Festivals follow many formats. The large outdoor type is arguably the most familiar, covering meadows, farms and abandoned complexes outside of the smog and strains of the city. There are the micro events that shrink into one building or room for a day or less, often referred to as one ...
By Benjamin Jenkins At the Labour Party Conference this week John McDonnell is keen to demonstrate Labour’s economic credibility and the alternatives the opposition would offer in power. The big headlines so far have been about his vow to renationalise rail, water, Royal Mail and energy industries with "market value ...
A story of resilience and hope…Liz’s story It was a vicious crime, attracting international condemnation and media outrage across the world. One night in 2013, a 16-year-old girl was gang raped as she returned home from her grandfather’s funeral in Western Kenya. After being brutally assaulted and beaten by six ...
This video captures the moment a sex offender is snared by paedophile hunters - outside the Houses of Parliament. Ashley Emery, 44, exchanged explicit messages with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl and then arranged to meet in the centre of London. The production manager and amateur football coach ...
This deadly array of knives and guns were handed into a single police force in just a four month period as part of their latest weapons amnesty. The chilling haul of 184 knives or sharp objects, two hand guns and two BB guns were found in 12 weapon surrender bins ...
Students were left fuming after an anti-abortion charity set up a booth at a university fresher's fair - with models of foetuses. Undergraduates complained to organisers about the tasteless demonstration by charity Life, and they were told to remove their foetal models because they were too “political and offensive”. Brunel ...
Cars of the future will be bubble-like pods which FLOAT thanks to magnetic levitation, if one award-winning designer has her way. ‘The Float’ concept, which is made using transparent glass, is based around the car becoming more of a social space. It is made up of pods which can be ...
Elizabeth Ainge has been an ambassador and local champion for I CAN for over 15 years and is an alumna of I CAN’s Dawn House School in Nottinghamshire. I CAN is the children's communication charity. She shares her inspiring story. When I was six months old we moved as a ...
This World Mental Health Day, Spurgeons Children’s Charity is calling on commissioners in England and Wales to look at alternative solutions to the adolescent mental health crisis in this budget-cut environment. Charity CEO Ross Hendry looks at a new family-based solution being piloted in Birmingham. The facts are harrowing. In ...