Mental health charity Mind yesterday (Tuesday, 26 September) hosted an event celebrating the delivery of a project aimed at promoting good mental health among vulnerable migrant communities. The two-year project, kindly funded by City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s Charity, is coming to an end this month and culminates in the launch ‘Mental health commissioning with migrant communities’ - a guide for mental health service providers, including local Minds across England and Wales, and other commissioners. There are...

Jeremy Corbyn has called out his media critics over the election coverage, joking "never have so many trees died in vain". Corbyn condemned The Daily Mail for devoting 14 pages to attacking his party and challenged the editor, Paul Dacre, to double the coverage over him for the next general election, in the hope that would push Labour to an election victory. During his speech to the Labour conference, Corbyn accused the right-wing media of colluding in a “nasty and...

A patronising tour of working class culture or a helping hand for community businesses? That is the debate following a recent "safari tour" of London chicken shops organised by the union at Goldsmiths University in Lewisham. According to the Evening Standard around 50 Goldsmiths students attended the Chicken Run event on Monday, visiting fast food outlets in New Cross including PFC, Morleys, Gateway and Chick Chicken. Although organisers say the event was created as a response to gentrification in the local area...

A man is dead after police 'surround car and shoot into it' near Bristol. Armed police swooped on the car on the M5 motorway and "shot the driver ten times" through the passenger window, at around 9.30 this morning. The injured man was then pulled from the old red car by officers who began attempting to resuscitate him just off the M5 near Portishead, North Somerset. Onlookers said two police cars pinned in the red Corsa, before officers approached, backed...

The Ferrari F2001 is described as the most important modern Formula 1 race car and among the most significant competition cars in any collection worldwide. With Michael Schumacher behind the wheel, chassis number 211 crossed the line first in two races during the 2001 season, including at the Monaco Grand Prix. The German driver ended up winning the 2001 F1 Championship, with chassis 211 playing a pivotal role in his victory. A landmark Ferrari F1 car raced to victory twice...

Jeremy Corbyn today inadvertently received the rock star reception Theresa May aimed for in 2016 when she delivered the closing speech at the Conservative Party Conference. The Labour leader came out to the now famed rendition of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, despite there been no music in the background. It makes a stark difference to May's reception when she got a tame response with Elvis Costello & The Attractions blaring out of the stereos. Even the shadow...

An animal loving photographer has captured a hilarious set of pictures showing dogs leaping for treats with their eyes and mouths wide open. The ingenious snaps were taken using a technique which catches the dogs' faces a split-second before they munch down on tasty biscuits. Paws for the camera - The hilarious expressions on dogs' faces as they try to catch a treat can now be seen in one book. The photos show the dogs being excited, surprised and even...

JPMorgan Russian - Low valuations and rising yields 170927 JRS Update QD Weak oil prices and a deteriorating relationship with the US have weighed on the Russian market for some time. Hopes of a rapprochement with the West in the wake of President Trump’s election have fizzled out. Russia is adjusting to the environment it finds itself in and earnings growth is starting to materialise. Falling inflation has highlighted excessive real interest rates, leaving scope for further interest rate cuts....

"Sometimes you get the impression that nobody ever laughed during the period between 1914 and 1918", Ian Hislop said ahead of the opening night of the Wipers Times at Richmond Theatre. To some extent that would be true - the war was no laughing matter, after all. But in other ways it would be very un-British not to laugh in the face of adversity, and in 1916 in a bunker outside Ypres (mispronounced Wipers by British soldiers) that is precisely what...