By Linda Marric @linda_marric In Graduation (Bacalauriat), Romanian director Cristian Mungiu is back with a powerfully complex drama about compromise, parental responsibility and the lingering remnants of the old Ceausescu regime. Mungiu, who won the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 2007 for the critically acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), deals with themes of modernity and corruption in a country that has yet to learn to be part of a modern European society, resorting instead to old...

The yet-to-be-named baby was born with three legs attached to her groin area. Srilatha Kanchanapally (25) had delivered the baby on March 21st at government Jangaon district hospital, around 87km from Hyderabad. Two days later, the baby was shifted to Niloufer hospital for an operation to remove the extra limb. Dr K Srinivas, who helped with the complex delivery, said: “The extra limb was protruding from the child's pelvis area can be surgically removed. Other than the extra limb, the...

Knucks has shared his brand new track 'The Jump'. The song, which harks which samples the token sounds of the 70s, is his first song of 2017 following the release of 'Turnover' at the end of 2016. Listen below. Knucks is a musician born and raised in South Kilburn. The North West Londoner has been involved in music for nearly 10 years, dating back to his days at school when he first ever heard Grime. Around this time he earned the...

By Tom Moore Telecoms watchdog Ofcom have been unable to get through to BT to notify them of their financial penalty as it can’t remember its landline number and was left on hold for 8 hours. Ofcom have been attempting to contact BT since Friday to let them know it is liable to pay a £42m fine and £300m in compensation for delayed high speed cable installations. However, several attempts on Friday to contact BT proved unsuccessful after Ofcom were...

A multi-million pound programme designed to open up a wealth of employment opportunities for young disabled Londoners has been announced today. The City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, City Bridge Trust, pledged its commitment to narrowing the employment gap for young disabled people in the capital with a new £3.3million fund for organisations tackling the issue. Over the next three years, the Bridge to Work Programme will provide money for projects which offer employability support for young disabled people, and...

Oh man, I'm getting old. I used to be young and cool! I promise! I used to go to drama school and make art house movies that even I didn't actually understand! I used to go to bars in abandoned sheds and talk about incomprehensible theatre with my ironically mustachioed friends! I'd scream "obviously it's a metaphor for…" over the loud, ear bleedingly bad music so many times I'd be speaking like Clint Eastwood for a week. That was then....

Much as the eyes are the window into the soul, shop windows are the eyes to the shop. A store’s window design is the first thing that consumers see, and therefore use to construe their first impression of the store. But there’s far more to the art of window design than pushing the best products to the very front, supermarket sandwich-style. Window displays are changing in the digital age, adapting to a world where social media is as important as...

There’s no doubting the massive growth of online craft sites like Etsy and Threadless. Developed in 2005 as an online marketplace for co-founder Rob Kalin’s unique wood-encased computers, Etsy is the leading community forum for artisan crafters, and registered thousands of sellers within months. It now rivals the likes of eBay and Amazon marketplaces as the platform for artisanal producers, having given plenty of small businesses their start. The custom t-shirt company Threadless prints and sells over a million t-shirts...

Britain's smallest detached house is set to welcome guests after plans were submitted to turn it into - a tiny hotel. Thimble Hall measure just 11ft 10in (3.6m) by 10ft 3in (3.1m) meaning people can touch either side of the rooms by stretching out their arms. The 12ft 2in (3.7m) tall building in Youlgreave, dates back to 1756 and was even home to a family of eight over a century ago. It was named the smallest detached property in Britain...