Mark Fennell, 57, quit his job to focus on painting full-time after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2016

The BBC has been accused of allowing its Comic Relief TV appeal to become ‘an advert for Jeremy Corbyn’ because it painted a bleak picture of deprivation in the UK. Tory MPs lambasted BBC bosses for peddling ‘socialist nonsense’ and making ‘absurd’ claims about the scale of poverty in Britain ...

2017 was an exceptional year for restaurant openings in London: Claude Bosi took the helm at Bibendum, Gordon Ramsay’s alumni Clare Smyth decided to go it alone with her first solo venture Core, and husband and wife team, Monica and David Galetti, opened their first restaurant together, Mere. After earning her ...

This week, TLE caught up with intrepid traveller, journalist/ broadcaster and the voice behind the Big Travel Podcast, Lisa Francesca Nand. She told us all about her irrational travel fears, special memories about her first time visiting Fiji (her dad's home country) and how she thinks travelling is the best ...

Theresa May has issued a last-ditch plea to MPs, warning that a failure to vote through her deal when it comes before the Commons this week would mean "we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever". In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, she said a third ...

Eighteen years since Fatboy Slim’s first Big Beach Boutique heralded Brighton as party central, its reputation as a creative powerhouse continues. Inspired by the fresh sea air, the glorious South Downs just behind it, and the delightfully different outlook of its outgoing residents, it’s still one of the most vibrant ...

Chris Grayling could face a bill of up to £28 million from two ferry companies hired to help cope with a no-deal Brexit if the UK does not leave the EU at the end of March. The FT has reported that if parliament decides to postpone the UK's departure from the ...

A letter to Nigel Farage published in the Sunderland Echo the day before a Brexit Betrayal march got underway in the region is garnering viral traction on social media. The piece, entitled "Nigel Farage is not a friend to the people of Sunderland", vents that the city is "isolated because ...

Far-right Australian lawmaker Fraser Anning found himself, literally, with egg on his face yesterday after a protester smashed one on the side of his head at a Melbourne news conference. The Aussie senator had blamed the slaughter at two Christchurch mosques on immigration policies that "allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to ...