There was a time when the electricity going off was not an unusual event. It might happen during a storm, after some problem with the local supply or simply for reasons that nobody in the house completely understood. One minute you would be watching television, making a cup of tea or doing something perfectly ordinary, and the next the entire house would suddenly go quiet. For Gen X, a power […]

Thousands of illegal vehicle registration plates have been detected by a new camera system being trialled on motorways across south-east England, according to a BBC Panorama investigation. The adapted plates prevent vehicles from being identified by automatic number plate recognition systems used for speed enforcement, low emission zones, and criminal tracking. A former government advisor warned the plates pose a serious risk to public safety, while affected families described the […]

There are meals, and then there is the Sunday roast. For generations of British families, Sunday lunch has been less about simply putting food on a plate and more about following a ritual that has somehow survived changing fashions, busier lives and the arrival of countless new cuisines. You can change the television, the car, the furniture and even the way you communicate with your family, but there is something […]