Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh @mchughr  @TLE_Sport It feels like it is all over before it even started.  This topsy-turvy Ashes series has been the shortest ever Ashes series, and was completed in just 18 days of cricket.  At times the series more closely resembled two drunks attempting to run the 110 metres hurdles than a thoroughbred horserace, but England did enough to secure a decisive lead in the 4th test at Trent Bridge. As ever in the relentless...

By Jack Peat, TLE Editor What is craft beer? It is a quandary that has perplexed the modern hipster for as long as their beards have been long and their hair has been an absent bystander amongst geek-chic glasses and lumberjack shirts. For most people the term is associated with ‘small’ or ‘independent’ brewers with a strong attachment to their locality, but it’s an image that some craft brewers are desperate to move away from. The reason being that craft beer...

By Stephen Mayne @finalreel So often in 45 Years a crescendo beckons, and just as often Andrew Haigh steps nimbly away. His third feature, a superb achievement, is far too accomplished a creation to sully the relationship at the heart of proceedings with something as crass as a blunt emotional punchline. This is an altogether more complex and rewarding experience, one that asks a hell of a lot of its two leads, and receives even more in return. The first...

Blacklisters, the Leeds quartet who were once described as 'Mclusky being Pulled Apart By Horses' by NME, are putting the finishing touches to their latest release, Adult.  Before the release (18th September, get it down on a post-in somewhere) the band decided to head up to Greenmount Studio to thrash out a live performance of 'I Knock Myself Out'. Have a watch below. If you like what you hear Adult will be released via Smalltown America (home of Jetplane Landing, USA...

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 to Orlando. However Berlin is the fastest growing route since last year - it's 54% more popular than during the bank holiday weekend last year. Madrid is the second fastest...

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 The Omnivore's Dilemma, which explores what it's like to live in a World where we can literally eat anything. A large Sainsbury's store stocks approximately 30,000 products, many of which...

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 of the most common is the ability to avoid traffic jams. When the jam is not too tightly packed, a slim bike and a skilful rider always has the edge...

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 Britain,” it is easy to forget we are talking about a collection of disparate people from across the globe. Focusing on 10, The Independent newspaper’s Social Affairs Editor succeeds 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, evokes grim thoughts of the deplorable Josef Fritzl. This tale not as grievous as the acts of Fritzl, yet it does ponder a certain amount of concern. We observe Angulo...