This week marks six months since the Myanmar military resumed its ruthless crackdown against the country’s Rohingya people. Many women and girls fleeing brutal state sponsored persecution have reported horrific accounts of rape, sexual assault, torture and murder at the hands of government forces. When state institutions orchestrate such human rights violations and allow perpetrators to act with impunity, the international community must unite in taking a strong stand to hold those responsible to account. Violent oppression of Myanmar’s various...

With the bao trend showing no signs of slowing down, and with a new Mr Bao branch having opened in Tooting just last month, I can already hear you groaning; just reading the title. Fear not, however, as Bun House is a little different. Nestled behind the Palace Theatre on Soho’s Greek Street, the buns served are the fluffy, closed, Cantonese variety. The upstairs is less of a restaurant, more a small room with a takeaway counter and huge steaming...

With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month.   Yard Sale Pizza – Leytonstone Following the success of their three restaurants in Clapton, Finsbury Park and Walthamstow, Yard Sale Pizza will open in Leytonstone this month. Taking over a spot on Leytonstone High Road, the new space has been designed by regular Yard Sale collaborators, Fettle, set to serve Yard Sale’s award-winning pizzas. Handmade...

Drag queens entertained primary school children on World Book Day in a performance designed to teach tolerance around LGBT issues. Pupils at Parsons Street Primary School in Bedminster, Bristol, shrieked with laughter during the storytelling sessions and joined in enthusiastically with singalongs. Head teacher Jamie Barry invited entertainers from Drag Queen Story Time to come to the school, prompting outcry from some parents but emails of support from others, including many who came along to watch. Drag queen Alyssa Van...

The Beast from the East has brought such chilly weather that London's busiest canal has FROZEN. Famous Regents Canal was so iced over that snow had begun to settle on the waterway - leaving it looking like tarmac. The nine-mile-long north London waterway was coated in ice and snow thanks to the big freeze - and people have even begun speculating whether it is possible to ice-skate on it. Regents Canal in London which has complertely frozen over as the...

Do you have a plumbing emergency whilst the Beast From the East snow storm is raging? Hiring a good plumber East London may be trickier than one would initially think. There are many plumbing services in East London. But all of them offer different reputations, pricing and specialist services. And none of them offers equal service quality. So how do you choose a plumbing service you can trust to do a great job in and around your home? Here are...

The Home Office have offered a lifeline to the family of a boy with a rare severe form of epilepsy which is relieved with cannabis medication at present illegal in the UK. After MPs from all parties called for six-year-old Alfie Dingley from Warwickshire to be allowed to take the medicinal cannabis that eased his severe epileptic fits when the family went to Holland, Home Office Minister Nick Hurd promised to visit the family this week. The Minister had faced...

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Gintautas Urbonas, 52, fled from HMP Peterborough by running ahead of a group being escorted from the gym and scaling the "very high" prison wall