Demands for MPs to pass bill protecting women against sexual and domestic violence
By Jacqui Hunt, Europe Office Director at Equality Now On average two women a week in England and Wales die at the hand of their current or former male partner, and around 85,000 women are raped every year, according to Home Office and Office of National Statistics data. This Friday, the UK government has the opportunity to lead the way on protecting women and girls’ against violence - both in the UK and on the global stage – by voting to...
The Best Restaurants for Pancake Day in London
Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Day) has become an extraordinarily big deal in recent years. So it’s hardly surprising that so many restaurants are getting involved, creating appropriate specials to add to their menus for the evening. Other restaurants, however, have been serving incredibly good crêpes for years and have, coincidentally, become pancake day destination restaurants. If you don’t fancy whisking furiously or tossing sheets of fried batter at home on Tuesday (28th February 2017), we’ve compiled a selection of the...
Ten-a-day findings show a disconnect between what we are eating and what we are producing
The new ten-a-day findings show a disconnect between what we are told the public should be eating and the food we are producing, according to Tom Kuehnel, Campaigns Officer at The Vegan Society. A new study has shown that 400g of fruit and vegetables a day might not be enough to offer the maximum protection against heart disease, cancer and early death. Scientists discovered that eating 800g of fruit and vegetables daily - double the government's recommendations - may have large health...
Who would win in a second referendum?
Trust UKIP to get us out of the EU, Labour wants to keep you in, a poster reads on the streets of Stoke on Trent in preparation for today's crucial by-election. Despite UKIP been entangled in a Paul Nuttall fiasco and Labour imposing a three-line whip on their MPs to vote in favour of the Brexit bill it's clear the issue at the heart of the Brexit capital remains Europe and Britain's exit thereof. If buyers regret seems prevalent in...
Southern Fury: Film Review
By Stephen Mayne @finalreel It’s easy to get carried away thinking of films as art, but sometimes it’s just a job. Southern Fury highlights this point, rounding up Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and Adrien Grenier, all of whom can surely only be in this dire thriller for the paycheck. Lacking just about all the ingredients required to make something watchable; Steven C. Miller’s film has to fall back on Cage in a ridiculous wig and fake nose to find any...
A Bob’s Burgers Album is Coming
On May 12th, Sub Pop will release The Bob’s Burgers Music Album: an expansive collection of 107 songs from the first 107 episodes of 20th Century Fox Television’s Emmy-award winning hit comedy. The album features music performed by the main cast members – Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) and their children Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Louise (Kristen Schaal) – singing original songs that build on the show’s unique sense of humor. The album also...
Watch – Monty Python superfan proposes to girlfriend in front of two cast members!
Python fanatic John Wood has finally found love with fellow fan Gemma Harris who loves the whacky comedy as much as he does. John had been single for five years before Gemma's uncle spotted an article about the Python dating Facebook group in a national paper by chance and showed it to her. The 33-year-old, who lived in Netheravon, near Salisbury, then joined and the pair started their new romance just two-and-a-half years ago. The 57-year-old is the first to...
WATCH – Monster Ian Stewart found guilty of murdering author Helen Bailey
Ian Stewart was found guilty of murdering his wife Helen Bailey and hiding her body in a cesspit under their garage, scroll down doe a short documentary video about the case. The "wicked" fiance of children's author Helen Bailey, who murdered her and dumped her body in a cesspit, has been jailed for 34 years. Stewart gave his partner sleeping pills for months, before killing her on 11 April last year in a plot to take her money. Evil Stewart had...
PICS – Princess Eugenie’s godmother allegedly attacked an anti-hunt campaigner with a WHIP
Shocking images have emerged appearing to show Lulu Hutley, 56, joint master of the Surrey Union Hunt, lashing out at the male activist with a riding crop. Saboteurs took the images during a meet in Bramley, Surrey last weekend, in what has been violent hunting season, with many flare ups between anti-hunting protestors and those involved in hunting. Tempers, again, flared when members of Guildford Hunt Saboteurs followed the riding party onto private land because they “suspected they were illegally...