By Ben Jackson As millions embark on their summer vacations, most holidaymakers will be seeking a brief refuge from their year round 'always on' status Across the world, luxury-end holidays have learned the value of prising the smart phones from the hands of frenetic Silicon Valley types, while ‘being unplugged’ has been cited as one of the ten top travel trends for 2017. More esoteric breaks, including: monasteries, wellness sanctuaries, country retreats and even activity holidays, all increasingly, offer options...

The icy worlds of Europa and Enceladus could never be habitable - because they suffer from either extreme hot or cold. NASA has said the mysterious moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively could one day be home to humans. But scientist said the moons swing from a "icehouse" to "hothouse" without a "goldilocks" period when conditions are just right for life to thrive. The finding could have implications for the search for extra-terrestrial life as they are believed to be...

A group of shady individuals accumulate in an abandoned Boston warehouse to size up and complete an arms deal. However, when some bad blood infiltrates the proceedings, the deal swiftly falls south, and the guns which were going to be used for other nefarious purposes are now being utilised a little earlier than expected. That’s it. Looking for anything else? You’re in the wrong place. Free Fire isn’t a film of complexity. There’s not that much to it. But there’s...

When The Frog E1 opened last summer, I was quick to declare it one of the year’s best openings. One of the absolute best restaurants in east London, in fact. Sadly, so many brilliant restaurants fail to live up to the initial ‘hype’ and ultimately slump into a routine of serving terrible food with slow service, even though booking a table remains harder than Trigonometry. 365 days later, many of these places eventually fail, closing their doors to make space...

For the 12 months that I lived in my last studio apartment in south west London it was the butt of all property jokes among my friends in the north. For the price of a two-bed semi detached house in Leeds I was living in a bedroom with an aeroplane bathroom and camping stove kitchen. The foot of my bed imposed heavily on the sparse living room I had and my only armchair doubled up as the dining room and...

Geoffrey Boycott admitted he had been "done like a kipper" after falling for a hilarious prank live on air. The BBC cricket pundit was commentating on the England v South Africa test match when his co-commentator Jonathan Agnew managed to convince him that his 100th hundred wasn't scored at his home county ground of Headingley but in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The prank was based on a phoney press release which claimed to downgrade the statistics of all runs and wickets for the...

A 82-year-old woman was left bloodied after she was badly beaten and strangled with her dog lead in an unprovoked attack. Catherine Smith first spotted her attacker a woman as she took her dog for a walk in her mobility scooter in a nature garden in south London. As she headed home she saw her attacker sitting on the wall outside her home and was asked "where's Tracey?" Ms Smith told the woman she did not know who Tracey was...

Life-like child sex dolls are being sold through Amazon and eBay to British paedophiles who use them as a 'companion' to satisfy their sick desires. The dolls, worth between £800 to over £1,000, feature the body of a young child between six and ten-years-old and sneak past border force officers because they are labelled as 'manikins or 'models'. Hundreds are feared to have made it into Britain and in many cases paedophiles buy children's clothing including school uniforms in preparation...

A racist thug has been jailed for accusing an Asian taxi driver of being responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. Terrence Poxon said the victim had "firebombed kids," and racially abused him on May 28 - less than a week after the attack killed 22 people. Poxon, 58, was also armed with a wooden bat and smashed up the victim's cab at 3.30pm. A court heard he had dressed himself in a Union Jack T-shirt to deliberately parade it around...