The Tories “don’t want you to vote” in local elections
Jeremy Corbyn says the Conservatives "don't want you to vote" in the upcoming elections after the party refrained from posting anything about the looming deadline for registrations. You are required to register by 17 April to vote in the local and mayoral elections in England on 3 May, but the Tories have yet to send out any reminders about the cut-off. That's in stark contrast to the elections in 2016, when they sent out a prominent warning on their Facebook...
Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
Do you have what it takes to start up a new business? - Try our quiz below. These top 20 challenges that a study of 500 entrepreneurs found were the toughest to conquer for a new business. Nearly one-fifth of those polled said they worked a minimum of 13-hours every day in their first year of setting up their business, with seven per cent slaving away for 16 hours or more every day. One entrepreneur confessed the hardest thing about...
A cocky artist has highlighted the town’s potholes by drawing large penises
A cheeky artist has added their own unique touch to a town highlighting a number of potholes - by drawing bright yellow penises around them. Bright yellow penises painteed around potholes in Haverhill, Suffolk The vigilante graffiti artist, whose identity remains a secret, has drawn the penises in many shapes and sizes in what seems to be a call for action. Pictures show clusters of potholes, each painted with fluorescent yellow phallus, in Haverhill, Suffolk. Bright yellow penises painteed around...
GALLERY: Press to MECO light up the Black Heart at album release show
Venue: The Black Heart, London Date: 11.4.18 Support: Future Love, Wallflower Photos: Graham Berry (@BlkTPhotography) Angular alt-rockers Press to MECO played a killer album set at Camden’s Black Heart last week to celebrate the launch of their second album Here’s to the Fatigue. They even brought rising stars Wallflower and Future Love along for support, who brought the house down in their own right. Future Love Future Love Future Love Wallflower Wallflower Wallflower Press To MECO Press To MECO...
Watch: David Lammy describes Conservatives “small U-turn” on Windrush generation a “day of national shame”
Labour MP David Lammy poured scorn on the Conservative Party in the House of Commons today, describing their "small U-turn" on the Windrush generation as a "day of national shame". Speaking after Amber Rudd announced that a new task force would be set up to help Commonwealth immigrants facing deportation he said the government should "guarantee the status of all the Windrush children caught up in this crisis". The Tottenham MP said it was a "national shame" that it had taken so...
UK admits some Windrush immigrants were wrongly deported
The government has admitted that some people from the Windrush generation have been deported in error. Great Britain asked for people from Caribbean countries, in the 50s and 60s, to plug a gap in the workforce. They entered the UK in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration 70 years ago. They were dubbed the Windrush generation - due to a ship, the Empire Windrush, which arrived in the UK,from the Caribbean, in 1948. Shockingly, some may have been deported for...
Where did your Grand National fancy finish?
Irish-trained horses took the 2018 Grand National by storm as four of the 15-horse raiding party from Ireland filled the first four places, as well as providing eight of the 12 horses that completed the race. That shouldn't come as too much of a shock though as Irish-trainers also supplied five of the first six horses home in the 2016 Grand National, which was also run on soft ground. The 2018 Grand National winner Tiger Roll was capping a wonderful...
Top ten quietest boroughs in London revealed
New research has used more than 4,000 crowdsourced noise level readings to reveal the quietest boroughs in London. Tower Hamlets was revealed to be the quietest neighbourhood closely followed by Sutton, Waltham Forest, Croydon and Ealing, where the average noise levels range from 53.8-57.3 dB from over 150 readings – a level comparative to that of conversation in the average restaurant. At the other end of the scale, Islington was found to be the loudest borough in London. The average decibel...
Chef sacked after serving customer £1.15 Asda own brand cheese when she ordered £13 baked Camembert at a restaurant
A chef who served a baked Camembert in its original own-brand Asda packaging has been sacked. Customer Emma Daniels ordered a baked Camembert at the Severn Shed restaurant in Bristol which was on the menu for £13, but was shocked to discover it was still in the original packaging. On the supermarket shelves, the French cheese is sold for £1.15. Ms Daniels wrote on TripAdvisor: "When we go out to eat we realise you pay for more than just the...