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WHO & WHY? In May 2016 a group of south London based friends decided they wanted to give something back and so the idea of throwing a charity ball was born. With their diverse skill set ranging from interior designers, project managers and chefs, the group spent the next eight months carefully and meticulously curating the event with support from The Princeʼs Trust team. Last year the event took place on December 1st and was a huge success with red...

Tracks and Treats my Halloween fiends! A belated BOO to you. If you've taken off your suspiciously pongy latex costume, removed the dodgy face paint and tucked into your candy haul (besides the squashy eggs, of course) you're probably ready for our BLOODY good October playlist. Talking of dodgy latex, St. Vincent is back with MASSEDUCTION, and it's all pink and sizzly-sounding and generally excellent, as you might expect at this point from the font of talent that is Annie...

One of my very favourites in a long, long list of literary anecdotes is drawn from the late Dick Seaver's posthumous memoir The Tender Hour of Twilight. Seaver more or less discovered Samuel Beckett in Paris after World War Two, at least in terms of the larger world markets, and became Beckett's friend, editor and publisher at Arcade, Grove and Viking Press. In any event, sometime in the early 1960's Beckett paid a visit to Seaver in New York and...

The iconic Aston Martin which Sir Paul McCartney owned at the height of The Beatles’ success is set to sell for a staggering £1.5 MILLION. McCartney was just 22 when he bought the Aston Martin DB5 in 1964. He was part of the biggest pop group the world had ever seen and had just finished filming A Hard Day's Night. Paul McCartney’s old Aston Martin which he owned at the height of The Beatles’ success is set to sell for...

Stranger Things fans are rushing to order one of Halloween's spookiest party props - an Eleven Bleeding Nose candle. The eerie bust, which drips hot red wax from its nose, was crafted after a series of 'harrowing' experiments to reflect one of Eleven's psychokinetic episodes. It has been launched by Firebox.com amid the hotly anticipates second series of the blockbuster Netflix show, which airs on October 27. And the £29.99 ornament even comes with a handy picker for clearing a...

Power pop foursome Alvarez Kings are blasting through town in support of San Diego rockers Switchfoot at London’s O2 Forum on October 31st. Just ahead of what is likely to be a killer set, brothers Paul and Simon Thompson were kind enough to have a chat with TLE to catch us up with what's going on with Alvarez Kings. Turn's out things are pretty sweet with the South Yorkshire lads, with their first LP in the can and a slew...

A Peaky Blinders superfan has splashed out £4,000 covering his entire back with a huge tattoo devoted to the hit BBC gangster series David Hatfield, 54, spent 64 hours under the needle to get the stunning body art which features all the main characters from the gritty crime drama. Peaky Blinders super fan David Hatfield, who has covered his back in tatoos of characters from the hit TV show, Birmingham, October 30, 2017. The council worker had his first tattoo...

With its jaws open wide, this Grizzly bear is just waiting for a leaping salmon to jump right in for a fish supper. Taken by British snapper Nick Dale, the picture was highly commended in the Wonders of Wildlife photographic competition. 1st prize zebras at dawn by Malcolm Blackburn. Nick, from London, who became a professional photographer in 2013, said: "The annual salmon migration is practically an all-you-can-eat buffet for bears in Alaska. "The journey upstream sometimes covers hundreds of...

Humans were creating astonishing cave paintings in the Caribbean thousands of years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, reveals new research. The study sheds new light on etchings found on the walls of dozens of cave systems on Mona Island, off modern day Puerto Rico. It is the Caribbean region’s largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art. Some of the paintings are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves - only accessible by crawling. Humans were creating astonishing cave...