Top 10 unusual facts about London
Looking for unusual facts about London? London is one of the most popular cities in the world,with millions of people across the globe recognising its most iconic features such as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. With such success, London is bursting to the seams with strange statistics and unusual laws. Here are the Top 10 unusual facts about London: Top 10 unusual facts about London that will blow your mind 10. Harrods, a luxurious shop based in London, used to...
Brexit voters comprehensively shafted the young
Older people who voted for Brexit have ‘comprehensively shafted the young’. That’s the view of Sir Vince Cable, writing for the Mail on Sunday this weekend. He accuses over-65s of being ‘self-declared martyrs’ who claim leaving the EU is worth the cost. ‘The old have comprehensively shafted the young'... 'And the old have had the last word about Brexit, imposing a world view coloured by nostalgia for an imperial past on a younger generation much more comfortable with modern Europe.’...
Employed To Serve announce ‘The Warmth of A Dying Sun’ UK tour
Employed To Serve have announced their first UK headline dates in support of the incredible, highly praised new album 'The Warmth Of A Dying Sun'. The band have just finished up a UK tour with Milk Teeth (which saw them grace the current cover of Kerrang! Magazine - Justine from ETS and Becky from Milk Teeth), toured earlier this year with Black Peaks, toured Europe with Mare, Ireland with Palm Reader, played 2000trees Festival in July and will be at ArcTanGent Festival on the 19th August...
Where did it all begin for Tesco and Amstrad?
The most prolific multinational corporations of today had to start somewhere. For example did you know Tesco and Amstrad both started in London. Years of hard work, investment and a little bit of good luck meant some of the budding startups of 100 years ago have gone on to become some of the biggest brands in the world today. But how did they do it? The government-backed Start Up Loans Company has taken a look back at where it all...
Expect queues outside food banks this Christmas as universal credit shake-up plunges families into poverty
Labour MPs are warning to expect queues outside food banks this Christmas as universal credit changes threaten to push thousands of families below the poverty line. According to Citizens Advice benefit claimants are being plunged into debt with four in ten people having to wait more than six weeks to receive their first payment. Now Labour MPs, from areas where the shake-up is due to be introduced this autumn, have written to David Gauke, the Work and Pensions Secretary, calling for...
This is one of the best places in the UK to have a picnic…. apparently
A little known beach lying directly underneath one of Scotland's busiest bridges has been named one of the top places in the UK to have a picnic. Boden Boo, a small strip of grass and beach lying underneath the Erskine Bridge, has been plucked from obscurity as one of the most stunning places to take out a picnic basket. Thousands of families use the bridge every day during the summer to get to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs or south...
Trump Watch: Vampires, Yusopov and The Zeitgeist
There is one great truth that ties all revolutions in common and that is they never burst out in surprise. History, or at least when current events have been aged in the cask long enough to be classified as history, always has shown that there were warning signs, hints, foreshadowing adeptly revealed yet not immediately obvious. It is as though the story of humanity is being written by a truly cunning mystery novelist, thus casting God as the supreme meld...
British Dietetic Association confirms vegan diets can support healthy living for all ages
One of the UK’s longest-standing organisations that represents dietetics and nutrition has affirmed that a well-planned vegan diet can “support healthy living in people of all ages” in an official document signed by its CEO. The British Dietetic Association has renewed its memorandum of understanding with The Vegan Society to state that a balanced vegan diet can be enjoyed by children and adults, including during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The memorandum is building upon the existing working relationship between the BDA...
Watch – Shop celebrating Harry Potter opens on street that inspired Diagon Alley
A shop celebrating the wizarding world of Harry Potter has taken opened on the street that inspired the series' famous Diagon Alley. Diagon House has taken over from a brush shop that stood in the cobbled-stoned street for 101 years to sell memorabilia to Harry potter fans. Victoria Street in Edinburgh is thought to be JK Rowling's inspiration for Diagon Alley -- the wizarding alley and shopping area in the fantasy novel series. Winding up two floors of stairs the...