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...

Hundreds of nearly naked protesters filled the sky with "blood" to highlight the torture of bulls in Pamplona. Ahead of the Running of the Bulls at the San Fermín festival, nearly 100 PETA and Anima Naturalis supporters gathered in the centre of Pamplona today wearing little more than fake bull horns and black underwear with the words "Stop Bullfights" painted on their bodies. The chanting protesters simultaneously broke "banderillas" containing red powdered paint above their heads, covering themselves and filling...

Specialists working at Grenfell Tower have made 87 'recoveries' of human remains in the tower - but warn that could mean more than 87 separate people. More than 250 investigators are still working at the scene, and will have to comb through over 300 tonnes of debris in the burnt-out shell of the tower to find what is left of the victims. Police say 21 people have been formally identified, but it could take until the end of the year...

A new survey into the festival preferences of the nation has revealed that nearly seven out of ten people prefer smaller music festivals to larger ones. The rise of the boutique festival is attributed to people’s desire to relax, with nearly three quarters saying that smaller festivals are more enjoyable because they are less stressful than their larger counterparts. Amongst the most popular are Beat-Herder Festival based in Lancashire, Kendal Calling in The Lake District and Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival...

A year ago the world — and especially Europe — was reeling from the unforeseen results of the Brexit referendum: the then prime minister, David Cameron, was one of the first victims with his resignation coming on the morning of the referendum results. Sterling was another one. In the wake of the unexpected results, the pound had fallen to a 31-year low (before rallying slightly) and seemed to herald in the financial apocalypse of which the Remainers had warned. The...

Britain has become so strangled by government-driven cuts that it can't even fund jobs in Jobcentres. According to the Department for Work and Pensions 750 people are to be put out of work as Jobcentres across UK close in a big shake-up. A total of 68 smaller jobcentres will be merged with larger ones, and 40 others will be moved within local government buildings under efficiency savings. Four will be closed entirely. That means that The Jobcentre staff who help people look for...

Bronte is the second venture from father-son duo Trevor and Adam Davies and judging by the success of their first project (Circus in Covent Garden), it has a lot to live up to. The brainchild of ‘cook to the stars’ Executive Chef Andrew Lassetter and Head Chef Guy Betteridge (previously of Gordon Ramsay Group), Bronte's menu promises a ‘sumptuous selection of Asian and modern British dishes’. Quite the compilation. But first, it’s worth pausing for the décor. Designed by Tom...