How do you move a crowd and uphold a legacy at the same time? One Nigerian Afrobeat artist is doing both – carrying forward the activist spirit that shaped his family’s work. Ọmọ́rìnmádé Kútì, also known as Mádé, comes from one of the most influential musical lineages in Nigeria. His grandfather, Fela Kútì, pioneered Afrobeat […]

A former soldier who mowed down an amputee father with his own Mercedes during a theft has been jailed for 13 years.  Marc Allen, 51, who had a prosthetic leg, disturbed Errol Woodger, 38, as he broke into his ground floor flat in Erith, southeast London, in the early hours of 29 December 2019. The […]

By ROBERT FOLKER Published: 09:40 EDT, 24 July 2025 | Updated: 14:15 EDT, 24 July 2025 A couple have won a bitter row with their neighbours over a hedge they claimed were making their lives a misery. Keith Smith, 71, and his wife Julie, 68, were left frustrated by a row of cypress trees belonging […]

Jay Slater’s final words have been revealed as his friend told an inquest he called her from the ‘middle of the mountains’ before his phone ran out of battery.  The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, had been to the NRG music festival with friends at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas when he […]

For those of you who don’t know, Jeremy Corbyn is the former UK Labour leader who was expelled from the party due to his rabid antisemitism.  He led the party from 2015-2020, helping keep the rather unpopular Conservatives in power by repelling ordinary people. Still, his ability to lead the party for nearly five […]