Set up in 2007, Bavarian craft beer brand And Union is the product of a father, a son and his business partner, with a focus on rationality and simplicity – the basic principles of modernism – at the helm. Working with brew-masters from four small, family-run Bavarian regional breweries, all of And Union’s craft beers are brewed in a traditional manner, using just barley, yeast, hops, and water. And as a result, the brewing process for the unfiltered and unpasteurised...

  Baffled residents were left outraged after a parking warden left his car carelessly across half a bay - and say he should have given himself a ticket. A picture snapped by local Steven Way shows the enforcement officer's shoddy parking outside the white lines, although not obstructing other cars. The grey 17-plate Ford Fiesta, driven by a Shepway District Council warden, was spotted in Hythe, Kent, on Monday morning. Steven, a chartered building surveyor, stressed that the officer "shouldn't...

A sea monster that roamed the oceans during the age of the dinosaurs kept its 23 foot neck straight as a rod as it hunted like crocodiles or snakes, a study shows. The plesiosaur was a swimming reptile that thrived for 140 million years despite having a neck that measured up to seven metres - three times longer than a giraffe's. It has remained an evolutionary marvel for hundreds of years - until British scientists shed fresh light on the...

  These pictures show a special extra-terrestrial on set during filming of the latest series of Doc Martin - Alien star Sigourney Weaver. The A-list Hollywood actress was captured looking very much the tourist in a yellow coat, sun-hat and a camera wrapped around her neck. The popular TV show starring Martin Clunes is currently filming its eight series at Port Isaac, the picturesque Cornish fishing village which doubles as fictional Portwenn. The usual cast members were joined on Tuesday...

  Museum staff were baffled after discovering an Egyptian mummy's HAND during a clear out. The mummified limb belonging to an ancient woman was found in a plastic box. Bones were visible near the wrist and the skin was blackened and flaking with age, although the discoloured fingernails were still intact. But it was not an official part of a huge collection of 100,000 historical objects and how it got there and when has baffled curators. The bizarre find was...

  A new colony of Asian Hornets has been found in the Channel Islands - fuelling fears for the UK's native bee population. The invasive insect has reappeared on Jersey less than a year after they were first spotted on nearby Alderney. A colony - believed to have contained 6,000 insects - was discovered last week in a shed in Fliquet on Jersey and quickly exterminated by beekeepers. But experts now face a race against time to control the spreading...

  A Premier League football club blighted by turf-eating parasites has resorted to spraying ultra-strong GARLIC on the pitch. Crystal Palace groundsman Bruce Elliott has been spraying the pitch with garlic liquid that's 100 times more pungent than normal garlic. It smells so strong groundsmen are forced to wear Breaking Bad-style chemical suits while they treat the turf. The south London club's ground, Selhurst Park, has been blighted by parasitic worms which live around the grass roots. Elliott, Palace's head...

By Anna Power An intergenerational female friendship flick with some nice ideas at its core but like so many others panders to schmaltz in its execution, though not unenjoyably so. Octogenarian Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine) lives a loveless life. Her days roll on relentlessly; her pristine home a prison of sorts and you get a disturbing sense of the vacuum around her routine of lonely meals and frustrated gazing out the window over lengthy lawns at life. Filling the void...

  Campaigners protesting against a planned incinerator have staged a rally at council offices - NAKED. Residents staged a nude protest outside Shire Hall in Gloucester in an attempt to reverse a decision on the controversial plan. The small group brandished placards outside the building on Tues in the latest episode in the long-running battle with the county council over the construction. As well as putting post it notes on the windows of the building, two protesters bared all for...