A litter picker who is walking across the UK on a five-year mission to Keep Britain Tidy has collected around 42 TONNES of rubbish - in 6,000 BAGS. Wayne Dixon's remarkable quest has taken him through outlying parts of Scotland and along the coast of Wales with his dog. The 45-year-old has clocked over 2,000 miles - walking between counties carrying a 60lb kit bag and living off £50 a week, He carries a tent, sleeping bag, waterproofs, a stove...

By Michael McNulty Francis Lee’s debut feature film, God’s Own Country, is a delicate and hopeful love story, an intimate portrayal of a budding romance deep in rural Yorkshire that will likely draw comparisons to Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.  But, there is nothing derivate about this Yorkshire set film. Johnny (Josh O’Connor) shoulders the weight of his family’s ailing farm, his father, Martin (Ian Hart), unable to work as a result of a stroke.  The young man’s life is defined...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here. The international break provides some light relief for FC Fakin’ Run Aboutabit this week. Some much needed relief at that. Sunday was a dark day. A total of six points from three players, including captain Kane, has left us in the lurch. I took a despondent...

A domestic abuse victim has bravely spoken about the violence she suffered at the hands of her evil ex-boyfriend and released shocking pictures showing the extent of her injuries. Simone Dyche, 24, was repeatedly punched in the face by vile William Coulter, 30, before he almost drowned her by holding her head underwater. The controlling thug brutally attacked his partner on four different occasions after flying into drunken rages because he was jealous of her going out with her friends....

Why let a lie get in the way of a good story? This seems to be the case in the reporting of a Muslim foster carer hitting the front pages of the rightwing press. The Times could find itself in hot water this week after publishing several false claims in its sensationalised report of the Muslim foster care case. Bank Holiday Monday saw the News UK title run a front-page story about a Christian child who had been "forced" into...

Steven Soderbergh, once dubbed the poster boy of the Sundance generation by legendary critic Roger Ebert, makes his return from a short-lived ‘movie retirement’ with Logan Lucky – a wacky, redneck, Ocean’s Eleven-esque crime comedy. Soderbergh enlists a trio of brawny heartthrobs - in the shape of Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum and Adam Driver – in an attempt to guarantee his comeback doesn’t fall short of the mark, and it almost pays off. Tatum, more rotund than ever, is a...

Part of the Talking Peace Festival, peace-building organisation International Alert are set to launch a Conflict Café Syria pop-up for three days, in collaboration with House of Vans, Grub Club and Cult Events, beginning on International Peace Day (September 21st). Established by International Alert in 2014, Conflict Café has since highlighted cuisines and conflicts from Lebanon to Colombia, aiming to celebrate the power of food as an instrument to break barriers and encourage strangers to communicate. This year, at Conflict...

Of all the problems facing our food ecosystem it is surprising how many of them stem from the home. Industry has taken quite a battering of late over the trail of devastation it has left in beefing up our food supplies. Speaking ahead of the Extinction Conference Professor Raj Patel says our ability to provide sustainable food for future generations can no longer be guaranteed because of agribusiness that drive deforestation, push industrial monoculture and contribute to a loss of species. But without...

A father and son's bid to become the first in 50 years to cycle across the English Channel failed when the French REFUSED them permission to land. Andy Lang, 50, and son Bradley, 22, decided to undertake the 24-mile journey to raise money for Cancer Research following the death of friend Dominic Donoghue. They built their own tandem 'Seabike' and tested it off the Devon coast it before setting off from Dover on Monday. But halfway across, after 12 miles...