The problem with being unemployed is that you spend half the time concerned about what will happen if you don’t get a job, and the rest of the time worried about what will happen if you do. That’s because, although we appreciate the niceties associated with permanent employment —like a house, a sense of purpose, and a Netflix subscription—we know deep down that stifling offices, polluted commutes and overbearing bosses will eventually kill us. To optimists, becoming a freelancer seems...

Tye Trujillo has been recruited by nu-metallers Korn to cover for Fieldy, their regular bassist, on their latest tour. Tye, who is just 12 years old, is currently the bassist for a band called The Helmets, but is best known for being the son of Metallica's crab-walking four-stringer Rob Trujillo, who replaced Jason Newstead in 2003. Check out a statement from Korn below: You can buy tickets for Korn's April tour here, and check out Tye on TV with The Helmets below.  

A paedophile who groomed a 14-year-old on Facebook before luring her to his house and having sex with her has been jailed for two years and eight months. Robert Oliver, 23, told the teen he was a teenager on social media before encouraging her to send him explicit photos of herself. The pervert then sent his victim photos of his privates before pressing her into meeting him for unprotected sex at his home. When the schoolgirl’s friend told a teacher...

A Spanish woman who fell to her death at a notorious suicide spot feared she was going to be kicked out of Britain because of BREXIT, an inquest heard. Miriam Macarron’Arroyo, 42, was found in the Avon Gorge on January 10, four days after she was reported missing. The care worker’s housemate Claire Tidman told an inquest that she feared she would be forced to leave her home in Easton, Bristol and sent back to Spain. She said Miriam, who...

The Labour party has been struggling with internal conflict and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has constantly come under attack, leaving little time to launch any policy initiatives. Now the Labour party has pledged to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour if they win the next election. The policy would leave full-time employees on basic earnings better off by more than £2,500 while 21 to 24-year-olds on lower wage rates would be in line for a £4,500 hike. The polls...

By Joey Tyson The smell of a volcano is impossible to forget. Something between rotten eggs and a dodgy car exhaust, the stench of sulphur gags, clogging your throat for a second until the breeze blows over you. In short, it stinks. “Don’t spend too long down wind of the smoke,” our guide Jose sagely advises. Stepping out of the smog to catch my breath, I take in the view for the first time. From that height, everything looks blueish....

A police officer has been dismissed - after punching a man in the face on a train. Former inspector Chris Davidson of the Thames Valley force assaulted the man on a journey to High Wycombe, Bucks. He initially said he went over to the man to 'calm the situation' and his approach caused the man to swing and punch him on his right eye. But a misconduct hearing panel concluded that Mr Davidson from High Wycombe hit the man first...

A shop owner has blasted local 'yummy mummies' after they complained about a Mother's Day card in the window bearing the word vagina. Kirsty Mizon-Taylor displayed a sign and card which read 'Mum, sorry I ruined your vagina' in the window of her posh boutique Taylor Jayne during the run-up to Mothering Sunday. But angry local mums in Reigate, Surrey, confronted the shop owner, with one even writing a letter of complaint to a business guild. Kirsty, 38, said: "In...

Southern rail have consistently failed to run its trains on time, making commuters lives a misery while increasing the price of tickets. On top of that there has been a series of strikes. There have even been reports of people moving house to be nearer a better train operator, to ensure they can get to work on time. So the news that the boss of Southern rail, Charles Horton, increased to almost half a million pounds a year, as the...