This is the horror moment doctors examined a patient with a headache - and were confronted by an enormous SPIDER which crawled out her ear. Lekshmi L, 49, woke up from an afternoon nap on her veranda with a "slight discomfort" and tingling sensation in her right ear. Suspecting an obstruction, she tried to dig around in her ear with her finger and asked her daughter to look inside using a torch. But when she developed an excruciating pain in...

By Michael McNulty Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 horror thriller Les Diaboliques was based on the novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, (more commonly recognized by their nom de plume Boileau-Narcejac) Celle qui n’etait pas. One of two of their novels that was snapped up and turned into a film, the other, D’entre les morts, was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock and became the basis for one of his masterpieces, Vertigo. Much of Les Diaboliques’ power comes from the film’s twists and...

  My Cousin Rachel is in cinemas from Friday 9th June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx0lY2HOWMA&feature=youtu.be   Review by Linda Marric Daphne du Maurier's timeless classic My Cousin Rachel gets a timely adaptation in this dark and beautifully atmospheric production from legendary British director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, The Buddha of Suburbia). First adapted to the screen in the 1950s and staring Olivia de Havilland in the central role, My Cousin Rachel remains to this day one of the writer’s most cherished novels, so...

Jeremy Corbyn has increased Labour's share of the vote more than any other leader in any other election since Attlee in 1945. The Labour leaders managed to increase Labour's vote share by 9.6 per cent, which is just shy of Clement Attlee's 10.4 per cent swing in 1945. Since then only Tony Blair (8.8 per cent) has come close to achieving such a significant change with his landslide election win in 1997. In the year's that preceded Corbyn Labour managed...

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was "a blunder of historic proportions", Exeter University's Head of History has said. With one result still to declare the 2017 General Election has resulted in a hung parliament with the Conservatives falling well short of the 326 seats needed to win. May will now look to form a government with Northern Ireland's DUP, which is a disastrous outcome given that the initial remit was to significantly increase David Cameron's majority. Professor...

Of all the pictures to emerge from last night's election coverage perhaps the most poignant was one of Theresa May stood next to a black knight as she awaited her constituency results in Maidenhead. For fans of Monty Python she had become the embodiment of the knight who stands legless and armless and insists it "tis but a scratch". The election which was meant to return a comfortable majority for her had failed to return a majority at all, with...

Like most things in life, the simplest restaurant dishes are generally the endearingly memorable. So it's hardly surprising that the ingenuous bone marrow salad at St John in Clerkenwell has been on the menu, unchanged, for the past 23 years. In turn, when presenting paying customers with something so simple, it's crucial that each element (no matter how trivial) is as near perfect as possible. Most of London's absolute worst dishes, in fact, are over complicated marriages of ingredients that...

Early reports have suggested that the number of 18-24 year-olds voting in the General Election has jumped from 43 per cent in 2015 to 72 per cent in this year's snap election. A surge in registrations to vote was noted in the run-up to the election but it was unclear how many would turn out on the day. As it was there was a phenomenal turnaround on 2015's number, with an estimated 72 per cent of young people casting their vote...

Working out which vaccinations you need to get, for which parts of the world can be an absolute minefield. The World Health Organisation’s guidelines are complex and confusing. Even if you’ve successfully discovered that, a trip to, Burkina Faso for example, requires you to get vaccinated for malaria, you then have to work out which strain of malaria is prevalent in which regions of Burkina Faso, and then cross-reference that with the region of the country you will be visiting....