The pub hopes to “achieve a significantly improved rating” once it has been re-inspected

A Cambridgeshire pub has received a zero food hygiene rating after it was taken over by new landlords. The Railway Vue in Impington was inspected by the Food Standards Agency on Saturday, March 21, and was told improvements to the way the pub handled its hygiene were “necessary”.

The standards of the food handling such as the preparation, cooking, re-heating, cooling and storage processes were described as needing improvements. “Improvement necessary” was also highlighted in terms of the cleanliness and condition of facilities and building.

This relates to the ventilation, layout of the building, hand washing facilities, and pest control, which all help to “enable good food hygiene”. The management of food safety was rated as needing “urgent improvement”, which means systems and checks need to be in place to make sure all “food sold or served is safe to eat”.

There should also be evidence that “staff know about food safety”. The food safety officer must have “confidence that standards will be maintained in future”.

The Railway Vue, which is owned by the bar and pub operator Punch Pubs & Co, closed temporarily in September 2025 to undergo a £300K refurbishment. The pub welcomed back the community in October last year under new management.

Punch Pubs & Co Operations Manager, David Hill, said: “We take this matter extremely seriously. As a business, we expect all of our pubs to meet the highest standards of food safety and hygiene. Since the last inspection, we’ve been working closely with our Publican and their team to ensure all required improvements have been completed swiftly.

“The pub remains open and is operating safely. We are confident that the actions now in place will enable the pub to achieve a significantly improved rating upon re-inspection.”

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Ecommerce Business Park (UK) Ltd has submitted a proposal to Bolton Council to transform part of a warehousing unit on the Express Trading Estate, Stone Hill Road, Farnworth, into an indoor padel tennis centre.

The scheme would involve converting 1,776 square metres of the existing warehouse space and reorganising the car park layout.

Site plan (Image: Bolton Council)

A transport statement included with the application said peak usage times for the padel centre would complement the warehouse operations, with leisure demand in the evenings and at weekends.

The site, which includes a 4,110 square metre warehouse, currently accommodates around 25 vehicles on hardstanding areas, but the plans propose a formal layout with 57 spaces, up from the existing 43.

Up to 20 players could use the courts at any one time.

Highways analysis found no injury collisions on surrounding roads between 2020 and 2024 and concluded that the development would not create new risks.

The site is accessible via bus stops on Worsley Road and Westland Avenue, with services to Bolton, Salford, and Manchester.

The proposal aligns with regional planning policies that encourage the reuse of brownfield land and the promotion of active travel under the Greater Manchester “Places for Everyone” framework.

No impact on biodiversity is expected, with the applicant citing a “de minimis exemption” as no natural habitats would be affected.

If approved, the development would raise employment at the site from eight to 13 full-time equivalent jobs.

A decision on the application will be made by Bolton Council in due course.

Liverpool’s midfield has laboured this season but they could find a solution in the form of a player Jurgen Klopp was eager to bring to Anfield

Liverpool may be wrestling with numerous issues across the pitch this season, but there is one department that demands immediate attention this summer: their midfield. Arne Slot could go a long way towards addressing that concern by landing the club’s long-standing target, Real Madrid’s Aurelien Tchouameni.

The Dutch boss’s central axis was ruthlessly exposed by Manchester United during the Red Devils’ 3-2 victory at Old Trafford on Sunday. The national press dissected the United defeat, with the Reds’ midfield singled out for criticism over a shortage of quality.

Supporters have also voiced their opinions, and the overwhelming view is that Liverpool are missing intensity and bite in their engine room. While Slot’s team, driven by Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai, cruised to the Premier League title last term, this campaign has seen Liverpool’s midfield frequently overrun and overpowered.

It seems a far cry from the Liverpool witnessed under Jurgen Klopp, equipped with the tireless, grafting attributes of Jordan Henderson, Gini Wijnaldum and Fabinho, which would suffocate rivals without allowing them a second to breathe.

Yet even with a midfield brimming with creativity and power, Klopp still set his sights on Tchouameni, which is precisely why the 26-year-old must remain a priority for Liverpool this summer. Tchouameni was strongly linked with a switch to Anfield back in 2022.

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The midfielder had shone for Monaco throughout the 2021/22 campaign, and it was widely reported at the time that Klopp had even made a personal trip to France in a bid to seal the deal, while also reportedly holding phone conversations with the defensive midfielder.

Tchouameni ultimately opted for Madrid over Liverpool in a transfer worth up to £85million and even acknowledged that the Merseyside club had made their move for him.

“The first club to show interest in me was Liverpool,” Tchouameni told Le Parisien in November 2022. “There were discussions, but as soon as Real Madrid entered, my mind was made up. I didn’t hesitate for a second. I told my agent, take me to Real Madrid.”

Tchouameni undoubtedly remains a prized asset for Los Blancos right now. Yet with another change in the dugout looming, and the likes of Manchester City’s Rodri and Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez being touted with moves to the Spanish capital, the French international could find himself looking for a fresh challenge.

There is a compelling case for bringing a player of Tchouameni’s formidable physical profile to Anfield. He is commanding in the tackle, winning nearly 70 per cent of his duels this season, and a dominant aerial presence. He also boasts a passing accuracy of 91.4 per cent this season, according to FotMob.

The Frenchman would bring World Cup and Champions League-winning pedigree to a Liverpool midfield that appears exhausted. While Szoboszlai has impressed this season on the whole, Curtis Jones has found himself marginalised – and is entering the final 12 months of his deal.

Mac Allister has continually struggled this campaign as well, looking weary to put it mildly, while Florian Wirtz has laboured on the left and in the space behind the Reds’ forward line. Defensive midfield anchor Wataru Endo is a long-term casualty through injury and is expected to be sold this summer.

Ryan Gravenberch, who signed a new long-term contract this season, has also been unable to replicate last year’s impact. Yet the arrival of a genuine holding midfielder in Tchouameni could prove transformative for the Dutchman’s progression at Anfield.

It won’t be a straightforward deal for Liverpool to complete. Reports suggest that Madrid plan to offer the Frenchman a new long-term contract until 2031. They are also believed to be optimistic that he’ll stay at the Bernabeu, with two years left on his existing deal.

Manchester United and Arsenal are also understood to be keen, with any potential buyer expected to fork out around £80m. Yet it could be a more than worthwhile outlay to finally provide Slot with a dominant midfielder who can handle a Premier League that’s growing more physical by the game.

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The man took his tour operator to court

A German tourist who was on holiday in Greece has won a payout after being unable to get a sun lounger, because other holidaymakers had reserved them with towels. The man was given £850 after taking his tour operator to court.

A court in Hanover heard the man, who was on holiday with his family in 2024, got up at 6am and spent 20 minutes trying to find a sun lounger, but they had all been taken. He argued that the fact that the reservation system was allowed meant sunloungers were unusable.

The judge ruled the family of four was entitled to a refund on their package holiday, saying it was ‘defective’.

The man had paid €7,186 (£6,211) to take his wife and two children on holiday to the Greek island of Kos. He told the court his tour operator had failed to enforce the resort’s ban on reserving loungers, and did not confront guests.

He said his children had to lie on the floor. The tour operator had already agreed a £302 refund, but the court awarded a payout of £852.89.

The court said that while the tour operator did not run the hotel, it had an obligation to ensure there was a system in place to ensure a reasonable ratio of sunbeds to guests.

Sun lounger ‘wars’ are now a common factor of holidays in Europe with Brits abroad frequently filming queues and crowds of people trying to bag a sunbed at the start of the day, rushing across hotel leisure areas to find somewhere to spend the day close to the pool, bar or beach.

Hotel staff have also been filmed throwing towels off loungers to ensure they are not reserved.

Carstairs retains an unsettling aura, 80 years after it was build to accommodate “mental defectives”

The sight and sound of a police helicopter in the sky above the State Hospital in Carstairs on April 24 this year would be enough to chill the bones of those old enough to remember a notorious and murderous “jailbreak” back in 1976.

The latest incident was duly contained after police and ambulance roared to the scene, a forbidding secure hospital set on exposed moorland in South Lanarkshire.

But the alarm bells would have stirred unsettling memories for some and provide a reminder of the many horrific crimes committed by people deemed to be too mentally ill to be detained in a regular prison.

The State Hospital – generally referred to simply as “Carstairs” – has held an unsettling aura in Scotland’s consciousness in the 80 years since it was built.

Many of its patients have committed the most serious crimes. But it is not a prison.

And it is very different to a conventional hospital, charged with treating some patients whose crimes were beyond the imagination of others.

The hospital is surrounded by high fences and monitored constantly. A distinctive siren system—tested monthly—warns nearby communities in the event of an escape.

The building of Carstairs completed in 1939, just as the Second World War broke out. It was requisitioned as a military hospital.

It took 19 years for the facility to be used for its original purpose – treating “mental defectives”.

Its defining transformation came in 1957, when 90 prisoners deemed criminally insane were transferred from Perth Prison, creating a single high-security psychiatric institution serving Scotland.

From that point on, the State Hospital became the country’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital—a role it still holds today.

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At its peak in the late 20th century, Carstairs held hundreds of patients. Parliamentary records show that in 1969 the hospital population stood at 367, gradually falling to around 268 by 1983.

By 1990 there were 163 patients who had committed offences, 59 mentally ill patients without criminal convictions and 44 with learning disabilities.

Today, the hospital has a capacity of roughly 140 patients, reflecting changes in psychiatric care and a move toward smaller, more specialised units. The average stay is around eight years, though some have been detained for decades. Most patients have suffered from schizophrenia.

Despite its clinical purpose, Carstairs’ reputation has been shaped by the crimes of some of its most notorious patients.

*The bloody escape and murders of Robert Mone and Thomas McCulloch.

In November 1976, two violent patients, Thomas McCulloch and Robert Mone, launched a violent escape attempt that shocked Britain and sealed Carstairs’ reputation as a place of potential terror.

Armed with axes, Mone, 27, and McCulloch, 26, murdered nurse Neil McLellan, 46, and another inmate, 40-year-old double murderer Iain Simpson.

Police officers George Taylor and John Gillies were also later attacked after the approached the killers beside a getaway car.

PC Gillies managed to escape and raise the alarm at a nearby house but PC Taylor died later in hospital.

The two escapees stole the police van, which they crashed 10 miles away near Biggar.

As a 19-year-old, monster Mone had held a girls’ needlework class at St John’s High School in Dundee, Scotland, hostage for 90 minutes. During the siege, he shot pregnant teacher Nanette Hanson to death, raped one schoolgirl, and sexually assaulted another.

*Alexander Millar: the Govan child murders

Another name associated with Carstairs is Alexander Millar, responsible for one of Scotland’s most disturbing crimes. In 1976, – the same year as the Mone and McCulloch breakout – Millar murdered two children—12-year-old Irene McMonigle and her 13-year-old brother, John, .during a botched robbery in Govan, Glasgow.

The little girl was also sexually assaulted.

Millar was held for 49 years in secure accommodation, including Carstairs, until July last year.

The killer was been deemed fit for release following a Mental Health tribunal in England.

Irene and John were discovered amid a scene of horror by their younger sister Liz and father John senior, who had left their Govan tenement for just a few minutes to take some belongings to a new house which they were moving into nearby.

His location has not been disclosed, although he is understood to be in the south of England.

*James Kennedy – a recent addition to Carstairs.

Kennedy, 37, struck up a relationship with Joanne Gallacher, 33, after the pair met during psychiatric treatment at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.

He later inflicted 57 wounds on her during a frenzied attack at his home in Biggar, Lanarkshire, in December 2018.

A fatal accident inquiry heard Joanne should have been warned by medics about his risk of violence in the lead up to her death.

The 33-year-old mother had visited Kennedy just hours after he was released from hospital because she feared he was in a “bad place”.

Kennedy, who had previous psychiatric issues, pled guilty a reduced charge of culpable homicide.

Lord Mulholland imposed compulsion and restriction orders for Kennedy to remain at Carstairs.

He told Kennedy that he may never be released from the secure psychiatric facility.

*Kevin Marks – who laughed as he killed his ex-partner by setting her on fire.

Marks, 48, drove Ann Drummond to a remote location near Bathgate, West Lothian, on 25 June 2019.

He then set her alight before standing over her as she rolled around on the ground in a bid to put out the flames.

Marks was charged with murder but his not guilty plea was accepted on the basis of a mental disorder making him not criminally responsible.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard how paramedics rushed to the scene after members of the public spotted the car on fire and took Ann to hospital, suffering burns to 80% of her body. The mother-of-four later died at Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary.

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Marks was placed in a medically-induced coma after he was found to have burns on 50% of his body. He later recovered from his injuries.

In 2024, Sheriff Peter Hammond concluded that the horror could have been avoided if Police Scotland had shared relevant information relating to the killer’s mental state with her and NHS staff prior to the incident.

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City of York Council inspectors awarded the rating, which means ‘major improvement necessary’ to Mr Tea at 2 Coney Street following a visit on March 12.

The Food Standards Agency website says that for hygienic food handling, it was a matter of improvement necessary.

The cleanliness and the condition of the facilities and the building were rated generally satisfactory.

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But management of food safety was rated as ‘major improvement necessary’.

The visit follows City of York Council gaining a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order from York Magistrates’ Court in January, ordering the venue to close temporarily.

As The Press reported at the time, the order said that the court was satisfied that at the time of inspection on January 27, 2026 at 2.30pm at the premises there was “an immediate risk of injury to health, namely there was an active vermin infestation”.

The order further said the business could not operate until the council was “satisfied that the food business operators has taken sufficient measures to secure that there is no longer an imminent risk of injury to health in respect of the food business at this premises”.

As The Press also reported, Mr Tea also received a one-star rating for food hygiene following a visit by inspectors on November 7.

Mr Tea before opening time (Image: Darren Greenwood)

Mr Tea also has a sister venue in Albion Place, Leeds, and is owned by Bluesky Ltd of Leeds. The Leeds café has a five-star rating for food hygiene, meaning ‘very good.’

The York venue is very popular with diners praising its bubble teas and authentic Taiwanese street food.

Google awards 4.6 stars out of five, based on 45 reviews.

One recent review said: “I’m happy I happened to be right around the corner. The tea was delicious and the person taking my order was very kind and helpful.”

The Press has asked City of York Council for a copy of the inspector’s report under the Freedom of Information Act.

Mr Tea did not respond to requests from The Press for comment.

The Press will publish its response should we receive it, along with the results of any future inspection.

Firefighters were called to Warburtons Bakery on Billington Road, Burnley, at 2.45pm on Monday, following reports of a blaze.

At the height of the incident, 12 fire engines, specialist units, police, ambulance, and on-site staff were in attendance.

As of this morning (May 6), one fire engine remains in attendance and crews are expected to remain on-site until later this evening, the LFRS has confirmed.

A spokesperson for the LFRS said: “Crews are still in attendance.

“Lancashire Police have confirmed that the fire is not thought to be suspicious.

“The cause of the fire remains under investigation although it is not believed to have been started deliberately.”

The fire service has thanked the public for observing cordons and also requested that the public refrain from flying drones nearby, as this could impact their own aerial operations.

Warburtons confirmed that everyone was safely evacuated from the building, but the exact cause of the fire and the extent of the damage remain unknown.

Burnley local and Bank of Dave star Dave Fishwick was in his helicopter close to the scene at the time of the incident.

Dave shared pictures and videos of the inferno.

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Restaurant group San Carlo held a four-course charity Supper Club dinner at Fumo in Manchester in late April, with all profits supporting Maggie’s, the UK cancer support charity.

The evening, titled A Taste of Puglia, took place in Fumo’s upstairs dining space and featured a menu inspired by the rustic flavours of Italy’s southern region.

Guests enjoyed focaccia with tomatoes and olives, nodini with capocollo, orecchiette with cime di rapa served from a Parmesan wheel, and roasted lamb cutlets.

The meal concluded with a traditional pasticciotto pugliese.

Marcello Distefano, CEO of San Carlo Group, said: “Maggie’s is an incredibly important charity, and we are proud to support their work through events like our Supper Club at Fumo in Manchester.

“It’s a fantastic way to bring people together for an unforgettable evening while raising money for a vital cause.”

Each course was paired with wine, and guests were welcomed with a cocktail on arrival.

Tickets were £95 per person, with all profits donated to Maggie’s.

Maggie’s provides free, expert support to people living with cancer, as well as their families and friends.

The charity operates a network of centres beside NHS hospitals, offering a calm, non-clinical environment where visitors can access guidance on treatment and side effects, emotional support from trained staff, and the opportunity to connect with others facing similar experiences.

Maggie’s relies entirely on voluntary donations and fundraising events to deliver its services.

Funds raised will help Maggie’s continue its work, offering care and guidance to individuals and families.

For more information, please visit sancarlo.co.uk.