Londoners will be able to get half price taxis all summer after Europe’s largest e-hailing app announced that it is offering 50 per cent off for all riders every weekend. With some of the summer’s biggest events just round the corner, mytaxi aims to let Londoners enjoy the fastest, safest and most comfortable way to end a day or night out, at an even lower cost. From 5pm on Fridays to midnight every Sunday, all rides booked through the mytaxi...

Virgin Media has announced the second ubiquitous price rise for its customers this year. Prices for the majority of customers will increase by an average of 4.7 per cent from November 2017, which is the second hike to be announced this year. Similar price changes on deals for new customers have also taken place today. Commenting on the results, Dan Howdle, consumer telecoms analyst at Cable.co.uk, says: "With inflation back in the room and with Virgin Media having announced in...

As if the Premier League's coffers hadn't been bolstered enough by Sky and BT bidding wars, a new player could be in the market come 2018 when the rights to air games are next up. The previous deal secured in 2015 led to a £5 billion cash injection into the EPL which inflated player's pay packets and led to TV subscribers having to pay two subscriptions to keep up with matches. But rather than alienating other bidders and triggering a...

Netflix has established itself as the go-to place for documentaries over the past few years. But deciding which doco to watch next can be a challenging feat. The ‘suggestions for you’ filter is as useful as a chocolate fireguard (‘Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men’, seriously?). And there’s no longer an option to list documentaries by rating. Luckily, to save you hours of unnecessary trawling, we have created a rolling list of our favourite documentaries available on UK Netflix right now. Jim:...

UK Addiction Treatment (UKAT) Centres recently released data which shows that admissions across their 6 UK-wide treatment centres for over the counter painkillers has risen by a staggering 22% since 2014, and that over half of those admitted are treated within its Southern centres. Their data shows that 62% of those admitted for Codeine or Benzodiazepine addiction were admitted to UKATs Southern Centres- Primrose Lodge, Sanctuary Lodge, Liberty House and Recovery Lighthouse. The remaining 38% were admitted to the Northern...

ICOBox, a Singapore company founded in 2017, is launching a revolutionary no-cap “ICO for ICOs” sale, which forever transforms the economics of the token launch process. ICOBox is a leading provider of flat-fee box solutions for conducting coin offerings for projects seeking to sell their products and services via ICOs. As part of its solution, ICOBox offers a tool kit containing technical, legal and marketing packages. Now ICOBox is offering the public its ICOS tokens, which are ERC-20 standard-based Ethereum...

A major split has emerged in the Cabinet over how best to use Brexit to wreck ordinary people's lives, it has been revealed. Chancellor Philip Hammond is understood to favour a transitional deal that would "cause significant suffering for demographic groups that Tories hate, but strung out over a period of several years so as to maximise the psychological impact." Jeremy Hunt, in his capacity as Secretary of State for Running Down and Privatising the NHS, has suggested that suddenly...

Train chiefs have released toe-curling CCTV footage of passengers falling down escalators in a bid to improve safety at stations. Network Rail recorded a 25 per cent rise in the number of escalator incidents at Leeds Station last year. Many were the result of passengers struggling up the moving staircases with heavy bags. Station bosses are now urging passengers - including those with mobility issues - to use the lifts rather than risk travelling on escalators. Vinny Burke, Leeds Station...

With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month.   Joe Allen – Covent Garden Joe Allen, the iconic restaurant in the heart of London’s West End will move to a new home this Summer, just 25 metres down the road, on Burleigh Street. First opened in 1977, Joe Allen, with its exposed brickwork, wood paneling and long wood-clad bar, is an almost exact replica of...