By Stephen Mayne @finalreel Massimo is a man who should have it all. He lives in a world of elegant apartments and swanky parties before heading out to fashion shows, football games, and war zones, the varied diet that comes with his journalism job. Yet for a man living such an interesting life, he’s not actually lived a single minute of it. Sweet Dreams is a surface deep attempt to show how childhood trauma can destabilise everything that follows. Marco...

A traditional ballroom and music hall with an 80-year history fears it will have to close its doors - after the world famous The Ritz Hotel has demanded it changes its name. The Ritz in the unassuming town in Brighouse, near Halifax, West Yorks., is a far cry from the refined elegance of its five-star namesake in London. While the London venue attracts wealthy aristocrats, the Brighouse version is a hub for Northern Soul and rock and roll fans as...

As the conflict in Yemen approaches its third year with no end in sight, wide spread devastation has forced millions from their home, and the worsening nutrition situation is threatening more lives than ever before. Mothers and young children are amongst those most heavily affected. Doaa Kutbi, International Medical Corps’ Health Programme Officer based in Aden, knows the struggle better than anybody. She has recently returned to work mere two months after her youngest son was born. Life has changed...

A farmer has been offered £2,400 for his cow by a cult after it was born with five legs and seven feet. Abhinav Abrol, 24, has been inundated with visitors hoping to see the two-day-old calf which is apparently fit and healthy - despite the extra limb. Worshipers think the cow - a sacred animal in the Hindu religion - is a "lucky charm" and one "cult" has offered him 200,000 rupees for the animal, local sources said. But Mr...

Death metal band, Burning The Dream, have made some t-shirts, that some will find offensive and others might feel are bang on the money. The t-shirt features the slogan “F*** the poor, f*** the disabled, f*** refugees, f*** gays” with Prime Minister Theresa May’s signature at the bottom. And the controversial garment also has “Burn 10 Downing Street” emblazoned on the back, which they say is not an incitement to actually commit arson, but a political statement. Frontman Paul Kelly,...

By Nigel Watson An essay by Sir Winston Churchill considering the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe has recently been rediscovered at the Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri. In the 11-page essay titled ‘Are We Alone in the Universe?’, written in 1939, he muses: ‘I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilisation here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains...

A worrying story has emerged and one which everyone would do well to take notice of. A man who stubbed his toe in 2009 was told seven years later he had terminal skin cancer, due to the knock. Roland Monger, 36, was walking to work in the snow in 2009 when he slipped and broke his ankle leaving his foot in a plaster cast with his toe exposed. He then stubbed his protruding toe on a step and, despite the...

Britain's first vegan visitor centre has been launched in Norfolk to showcase a vision of a Britain where we all live more sustainable lives. The Green Britain Centre in Swaffham has opened following the appointment of a new head chef and the launch of a new menu. The Centre features a 100m windmill, which was the first in the world open to the public to climb, a solar panel which tracks the sun, an organic garden, a variety of hands-on...

This is the moment a screwdriver-wielding thug tried to rob a newsagents, but was thwarted by its elderly owners. The CCTV footage shows the man bursting into Pitville Convenience Store in Cheltenham, Glos, and demanding that shop owner Dolly Karim, 75, hand over the till. Incredibly, the brave gran-of-eight refuses, instead picking up a wooden stick stashed behind the counter and whacking him with it. The yob, in his 30s, makes a dash for the with the till in his...