In a sinister backlash after Donald Trump suggested raising the minimum age for buying rifles to 21 and universal background checks - a suggestion he had appeared to backtrack after a meeting with the lobbying group for the guns industry - their lobbying TV channel NRATV put out this sinister video: https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/970402289742618624 NRA spokeswoman and NRATV presenter Dana Loesch vowed: "To every lying member of the media, to every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free speech...

Shopkeeper Aram Kurd, 33, Arkan Ali, 37, and Hawkar Hassan, 32, have been charged with five counts of manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1922 novel, The Beautiful and Damned. On modern life, Ernest Hemingway also claimed: “Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.” I could go on quoting famous authors all day, outlining their published relationships with drink. The point, however, is that literature and alcohol have deep intrinsic links that aren’t always flagrant on the surface. But with such...

  By Dr Roger Cottrell  “But make no mistake, the sky will fall in” -Harry Perkins in “A Very British Coup,” Channel 4, 1988. A week is reputedly a long time in politics. Looking at the seven-day time span that began, on February 16, 2018, it at times seemed (for those of us old enough to remember it) as if the cold war was back with a vengeance. First came the 37-page indictment by former FBI head of terrorism Robert...

A hero bus driver who averted tragedy by pulling off a Fast & Furious-style manoeuvre to avoid a stuck Mini met with the First Minister today. Charmaine Laurie was filmed steering her double-decker bus away from a car that had veered onto the wrong side of the road. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meets Lothian Bus driver Charmaine Laurie who steered her double-decker to avoid a car which lurched into her path in the snow. March 5 2018 The Lothian Buses...

An adoption service is supporting the call for more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to consider adoption this LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week (5-11 March 2018). Coram, which runs three dedicated adoption services in London, Cambridgeshire and the East Midlands, has supported LGBT people to adopt for many years. Jeanne Kaniuk OBE, Managing Director of Adoption at Coram said: “We welcome enquiries from prospective adopters of all sexual identities, and what is most important is that they are able...

Last Friday night as the country was dealing with the worst weather for a number of years, a Premier Inn turned away homeless people who had been gifted a room for the night, reports The Evening Standard. 19 rooms has been hired for the evening for a young farmers groups at the Weston-Super-Mare East branch, at a cost of three thousand pounds. Due to the adverse weather conditions the group couldn’t make the trip and decided to offer the rooms...

Now we're cooking, 2018. Things are always a little snoozy in January, but February has picked up the slack in good form with some solid, brave and unusual releases. To start, there's plenty of fun to be had with new drops from DON BROCO and a sweet, sultry cut from Ravyn Lenae. Rolo Tomassi's cheerily titled Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It is actually their most buoyant and creative record in years, while the quirky ensemble effort on Richard Russell's Everything...

Hg Capital goes large - Hg Capital Trust has announced plans to invest in much larger deals than it has done to date. Hg Capital has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2017. It delivered a 21.5% return on NAV and a 19.5% return to shareholders over the period as the NAV rose to £19.32 but the share price failed to keep pace. The UK market returned 13.1% over this period. The dividend was maintained at 46p. £224m was raised from...