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People often ask me for recommendations on where to get the best steak, and I’ll often reply with just three words: “your nearest butcher’s”. Because, let’s be honest, steak is generally best when it’s cooked (properly) at home. A completely subjective experience, everybody likes their steak to be cooked differently – even interpretations of ‘blue’, ‘rare’, ‘medium-rare’, ‘medium’ and ‘well-done’ can differ between restaurants. At home, though, you’re in complete control of the cooking – which isn’t too difficult, following...

Millions of Brits have been involved in "phone-ccidents" - an embarrassing or painful mishap while using their phone. A fifth of adults have walked into someone while trying to multitask on their mobile while another one in five have tripped over. An unlucky one in eight have even ended up hurt or injured, with almost a third claiming to have narrowly avoided disaster while distracted by their devices. Twenty seven of the 2,000 mobile users polled even admitted their phone...

Until recently, Leicester Square’s only redeeming assets were the Heliot at The Hippodrome Casino’s reasonably-priced steaks, or Burger King’s magical soft drinks dispenser – spilling various drinks we know and love but in outlandish, unfamiliar flavours. The rest of the square remained a toxic wasteland of woefully bad restaurants, the dreaded M&M shop and what’s perhaps London’s most overpriced cinema. On the edge of the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire Hotel, Leicester Square Kitchen is the third restaurant from the group...

By Michael McNulty Albert Brooks’ third feature, Lost In America, released in 1985 and co-written with long-time collaborator, Monica Johnson, is an offbeat comedy about Yuppie America, the people who inhabit it and dropping out. Yuppie couple David (Albert Brooks) and Linda Howard (Julie Hagerty) live the complete yuppie lifestyle. Packed away into a glorious suburban castle in California, the only worries the two seem to have are whether they should have bought a house with a tennis court (you...

An American mass shooting expert says hotels are a soft touch for attacks like Vegas due to their lack of security. Professor Adam Winkler of UCLA is a gun law expert and has been cited in landmark Supreme Court cases, including opinions on the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. And he added that with 320 million guns in the US, such massacres are impossible to stop. At least 50 people have been killed and more than 400 were...

The father of a cocktail waitress caught up in the Las Vegas massacre has told of the "bone-chilling" call he received from her as bullets rained down on her and her friends. Lexi Cheplak, 25, frantically dialled her dad Jon Cheplak at 10.17pm local time while in the audience of the bloodbath country music concert. The Las Vegas local, who attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival with a group of girlfriends, told horrified Jon: “Everyone is dying around me.” She...

A gunman firing down at an outdoor country music festival from an upper floor of a nearby Las Vegas hotel has left over 50 dead and 200 injured according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). He has been named Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old local man. The mounting casualties from last night make the tragedy the deadliest peacetime mass shooting in United States history. Last year 29-year-old Omar Mateen murdered 49 people and injured 53 injured in Orlando, Florida, storming into...

The start of a holiday all too often involves the stressful experience of navigating your way round colossal airport terminals and splashing out on pricey parking spots. Contrary to popular belief, this doesn't have to be the case. The benefits of flying from local airports outside London are twofold, here's a few of them... ​They're easier to navigate Quieter airports tend to mean smaller queues in security and at the various facilities, for example Southend Airport has been voted the best airport...

Golf has beaten off competition from cricket, snooker and BRIDGE to be crowned the world's most BORING game. The snoozeworthy sport was invented in Scotland in 1497 and has been putting spectators to sleep ever since. However, it hasn't stopped it becoming one of the world's most popular games, with the US Open offering a prize of over $2 million to the winner. And there are 118 countries in the International Golf Federation, making it one of the most globally...