Gatwick Airport is expecting its busiest ever bank holiday, with nearly 600,000 passengers passing through the airport. The figure represents a 17.2% increase in passenger numbers since 2009. The numbers are boosted by new services, including the arrival of Pegasus airlines to serve Turkish destinations, and Norwegian Airline Dreamliner's new route ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent When you walk along a supermarket isle passing fresh kale housed next to ripe cucumbers, apples next to kiwi fruit, it is easy to see how the concept of seasonality has lost its relevance in the 21st century. It's a theme Michael Pollan picks up on in ...
By Patrick Vernon On any given day, large numbers of people cross the forecourts of motorcycle dealers such as Metropolis looking for a new way to get around and every year some 130,000+ new motorbike registrations are made. There are many reasons people prefer riding a motorbike to driving a car, but one ...
By Henry Austin Described as “a swarm” by Prime Minister David Cameron, images and stories about migrants attempting to gain access to the Eurotunnel have saturated British media this summer. But as Emily Dugan points out in the prologue of her new book “Finding Home, Real Stories of Migrants in ...
By Leslie Byron Pitt The more you consider the bizarre tale of The Wolfpack, that harder it is for you to bend your head fully round it. The documentary about seven siblings, homeschooled and confined in their Lower East Side Manhattan apartment, away from the waking world by their father, ...
Trolls, whether they claim craggy woodland and moist caves as their home or the dark caverns of the internet, have always been a blight on society, fictional or otherwise. Has a definitive troll-slaying method ever been developed? We're not sure, but Sun Club seem to have the right idea giving ...
By Noy Shani Mayoral candidate and Green Party member Rashid Nix reckons he has the winning formula to beat the London housing crisis. Beaming with confidence in a recent talk in Denmark Hill, Southwark, Nix spoke enthusiastically about his mission. “There is a link between mental health, mental well-being and housing. The ...
Robocop, Leatherface, He-Man and a rather sinister xenomorph all star in the latest apocalyptic video from synthwave crew Gunship. Events unfold in a Claymation wasteland, brought to grisly life by award-winning animator/director Lee Hardcastle (The ABC’s of Death, ). It's a loving homage to iconic 80's do-gooders and big-bads with a razor-sharp ...
Sport News 24/7 By Alex Dinsdale @dinsadelic @TLE_Sport Vicarage Road has been a busy place this summer. New players, a new manager and even hundreds more new seats have all arrived in a flurry of activity to prepare Watford for their first season in the Premier League in eight years, ...