A mid-week evening might usually be spent in the gym or dealing with life admin, but last Tuesday was refreshingly not as mundane as the norm. Celebs and wine lovers hit the bright lights of Soho, London, to go on a journey of self-discovery and bare their ‘soles.’ After 82 per cent of Brits revealed they are afraid to truly express themselves, Barefoot Wine set out to encourage some self-exploration. The “House of Sole” opened their doors for one night...

According to official figures knife crime has increased during 2017 in England and Wales. There has been a spike of 22 per cent in crimes involving knives. If that wasn’t bad enough, there was also an 11 per cent rise in firearm offences. Almost 40,000 offences involving knives or sharp weapons were recorded by police in 2017, and their were 6,600 firearm incidents. In the capital there were sharp increases in the number of homicides, up 44 per cent, knife...

Food waste is a tremendous problem in 2018. While food bank use in the UK has reached its highest rate on record (with 1.3 million three-day food supplies delivered to people in crisis last year), humans waste approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food worldwide. Further research from FareShare – the UK’s largest food redistribution charity – has shown that only 17,000 tonnes of the 270,000 tonnes of edible surplus food in the UK is redistributed to charities. The fight...

A teenage thug who savagely battered his girlfriend who later suffered a miscarriage after she told him she was pregnant has been caged for more than three years. Michael Hurditt, 19, pounced immediately after the news was broken and screamed "I'm not having a child with you." The yob had previously held a knife to her throat, forced her face towards a hot cooker and locked her in children's handcuffs during a horrific campaign of violence. A court heard the...

The 'Big Bang Pistol Set' consists of two stunning handguns forged from the Gibeon meteorite, thought to be 4.5 billion years old.

The parents of a seven-year-old boy put into isolation for having lines shaved into his hair have accused his school of hypocrisy - because the head has PINK HAIR. Little Lucian Smith's parents allowed him to have the fashionable cut during the Easter holidays, thinking it would grow back by the time term started. But when he turned up to lessons on the first day back, he was hauled into isolation during break times over the 'inappropriate' style. Lucian Smith,...

If you're looking for a demonstration of how Western society has decayed into an internet-fuelled rot then look no further than the viral social media trend that is paedophile hunting. With a warped sense of social responsibility that harks back to Medieval lynchings Britain's streets are now home to vigilantes who are taking the law into their own hands in order to bring sex criminals to justice. They lay out a trap, play the role of the bait and with...

By Ben Bird Tech giants Google and Facebook have come under fire recently for providing a platform giving users of their social channels access to large volumes of news content, whilst doing nothing to support its origination. But should they be made to pay, or should advertisers be doing more to back local journalism? The news media marketplace has changed massively over the past decade. The explosion in internet usage has opened up a new digital audience for regional news content,...

A solitary figure dressed in fatigues hunches over a dusty patch of ground. He scratches away at the earth and pulls from it a pot flecked with gritty, dried soil. As he adjusts to stand straight, there is a marked stiffness in his right leg and a curious crease in the thigh of his trousers. A blue wire attached to a small pack dangles from the pot. A quick snip from a pair of pliers and the man turns to...