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 […]

The five men arrested near RAF Fairford on Sunday are all UK nationals from London aged between 23 and 25, counter-terrorism police have confirmed. Investigators secured a custody extension until later today after detaining the group on suspicion of Explosives Act offences and preparing a terrorist act. Overnight searches have produced multiple new lines of enquiry into the incident near the military base. A ten-year-old child and two women have […]

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 […]