By Nilesh Patel Amid Brexit negotiations with the European Union, West Midland's universities have called on Government to “protect rights of EU students and staff”. European Council President Donald Tusk ordered the UK to provide a “serious response” on what will happen to EU citizens in post-Brexit Britain. The rights of EU citizens to live, learn and work in the UK is one of the key issues they want dealt with in the first phase of Brexit talks. “We need guarantees”...

Reporters hit out at Theresa May during her visit to Cornwall today after local journalists were reportedly "shut in a room" and banned from filming her. The Prime Minister is touring the South West but local media was stopped from recording her while she visited an industrial estate. Reporters from the website Cornwall Live, which also has three weekly newspapers, were among those subjected to the ban. And the website's editor Jacqui Merrington revealed that reporters were only allowed to...

There is a huge difference between the job you do to pay your bills and the one that makes you feel complete and content. The moment you start feeling unhappy about your job and work, understand that it is the right time to switch over to a new one. It is crucial that you should enjoy the work you do because if you enjoy your work, it will no more be a burden for you. You will be excited to...

The world of CFDs can be intimidating if you are a newcomer to them. Even once you’ve wrapped your head around the way they work, there’s still a lot to get to grips with them. Let’s say you’ve got some money set aside, and have found a reputable broker, what then? Stick To What You Know! The first thing to work out when considering what CFD is best for you is to consider your own background – what industries and...

This is the dramatic moment a surfer was rescued after more than 30 hours clinging to his surfboard - 13 miles out to sea. Lucky Matthew Bryce, 22, was found after a major search and rescue operation was launched when he was reported missing on Sunday morning. He was eventually spotted by a helicopter around 7.30pm on Monday evening - 13 miles off the west coast of Scotland. His body temperature was low but rescuers say he survived thanks to...

A hospice is giving terminally ill patients the chance to experience the world through virtual reality - just like an episode of hit TV series Black Mirror. Dying patients can enter a virtual world where they can walk on a beach or through woods by wearing a set of high-tech goggles. The exciting opportunity is being offered to terminally ill patients who may be prevented from travelling due to their illness and want to be able to see places they...

There could not be a better time to write a play about revolutionary commitment and individual freedom. Journalist Paul Mason’s piece about working class female communards exiled to New Caledonia on the back of a colonial project for their part in the 1871 Parisian uprising asks hard questions about what happens to personal freedom and culpability when revolutions are defeated. Mason has drawn on three sources for this almost biographical work focused on anarchist, feminist, teacher, ethnographer and revolutionary Louise...

By Jay Williams  Arriving early, I mooched around outside new Farringdon rib joint Hammer & Tongs just long enough to hear a member of staff outside muttering darkly into his mobile “we’ve got a reviewer coming in again tonight”.  Kind of how you might expect one of the three little pigs to say “we’ve got a wolf popping round again this evening”.  But after returning to our table later, a quick Google revealed the restaurant had recently been rinsed by...

On May 20th and 21st the British Library will be transformed as the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival animates its iconic spaces for the first time in celebration of this cultural partnership. The British Library will present a sumptuous showcase of South Asia's literary heritage, oral and performing arts, music, cinema and illusion, books and ideas, dialogue and debate, Bollywood and politics in the context of this broader view of India and its relationship to the United Kingdon.2017 marks the fourth...