A recent report from the Trade Union Congress showed that unsecured borrowing increased sharply over 2016 to that point that, by the end of the year, each household owed an average of £12,887 - the highest amount on record. The Bank of England separately issued their own statistics, according to which the average amount of unsecured debt per household comes in rather lower, at £7,089 - but this is due to them not counting student loan debts towards the total....

With the release of their first album in five years, 'VOIDS', coming up on 3rd March, Minus The Bear have announced a string of EU/UK dates for June 2017.  The dates will feature support from Joan of Arc along with an appearance with American Football at So36 in Berlin. The new dates will follow on from a 29-date spring tour across North America, culminating in a hometown Seattle show on April 15th. They will play the following dates:Thu 01 Jun -...

German tabloid BILD’s Leipzig sent its thanks to Britain after news broke that BMW may move production of a new electric Mini to Germany. The paper ran with the headline "thank you Brexit" on Tuesday as BMW refused to deny claims it was considering a move as uncertainty mounts for British manufacturers who export to Europe. A so-called ‘hard Brexit’ could see additional tariffs levied on goods made in the UK but sold in the EU. Last year, 38 percent of the...

This take on Arthur Schnitzler’s sexual debacle La Ronde is a welcome venture into the sex, love and death lives of the older generation by Visible, but ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts. The seven vignettes, where each character’s story is pushed forward into the next scene for their story to conclude, confront some traumatic home truths. However, director Anna Ledwich takes Sonja Linden’s interconnected stories and embeds them within a circus locale. A Ring Mistress comperes...

London has topped a table of 52 European cities for the number of people exposed to possible ground instability, according to a new study. The research, from an earth scientist at the University of Portsmouth, is the first to examine the distribution of geological hazards -- from volcanoes and landslides, to subsidence and mining -- across a number of Europe's largest cities. For many Europeans, including authorities with environmental responsibility, this might be the first time that they’ve heard of the possible hazards...

For a country of 1.2 billion people stretching across a landmass of almost two million square miles, India's transport system is, to put it politely, antiquated. Take a trip on the Shatabdi Express from Bangalore to Chennai and you'll be chugging along for five hours on a good day, and if you want to arrive at the same destination from Mumbai you'll be sat on a train for just under a day! But that could all be changing. Under new Hyperlink...

Money is a funny thing in education. Much like the emergency services, the big money rarely reaches the most useful areas. The government has now had the wizard idea of making raising standards even harder by slashing school budgets; since the largest chunk of any school’s budget is staffing, this means it’ll be the staffers who feel the pinch – by which, of course, we don’t mean senior management, as they look after themselves very nicely, thank-you. Some support staff...

The family of an elderly dementia sufferer who died covered in twenty cuts and bruises today called for an inquiry – claiming carers failed to record the injuries. Blind Pamela Matthews, 85, was left with deep gashes, carpet burns and extensive bruising after a month-long stay at £825-a-week Woodbine Manor. Her family began noticing small marks on her arms and buttocks a week after she moved there and say staff started dressing her in long-sleeved clothes. Daughter Celia Matthews, 63,...

Our new favourite Twitter account is President Supervillain! https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/834470392890785792 Comic writer and editor D.M. Higgins has used President Trump's own words to great comic effect by sticking them in the speech bubbles of classic sinister comic supervillians. https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/833365274078363649 And within just a fortnight the Twitter account has amassed a cosmic 29.7K followers! https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/832311031124856832 It's pretty sinister how easily The Donald's words transfer into comic book villains' mouths - whether demented rants at press conferences and rallies: https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/832333550716387328 or malevolent policy threats that have slipped...