Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

On Creative Writing is a monthly podcast show exploring all things creative writing, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, scripts, and essays. Host Sheelagh Caygill interviews authors and w...

As the shot from Taty Castellanos rolled past José Sá and crawled towards the Wolves goal, West Ham’s bid for survival picked up pace. They looked doomed three months ago, but not any more. Nuno Espírito Santo’s side somehow found the motivation to go again after dropping seven points off 17th place in early January and if this escape act does end successfully they will certainly look back to the impact made by their winter reinforcements. While Axel Disasi has brought order to a chaotic defence Castellanos and Pablo Felipe are starting to resemble a modern day John Hartson and Paul Kitson. An old-school kind of front two, they have altered the nature of West Ham’s attack with their running and link-up play. Pablo, only 22, is a workhorse and Castellanos, who looks quite the find from Lazio, got the two goals his running deserved in this crucial 4-0 win over Wolves. Continue reading...

The Oxford English Dictionary has decided to update its definition of the word ‘ultimatum’ after Donald Trump skewered its original meaning.

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

Toby Morton now owns trumpkennedycenter.org, which advertises new year performance by the ‘Epstein dancers’ Donald Trump may be remaking the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into a pool of his self-reflection, but a writer for South Park, the TV series that better reflects the obsessions and tendencies of the administration than any political pundit, has purchased the rights to trumpkennedycenter.org. Toby Morton, a TV writer and producer who has worked on the long-running and joyfully offensive sitcom, said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists. Continue reading...

On my last day at East 15 Acting School, wherein I'd held the post of 'Academic and Operations Administrator' for five and a half years, I shouted out, "I was just a bloody admin, lads!" to a class fu...

Time and again it is women who are left behind by a healthcare system that fails to spot the telltale signs of ADHD, says Kat Brown. If specialist NHS services across England are excluding patients by...

Women need exclamation marks for good reason!! Plus, Andrew is losing everything he holds dear, including his house full of memories