FoodThey're fried in fat and smothered in salt, but still we eat a heart-stopping 6bn packets of them a year. So why do we have an unhealthy obsession with potato crisps? Food blog: what's your favourite crisp?
In an unremarkable suburb of Leicester called Beaumont Leys is a big factory – or actually two, side by side. But let's not split hairs already. The point is that it's big; a winding 10-minute march from reception round to the delivery bays. Read More...
StageObituaryJonathan Cecil obituaryVersatile actor and writer often called upon to play toffs and bumbling clericsThe actor Jonathan Cecil, who has died of pneumonia aged 72 after suffering from emphysema, spent much of his career playing upper-class characters. That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Although often typecast as a comic blueblood, there was infinitely more to Jonathan than that. Read More...
People run to safety from the scene of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night. Photograph: Nichoel Wyman Arel/ReutersPeople run to safety from the scene of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night. Photograph: Nichoel Wyman Arel/ReutersMaine This article is more than 2 months oldMaine mass shooting: what we know so farThis article is more than 2 months oldAt least 16 reported killed, dozens wounded in Lewiston shooting; police warn residents to stay inside as they search for gunman Read More...