Author: Liam Porter

It’s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandstone mills, Grimsby without its fishing docks, or parts of Liverpool without their streets of terrace houses. Yet all these things could have victims of the wrecking ball, if it weren’t for one small band of plucky activists. You may not have heard of Save Britain’s Heritage, or Save as it likes to style itself. But the tiny charity, which celebrates…

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You’re going to want to sit down with a big glass of water for this one, because I’m afraid I have some bad news. Here we go: alcohol is not terribly good for you. Shocker, right? You’ve probably never heard anything like this before in your life. No doubt, you’ve been choking down a glass of pinot with dinner whenever you can stomach it because you thought it was good for your cholesterol. Instead, it is elevating your risk of cancer.If public health experts have their way, the fact that alcohol is carcinogenic is going to be very hard for…

Social media influencer and boxer Jake Paul returns to the ring Saturday as a massive favorite against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.In his first fight since winning by unanimous decision over Mike Tyson in November, Paul is -800 for his matchup against the former WBC middleweight titleholder. Chavez had three title defenses between 2011 and 2012 and last fought just under a year ago, taking a unanimous decision over former UFC fighter Uriah Hall, a bout coincidentally on the Paul-Mike Perry undercard.This bout has all the feels of a Jake Paul domination, but the money-line price is too steep to play…

US supreme court allows Trump officials to deport migrants to countries other than their ownThe US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to conflict-ridden places such as South Sudan.In a brief, unsigned order, the court’s conservative supermajority paused the ruling by a Boston-based federal judge who said immigrants deserved a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would face the risk of torture, persecution or even death if removed to certain countries that have agreed to take people deported from the US.As a result…

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic television adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch to read the source material. But happily for Holmes, the British detective has a following the world over.In fact, stories about the ingenious sleuth and his brilliant nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, so appealed to mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern that they played a role in the creation of game theory in the early 20th century. This mathematical discipline explores the strategies for…

Henry Zeffman & Iain Watson & Chris MasonBBC NewsPA MediaAll of a sudden, this is a grave crisis for Sir Keir Starmer, perhaps the gravest of his year in Downing Street so far.Politically, it looks very hard for the government to proceed with its flagship welfare policies.Economically, it is very hard to see how the government cannot proceed.Labour whips, we are told, have been jumping up and down for weeks trying to warn their colleagues in 10 and 11 Downing Street that the rebellion over the welfare reforms (or, depending on which wing of the Labour Party you are speaking…

As the temperature climbed towards 30C the peril of turning off a system that could leave people with their heating stuck on full must have looked like an avoidable disaster.On Thursday ministers confirmed the “widespread switch-off” of the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS), which controls an old type of electricity meter, “will not happen” on 30 June.Instead the technology will be phased out more slowly. The first stage will involve a maximum of 600 households over a three-week period, and during this time the response times of suppliers to vulnerable consumers will be monitored closely.But campaign groups say they are waiting…

Prime Day deals are already surfacing on Amazon ahead of the July 8-11 shopping event, and unsurprisingly, a discount on Audible is among them. We’ve seen similar offers pop up in the past, but considering Audible is one of the top audiobook streaming services out there, it’s worth highlighting again. New Audible subscribers can get three months of access to the Premium Plus plan for $3. That’s a total of $42 off for the whole three-month period.This is one of the best streaming deals around right now. The offer runs through July 31, which is actually a few weeks after…

Charlie JonesBBC News, EssexBBCEllie Goldstein plays Nancy, a history enthusiast and lacrosse goalie, in the new series of Malory Towers on CBBCA woman who made history as the first model with Down’s syndrome to feature on the front cover of Vogue said she was honoured to be making her acting debut.Ellie Goldstein, from Essex, plays Nancy in the new series of Malory Towers on CBBC.Doctors said the 23-year old would never be able to walk or talk when she was born.”I am so honoured to have been a part of this fantastic series. I’m beyond excited to see my episodes…