A petition calling for an end to the practice of rewarding GPs with cash incentives to cut the number of patients they refer to hospital has reached 140,000 signatures. With the NHS cash-strapped and struggling to provide beds this winter, bosses are looking for any opportunity to save money. That means...
Donald Trump is overwhelmingly backed to be re-elected in 2020 after he announced he would run again. Even with a multitude of candidates offered by bookies, the 71-year-old is trumping the market with a total of 58 per cent of all bets on him to be re-elected in the last...
The Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins and Jurassic Park are among the book-to-movie adaptations Brits prefer in film-form, a study has found. A poll of 2,000 adults found that after reading the book and seeing the story unfold on the big screen, many were won over by the movie version...
Dog owners trek more than 1,000 miles, play 2,080 rounds of fetch – and call their pet’s name 3,120 times while walking them each year, a study has found. Exercising their dog will also result in owners having 1,040 conversations with other animal lovers a year with the average pooch...
A new site has been launched that offers discounts on big ticket products by pooling consumer demand for them. The site, which claims to be the first "social marketplace", connects users and merchants, allowing them to bulk buy products and drive down the prices. Items such as cameras, hoovers and VR...
If London boroughs carried slogans in the same way US states do then "style over substance" would surely be the motto emblazoned across Mayfair's chic streets. You would see it scrawled on the bumper plates of the Lamborghinis that rev at full throttle between traffic lights on the congested streets,...
The 2017 General Election showed a tabloid press that is "run by tax-dodging press barons" do not decide elections, Momentum national co-ordinator Laura Parker has said today. Jeremy Corbyn has endured a number of high profile attacks from the right wing press of late, but rather than putting voters off the Labour...
Realising most other employees are younger than you, being able to poke fun at your boss and having your own mug are all signs you’ve become ‘part of the furniture’ at work. A study of 2,000 office workers has revealed the top 40 indicators that you’ve been in your job...
A familiar wave of populist nationalism is set to take hold in Italy next week when the country goes to the polls. The Five Star Movement, which has been kept at bay until now by a centrist “grand coalition”, is expected to emerge from the election on March 4th as the largest...