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Remembering: When ITV Digital Collapsed

On 27th March 2002 ITV Digital went bust. Despite the best efforts of Johnny Vegas and his monkey the first ever TV service to air on a digital terrestrial television network went under, with the owners blaming the cost of football league rights as one of the principal reasons for ...

Parliamentary Sketch

PMQs 7th December – Universally Challenged

The PM was in Bahrain to “turbo-charge” the UK’s trade in the Gulf, I guess that is code for “sell more heavy weaponry to the Saudi Government to shoot civilians.” To be fair she can drop off a bit of hardware for the Bahrainis while she is there, rude not ...

LIVE: A Giant Dog – The Waiting Room, London

5th Dec 2016 The Waiting Room, London Feral, sweaty, and with the faint tang of ammonia, A Giant Dog’s unabashed rock makes their contemporaries look positively repressed. Leave your kids in the car for this one. Scuzzy, joyous and propelled by sex and groove in equal measure, their set tonight ...

How Monk Turned Around Leeds

Sport News 24/7 We’re through the first week of December and Leeds United still have the same manager at the helm as they did in August – that tells you all you need to know about how well Leeds are faring under Garry Monk. The form of the side at ...

Southern Rail want to let you know they’re sorry

Southern Rail has said sorry more than any other train company this year, according to a website that tracks apologies to customers - by apologising 111 times every DAY. The beleaguered train company has said sorry to customers almost 38,000 times this year so far. Southern has apologised 37,830 times ...

The London Economic

Agency workers in UK are exploited and underpaid, says report

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 ...

Sadiq Khan pledges £770m for cycling schemes

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 ...

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