The Foreign Secretary finally gave the British mum detained in Iran an unreserved apology in parliament. - After the shadow foreign secretary demanded he say sorry for his colossal blunder in an urgent question in the House of Commons. Emily Thornberry also called on Boris Johnson to stop endangering Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by finally admitting he had made an error. "Of course I apologise for the distress, for the suffering that has been caused by the impression I gave that I...

BREAKING: Parliament will get a meaningful vote on the terms of the final Brexit deal implementation, Brexit minister David Davis has told MPs, staving off a Tory rebellion in the Commons. David David has announced a government u-turn and succumbed to demands from MPs that parliament has a vote on the final Brexit deal. There will be a parliamentary bill before the country leaves the EU, which will debate the terms that the government has agreed, including any changes to UK laws over citizens’ rights, the final...

Australian singer-songwriter Emily Barker is in town on Wednesday, playing the Borderline in support of her latest release Sweet Kind Of Blue. She has penned and performed theme songs for BAFTA and Ivor Novello winning television dramas Wallander (starring Kenneth Branagh) and The Shadow Line, and for the movie The Keeping Room, as well as an entire musical score for the poignant and well-received 2015 road movie, Hector, starring Peter Mullan. How would you describe the experience of recording Sweet...

In any other situation a Twitter feud between two men trading insults about being "old" or "short and fat" would take pride of place in the basin of social media banality, but when the two people concerned are sitting on a nuclear arsenal and a combined army of over a million active personnel one starts to worry for the future of civilisation. Yet such is the state of the world that as 2017 grinds to an end we are forced to watch...

A train driver was forced to jump for his life from a runaway locomotive after the brakes failed - causing it to career off the tracks. The steam train Akbar Express has featured in dozens of Bollywood movies and it usually chugs 760 miles across India in a journey taking 24 hours. But the brake levers jammed on Sunday leaving the driver with no choice but to jump from the carriage while the 65-year-old famous train was moving. It chugged...

By Pat Levy Over the last couple of years Turkey has had a pretty bad press. On the border of  a devastating war zone,  damaged by political upheaval and terror attacks, trying  to accommodate thousands of refugees , its tourist industry is taking heavy body blows. Which is a terrible shame for those in Turkey whose livelihoods depend on tourism and for all travellers who enjoy new experiences. I spent a week in Cappadocia in central Turkey and experienced nothing...

As I am a kale eating, energy conserving, Trump loathing, Corbyn loving, Lily Allen listening, hug a tree, kiss a bee, spray paint on a bedsheet and wave it at the march activist - no animals harmed in the making of products and does no one think of the children? - of course I read the Guardian. It’s sort of the daily Bible for people who are dubious about actual Bibles.  But here’s a nasty little secret that would bring...

We have all at one point or other seen our well made plans go awry but I’m sure they do not compare with the one at the centre of Good Time. Set in Queens, New York, the film opens with Nick Nikas (Ben Safdie) having a learning disability test. Before it can be completed his brother Connie (Robert Pattinson) bursts into the examiner’s office and takes Nick with him. It turns out that Connie has more important plans and the...

A WiFi fault on Great Western Railway seems to promote accessing pornographic and offensive content on board their trains. The page lists a number of pages you are able to access using their free WiFi, including sending and receiving emails and browsing website content. But one user was left particularly shocked when the tick and cross functions didn't work on her browser - which added video streaming, pornographic material and offensive content to the things you are "able to do". GWR...