A student who is paid to party on yachts all summer by a British clothing giant says her job is "hard work". Ella Crockett, who’s in her third year at Newcastle University, got a job as an ambassador for fashion brand Jack Wills. She was shipped out to Nantucket Island on the east coast of the USA and told to promote the label. beach days with just a few union jacks ??☀️ A photo posted by Ella Crockett (@ellacrockett) on Jul 28,...

Peckham commuters were treated to a celebrity train conductor when Star Wars actor John Boyega took over the train tannoy. The 24-year-old actor told stories and attempted to make the train “go at lightspeed” when joined his sister Blessing from the control room of the Southeastern service to Orpington on Friday. Unsuspecting passengers sitting onboard the train listened to around 15 “informative announcements” including a joke about how John’s uncle pronounces ‘Penge’. The international star’s video soon went viral on social...

With the 19th annual National Curry Week taking place this week (10th-16th October), we’ve compiled a selection of curry recipes from a number of chefs and London restaurants. In addition to the many events taking place across the country, these home kitchen-friendly dishes are the ideal way to celebrate National Curry Week at home. Prawn Malai Curry from Shrimoyee Chakraborty, Founder of Calcutta Street Ingredients Makes one portion King prawns, 200g Onion, 1, blended Garlic, 1 large clove, coarsely chopped...

Worrying television footage of Trump discussing politics has emerged overnight in the latest setback to his controversial Presidential campaign. In the footage Trump can be heard at one point attempting to address political ideas and policies, in a recording likely to upset most people in the world. Linguistic experts have examined the poor quality footage in which Trump can be heard mumbling incoherently and flitting between subjects, and worked tirelessly overnight to piece together fragments of his sentences into one...

The powerful documentary Still Loved is set to be shown in London at the end of the month to coincide with Baby Loss Awareness Month which runs throughout October. The film has been released in an effort to break the stigma that surrounds the death of a baby, which remains hidden from society and shamefully un-discussed. Each year in the UK over 5,000 parents leave hospital without their baby. One in four pregnancies end in a loss. Still Loved overcomes this silence by showing parents’ stories...

By RB Work in an office? Here’s a handy list of the top five people you’re bound to run into. The suck up Adept at instantaneously assessing whether or not your approval is valuable to their career progression, the suck up knows exactly who they, well, need to suck up to. With a nose browner than an SAS camouflage task force, they follow management around like a disabled Labrador desperately searching for its owner. Beware. They’re as slippery as a...

A nan who has lived in a council house all her life, has given her favourite grandson £700k so he can buy a swanky warehouse apartment in Hackney Wick, East London. Gran, Deidre told her grandson Nathaniel, 25, that she had been saving up her £42 a week pension for 320 years so she could buy him the property. She hasn’t eaten, drank water or turned on her heating on her entire life, so she could afford to buy him...

More worrying news has emerged in post-Brexit Britain, with a 147 per cent rise in homophobic attacks in the UK in the three months since the UK voted to leave the EU. There have already been reports of a rise in racist attacks, but the rise in attacks on the LGBT community is an unexpected development. Many people will believe that the EU vote has unleashed a dark side of some people in the UK, and a rejection of liberal...

The six advertising billboards in Piccadilly Circus are set to be replaced with one £30 million giant screen after Land Securities won planning consent to build one huge state-of-the-art interactive screen. Piccadilly Circus is one of the world's most exclusive advertising hoardings, with each of the six screens worth more than £4 million a year. But they could soon be a thing of the past, with planning permission to replace them with one giant ad given the green light. Some of the world's...