Colin Barrett, a regular in the New Yorker, a prize-winning author of Young Skins, in 2013, introduces chronicler of small-town County Mayo, in rural west Ireland with a serious prose style, brings eight stories, and takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits, and…
India achieved the feat after defeating West Indies by 8 runs in the second T20I of the three-match series at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Full-time Indian captain Rohit Sharma is yet to lose a single game. Pakistan is the only other team to have won more than 100 T20I, by winning 118 T20Is.
Storm Eunice with gusts of 122 miles, one of the worst to hit the UK in three decades is sweeping across the British Isles. Airline pilots are having to use their skill to land planes safely at Heathrow airport, as over 436 flights have been either delayed or cancelled and an Air Portugal jet was…
Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu has been killed in a car crash with a truck while travelling on the Kundi- Manesar-Palwal Expressway that bypasses Delhi. The actor was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. A video from the scene showed a Mahindra Scorpio which Sidhu was driving smashed into the rear…
Petropolis, located in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was hit by landslides and flash flooding which killed more than 100 people. Houses on the hillside neighbourhoods were destroyed as cars were swept away by racing floodwaters through the city’s streets. Brazil’s National Civil Defence said that 24 people had been…
Talented Artist Alfie Rouy who can also be quite surrealist– subconscious dreams is an inspitration. Studied at Camberwell College of Art for three years, despite lockdown af3ected him but graduated last year. He did not work in studios in Peckham. Influenced by alchemy and spiritual and historical contexts .. Studio West Till Feb 17, Portobello.…
A Heineken Gastro Pub at 222, Brox Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, reopened in December 2021, after a year of lockdown due to pandemic, is offering the above to encourage would-be Valentines to eat out on the auspicious Valentines’ Day. Looking to impress this Valentine’s Day, with love is in the air. Find a bargain of life-time…
BBC at 100, grew bigger, with the expansion of the boundaries of good taste and sound judgement, pandering to the masses, sometimes out of touch. In 2022, when the BBC celebrates its centenary, its future lies in doubt. Media historian, David Hendy’s tale of creative endeavour and technological innovation, beset by a constant tension…
YOU PUT ME IN HEAVEN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN A twist of smoke A tasteful joke A well-versed smile Designed to beguile Shiny leather shoes That take away the blues An artful nose Like one you chose Full head of hair Bit of chest laid bare Eyes full of passion Clothes all in…
A search for a new Met chief after Dame Cressida Dick resigns after a recent report by Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the police watchdog into racist and sexist officers in London, discovering “disgraceful” misogyny, discrimination, bullying, and sexual harassment within the ranks of Met Police. In the past, the career of Cressida…