12 h. ago Dozens of families join plan for class action over UK police contact deaths

Lawsuit would be first of its kind against police officers, police chiefs and government departmentsMore than 100 relatives of people who have died after contact with the police in the UK since 1971 have joined plans for a class action lawsuit in pursuit of compensation and justice.The plan for group legal action was announced at the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, a two-day event in which bereaved families presented evidence to a panel of international experts on how their relatives died and the long-term impact this has had on them. Continue reading...

Events

26 h. ago £35 gardening box with 100 kinds of fruit, veg, and flower is 'great value'

£35 gardening box with 100 kinds of fruit, veg, and flower is 'great value'  My London

Economics

5 d. ago Quick pickled cabbage, apple chutney and banana ketchup: recipes from Cornersmith’s Alex Elliott

A champion of transforming food waste, the cookbook author shares ingenious ways to use leftover fruit and veg to create flavourful condiments(Pictured above) Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Boffins create 'super lettuce' which extends lifespan of fruit and veg by three months

The study's lead author said he hoped the new lettuces would be in supermarkets around Europe within the next four years, but feared there would be "no guarantees the project would still be running by then"

Politics

1 week ago 'My bench that doubles up as a storage box is the best thing I've bought for my garden'

The garden bench offers a great storage solution for those who don't have a garage or shed

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1 week ago Mum shares 'amazing' hack to get fruit and veg for half price every week

Codrina, a mum-of-two, shared her go-to tip on how she manages to get a weeks worth of fruit and vegetables for half price - and it's all to do with what day you buy them on

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1 week ago Best fireproof document boxes that will keep your valuables secure

Keep your documents safe against all eventualities

Events

2 w. ago Covent Garden and the Strand by Barry Turner:  Market famous for its fruit, veg ... and ladies of the night

Walk through the bizarre and murky history of one of London's most famous markets in Barry Turner's fabulous new book about Covent Garden

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2 w. ago Shoppers hail 'inexpensive' fruit and veg box delivery as they 'plan healthy meals better'

Subscription service Oddbox delivers 'wonky' yet delicious fruit and vegetables to your door with prices starting from £11.50

Society

4 w. ago Outside in: the extraordinary home inside a giant greenhouse in Norway

An architect has designed a sustainable home inside a glass box, where fruit and veg grow, and their family can thriveSituated on the family farmstead, surrounded by trees and pasture, stands the extraordinary glasshouse where architect Margit Klev and her young family have made their home. Here, Klev has created a house within a house, placing her bespoke building inside a vast glass barn, delivered as a kit from Denmark and erected on site in just two weeks. This glass shell not only protects the family home inside it, but also shelters an indoor garden and garden rooms, where Klev can nurture plants and trees that would never usually survive a Norwegian winter.“Inside the greenhouse I can grow grapes, apricots, nectarines and peaches,” says Klev, whose two greatest passions are architecture and gardening. “I can also grow a lot of herbs around the other plants: parsley, salvia, melissa herbs that don’t grow so well outside. And I can also use the greenhouse to grow small plants f...

Society

4 w. ago Thomasina Miers’ Sunday lunch of glazed ham hock with harissa lentils and praline sundae – recipes

You can prep the sugar- and mustard-crusted ham hock with braised spicy lentils and the obscenely delicious praline-speckled ice-cream sundae well in advance, leaving you free to go about your SundayOur neighbourhood farmers’ market comes every Sunday, and brings with it a stunning range of seasonal fruit and veg, affordable fish, good-quality meat with cheap cuts galore, plus cheeses, breads and much more. For me, going there and chatting to and supporting the stallholders and farmers (many of whom I have now known for years) feels a bit like going to church; there’s something soulful about it, wrapped in community spirit. But it can mess with my Sunday lunch timings, so here is a rich, comforting braise that you can start before you go out to do your favourite Sunday ritual. I hope you love it as much as we did and which should supply some delicious ham leftovers for sandwiches. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago ‘Nigel Farage feels real’: why young British men are drawn to Reform

Once, anti-establishment youth disillusioned with mainstream politics headed left. Now increasing numbers are tilting right. Why?Josh is 24 years old and works as a carer. It’s not easy work, but he prefers it to his old job in a supermarket: most of his clients are elderly and “just want someone there with them, because they’re lonely”. In his spare time Josh used to be into boxing. But lately he’s got into politics instead.Like many of his gen Z contemporaries, he’s thoroughly disillusioned with the mainstream kind. “The two parties that have been in power for 100-plus years have done nothing. The economy’s a mess,” he scoffs. But if he sounds like the kind of anti-establishment young person who once rallied to the radical left, Josh’s frustration has taken him in another direction. An ardent leaver in his teens, who backed Boris Johnson in 2019, he now belongs to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Continue reading...

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