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Premier League Team of the Season

Sport News 24/7 Yes it’s that time of the year again.  The weather is warming up, the end of the football season is nigh so this (not very) discerning journalist has picked TLE’s team of the season.  The PFA may have already chosen their team, but I know this is ...

Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol 42

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  The collective hangover from yesterday’s hottest-day-of-the-year public park frolicking hangs heavy over the city today as Monday grinds its miserable gears towards home-time. Open your ears and take your ...

Just How Central are Mobile Devices to Our Life and Work?

According to Google’s Consumer Barometer, the percentage of people in the UK who use a smartphone rose from 51% to 71% from 2012 to 2015. In 2016 that is set to rise to well over 80%. Google’s research shows that smartphones are for more than just keeping in touch – ...

The Myth of American Democracy

By Oliver Ward With dark clouds gathering Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton look set to be the two presidential nominations. Like the rest of the world I have been watching the race with a kind of suspended belief. Even when states began toppling into the abyss like Eisenhower's dominoes in ...

Hartlepool fans mark final game with stormtrooper fancy dress

Sport News 24/7 By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Hartlepool fans are known for getting dressed up for the last day of the season, and have previously gone to the match in Smurfs' and Thunderbirds' outfits. This weekend though they went as stormtroopers and it looks fantastic. Sadly the trip was ...

£10m payout from construction firms to blacklisted workers

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Around ten million pounds will be paid to 250 construction workers who had been “blacklisted” by building firms. Construction giants like Sir Robert McAlpine and Balfour Beatty are among the companies who are liable and have agreed to compensate union members who they denied work ...

How To Lose The Mayoral Race And Alienate People

By Abeer Sharma Soon after midnight on Saturday morning, Labour’s Sadiq Khan vanquished his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith and became the next Mayor of London. Khan’s comprehensive victory was the denouement in what ultimately proved a procession of a mayoral race. This was in no major part down to Zac ...

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