Luton aim to ‘bring a little chaos’ to Premier League’s established order
Every now and then the sound of drivers beeping their way along the A1081, the dual carriageway that overlooks Lutons training base, can be heard as preparations for the Premier League ramp up on the… [read more]
My Lake District adventure: a climb a walk and a swim
In the dining room of the Wasdale Head Inn, explorer and climber Leo Houlding is inspecting the walls, looking back 150 years to the origins of mountain adventure as a sport. On a shelf is a stack of… [read more]
‘Like becoming a refugee again’: They paid for their crimes. The US deported them anyway
The yellowed eyes of Phal Pen stared, unseeing, as he laid on his hospital bed, waiting for another scan at the Khmer-Russian Friendship hospital in Phnom Penh.
Since doctors diagnosed him at the en… [read more]
The narco-highway creating chaos in a Honduran rainforest
Several hours down a clandestine road that slithers through the rotting remains of what was once protected rainforest in north-eastern Honduras, a rusted bulldozer overgrown with vines and a locked g… [read more]
‘It was hell but the owner said you have to work’: dying from heat in Greece
Andreas Mallis leans into the smoke and winces from the heat, sweat bursting from his forehead and running down his nose. The 57-year-old boat-tour operator blows on the embers of a fire and carefull… [read more]
Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis review – an island controlled by men
From Robinson Crusoe onwards, the literary island is always a microcosm. Islands, the smaller and more isolated the better, offer novelists the conveniences of the closed room, the small scale; polit… [read more]
‘They’re here at our invitation’: how gulls took over the UK’s cities
They tear open rubbish bags looking for food, swoop down on passersby and steal their sandwiches, and even swallow rats and squirrels whole.
Many people complain about the menace of urban gulls, but… [read more]
‘I should be in Lapland’: Helenius gave up family holiday to fight Joshua
I had just finished my fight last Saturday night and my manager came and said I have something to ask you, says Robert Helenius as he details the strange twist that led to him agreeing to step into t… [read more]
More than 2000 people missing at sea as use of deadliest route to EU doubles
The number of people taking the worlds deadliest migratory route across the central Mediterranean to reach the EU has more than doubled, driving irregular crossings at the blocs external borders to t… [read more]
Florida in race to rescue coral bleached by record ocean heat
A race is under way in Florida to rescue corals that are being bleached at alarming rates as a result of this summers historic heatwaves and rising water temperatures.
In recent months, marine rescu… [read more]