This shocking footage filmed by animals rights campaigners shows the squalid and cramped conditions of chickens living at a farm which supplies Asda, Lidl and Nando's Thousands of birds have allegedly been forced to live alongside the carcasses of rotting corpses in sheds with no natural light. The video, released by animal welfare charity Peta, shows the small chickens cooped up in long rows with barely any walking space at Stewkley Farm, Bucks. Other distressing images of a dead bird...

A fondue revival which has seen sales of the 1970’s dinner party favourite soar could be down to BREXIT, an Oxford professor claims. Sales of fondue kits have tripled in two years at John Lewis stores, and an academic believes it could be down to Remainers longing to bond with the rest of Europe. The Swiss-style sets usually comprise of a long fork and a saucepan for melting cheese. Professor Charles Spence, head of Oxford University's Crossmodal Research Laboratory, said...

A Scots footballer, who was the only man in history to captain both Everton and Liverpool, has finally been given a marked headstone 78 years after his death. Andrew Hannah captained Everton to their first league Championship success in 1891, then led Liverpool to Lancashire League Division Two titles. The fullback died on May 29, 1940, at the age of 75 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Kilbowie Cemetery in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire. But now, nearly 80 years...

In the same week that Sergio Leone’s classic western A Fistful of Dollars is rereleased, Indonesian director Mouly Surya brings us a subversive reworking the genre and its masculinised tropes. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts opens on the island of Sumba where Marlina (Marsha Timothy) is mourning the death of her husband. A group of seven men, led by the grey haired Markus (Egy Fedly), arrive at her home intent on raping her and taking her livestock. Before the...

A counter petition was set up to save the rude-sounding road in Rowley Regis, West Midlands

While there are many things that he we still don't know about Brexit, we can be sure that it remains a cause of great economic and social uncertainty. It is particularly concerning for businesses that operate cross border, as the nature of the relationship that the UK and the EU ultimately enter into will have a significant bearing on commercial costs, recruitment and the supply chain into individual businesses. In this post, we'll explore this in further detail, and ask...

She told an inquest that Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, was shaking and drinking a lot and seemed "somewhere else"

Loosely based on the video game series of the same name and staring the force of nature that is the mighty Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Rampage had all the makings of yet another meat-headed, big, brash and silly disaster movie, so it was a genuine surprise to find out just how much fun this movie has turned out to be. With the recent release of the hugely disappointing sequel to Guillermo de Toro’s Pacific Rim which left more than a...

  Northern poor men are more likely to die younger than poorer women, a new study found. Men living in the UK's top five deprived areas of Middlesbrough, Knowsley in Merseyside, Kingston-upon-Hull, Liverpool or Manchester are likely to die nearly 11 years sooner than their better off peers. Although life expectancy is increasing overall and the life expectancies of men and women are converging, any improvements are slower paced in more deprived areas, with the net gap between rich and...