No matter how many times we cook them, there are certain disaster dishes that we just cannot get right. According to a new poll of 2,000 adults the average person will endure a cooking disaster at least three times a month – that’s 36 meals ruined across the course of one...
Landing a serious job in London is a cause for celebration for most twenty-somethings, but for Pizza Pilgrims founders James Elliot and brother Thom, it was a cause for great concern. In 2011, faced with the prospect of a 9-5 office desk existence and a life working for ‘the man’...
The health and wellness industry, dubbed the next trillion dollar industry globally, is having its day in the sun. Fitness, mind and body exercise, health eating, nutrition and weight loss are all massively lucrative industries, but few have burst into the limelight more than the superfood. Over the last few years, superfoods...
Early last month the Western world was up in arms after an unprecedented data leak revealed the myriad ways in which the rich are exploiting secretive offshore tax regimes. Billions of dollars sheltered in Panama and similar ‘havens’ resulted in uproar as evidence of crucial tax revenue routed offshore unravelled. But amidst...
An engineering student at Cambridge University has reinvented the traditional river punt by installing pedal power. The so-called 'puntcycle' was invented by 22 year-old Barnaby Walker who converted an unloved old punt into a sleek, two-wheeled speed machine capable of leaving all other river-users in his wake. He decided to breathe new...
The widespread scale of election fraud by the Conservatives has been unearthed after it was revealed 17 police constabularies are now probing Tory politicians. Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan and former MP Duncan Hames are the latest to be named after Wiltshire Police said they would be investigating their election expenses. They follow...
A £2 million tech hub has opened its doors in South London as part of the government’s significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration of Croydon. ‘TMRW’ opened today with financial backing from Croydon Council and the Greater London Authority. The new hub will provide state of the art facilities and a rich...
Ashford in Kent is on track to get a £4 million model railway centre which is expected to attract up to 500,000 visitors a year to South East England. The local council has agreed to provide a secured loan to purchase land for its new home which will allow Ashford International Model Railway...
A sustained period of low interest rates is fuelling widespread investment fraud, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), with over 55s most at risk. With interest rates set to remain at 0.5 per cent well into 2020, savers are adopting riskier investment behaviour to get more bang for their buck. Four in ten...