A bereaved mother interrupted a council budget meeting by setting of a FLARE - and said her 19-year-old daughter took her own life after being "failed" due to cuts. The woman, who has not been identified, took drastic action to get the attention of Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees, who met with her privately after the meeting was halted. The red flare - the kind which can land a football fan with a three-month prison sentence if they are found...

A major new production of Strangers on a Train is now running in theatres across the UK, with a week-long stint in Richmond, London this week. The gripping thriller is based on the taught psychological drama by the celebrated writer Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley), immortalized by Alfred Hitchcock’s Academy Award-winning film. Playing at Richmond Theatre until Saturday 24th February, the show picks up with a fateful encounter between two men in the dining carriage of a train crossing...

Millions of Brits have got the hump because their other half spends too much time 'engaging' with celebs like Cara Delevingne, Ed Sheeran and David Beckham on Twitter and Instagram, it has emerged. Researchers found as many as six in 10 Brits feel ‘out of touch’ with their partner due to long working hours, busy lifestyles or social media distractions. And one in six of those who took part admitted their relationship suffers because they spend more time interacting with...

Not even a compelling central performance from Ruth Wilson is enough to save Clio Barnard’s rustic, social-realist melodrama, Dark River, from being the first major cinematic upset of the 2018 calendar. Having made such a huge impact with her first two films – bracing docu-hybrid, The Arbor, and her acutely poetic follow-up feature, The Selfish Giant – Barnard has now turned her attention away from the inner-city existence, and instead settled her focus on the Britain’s pastoral hinterland; following in...

Daniel Fitzsimmons’ debut feature is scuppered by an undercooked script and half-baked ideas that fail to ignite any real feeling in sci-fi psychological drama, Native. After a telepathic alien hive race discovers a strange musical transmission being emitted from a far off planet, two scientists, Cane (Rupert Graves) and Eva (Ellie Kendrick), are sent on a mission to uncover and colonize its source. Science-fiction struggles in a difficult balancing act of having to find that sweet spot between being an...

Frustrated KFC fans have ruffled the feathers of cops by calling them to complain about the chicken crisis that has seen hundreds of shops closed. So many calls were received by police in east London about the lack of KFC that they had to take to Twitter to warns people there was nothing they could do. Tower Hamlets Police tweeted: "Please do not contact us about the #KFCCrisis - it is not a police matter if your favourite eatery is...

Singer-songwriter Hero Fisher is back with the new track 'Lonely'. The British-born, French-raised and London-based artist has collaborated with Alison Mosshart and Boy George in the past, with her 2015 debut album winning her fans in The Horrors and Blur. Fisher’s new song ‘Lonely’ is a masterclass in reinvention. Rich in ambience and with a slow crawling beat, her subtle and tender vocal performance evokes a deep sense of isolation amidst the cluttered mysteries of daily life. Drums, pianos and synths all...

A Transavia flight from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency airline when a passenger wouldn’t stop farting. According to reports that have blown up in the Dutch press this week, the man’s constant wind wound up two fellow passengers who demanded he stopped blowing off. The men got eggy with his constant egging especially when crew on the low cost airline insisted they could not intervene to stop the flatulent passenger quacking. When he refused to stop...

What's 33ft wide, 23 tons, up to 1,000 years old and is the highlight of any trip to this beautiful corner of England? If that’s left you stumped, it’s the Major Oak - better known as Robin Hood’s tree and was voted Britain’s favourite in 2002. The magnificent oak is a must see when you visit Sherwood Forest, immortalised in the legend of Robin Hood, his merry men, Maid Marion, green tights and that. The tree provided shelter for the...