Directed by London Has Fallen writer Christian Gudegas and staring Gerard Butler, Den Of Thieves is the sort of testosterone laden action flick that doesn’t seem to care much about offering anything resembling a coherent storyline, opting instead for a lazily constructed and needlessly meandering narrative, which in the end only succeeds in alienating even the most ardent of action fans. Furthermore, the film falls at the first hurdle by its inability to decide which story it wants to tell,...

By Raj Dhokia The record signing has arrived amid a tough time in the season for the Gunners. There is a strange sense of optimism surrounding Arsenal at the moment. For much of the January transfer window, Gunners' fans were resigned to losing their talisman, Alexis Sanchez, with no replacement lined up. What's worse; he was probably going to go to Manchester City, and potentially for nothing if he waited until the summer. Fast-forward to the close of the window,...

HOPE not hate welcomes today's guilty verdict for Darren Osborne over his heinous murder of Makram Ali and attempted murder of other worshippers outside Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park last June. Commenting on the verdict, HOPE not hate's chief executive, Nick Lowles, said: "This case highlights the pernicious nature and danger of online hate and sadly confirms the threat from right-wing extremism, which we have long warned about. But it also highlights the role that far-right figures and right-wing media...

The number of British households that consider themselves millionaires has rose by nearly a third in two years as the wealth of the poorest households diminished. A total of 3.6 million households in Britain held wealth of more than £1 million by June 2016, up 29 per cent in two years, the Office for National Statistics said. But in a sign that the Tories really are a party for the few the poorest households saw their wealth diminish. While the...

The legendary artist known as Banksy is believed to have been caught on video just hours after his latest graffiti creation appeared on the side of a bridge. Footage has emerged of what looks to be the elusive artist acting shifty while sporting a baseball cap and sunglasses to shield his identity. Banksy took responsibility for a piece of art slapped to the side of the disused Scott Street Bridge in Hull, East Yorks., on Friday (Jan 26). But it...

Pasta is big business in London restaurants at the moment, and it’s hardly surprising. Across the pond, many restaurants are employing a fast-casual approach to pasta. Del Posto chef Mark Ladner opened Pasta Flyer, a fast-casual pasta restaurant, in New York last year; joining Casa Barilla in California and Grass in Portland, Oregon, amongst others. Closer to home, a number of Italian trattoria-styled restaurants primarily dedicated to pasta have opened in London, also adopting an unequivocally casual approach. During 2016,...

A Church of England school has been branded "medieval" for telling parents to send their children in SICK - in a bid to boost pupil attendance. The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School was criticised in its last Ofsted inspection which revealed it had a high absence record. Figures show it had an attendance rate of 94.7 per cent - compared with the national average of 96 per cent. The school also has a persistent absence rate – pupils missing at...

So Valentine's Day has arrived and you've booked your other half into a luxurious hotel with spa treatments and rose-covered bed sheets. Or, more likely, you have left it until the last minute and pitched a romantic night at home under the guise of saving money for the summer holiday? Either way your luck is in, for what better way of recreating a spa night than to drink a wine grown in the grounds of the renowned Château de Berne? The...

The expansion of the cruise industry, coupled with modern holidaymakers’ longing to see the more secluded corners of the world, mean that some of the most luxurious liners on Earth now voyage to remote destinations. Evergreen destinations like the Caribbean and the Mediterranean are consistently popular, while reports abound on the growth of cruising around Australia, New Zealand and Asian countries like Malaysia and Vietnam. Even so, there’s a definite demand for voyages to more far-out corners of the world. CLIA’s 2018...