By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Today, 28th January, is young carers day, a time to raise awareness and praise the selfless work of children as young as five who look after a loved one. In every classroom in the UK, it is thought there are two young carers, spending the ...
Sport News 24/7 By Billy Stephens @BillyLaughs @TLE_Sport As the 2016 January transfer window enters its final week, let’s take a look at what new recruits the Premier League title challengers want, need and have secured. But, firstly, who do I mean by title challengers? Leicester City, Manchester City, Arsenal ...
30: Counter Spy Hello, dear reader. How are you? Are you well? Yippee! Firstly, a huge thank you to those who bought tickets for our February WiFi Wars show at the Royal Institution – that one’s sold out now, but we’ll be announcing a lot more dates, both there and ...
New job data has revealed almost a half a million female and ethnic minority jobseekers in the finance and IT sectors will not be considered for roles this year purely because of the name on their CV. The research revealed that even though employment in finance and IT is on the increase, ...
Britain's imperial legacy is complex and widely disputed but one curious side effect is the number of independent countries that still have the Queen as head of state. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and a bevy of small nations are part of her domain, despite Britain having little or no authority ...
Newcastle based alt-pop quintet Shields have filmed a series of live sessions in anticipation of their debut album, 'How Can We Fix This?' out via Kaleidoscope on Feb 26th. The band, who've recently secured a New Band of the Week feature with the Guardian and a BBC 6 Music session ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In the African state of Cameroon Muslims and Christians are protecting each other against savage attacks by Boko Haram, who are relentless in their brutal attacks. For over three years Boko Haram have been killing innocent people in the country, hoping to create an Islamic ...
With over 900 franchise brands and 44,000 operations, it's fair to say the UK high street is buzzing with franchise activity. Often unbeknown to the public. Most of us recognise McDonald’s as a global franchise, but Dominos, Costa and many more sing from the same hymn sheet. In the past ten years ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A Huge NHS contract valued at £750 million, which collapsed only eight months later, had been signed off, even though there were major doubts about its chances of success. An investigation has been launched into why the contract, arranged by the strategic projects team – ...