Top 30 Landmarks in the World
By Steve Taggart A list of the Top 30 landmarks in the has been revealed with three British entries coming in the top five. France's Eiffel Tower took the top spot but Big Ben, Stonehenge and the Houses of Parliament took positions three, four and five respectively in a great showing from the British Isles. The poll of 2,000 adults also ranked European gems as being the most iconic in the world with the Colosseum in Rome, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and...
Food and Drink Guide To St. Patrick’s Day in London
By Jonathan Hatchman The annual celebration of the Patron Saint Patrick of Ireland will take place on Tuesday March 17th, and as expected, it’s not just Dublin and Belfast that will be offering a plethora of celebratory events to mark the affair. Across London, hundreds of pubs, clubs and restaurants will be partaking. But if joining the masses in Leicester Square’s Wetherspoon’s or Yates’, draped in novelty green hats and spilling pints of Guinness all over the place, isn’t for...
The Gunman – Film Review
By Ellery Nick The jibes had already been circulating that after resurrecting Liam Neeson for 2008’s Taken, director Pierre Morel was once again embroiled in the dark arts - having dug up a new middle-aged cadaver to be put to good use in the bone-crunching world of international espionage and quickly assembled guns. The other question was how would a political animal such a Sean Penn fair in the physically precarious world of an action thriller? We need not have...
Wales v Ireland – Best of enemies
Sport News 24/7 By Ellie Caddick @caddicksport @TLE_Sport This time last week most of us were sure that Ireland v England was going to be the game of the championship. The clash would see the two favourites for the championship go head-to-head and whoever could emerge victorious would be on track for the Grand Slam. Just 24 hours earlier Wales would travel to Paris for what looked like the battle for third place. Would France turn up? Would Wales be...
Dialects announce debut EP details
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Escaping a really dire Christmas party - This was the premise under which Conor (guitar), Steve (guitar) and Jonathan (drums) first went into a rehearsal space and made simultaneous loud noises. With material Conor had been writing since his previous band ended the trio began creating fledgling pieces of music that would eventually become the songs that comprise debut EP "LTKLTL”. The addition of bassist Ali happened several months later after Steve had asked him if...
Parliamentary sketch 11th March – Make love not nuclear war
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was an awful PMQs, but luckily for the members of Parliament, every journalist was outside Jeremy Clarkson’s house. This session might have gone unnoticed, like a Russian submarine slipping past the Farne Islands. Well I did watch PMQs, and it reminded me of splitting-up with your partner. When all hope is lost, but you need to wait a few weeks before the removal van arrives, to pass the time you throw insults at each...
Why not treat Mum to a fresher, brighter look this Mothers’ Day?
By Rosie Wilson of CCF Media Mothers’ Day is just around the corner, and so it’s time for the confused masses to wrack their brains once again. Chocolates? Flowers? You might know her better than anyone, but buying your Mum a non-contrived, thoughtful present that she actually wants can be a bit of a challenge. If you ask most women what’s on their wish-list, anti-ageing and looking their best will appear pretty high up. Even when we look after ourselves,...
Run All Night – Film Review
By Stephen Mayne @finalreel finalreel.co.uk Come on people, by now it must be clear that threatening Liam Neeson’s fictional family cannot end well. For Neeson - part-time actor, full-time avenger - does not take kindly to guns pointed in the general direction of his children. Or knives, blunt instruments, mean words and angry looks. Teaming up with director Jaume Collet-Serra for the third time (Unknown & Non-Stop) on Run All Night, his decrepit hitman cleaves dogmatically to cliché in a...
New tranche of quality affordable housing launched in Wembley Park
Quintain Keystone Developments Limited and Network Housing Group have agreed a new deal to provide affordable housing in Wembley Park. The sale of one of its new Emerald Gardens residential blocks to Network Housing Group means 307 affordable units, including 285 in the completed Forum and Quadrant Houses, will be added to the Wembley Park site by August 2016. Construction of Emerald Gardens commenced in April 2014 and the scheme will comprise of seven blocks surrounding an elevated, landscaped garden of almost...