Recently someone tried to set fire to two local places of worship – the mosque in Hardy Street and the Sikh Gurdwara in Lady Pit Lane. In both cases the doors suffered damage but thankfully the fires did not spread. I spoke to the Mosque and the Gurdwara to offer…

“Why are they still using plastic like this when it isn’t recycled?”  My wife Sally was standing in the kitchen waving a black plastic tray at me that moments earlier had been home to some prawns.  It wasn’t the first time I had been on the receiving end of this…

The Government is in a terrible mess over Brexit. There are bitter divisions in the Cabinet. Ministers can’t agree on what customs arrangements they want after we leave. There still isn’t an answer on how to keep an open trade border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. And two…

They are becoming a familiar sight in parts of our big cities. Cyclists and cars delivering hot food for firms like Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Hungry House and others. All of them make use of the latest technology to link customers to restaurants and takeaways, and riders and drivers to orders.…