By Jules Coleman, acting CEO and co-founder of Hassle.com Jules looks at how the UK can help start-ups build on their potential and scale up to the next level. British business is presently treading a fruitful path. Financial figures from the US reveal that the UK economy - with 2.6%...
By Jasmine Stephens, Family Editor Has childhood changed such a lot since I was young 20 years ago? Alright, make that 30 years ago. The happiest of my early memories revolve around digging holes in the lawn, racing snails and finding frogs under the broken old door half-buried in our...
By Shannon Edwards, CEO of www.styloko.com In my ideal working mum paradigm, there aren’t working mums and stay-at-home mums but instead ‘by definition’ all mums ‘work’ and some just take on a second job. Because there is no escaping the requirements inherent to the business of being a mother no...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Costa Coffee has announced it is to trial a bizarre 'Coffee and a Kip' service that lets customers nod off and have a power nap when they hit an afternoon slump. The coffee chain is importing Japanese inspired Ostrich Pillows and will turn tables into...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Chick ‘n’ Sours – Dalston Set to open in Dalston on April 17th, Chick 'n' Sours is Carl Clarke’s brand new Chicken restaurant, but a little different from the rest of the area’s cheap and cheerful Chicken shops. First off, all of...
By Anna Power @TLE_Film Editor “ I take it, I take it and I flip it.” James Brown Get On Up is a moving and suitably energetic homage to the legend that was James Brown, The Godfather of Soul. Much more than a rags-to-riches tale and avoiding the usual drab...
By Stephen Mayne @finalreel As anyone with even a passing knowledge of science knows, you have to test a theory to prove it stands up.Horrible Bosses 2 does just that, stepping determinedly forward to add further weight to the already overwhelming body of evidence suggesting sequels yield diminishing returns. Sean...
By Anna Power, Film Editor @TLE_film Christopher Nolan fans will delight at the loopy, lustrous, pyrotechnic vision that is Interstellar but will the narrative hold up by comparison? Set in the near future, in a period of post climate-change meltdown and pre-apocalyptic collapse, we find the inhabitants of Earth (those...
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle I went to South East Asia when I was eighteen, on a trailblazing gap year through Thailand, Australia and Singapore, a route no youth enjoying a year out before university had ever taken before. Something I rarely tell people when I extol the virtues...