The Smoking Goat in Shoreditch has been crowned champion at the eighth Scotch Egg Challenge at The Canonbury in Islington. In a fiercely contested competition between 23 chefs, Robert Juer and Meedu Saad came out on top for their Thai spiced fermented crab with Tamworth pork egg. The illustrious panel of judges placed Trevor Hunt of the Drapers Arms, last year’s winning venue, in second place with his ‘Hamey’ egg made with ham hock. Third place split the judges and...

By Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald Ethiopia’s ruling EPRDF coalition is facing its biggest governance crisis since its rise to power in 1991.  With last week’s resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn many are watching and waiting to see who from the EPRDF’s four major ethnic-based parties will be taking over as Party leader. Depending on how the Ethiopian Government manages this Party matter, the country could be heading for widespread disturbance. Unrest could spill over into an already volatile region into...

Academics across the country are on strike due to planned pension reforms, which they claim will leave them in financial strife later in life. Students joined their lecturers holding mass walkouts across 57 universities up and down the country. Students and lectures man picket lines and hold a rally on the steps of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) at UCL. Thirteen more days of strike action are expected to take place until Friday 16 March. The University College Union...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week 9 preview here, Week 10 preview here, Week 11 preview here. Week 12 preview here. Week 13 preview here. Week 14 preview here. Week 15 here. Week 16 here. Week 17 here. Week 18 here. Week 19 here. Week 20 here. Week 21 here. Week...

Former nurse Mandy Orton, 55, received a letter from solicitors demanding she pay £6,000 in arrears or have her home in Northampton repossessed

Kylie Jenner inadvertently wiped a billion pounds off Snapchat's stock market value yesterday after she tweeted that she doesn't use the app anymore. The reality TV star is followed by 24.5 million people on Twitter, and added to the unease around Snapchat's re-design when she tweeted: "sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad." A petition on Change.org has already been signed by 1.2 million people calling for Snap Inc. to...

By Jack Granard An app is revolutionising the lives of vulnerable people in Kenya by helping them manage the burden of unexpected medical costs. Single mums and elderly people are signing up to the mobile health wallet service M-TIBA, which allows individuals to send, save and spend funds for their medical treatments. Prior to its development, the severe lack of access to financial planning tools and saving services had been problematic for residents who would often pay in cash or...

The woman had crashed out on a sofa at a party and Mark Marchant raped her as she slept.

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