There is something different about Friday in Britain. It is technically just another day of the week, but nobody really treats it that way. Monday has a reputation for being difficult, Tuesday is generally ignored, Wednesday is the awkward middle child, Thursday is spent looking forward to Friday, and then Friday finally arrives with its own set of rules. Some of those rules are obvious. Others are strange little habits […]

A businessman was beaten with hammers by masked men who broke into his home and threatened to kill his heavily pregnant wife unless he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds in cryptocurrency. The anonymous couple described the horrific attack in which they feared for their unborn baby's life. The gang fled with a getaway driver after the victim transferred his crypto savings. Police are investigating, with Crimestoppers offering a ten-thousand-pound […]

There was a time when getting into the car meant entering a small, mobile storage cupboard. Not because we were particularly organised, but because we seemed to believe that absolutely anything might come in useful one day. Modern cars are remarkably clever. They can tell you where you are, warn you about traffic, connect to your phone, play almost any song you can think of and, in some cases, practically […]