Revealed: full list of attendees at UK’s biggest arms fair inc despots, dictatorships and human rights abusers
Following a parliamentary question by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, the UK government has published its official guest list for Defence & Security Equipment International 2017 (DSEI), one of the biggest arms fairs in the world. (c) CAAT The controversial defence industry get together kicked off today in the Excel Centre in London’s docklands with news that 100 protestors have been arrested around the site so far. Scotland Yard said 102 people had been arrested so far mainly for allegedly...
Film Review: My Pure Land
By Michael McNulty A beat up car barrels down a dusty road in the remote bad-lands of rural Pakistan, a group of sweaty men, armed to the teeth, sneer as they approach an isolated house. Standing tall, proud and brandishing a Kalashnikov of her own is the young, beautiful Noza (Suhaee Abro). The men pull up and pile out, weapons drawn. They’ve come to take the home. But, Noza won’t go easy; this is her family home, her land and...
Hospital visitor slams sandwich company for “ripping off the NHS” with ‘egg salad sandwich’ with hardly any EGG
A disgruntled hospital visitor has slammed a sandwich company for "ripping off the NHS" with an 'egg salad sandwich' - with hardly any EGG in it. Carl Simpson, 48, was visiting his wife Maria in hospital when she ordered the sandwich through the hospital's catering team. When poorly Maria opened up the sandwich she was gutted to find mainly bread with six pieces of scrunched-up egg and a piece of lettuce and half a tomato. A disgruntled hospital visitor has...
Why The Miller of Mansfield is the perfect Winter getaway
When it comes to getting away for a weekend in the winter most Londoners are looking for three things; a cosy location, scrumptious food and a hassle-free journey. Thankfully, The Miller of Mansfield has all three. Nestled at the heart of Goring-on-Thames around eight miles north-west of Reading The Miller lies at the meeting point of the Chilterns and North Wessex Downs. The railway station is on the main line between Oxford and London and its riverside plain houses the residential area...
Queen Victoria’s Last Love – the true story of the servant who introduced the monarch to curry and the Koran
A descendant of an Indian servant who inspired the new Stephen Frears movie with Judi Dench 'Victoria and Abdul' has told how his great-uncle introduced the monarch to curry and the Koran. Abdul Karim was an Indian Muslim who was handpicked to help Queen Victoria learn about her Asian territories in the late 19th century. He served her for 15 years and their extraordinary friendship is the subject of a new film, 'Victoria and Abdul', starring Dame Judi Dench as...
Child prodigy earns First Class Honours degree in Maths at age of only 13
One of Britain's youngest graduates has earned a first class honours degree in Maths after studying in his free time - at the age of only 13. Wang Pok Lo is already studying for his Master's degree after achieving the remarkable feat by completing an Open University course. The child prodigy was doing sums when he was two-years-old and passed his Advanced Higher Maths exams when he was only 11. Known as Pok to his friends at Queensferry High School,...
King’s College graduates set up lingerie range for busty women
A pair of busty best friends frustrated at being unable to find sexy lingerie that fitted their well endowed assets have set up shop to cater for women in a similar predicament. Alice Holden, 25 and 30GG, and Fleurette Mulcahy, 24 and 28FF/G, both struggled to find bras to fit since the age of 14, and became sick of unflattering and frumpy underwear. Instead, the pair, who met studying Geography at King's College London in 2011, decided to set up...
Squaddies appear charged with being members of banned group National Action
Two British soldiers have appeared in court accused of being part of an outlawed neo-Nazi group, with one alleged to have had the manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik on his computer. Soldiers Mikko Vevhilainen, 32, a lance corporal, and Mark Barrett, 24, a private, are accused of being part of the far right group National Action, which was banned in December 2016. They appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court this morning alongside civilian Alexander Deakin, 22, who is also...
Stunning photos as Flying Scotsman tackles the Quantocks
Here's the Flying Scotsman running out of steam and struggling to make its way up a rather modest hill. The world's most famous train wowed rail buffs with a guest appearance in Somerset last week. But the engine - which made history in 1934 as the first steam loco to reach 100mph - left some puffing with disbelief as it tackled the Quantocks. A bystander filmed it having trouble getting up Crowcombe Hill on the West Somerset Railway near Taunton....