For those of you who have come to this review expecting to read about the newest novel featuring The Silence of the Lambs' Dr Lecter, oh dear. So sorry to inform you but the book we're looking at doesn't have anything to do with cannibalism. (Thinking) Which is rather a shame really as if it had, this Hannibal might have been quite livelier and certainly more memorable than the long, dreary slog that shoved its way into my view and...

Nine staff have been suspended from a G4S immigration centre after claims of abuse and assaults against detainees. An investigation into allegations made by BBC's Panorama programme of "chaos, incompetence and abuse" at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick, has also been launched. The undercover filming operation has raised serious issues about the treatment of detainees in the UK. Recent outbreaks of disorder in some of Britain's jails paints a worrying picture of the standard of incarceration centres across the nation. Jerry Petherick,...

If ever an article didn’t need a title, this is one such occasion. Arsenal's problems are at once simple and complex, their descent from the top table has been a slow, painfully gradual affair which has kept alight the flame of hope in their supporters’ hearts. It feels like the walls have finally started to crumble. Arsenal’s transfer business has been a source of curiosity to all football fans for a number of years now. The spending was restricted with the...

A Tory Peer, who is in the top 1,000 richest people according to the Sunday Times, has argued that Brexit is a good idea, as young people can work even longer hours. Retail tycoon, Lord Harris, is worth around £100m and said during a radio interview that “I just feel we would be better off out of the EU.” Harris was the chairman of Carpetright plc and was appointed to the board of Arsenal Football Club as a non-executive director...

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.   Hoppers St. Christopher’s Place – Marylebone Following the resounding success of the Soho original, a new, larger Hoppers will launch this month. Opening in Marylebone, Hoppers St. Christopher’s Place will have space for 85, set across two floors, with a further outdoor space for 16. What’s more, the new restaurant is set to take bookings,...

An estate agent who famously survived eight days locked in a box after being kidnapped by crazed killer Michael Sams in 1992 has died of cancer. Michael Sams Stephanie Slater, 50, was held in a cramped wooden coffin for over a week after she was taken captive by the convicted murderer at the age of 25. She was snatched and held at knifepoint by one-legged Sams who pretended to be a potential buyer of an empty property in Great Barr,...

  A devoted barber chose to give his one-legged client a fresh trim OUTSIDE - because his mobility scooter wouldn't fit inside the shop. Kieran Worthington, 28, moved his clippers and scissors outside to give Billy, whose in his 70s, a short back and sides in the reflection of the shop window. The barber realised that poor Billy didn't have crutches and his mobility scooter only had 'one speed' fast setting. It meant that the scooter couldn't be navigated inside...

A homeless man has appeared in court charged with killing a mum and her teenage son during a triple stabbing. Aaron Barley, 23, is accused of murdering Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her son Pierce, 13, at their detached family home. Businessman Peter Wilkinson, 47, was also knifed six times at the £600,000 property in Stourbridge, West Mids, on March 30, but survived the brutal attack. He was discharged after two weeks in hospital and has since spoken of the agony...

A thug who killed a grandfather with a single punch following a petty pub row has been jailed for six years. Ashley Lawman, 25, got into a row with 60-year-old John Olver after exchanging no more than five words. They took their disagreement outside, where Lawman felled the grandfather-of-seven with a single blow before telling bystanders: "He started on me". He pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Plymouth Crown Court in Devon, where relatives of Mr Olver said their family had...