UNBELIEVABLE: 2 - Caught on Camera

So Gloucester services is the best in Britain? Let a true pitstop connoisseur be the judge of that

With its herb garden, deli counter and ‘living roof’, the M5 stop-off is definitely swish. But I’m a Monster Munch man at heart, says service station connoisseur Rich Pelley

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2024

Builder plugs hole in £250k house with Costa coffee cup

A DAD who discovered a hole on the outside wall of his brand new £250,000 home had been filled with a Costa coffee cup is calling for an…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 27, 2024

Mother 'still lies awake at night' after daughter, 13, dies from allergic reaction to Costa hot chocolate

Hannah Jacobs died within hours of taking a sip of a hot chocolate that contained dairy milk in Barking last year

Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2024

‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’: Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic

His Costa-shortlisted first book examined his own schizophrenia, from hospital breakouts to hiding from the police. Now the writer has fed this into Tale of Ahmed, a story in rap verse about a boy fleeing Afghanistan for Britain

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2024

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – an epic novel of life and death in 1950s Trinidad

Four women tell of the rise and fall of a notorious real-life mobster in this evocative second novel from the Costa prize winner

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024

Costa criticised for raising coffee prices by up to 45p in UK hospitals

Costa has reportedly increased coffee prices by as much as 13 per cent

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2024

‘Sheer storytelling brilliance’: Kate Saunders’s daring, versatile, beloved work lives on

From crime mysteries to award-winning children’s books, Saunders imbued her novels with her unique personality – and she has gifted us one more, published posthumously, to enjoy

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2024

Marge the Hun: TikTok users reimagine The Simpsons character as British babe

Marge's destiny might not have been to tend to Homer, but to live it up eating Greggs and drinking Costa

Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2023

Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards

The prizes, which have picked up from the abruptly cancelled Costa awards, cover fiction, debut fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023

Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain

I’ve done a tea-and-biscuit survey of the country’s cultural institutions and high-street chains – and I’m afraid we’re being taken for mugs, says the author Luke Turner

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023