“Sometimes it’s more important to smile than shout” says woman who faced down EDL
The young woman who has become a world-wide sensation for standing up for a muslim woman who was getting abused by EDL demonstrators, has said she is has no regrets about what she has done, and the media attention it has brought. Saffiyah Kahn came face-to-face with around one hundred far-right protesters after seeing Saira Zafar being targeted by the EDL thugs, as she was wearing a headscarf. Ms Khan showed no fear and even managed to smirk at the...
These are the five stages of being a homeowner
The five stages of being a homeowner have been uncovered in a new property study by Origin, and they're ridiculously accurate. According to new research the average UK homeowner moves out of their parent's at 21, lives in seven houses and spends £26,295 on redecorating over their lifetime, and the typical mortgage will take 20 years and nine months to pay off – costing a total of £134,864.82 in the process. Homeowners will end up living approximately 66 miles away...
Eastenders Bad Boy Martin Kemp Makes Little Girl’s Movie Dreams Come True
"I couldn’t believe it when they arranged for me to meet Martin Kemp. He’s awesome on TV and I’m still so excited I got the opportunity to work with him on my movie." Schoolgirl and budding movie-maker Beth Ward is making her cinema debut – after holiday chiefs brought in Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp to transform her family holiday video into a professional short film. Beth, 10, sent her video to travel company First Choice with a letter which said "I...
The Handmaiden: Film Review
By James McAllister If Stoker served to showcase how devilish director Park Chan-wook could be, his new film, The Handmaiden, proves he’s equally as devious. It’s a heated, and handsomely mounted period potboiler that has been adapted by the Korean wunderkind with a gleeful sense of stylised excess, from British author Sarah Waters’ 2002 novel Fingersmith. Transplanting the story from Victorian England to 1930s Korea, when the country was still under Japanese rule, Chan-wook – working with his regular co-writer...
Frivolous spends leave Brits £400 out of pocket
Frivolous spends are leaving Brits out of pocket to the tune of £400 a year, new research has found. Three quarters of Brits are frittering cash on purchases they don’t need on a daily basis, from takeaway coffees to nail varnishes. These unnecessary spends cost around £32.66 a month, leaving people almost £400 out of pocket every year, money which they could be saving instead of wasting. Almost half of adults admit their extravagant spending means they often buy things...
Scotland is first UK country to offer drug which helps prevent HIV
Scotland has become the first of the home nations to offer a drug which drastically cuts the chances of being infected with HIV. It will be offered by NHS Scotland. The drug, Prep, has just been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium, which will roundly offer the drug to patients who are eligible. At present time the drug is given to those who have HIV in Scotland, but after today's decision it will be used to prevent infection. It is...
Are esoteric wines the new craft beer?
You don’t have to be an expert in fine wine investment to know that when demand grows, so does price. The cost of fine wine from regions like Bordeaux and Chablis have been driven through the roof, making it unaffordable for anyone but the super rich. But change has quietly been brewing in the world of wine, and notions towards fine wine may be set to change; much like everyone who became fed up of having to swallow cheap, tasteless...
Kidnapper mum drugged sons and made false abuse claims against estranged husband
Runaway mum Samantha Baldwin DRUGGED her sons with sedatives and falsely claimed her husband sexually abused them, a court heard today. Baldwin, 40, forced her sons Dylan Madge, six, and Louis Madge, nine, to ingest sedative Zolpidem as well as benzodiazepines, which are taken to tackle anxiety. Baldwin was found with her sons at a holiday complex 15 miles from her home in Newark, last Thursday following a ten-day Europe-wide police hunt. At a hearing at Nottingham Family Court today...
How To Make… ‘Prawn Toast Revisited’
Opened earlier this year at POP Brixton, duck duck goose is a Cantonese canteen inspired by chef and owner Oli Brown’s travels to Hong Kong. Having already become renowned for their ‘Prawn Toast Revisited’ – this week’s recipe will make it impossible to look at the classic appetiser in the same way, ever again. “I’ve shamelessly stolen this dish from Ho Lee Fook in Hong Kong; they’ve done it so well, although I've adapted it slightly. I’m not the biggest...