Mark And Pete

An LS Lowry painting described as an "iconic masterpiece" has been sold at auction for a record-breaking £7.8 million. Going To The Match depicts a bustling throng of football fans gathered at the former home of Bolton Wanderers. Lowry manages to capture the scene giving a feel that locals would recognise. LS Lowry, Mark and Pete argue, is an example of how we should champion local talents and culture.

Growing up, your parents might have told you not to draw on the walls. Sam Cox never had that experience. Known professionally as Mr. Doodle, Cox has spent the past two years covering his reportedly $1.5 million Kent home in doodles.

Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times: an internal report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann, the player whose September victory over Magnus Carlsen has rocked the chess world. How DO you cheat at chess? What other areas of life are prime for cheating?

Nicola Sturgeon has called on Liz Truss to resign as she accused her of crashing the UK economy. The First Minister of Scotland said the UK Prime Minister's decisions had "heaped misery on people already struggling with a cost of living crisis". Sturgeon took aim at the Tories after Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked by Truss and replaced with Jeremy Hunt. What is to be done? Mark and Pete have the answers.

The World’s Highest-Paid Soccer Players 2022 provides interesting reading and the question springs to mind, why are they being so much money to kick and inflated bladder round a field! Mark and Pete have the answers.

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have taken on the economic orthodoxy. They have announced extra borrowing to pay for tax cuts. They have sacked the Treasury’s top mandarin. They have insisted they will press on with their dash for growth despite a hostile reaction in the markets.Now the economic orthodoxy has struck back – and in the most high-profile way possible: a public and stinging rebuke from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). So, who messed up?

UK central bank scrambles as pound tanks, debt costs soar and the Bank of England has intervened in the markets with emergency action to steady the nation's finances. The effort came after a tax cut proposal under new Prime Minister Liz Truss and finance minister Chancellor Kwasi Kwateng were perceived as triggering financial chaos. Can the country break the habit of increasing debt or is it here to stay forever?

Liz Truss was met with a fierce political backlash from Conservative MPs after lifting the fracking ban, sparking anger from Tories worried that opposition parties will use the issue to win support in key battleground seats. Is it worth this unpopularity, can it solve the energy crisis despite Prime Minster Truss' claims gas from fracking could flow in six months being called into doubt – with one company estimating it could take as long as 18 months.

Billionaires sometimes make grand gestures of giving away money, is this a moral imperative? Yvon Chouinard of the firm Patagonia is doing just this. Do they have to be philanthropists? Are billionaires necessarily bad? Mark and Pete have the answers.

Will the period of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II regalvanize and revitalise Britain and the rest of the world. Mark and Pete have the answers.

A tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who died at Balmoral in Scotland on Thursday, more than 70 years after she ascended the throne. Years of duty leaving a legacy for her son Charles now King Charles III to build on. How will he do? Mark and Pete have the answers.

A new UK law will require schools to follow Government statutory guidance on school uniform costs. Is this a good thing? Are uniforms necessary or just an added unnecessary financial burden?

Millions of households in the UK are bracing for a winter catastrophe of rising energy bills that experts say will plunge people into destitution and cause an increase in avoidable deaths - what is the remedy to this impending disaster?

Bus, tube and train services have been underfunded for decades and are often overpriced, delayed or just nonexistent. Almost £400 million has been cut from local bus funding in the last decade alone, and rail fares in the UK are some of the most expensive in Europe. With strikes and public discontent on the rise, what is to be done?

Mystery at Mar-a-Lago: What were FBI agents looking for and what are the consequences?

Insects are proposed to be the future food of the planet. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has been making continuous efforts to popularise entomophagy as a healthy, sustainable, and environment-friendly practice for years. Yuck!

Swiss food giant Nestle has warned that it will continue to raise the prices of its products because of the rising costs of food.The maker of KitKats and Nesquik increased prices by more than 5% in the first three months of the year.The price rise helped Nestle to report sales growth of 7.6% in the period.As costs rise, Nestle boss Mark Schneider said "further pricing and mitigating actions over the course of the year" will be required."We stepped up pricing in a responsible manner and saw sustained consumer demand," Mr Schneider added.Food prices worldwide are at their highest since records began 60 years ago, according to the UN Food price index.

The present Queen of England has been through quite a few Prime Ministers. With the prospect of a new one very soon, Mark and Pete do a review of she and they have done.

Tyson Fury is coming back ... or is he? The WBC heavyweight world champion insisted he would be retiring after his sixth-round stoppage win over Dillian Whyte in April, but recently teased he would be persuaded to box again

Russian and Ukrainian officials have signed a deal to allow grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the agreement would help ease a global food crisis. Its this a good thing? Will it actually happen?