Online sellers look set to enjoy big business in 2018
In the post-Christmas and New Year’s haze many people choose to adopt pious resolutions; spend less, eat less, drink less, work out more. Despite this, it seems that British shoppers just cannot resist a deal. Undeterred by a weak pound and economic doubt, the Boxing Day sales reaped in an estimated total of 4.5 billion pounds. What December’s frenzied crowds show us is that consumers are always on the lookout for new deals and great shopping opportunities. In fact, it...
More than Food: Exhibition to illustrate foodbanks and the power of localised care
A striking selection of photographs, designed to raise awareness and create debate around food poverty, will go on display at a special exhibition later this month. Academics from the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus are curating the distinct exhibition, which seeks to highlight the growing use of foodbanks, at the Poly in Falmouth, from 23-26 January 2018. The University’s Social Innovation Group has collaborated with distinguished photojournalist Paddy Dowling, the Poly and a number of local charities for the moving event, which will draw out stories...
Brexit will “increase inequality” between London and rest of UK
A new report published today by Cambridge Econometrics on behalf of the Mayor of London has revealed that a hard Brexit would increase inequality between London and the rest of the UK. It says that the effects of leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union would be “noticeably more severe for the rest of the UK than for London, which implies that the rest of the UK will be much worse off than London following Brexit.” Commenting, Ben Bradshaw...
Where can you live for £1million in London?
It’s no secret that property in London is expensive, but when you flick through online estate agents for a laugh and spot a flat listed for £33.5million (not a typo), it stops being funny. I mean, sure, it’s a swanky 6-bed in Knightsbridge with all the trimmings, but I’m still coming to terms with the fact that even as a double-income-no-kids household, my partner and I can barely afford the mortgage on a tiny – sorry, minimalist - studio. Having...
NHS providers say: ‘they cannot deliver, as set out under the NHS constitution, safe, decent standards of patient care.’
In business questions to the Leader of the House, Shadow leader of the house Valerie Vaz spelled out to the House of Commons exactly why the Government could not wriggle out of responsibility for the current dire crisis facing the NHS across Britain. The Labour MP for Walsall South explained why she held the Jeremy Hunt the Secretary of State for Health accountable for a constituent’s death: "There seems to be a fatal flaw in the Government’s arguments. They say...
3 men forced schoolgirl into prostitution – advertising her online as teen escort
Three evil thugs who forced a 14-year-old girl into prostitution and made her have sex with 30 'clients' after plying her with drugs and booze have been jailed for 18 years. Monsters Jake Cairns, 21, Jack McNally, 21 and Brandon Sharples, 20, exploited the vulnerable victim after holding her captive and forced her to have sex with strangers. A court heard the trio advertised her services online after making her pose naked for photos and pretended she was 18-years-old on...
Dogwalker has finger bitten off by wild boar while walking in the woods
A dog walker has described the moment he had his finger bitten off - by a massive wild BOAR. Terrified Clive Lilley, 53, has become the first victim in Britain attacked by the booming population of feral pigs. Clive was mauled by the boar as he took a morning stroll with his labrador down a woodland track. The beast burst out of the undergrowth and ripped the top of his right forefinger off during the attack in Lydney, Forest of...
Waitrose has pulled tins of coffee from the shelves – because the packaging depicted images of slavery
Waitrose has pulled tins of coffee from the shelves - because the packaging depicted images of slavery. The shocking illustrations appeared on the sides of tins sold by Italian coffee company Saquella 1856, and were spotted by Patriic Gayle, 56, as he browsed the aisles. Patriic was horrified when he looked closer, and approached staff in the branch of the supermarket in the Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, Camden, to lodge a complaint. His pal Annette Saunders was also appalled and the...
Woman confesses to murder and then burying victim in garden
A woman who disclosed to police she had killed a man a number of years ago has been charged with murder. Barbara Coombes, 63, is said to have walked into a police station and confessed to killing the man and then burying him in a garden. Officers combed the garden in Reddish, Stockport - on Tuesday and found human remains. Coombes has now been charged with murder, preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body, fraud by false...