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• We make £10,000 a week selling our sausages on TikTok shop – we’ve hired 20 staff

  03-09-2026 13:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  As small businesses across the UK battle with rising costs, some have looked at alternative ways to keep the lights on – with one firm saying it now makes £10,000 a week from selling on TikTok shop.Wolverhampton-based Malik Butchers have been a family-run business since 1970 with Adnaan Malik, 45, taking over the shop from his father in 2009.His brother, Manny Malik, 40, said: “My brother ran it as a traditional halal butcher, there was only one member of staff, and it was only
  
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• I nearly made the Bonnie Blue documentary. The real story turned out to be us

  03-09-2026 07:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  Two years ago I was in the running to direct a Channel 4 documentary about Bonnie Blue. It came down to me and, I believe, two other directors. We were each asked to come up with our own take on the film. I spent a day and a half, for free, putting together a director’s vision for a job I ultimately didn’t get.I thought Bonnie and I could have made a good pairing. I co-hosted a podcast called Brown Girls Do It Too, where my friend Rubina and I talked very openly about sex, something
  
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