Thousands of businesses across the UK are set to be hit with changes to their business rates, with the majority of increases affecting companies based in the capital. Business rates are calculated in part based on the rental value of properties, and since the last revaluation in 2010 the value ...
By Steve Banks The Daily Mail is underplaying the support it gave to Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the early 1930s. In a recent smear on his son Max Mosley, one of paper’s heavy-hitters Richard Pendlebury wrote: "For a brief period some of the ...
With plenty of Halloween celebrations taking place across the weekend, this week’s themed cocktail recipe is from Harry’s Bar in Edinburgh. Having teamed up with R&B Distillers, the bar has crafted a cocktail inspired by the colony of rare Brown Long Eared Bats living on the Isle of Raasay, the ...
Boris Johnson has today revealed that Britain will continue to supply arms to Saudi Arabia, using the rationale that if we don't supply them then other countries will. Indeed, other countries would "happily supply arms" to a country that is allegedly involved in war crimes in the Middle East, according to the Foreign Secretary, ...
Alison Rooks leads Macmillan Cancer Support’s Energy Advice Team, who offer help to people with cancer with energy worries. Whenever I tell people I work for a cancer charity, they immediately assume I’m a nurse. Everyone knows the terrific work nurses do, yet less well known is the fact that ...
It is a universal truth that a one-hit wonder will afflict all of us at some point in our lives. 'Mambo No. 5'. 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. 'Cotton Eye Joe'. These are the thumb screws, the cerebral bores, the sodden towels draped over our faces in the oily basement torture chamber ...
With Halloween around the corner a new HMV study has been released ranking the scariest horror scenes of all time. The spine-chilling head spin scene from The Exorcist was revealed to be the most frightening moment in the history of horror closely followed by the shower scene in Psycho. Carrie, ...
A Viking themed winter rooftop has opened above the Queen of Hoxton complete with a long boat, feasting hall inside a WigWam, fire pits, driftwood sculptures and a plenty of drinking horns. The bar offers the opportunity to escape modern life and join her band of noble savages celebrating a victorious battle. Raise ...
Shocking news has emerged via a study that has found the shocking situation NHS workers have found themselves in. The study, by Unison, discovered that nurses are using food banks and applying for pay day loans just to get through the month, until the next pay day. The trade union ...