Workers in the UK working via employment agencies are not getting a fair deal, says the Resolution Foundation. The problem is growing as the number of agency staff has increased rapidly in recent years. The Think-Tank found that agency workers are disproportionately drawn from ethnic minorities and are concentrated in low-paid ...
More good news for cyclists in the capital as the Mayor of London has announced a plan to invest £770m on cycling initiatives across London. The funding will be spread over five years, seeing £154m per annum to fund infrastructure and promote cycling. Khan wants to make cycling in the ...
A disillusioned fox hunt organiser says he has seen "no evidence of hounds killing a fox", despite pictures and videos been released showing a savage attack at a hunt on Saturday. Animal rights activists recorded a fox being illegally hunted and killed by members of the Old Surrey Burstow & West ...
We have all suffered Basil Fawlty bouts of rage in our life, but the good news is that we no longer have to resort to beating our car with a branch in order to vent our frustration. A former fork-lift truck driver has opened the UK's first 'Rage Cage', offering punters the ...
By Wyndham Hacket Pain There was potential for a film about a current athlete who has only recently witnessed major success to feel like an EPSN special, looking behind the scenes of their success. No Easy Mile is more subtle than this and contains much more cinematic skill than the ...
By James McAllistair @jamesmca90 Back in the early 90s, The New Yorker printed a single-panel pasquinade drawn by Peter Steiner, which featured a computer-savvy canine sat a desk, chatting to another who listened from the floor below; “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” read the accompanying caption. Wryly indicative ...
If there was ever a vegetable that has suffered at the hands of an overwhelming lack of versatility the humble sprout would be it. Not only is the sprout usually just lobbed onto a plate simply steamed or boiled it is also often confined to just one meal a week or, ...
A government memo about not leaking the original don't leak memo has been leaked. Two consecutive memos were issued to Whitehall staff. The first warned of the consequences of leaking government memos and the second was sent immediately after warning staff not to leak the don't leak memo. It is ...
The world's first hydrogen-powered double-decker bus will be trialled in London next year as part of a scheme to phase out 'dirty' diesel buses. London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced on Wednesday that no more 'dirty' pure diesel buses would be added to Transport for London's (TfL) fleet from 2018. Every ...