The Pitfalls of Multi-Generational Living
By Mike Wragg Take one house, bought 15 years ago by David and Claire when their girls were just off to senior school and Claire’s parents lived nearby to help with childcare. Fast forward to now, with university done and dusted, elder daughter Sophie lives and works in Europe, but 22-year-old Rebecca has just arrived back home with a degree in hand and is struggling to find anywhere to rent, let alone buy. In the meantime, Claire’s parents have become...
Brits Throw Away over £22K in their Lifetime
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent New research has found Brits throw away a massive £22,000 worth of items in their lifetime. A poll of 2,000 adults found that an average 59 non-perishable items are flung out or given away every year despite being in good working order. The lifetime figure includes nearly £3,500 worth of clothes and more than £2,000 worth of electrical goods. Non-perishable items commonly flung from the house included CDs and DVDs, clothes that no longer appeal...
Live Review – Sunny Ozell
By Julia Prigmore (@JuliaPrigmore) 6.7.2015, The Social, London Taking place within the cool of The Social, tonight marks one of the first London performances from New Yorker Sunny Ozell, who’s in town showcasing her debut album Take It With Me. The venue is filled to capacity with a crowd of family, friends and press, including her celebrity husband Patrick Stewart (a relationship that’s caught the attention of the media thanks to their stark age differences). Her set is driven by...
Dumb Hollywood: Remakes, Reboots and Sequels
By Jack Peat, TLE Editor “You’ll have to excuse my friend”, says Lloyd after his close companion, the dumb to his dumber, sent a coach of women on a bikini tour back to the nearest town in search of two oil boys. “He’s a little slow”. After weeks spent on the road travelling across America to reunite a client with her briefcase only to be dumped by the wealthy Mary Swanson, have their nest egg removed by the cops and...
Top Ten Ideas for Frugal Family Fun this Summer
By Jasmine Stephens, family editor When I was a child, our school summer holidays revolved around one thing: the Calendar. This wasn't your ordinary everyday variety, but something we made out of a huge piece of lining paper left over from the time my dad attempted to decorate the hall which we hung on the back of the kitchen door. We would draw up a grid and - with elaborate colour-coordination - would detail all our plans for the whole...
Are we Breaking the Law more Frequently than we think?
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent From speeding to stealing, avoiding travel fares to having sex in public – Brits are breaking the law on a regular basis, new research reveals. The average person breaks 17 laws a year and commits at least one crime every month, some without even knowing it. Speeding is the number one offence but having sex in public ranked closely behind with 43 per cent of respondents admitting to outdoor hanky panky. But despite this apparent...
The Ashes: Beating Australia a formidable task for England
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter I have many pet theories about sport, all of which are revolutionary, incredibly well-reasoned and, of course, absolutely correct. One of them is on the relative importance of sporting events, which could be summarised as i=lu, where i=interest, l=length of time between occurrences and u=the unusualness of the event. Therefore in my opinion the most interesting sporting events are a Lions tour, the Olympic Games and the Ryder Cup. Incidentally if...
Northern Powerhouse Becomes a Reality
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Second quarter figures released today have revealed notions of a 'Northern Powerhouse' could soon become reality with job growth rates in many of the UKs northern cities soaring ahead of the south. Whilst London still held a 17.02 per cent share of the nation's 391,811 jobs last quarter, active job growth across the UK's top cities paints a very different picture. Despite Edinburgh only attributing a 0.62 per cent share of the UK's jobs, it ranks...
Review: F.O.E.S – Antecendence
By William Bateman (WillBateman6611) There's only been a moment's pause for breath since 2014's Ophir but F.O.E.S are back, creating a consistently brooding, intense and chaotic experience in their 5-track return Antecendence. While not necessarily re-inventing the wheel, F.O.E.S know their genre and play to their strengths in the form of the EP's heavy, stop-start drums and distorted post-punk guitar. Their is method in the madness; controlled chaos behind the melodic vocals. Opening track 'Rival Thrones' is the epitome of their sound, a statement of intent. James Lorenzo's...