The plastic bag conundrum
With effect from Monday 5th October Supermarkets and large stores are required to charge 5p per carrier bag by law in order to help the environment The government has imposed a new law which requires ...
LIFESTYLE
The Great British Bake Off
Five years ago The Great British Bake Off launched on BBC2 to doubtful reviews, but it’s been back for a sixth series and is watched by viewers in almost 200 countries. When it first arrived with its ...
Bright Stars by Sophie Duffy
Cameron Sparks is a quiet shy boy from Edinburgh, the first of his family to go to University. At Lancaster he makes some unlikely friends in Tommo, Bex and Christie and while he falls in love with B ...
Fassbender, Cotillard and atmospheric filmmaking – but not much Shakespeare.
Joyce Glasser reviews MACBETH (Cert 15) 110 mins. Justin Kurzel’s 2011 debut feature, Snowtown, about the predatory psychopathic Australian serial killer John Bunting, is a masterwork of visceral, vio ...