been involved with) some of the best meals I’d eaten. Ever. I longed and longed for the restaurant’s unique model of fine dining to fill the gaping hole in my heart and rumbling stomach. The restaurant and its eponymous chef’s cooking style has since been imitated, but never matched. Soon after the closure of Dabbous, Ollie worked on the launch of Henrietta in Covent Garden, but the...

Trafficking gangs are bringing vulnerable women to work in “pop-up brothels” on a huge scale, in a worrying new development in the UK sex industry. Often these brothels are opened using short-term leases in residential areas. This gives the gangs a head start on the police and makes it easier to control the trafficked women. This worrying development in the sex industry has been investigated by the all-party parliamentary group on prostitution and the global sex trade. The study -...

There were emotional scenes as bereaved began the Grenfell Tower Inquiry talking about the loved ones they lost in the tragic blaze last June. The inquiry began today with commemorations of those who perished. The first was by Marcio Gomes who lived on the 21st floor. He managed to escape the blaze around 4AM with his wife and young daughters. Though he tragically lost his son Logan Gomes - the youngest victim of the Grenfell fire – stillborn at seven...

I met Director Nora Twomey and lead actress Saara Chaudry to discuss The Breadwinner, an animation film set in Afghanistan under the Taliban, where 11 year old Parvana is forced to dress like a boy in order to work to support her family after her father is arrested. When did you first come across the story and what attracted you to the idea of making it into an animation film? NT: in 2013 my partners brought home the book from...

A group of MPs have signalled that dodgy Russian money flowing into the British banking sector is harming UK national security. Even after Salisbury attack, it appears to be business as usual, and the flow of illicit money has continued regardless of the tough talk from the highest levels of government. The MPs have called upon the British government to take stronger action to halt money laundering by ‘kleptocrats and human rights abusers.” The foreign affairs select committee said the...

The Scottish SPCA was alerted on Wednesday after a concerned member of the public noticed that she had been stuck in the early hours of the morning.

A team of climbers scaling the world's highest mountain as part of a publicity stunt had to be rescued by helicopter - when they ran out of oxygen. Four mountaineers reached the peak of the 29,000-feet-high Mt Everest where they buried around £37,000 ($50k) worth of cryptocurrency in the snow. The team hide 500,000 ASKT tokens for other thrill seekers to find as part of a stunt arranged by social network ASKfm. The ASKfm mission to leave a crypto currency...

Cheryl Brassey, who is only two years older than the packet, was sent straight back to her childhood when her son Sion, 24, made the find in Wales

Scientists uncovered the optimal amount of exercise to keep arteries healthy - which they say could even reverse the ageing process