Ad-blocking company Adblock Plus is set to launch their own adds in a move that has been described as "cynical". The software, which is used on more than 100 million devices, will look to capitalise on a new market they have created by launching an "Acceptable Ads Platform" which will bypass the controls. Ad-blocking software is said to be putting severe pressure on the digital publishing industry, with new figures showing more than one in five British adults are now using ad-blockers. The...

There's no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as free beer from this Friday in London. Czech lager Kozel is giving away two free pints from 16th-23rd September through it's Pint Finder app. All you have to do is download the app and receive one of their beer vouchers for two free drinks. With the sun set to continue well into the weekend, cool down with a nice refreshing pint at one of the participating venues below. It...

There's a lot of reasons why Yorkshire can claim to be God’s Own County, but its famous puddings have to top the list. From the tea to its real ale, cheese and glorious countryside, that county up t'north certainly has its perks. In fact, so good is it that there is even a genuine campaign to make it an independent state! But before that happens and we start paying export duty on Aunt Bessie's puds and tea bags, we thought we would join in...

A young girl who lives in Germany has proposed to design a headscarf emoji. The girl, Rayouf Alhumedhi, is originally from Saudi and has submitted her idea to The Unicode Consortium. This company is a non-profit organisation that develops and reviews new emoji ideas. If her idea is given the green light it will be available digitally during 2017. Currently across Europe, especially in France, there is a lot of discussion whether Islamic headwear should be banned. In France a...

A new report has emerged that has laid the blame for the destruction of Libya squarely at the door of David Cameron and his government. The UK parliamentary report was highly critical of France and Britain in 2011, when they collaborated to bring down Muammar Gaddafi, then the Libyan leader. The ex-PM, who stood down after failing to convince voters to Remain in the EU, had been accused of not having a proper strategy to during the air campaign against...

The modern world can be a very busy place and with mobile phones, trains and emergency services that busy place can also become rather noisy. A new study that looked in to the nation’s most annoying noises found that loud eaters, screaming kids – and the “Go Compare” song are all high on the nations list. Coming first on the list was snoring, with six in ten British adults wishing they could do away with the intrusive nightly sound effects...

A recent article by a dairy chief executive describes an industry in crisis, stating that demand for milk products are falling. It blames health professionals for warning the younger generations away from dairy, and speaks of a new ‘three-a-day’ dairy campaign to be launched soon. This initiative will promote daily portions of milk, butter and cheese. But hang on a minute: why are we being told yet again to ignore the experts? At the risk of stating the obvious, surely...

It is a story that will melt your hearts, like the sun melts his ice-pops, after over £150,000 was raised on-line for an old Chicago ice-pop vendor, who had been snapped pushing his cart in some difficulty. Fidencio Sanchez, 89, from Chicago, had to come out of retirement after his daughter passed away and needed money to care for her children, after he was given custody of them A total stranger opened a GoFundMe page after seeing the distress Sanchez...

The author Lionel Shriver gave a speech at the Brisbane Writers' Festival recently outlining how the culture of hypersensitivity was a threat to fiction writing. How, she asked, could authors create fictional worlds and characters if every word they wrote was policed and every plot scrutinised for bias and – God forbid – cultural appropriation? Shriver outlined a no-win scenario for authors: depict people from outside your social group and you're accused of stealing their experiences, have no minorities in...