Mrs Le’s Banh Mi and Grill has opened in Battersea bringing an authentic Vietnamese restaurant experience to south London. Derived from the Le family’s matriarch Mrs Le's has built a dynasty of restaurants across the capital and continues to expand. The key to her success has been to stick to what she knows best, and despite overseeing a growing empire Mrs My Le continues to make early morning trips to Billingsgate market after peeling garlic by hand into the early hours. Her...

Thousands of children fall victim to the horrifying new 'bait out' trend that sees their nude pictures shared on social media EVERY DAY, police believe. At least one child from just one small Kent borough every day has their naked selfies posted online, police reveal. And if this worrying trend is similar nationwide, it could mean thousands of kids are being exposed daily. Since the beginning of January over 40 schoolgirls aged between 11 and 17 have reported incidences of...

There was something about the phrase “thoughtless obsolescence” that had got me thinking ahead of To Kill A King’s final tour date at Islington Assembly Hall. The term was used by the band in our pre-gig chat to describe the “lost and unsatisfied” feelings that seem to have become the catchphrase for our current political and sociological climate. It joins a school of ‘obsoletist’ lines like “If half the world's gone mad the other half just don't care” and, my...

A disabled man was Tasered by police and charged with assaulting an officer in a case that collapsed when his mother discovered CCTV of the incident. The autistic man, Paul, who has a mental age of seven, could have been jailed had the trial gone ahead, his mother Margaret says. She obtained CCTV footage from the sheltered accommodating where the then-25-year-old lived, showing a different version of events from those provided by officers. Police were called to the sheltered accommodation...

By Jack Granard Mesut Ozil has ended speculation about his future at the Gunners, with confirmation that he has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract. With only a few months left till his contract was expected to run out, the 29 year old German International has become the highest-paid player in the club’s history - earning around £350,000 per week before tax. To think only a few days ago, Arsenal fans were lamenting the loss of Alexis Sanchez to a rival...

A young man who decided to take up fossil hunting made the find of a lifetime - just 15 minutes later. Archie Faiers, 21, was inspired by Sir David Attenborough after watching Attenborough and the Sea Dragon, and decided to have a hunt himself. He took his dogs for a walk along the jurassic coast and just minutes later Archie, from Uplyme, Devon, spotted an interesting rock in earth disturbed by a recent cliff fall. To his amazement, it turned...

A senior Conservative parish councillor has spoken of his horror at discovering one of his properties was being used as a massage parlour - which offered 'happy endings.' Bobby Nagpal, vice-charman of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council, in Essex, said he had 'no knowledge' his property was being used as a shop for sex services. Seedy men had even posted online reviews of the business, Relax Studio, boasting about 'happy endings', before it was shut down by authorities. Tower Hamlets council...

Arsene Wenger pulled it off! In what is perhaps the tensest transfer merry go round story of the January transfer window, Olivier Giroud's agent has arrived in London, as Borussia Dortmund confirmed the sale of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Arsenal with a club record fee of 63.75 million euros (£56.13 million). Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc says in a statement: "Apart from the unpleasant events of recent weeks, we remember the story of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as a success story. "He has done great things for...

A serving police officer has today (tue) admitted sexually grooming a 15-year-old boy. Detective Constable Jonathan Davies-Brewin, 50, was snared by a vigilante paedophile hunter posing as the teenager. A court heard the senior cop arranged to meet the 'boy' following a conversation on social media. However, when he arrived for the meeting in Colchester, Essex, the boy turned out to be a vigilante adult. Today (tue), Davies-Brewin admitted one count of attempting to meet a boy under 16 years...