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A little boy has had his dreams of becoming an actor dashed despite landing a coveted part in a massive TV ad campaign - because his school refused to let him have the day off for filming. Ethan Solomon-Roberts wants to become a big Hollywood star and was over the moon to have beaten thousands of other children to land a part in a new advert for Sainsbury's 'Back to School' campaign. But the six-year-old is now devastated after his...

Last week I had a conversation with a friend about on-screen chat. He had sent over a thousand emails that month, beating a previous record of 962, which begged the question of whether he was hiding behind his screen when it comes to client liaison or whether that had simply become the new normal. It's not just email, I proffered up. Think about how many text messages, WhatsApp messages, instant messages and Facebook messages you send a month and you...

Public services provide for the welfare and wellbeing of the UK’s residents. Police and court services, medical care and the NHS, housing provision and local government administration are all vital resources, but some UK residents are being excluded from this support because of the language they speak. While there is a national requirement for public sector workers in the UK to possess English (or Welsh) language fluency, there is no explicit stipend to cater to foreign language speakers. Provision is...

The rise of London’s acid attacks prove we need to change legislation NOW. It is the job of our elected officials to assess current situations and provide appropriate responses, that is not being done in London. With the rise of acid attacks it’s time for Sadiq Khan to prove he can handle running a dynamic and ever-changing city like the capital. On Easter Monday this week 20 people were injured when a corrosive liquid was sprayed over clubbers at Mangle...

Feeling grumpy this morning? You may actually have got out of the wrong side of the bed, a new study has found. A poll of 2,000 adults found those who get out on the right side of the bed are more likely to wake up feeling tired and grumpy than those who get out of bed on the left. People who get out of bed to the right also take longer to shift their bad mood and are more likely...

Gender relations in the early 21st century are, to put it mildly, a tricky business, fraught with the possibility to offend or be offended, to patronise or be patronised. I thought, given the title of this column, I might take a few words to consider the position of the gentleman in modern society: what, who, how? I cannot promise to offer definitive answers, but I will offer some observations. A gentleman should, of course, be polite, courteous and considerate. That...

A short journey through the long history of VIP escort services Whatever your moral stance, prostitution is undeniably one of the oldest businesses in the world. Actually, the exchange of sensual pleasures for goods is as old as the concept of religions. Or – to give it an even wider frame – as old as the existence of human cultures. According to a very interesting article about the history of prostitution the Sumerians in Mesopotamia created the concept of prostitution....

The perfect Sunday consists of waking up at 8:30am to the smell of breakfast cooking, a cuddle and three hours of television, new research has revealed. A quarter of Brits dream about an ideal weekend morning which starts with a Full English breakfast in bed. And a third always like to start their Sunday morning with a cup of tea or coffee, before pottering around the house for a leisurely hour. A further 23 per cent then like a morning...

By Esther Cato  You’ve 84 messages in your inbox, your boss is calling you into the office because of something you’ve forgotten to sign off on Friday, your colleague Hayley is an incessant talker, who can’t stop bleating on about her new Boston Terrier Max which she rescued from Battersea at the weekend, (as happy as you are for her) it’s making you irritable as you just need a moments peace to focus on your ever evolving to do list!...