For renters in London there are only two certainties in life; you're destined to always pay someone else's mortgage and you will pay extortionate sums for the privilege of doing so. Just months after the government announced new measures to provide a fairer deal for renters by banning unfair letting agent fees it's clear to see cowboy estate agents are still thriving in the capital. Castle Estates, a small outfit based in Wandsworth, join a host of other low-key businesses who...

Police hunting a machete-wielding robber who only targets branches of GREGGS have arrested a 40-year-old man. The suspect is being quizzed by officers after five shops across Birmingham were targeted between February and July this year. West Midlands Police swooped at an address in the Sparkbrook area of the city on Tuesday morning (8/8) and arrested the man and seized a machete. Greggs. Police hunting a machete-wielding robber who only targets branches of GREGGS have arrested a 40-year-old man.  The...

Brewed: Bristol Strength: 4.5% ABV Combining traditional British brewing techniques with global trends and unconventional ingredients, Bath Ales-owned Beerd Brewery was born out of the eponymous Craft Beer & Pizza Bar in St. Michael’s Hill, Bristol. Since establishing, Beerd Brewery have crafted a constantly growing number of beers that showcase different brewing methods, from ‘extreme-hopped’ IPAs, to unfiltered Hefeweizens, through to their coconut porter or Bristol cream stout. Speaking about the Brewery, Beerd’s Head Brewer said: “To create exceptional beers...

Instagram used to mean selfies, photos of brunch and too many inspirational quotes to count. Its purpose has since shifted, however, and Instagram is now one of the most powerful marketing tools available to businesses of any size. With over 700 million active users, promoting your brand or business on Instagram is one of the most effective ways of reaching a massively diverse audience. If you'd like to know how to target a specific segment of this audience and how...

Sometimes when an organisation has been doing things a certain way for so long, it just comes to be called a system. Especially when it comes to a contact centre's workforce management. No matter how many post-it notes are involved, how often a shift supervisor knows something a team supervisor doesn’t, and how many things slip through the cracks, the system keeps on being the system because overhauling it somehow seems worse than writing down a schedule change on a...

A schoolboy who was murdered in a suspected revenge attack is the second London teen to be fatally stabbed in just 24 hours. The lad, 15, was stabbed near a row of shops at around 11pm on Tuesday night. Locals say crowds of youths are often seen loitering outside a Co-Op on Green Lane, Thornton Heath, south London where the teen was stabbed. Despite desperate efforts by paramedics the teenager was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before midnight. The...

Several employees at a DFS furniture store have been suspended after allegedly mocking a customer for his 'camp' appearance. Suleiman Al-Sadi, 32, claims members of staff whistled, cracked jokes and laughed at him as he shopped for furniture. Now DFS has launched a formal investigation and suspended 'several' employees over the incident, which left Suleiman in tears. "I have never been so humiliated in my life," he said. "I think my 'camp' appearance didn't go down well. "I was attacked...

Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP Tom of Finland beings in the Second World War, where Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang) is serving as an anti-aircraft officer and is exploring his sexuality. After the war ends Laaksonen returns to the house he shares with his sister Kaija (Jessica Grabowsky) and begins to draw erotic images. Due to laws that saw his pictures as pornographic and illegal it was hard for them to be sold but slowly they start to make their way across...

With so much terror and misery on our streets these past few months, we can be excused for wondering how any light or positivity can come out of these dark times. But every tragedy has a human story that sometimes profoundly touches people beyond the devastated families and friends of the souls who have been lost to us. Christine Archibald was one such soul. Having worked tirelessly as a support worker for the homeless in a homeless shelter in her...