Railway passengers are to join train stations protest with union leaders and politicians to demand Government keeps Northern Rail under public control Northern Rail franchise officially taken away from Arriva Rail North this Sunday RMT said an upcoming review could move Northern back into the private sector Officials will join politicians, passengers and campaigners at stations … Read more
MEMOIR ROOTBOUND: REWILDING A LIFE by Alice Vincent (Canongate, £14.99, 368pp) How do you mend a broken heart? The dumped often find solace in getting drunk, gorging on ice cream or stalking their ex on Facebook. For journalist Alice Vincent, salvation came in the form of a tiny balcony. When this memoir begins, she is … Read more
Flesh And Blood Monday-Thursday, ITV Rating: Murder 24/7 Monday-Wednesday, BBC2 Rating: The latest domestic thriller is Flesh And Blood, and already it’s getting mixed up in my head with Liar, Cheat, Trust Me, Trauma, Gold Digger, etc. Their formats are so similar – whom should we trust? – that I’m beginning to wonder if they … Read more
Jessie and Lennie Ware’s Table Manners: A real family feast By Jessie And Lennie Ware Published: 00:03 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 1 March 2020 Fancy joining Jessie and Lennie at the dinner table? You can with this exclusive extract from their new book, which is full of funny stories and nostalgic … Read more
As Boris Johnson once said: ‘There is something uniquely traumatic about being forced from your home by floods.’ These words were uttered by the Prime Minister last November – apparently with heartfelt sympathy – following a visit to Fishlake in South Yorkshire, then reeling from devastating flooding. Fast-forward to February and this devastation is starting … Read more
The bushfire season may be coming to an end, but is it safe to go to Australia? The short answer is: yes. Only three per cent of the country’s land mass has been affected by the deadly bushfires that began in earnest in November, and most tourist destinations are ‘not impacted’, according to Tourism Australia. … Read more
Readers with a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy might remember the famous travel guide came with DON’T PANIC helpfully printed on its cover. With financial markets across the world seeing dramatic falls as a result of coronavirus, investors would do well to adopt the same motto. In the early days of the … Read more
YouTube is experimenting with letting creators sell ads directly to brands instead of using the platform as a medium YouTube is considering freeing up creators to sell ads direct to partners The move would mark a shift in how YouTube has historically operated Ads are typically chosen by YouTube and played over videos By James … Read more
Karl Stefanovic is bracing for embarrassment after his ex-wife, Cassandra Thorburn, signed a deal with Channel Seven to host a podcast series about divorce and separation. While the podcast is not about Stefanovic and Thorburn’s split specifically, it’s believed she will allude to their 2016 break-up during the series titled Divorce Story. The journalist, 48, … Read more
More than 76,000 migrants left Turkey and headed towards Greece as police erected barbed wire barricades at border crossings and launched tear gas at crowds. Turkey’s Interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, made the claim this morning after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ‘opened the doors’ on Friday. Migrants, including an Afghan mother with a five-day-old baby, … Read more