Risk-averse Brits are increasingly playing if safe, with nine out of ten admitting to living within their comfort zones. According to new research seven in ten say they typically try to avoid change or trying new things, preferring the tried and tested. Reasons for people staying put include worrying about what will happen after trying something different, with one in five admitting they’re not very adventurous. How depressing. Nearly a third of Brits will avoid changing their hairstyle to stay within...

Whatever your stance on cannabis may be you can't fault the ingenuity of our nation's illicit growers. This year alone factories have been uncovered in a mock Tudor home, an iconic chapel, an empty shopping unit just yards from a police station and even in a mansion a stone's throw away from the Queen herself. Plenty of cases to show, if we needed evidence, that the industry is alive and well in Britain. Across the pond the legalised industry is reporting its financial...

By Linda Marric The main issue with Pete Travis' new film City Of Tiny Lights isn’t its lack of an interesting story to tell. With a great premise and a fantastic cast, this could have easily become one of this year’s greatest British success stories. However, the film is largely let down by a huge dose of schmaltz coupled with a jarringly meandering screenplay which ultimately leaves you wondering what went wrong. Riz Ahmed, is Tommy Akhtar, a private detective...

By Linda Marric In Going In Style, director Zach Braff opts of a rather generic style of filmmaking to bring us a less than exciting heist movie featuring three of Hollywood’s most respected veteran actors. This remake of a Martin Brest’s 1979 movie of the same premise and name, sadly falls short of convincing on all accounts, and in absence of an interesting story to tell, resorts instead to cheap laughs to make up for its shortcomings Joe (Michael Cain),...

Cash Advance Loans: Helping Your Business Survive Tough Times “What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.” – Margaret Heffernan Theresa May, the British Prime Minister triggered Article 50 yesterday (29 March 2017). Therefore, the UK has formally given notice to the European Union that she is leaving the EU and has started the two-year countdown period that the UK and the EU have to...

Cash Advance Loans: Helping Your Business Survive Tough Times “What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.” – Margaret Heffernan Theresa May, the British Prime Minister triggered Article 50 on 29 March 2017. Therefore, the UK has formally given notice to the European Union that she is leaving the EU and has started the two-year countdown period that the UK and the EU have to...

Even the absolute best food isn’t necessarily memorable, all of the time. Yet food that does standout as being memorable, is not always remembered for the right reasons. A combination of the two, however, is an extraordinarily rare occurrence. From hundreds of dishes sampled over the past two years, less than half of my top ten most memorable dishes have been particularly desirable. Most, in fact, have been so deplorable, so utterly grotesque they’re borderline offensive. At the top of...

By Prof Mary Mellor This AA four star, 1 Rosette hotel and spa is in a dramatic setting on the side of Lake Windermere a few miles from Bowness. It has spectacular, panoramic views of the lake. It was a pity that on the night of the visit it was pouring with rain as it was not possible to fully explore the extensive gardens, but you have to expect a bit of precipitation in the Lakes! The gardens include a...

Hands up if you've ever felt sad? Or fat? Yeah, I thought so. Oh Le Gateau Chocolat, we meet at last. Back in the annals of time when I used to work in PR, I was on the press team for a little show called Blanc de Blanc by Strut and Fret - the same Strut and Fret who worked with Le Gateau Chocolat at the Sydney Opera House - and I've been waiting to see him since then. It...