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The coffee start-ups brewing up a storm in lockdown By Dougal Shaw image captionJames King set up his coffee van in March last year Before the pandemic struck we Brits would spend around £5bn a year in High Street coffee shop chains, but their sales have plummeted over the course of three lockdowns. Nevertheless our desire for caffeine remains and some small, independent companies have grabbed the opportunity to squeeze into the gap in the market. If the likes of Caffé Nero, Costa and Starbucks have suffered in lockdown, then the humble coffee van has come into its own. With no indoor seati...

A DOCTOR is leading a campaign to help children being “brutally let down” in the area where she grew up. Just one in three children in Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate, in Brighton, are leaving school with basic GCSE grades in English and Maths. Class Divide believes working class children are being discriminated against and are losing out through no fault of their own as their families are “struggling to make ends-meet”. They are calling for the authorities to better understand the issues facing the working class community. Dr Carlie Goldsmith, a research fellow at ...