Ineffective facilities management could be costing UK businesses nearly £1 billion, new research has revealed. A study conducted by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) around 26 per cent of organisations in the UK are still not taking a strategic approach when it comes to facilities management - a business discipline that involves the co-ordination of space, people, resources and property within an organisation. It suggests that those organisations using FM in a strategic capacity could be saving themselves...

By Dr Barbara Kubicka With the party season looming, suddenly sequins are in vogue again. Crystal jewellery is everywhere and all things start to glitter – from lip gloss to nail varnish and high heeled shoes – all conspiring to put us in the party mood! Yet it is also a time of year when the coughs and colds start, nights close in earlier and earlier and the succession of late nights starts to take their toll. So while your...

While all indicators point to a strong economic recovery in Britain, people still aren’t feeling it. We have paid the price of inequality for recovery with food banks on the rise despite unemployment figures dropping. Simply put, businesses are reluctant to match the cost of living in the UK. Today’s announcement that the Living Wage is set to rise to £7.85 should be a welcomed bit of news, but it’s hard not to feel a little bitter sweet. Although 35,000...

Krishna Athal reports on a political clean-up in Mauritius Imagine a country that is so meticulously clean that its citizens roam the streets with a true sense of pride, visibly expressing their satisfaction in their nation’s ability to become and remain somewhere where they are able to walk without the chance of tripping on some rubbish along the way. In a perfect world this may be possible both literally and figuratively but let’s take a look at the Mauritian gem in the...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle Let's be honest ladies (and men; more then you think these days) we worry about our skin. The huge spot that appears on the morning of a night out, teenage acne and flaky skin scare me more than anything I saw on Halloween. Occasionally I do wonder what everyone's "magic number"  is, no not sexual partners, steady on. I am talking about the number of bad skin days a woman will suffer in a year. Well...

By Ben Gelblum  Cannock Chase, a 78 kilometre square Area Of Outstanding Beauty in the heart of the Midlands, has been thrust into the headlines this autumn with a spate of ghost sightings. The ancient royal hunting ground has long had all manner of sinister supernatural sightings. Recently, the tabloids have been full of stories of an apparition Staffordshire locals call the “Black Eyed Child.” Families on woodland walks though the Birches Valley area of Cannock Chase have reported coming...

By David de Winter – Sports Editor @LondonEconomic @davidjdewinter This week, TLE sent me to Le Ziz restaurant in Dalston.  ‘Not Dalston!’ I protested.  ‘Everyone has skinnier jeans than me.  Their haircuts are more asymmetrical than mine and their glasses have thicker rims.  I’ll get ritualistically mocked.’  But TLE was having none of it.  So, reluctantly, off I pottered to North-East London. Le Ziz is a relatively recent addition to the London dining scene, situated in the new Dalston Square...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Making a phone call is now only the sixth most common use for a mobile phone, a study has revealed. Researchers found that sending and receiving text messages, surfing the internet and even the use of the alarm clock have all overtaken phoning friends or relatives as the most common actions performed on our mobile phones. In fact almost four in ten people in the UK believe they would manage without a call function on...

Sport News 24/7 By Danny Norman @TLE_Sport @dannynormanCOYS New boys Western Sydney Wanderers face Champions League destiny The idea of forming a brand new football team in the modern era is accompanied by a cynical feeling that a big motivating factor is money, and the desire of wealthy individuals and corporations to muscle in on global economic juggernaut that ‘the beautiful game’ has become.  Whether it’s MK Dons or New York City (or is it New York City Manchester City,...