Many schoolchildren don’t think women can be builders, footballers or lorry drivers.

A council have launched a crackdown on homeowners that dump rubbish outside their homes - by threatening them with huge fines. Greenwich Council have released images of two households that let rubbish pile up so high in their front gardens the windows were blocked. Both houses which saw the small gardens overflowing with rubbish were in the same London borough. The rubbish was piled so high residents could barely see the windows of the ground floor. After receiving complaints from...

A new drug for the deadliest form of breast cancer has been developed by scientists. The drug is particularly effective in treating the triple negative aggressive breast cancer that often kills women under 40. It attacks cells in the 10-15 per cent of aggressive cases that are resistant to hormone therapy. Left untreated these 'triple negative' cancers are more likely to spread and often recur. Now an international team has found a way to transform these aggressive tumours making them...

A mother of ten said she was devastated when she came home to find her landlord had tossed all of her belongings out of her second floor flat into the rain. Five TVs and a sofa bed were hurled 30ft out the window of the flat where Donna Newby and her family have lived for the last nine years. The 41-year-old found her children's toys and a memory box of things from her baby daughter, who died at just five-weeks-old,...

New research has unearthed a series of shocking stories of London business owners who have been forced out of their premises because of spiralling rents, with one committing suicide after a 200 per cent rent increase. 230 small businesses have united to call on London politicians to join them in confronting the capital’s affordable workspace crisis. Members of the East End Trades Guild will meet the Hackney and Tower Hamlets mayors on Tuesday and ask them to commit to their agenda​....

Donald Trump boasted that he received 52 per cent of the female vote in the 2016 election even though he was running against a woman last night. The claims, which we aired during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, have quickly been marked as false - with people quick to point out that the stat is based on the number of white women who voted. According to Washington Post the exit poll shows he got only 41 per cent of the...

Though New World wines are undoubtedly punching with the best in 2018, I’ve always been enamoured with Old World reds – particularly Italian. Of course, South America produces some outstanding bottles (Chilean Carmènère, Argentinian Malbec), some English sparkling wines have begun to seriously compete French Champagne and New Zealand is quickly becoming the home of Sauvignon Blanc. But there’s just something about Italian reds which reaffirms my belief that - as Ernest Hemingway said - “wine is the most civilised...

A vicar has become the first to be banned from the ministry for 'spiritual abuse' - for putting a teenage boy he was mentoring under "unacceptable pressure". Reverend Timothy Davis preached to the lad with such intensity that he was "deprived of his freedom of choice", the Bishop's Disciplinary Tribunal found. He began mentoring the 15-year-old after moving in with his family in 2013 and held private one-to-one prayer sessions that would last up to two hours. His family allowed...

A second 1066 invasion is set to go ahead after a delegation from Normandy plans to descend on Bristol in a bid to poach businesses opposed to Brexit The French special envoy will arrive in Bristol next week with a large bus brandishing a faux-classified advert stating: “Hot Entrepreneur Wanted. Someone allergic to post-Brexit tariffs, legislation and restrictions preferred”. It is part of a campaign which will also run mocked-up front page stories on several national newspapers including The Times,...