“A swift response on the matter would be greatly appreciated to avoid getting Teacher involved.”

Semana Santa, Seville (March 2018) As Easter celebrations go, Seville’s Semana Santa (Holy Week) is certainly one of the most spectacular. Every year, for one whole week, the centre of Spain’s fourth largest city comes to an almost complete standstill. As thousands of women, children and men in pointy hats march through the streets with giant floats carrying life-sized figurines of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. What is Semana Santa? A week of processions (religious parades), dating back to...

One of the most successful English clubs in terms of trophies over the last 20 years, Chelsea have been a serial title challenger since their takeover by Roman Abramovich in 2003. Back to back Premier League victories, countless silverware at Wembley and a run of 86 home games unbeaten at Fortress Stamford Bridge last decade, spanning over 4 years now sounds preposterous. However, during the last 10 years or so Chelsea's mantle of impregnability has slipped. The early Mourinho squad...

Bloody hell. Each year we always reach this point with the ArcTanGent line-up. There's the slow-burn trickle of bands for the first coupe of months, maybe one must-see. The murmurs start: "I reckon 2000 Trees has got the edge this year". Then a care package like this drops and picking up a ticket for Bristol annual post rock, alt and tech metal gathering becomes a no-brainer. Just look at the state of that:   Right off the bat there are...

As of late 2017, a new fine on pollutant vehicles has come into operation within the boundaries of the London Congestion Charge zone. Labelled the T-charge, the £10 fee is an addition to the existing £11.50 daily cost of driving through London, and aims to improve the capital’s air quality by reducing the number of higher-polluting vehicles driving through it. The charge is in operation between Monday and Friday from 7am to 6pm, and affects vehicles that do not meet...

Appeals for the Conservatives to drop universal credit have been aired after new research revealed up to 100,000 children are set to miss out on free school meals because of new government thresholds. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned the roll-out of benefit system reforms ‘will create a substantial number of losers’ among families whose children receive free school meals. Up to 100,000 children from low-income families will lose out on free school meals because of the government’s method for...

  Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Foreign Secretary of “misleading the public” when he insisted that Britain's Porton Down chemical weapons research laboratory was “categorical” that the poison used to make a former Russian spy, his daughter and a British police man who attended them ill originated in Russia. The assertion that Russia had used the deadly banned Russian-made nerve agent Novichok, thought to have been destroyed to poison people in the UK has escalated a series of tit for...

Superstar agent Frank Cochran is accused of raping and sexually assaulting the victim and leaving her an "emotional wreck" and "a shell of her former self"

Colin Hewitt, 72, collapsed at home last Wednesday (28/3) after watching TV and was taken to his local hospital by ambulance after his wife Sue, 70, dialled 999. Because of a shortage of beds at Horton Hospital, in Banbury, Oxon., he was forced to spend the night on a trolley and managed only 45 minutes sleep. The next day he was transferred 28 miles away to John Radcliffe Hospital, in Headington, Oxford, for angioplasty surgery and to have a stent...