A cash-strapped NHS Trust has told surgeons and theatre staff to bring their own MUGS and drinks to work - in a bid to cut costs. Health chiefs have even withdrawn polystyrene cups from water dispensers which has sparked outrage from workers claiming even patients are going thirsty. The move comes as Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust aims to cut £5.5 million from its £29 million deficit. Theatre staff at Alexandra Hospital, Kidderminster Hospital, and Worcestershire Royal Hospital, have now...

A planet the same size of Earth and with a similar surface temperature may be "the closest known comfortable abode for possible life," according to new research. The newly discovered world, named Ross 128b, was found orbiting a red dwarf 11 light-years away from Earth - but it's getting nearer. Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile has found that the red dwarf star Ross 128...

Police have released chilling footage of a gangland attempted 'execution' - that saw the target sprayed with bullets at point blank range. Father-of-two Haroon Hussain was blasted point blank in the chest with a semi-automatic weapon by two gangsters who were caught on camera spraying more than a dozen rounds. The attackers were seen calmly getting out of a four-wheel-drive vehicle before heading into an alleyway - where they saw the 32-year-old and shot him with the deadly machine gun...

The saturation of social media within our society may be celebrated by some for bringing us all closer together, but as Matt Spicer demonstrates with his sardonically incisive directorial debut, a life lived online isn’t always one big party. Indeed, for twenty-something Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza), it’s nothing but a platform to help accentuate her own isolation. We meet her sat in a car, sobbing uncontrollably as she fanatically scans the account of a “friend” on Instagram who married just hours...

The majority of the Australian public have voted for new legislation for gay marriage, the 'Yes' vote winning 61.6%. The Australian Senate will now be asked  to support a bill to permit same-sex couples to get married on Thursday. The proposed bill will be debated in both houses of parliament but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull remains insisted the historic law could be passed by both houses by the end of this year. "The Australian people have spoken in their millions,"...

Following legal action by HOPE not hate, Nigel Farage has withdrawn claims that Britain's largest anti-racism organisation pursued "violent and undemocratic means". The result is a major victory for HOPE not hate, which took Mr Farage to court for the unacceptable comments he made on LBC radio on 20 December last year, responding to a Twitter exchange with Jo Cox's widower, Brendan Cox. Mr Farage made his comments on the Nick Ferrari At Breakfast programme on LBC radio following the...

So much for being the voice of the oppressed. The music of the forgotten and the derider of stereotypes and cultural demarcations. The world’s most popular art form has been swallowed by corporate America. Hip-hop, has been hijacked by the world’s elite. Embodying a continuum of struggle and acrimony, the genre once flaunted its revolutionary history, belligerence for authority and supercilious intelligence. But now, it flaunts naked woman, designer clothes and overpriced luxury cars. Hip-hop’s modern day founders Grandmaster Flash,...

Middleweight MMA fighter and The Ultimate Fighter Season 19 winner Eddie “Truck” Gordon was one of the memorable mixed martial artists on Fox TV's The Ultimate Fighter series. TLE caught up with him for an exclusive interview as he publishes his no holds barred memoir Forever Truckin and prepares to enter the ring again next Spring. As we found out, Eddie Gordon pulls no punches... @KonnichiwaJack interviews @TruckMMA_UFC for @LondonEconomic TLE: How did you get into fighting? Eddie Gordon: I got into this sport...

A randy teacher who sent a string of explicit emails acting out a schoolgirl sex fantasy has been allowed to keep his job. Christopher Perry used school computers to send messages, including telling the recipient: "I require you to be dressed as a schoolgirl with white knickers." In another message, Perry said: "You will kneel in the corner of the room, facing the wall while I set up my laptop. "You will be required to perform acts upon me live...