And so the very first day of 2018 witnessed the departure of sporting titan, a man who, perhaps more than any other, has shaped his sport and made it what it is today. From a fringe pub sport to a global game that is enriching its major players with serious ...
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 ...
A Peaky Blinders superfan has splashed out £4,000 covering his entire back with a huge tattoo devoted to the hit BBC gangster series David Hatfield, 54, spent 64 hours under the needle to get the stunning body art which features all the main characters from the gritty crime drama. Peaky ...
A descendant of an Indian servant who inspired the new Stephen Frears movie with Judi Dench 'Victoria and Abdul' has told how his great-uncle introduced the monarch to curry and the Koran. Abdul Karim was an Indian Muslim who was handpicked to help Queen Victoria learn about her Asian territories ...
More than 13,000 of the UK’s lowest paid workers will get around £2 million in back pay as part of the government’s scheme to name employers who have failed to pay National Minimum Wage and Living Wage. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has today published a list ...
There are in truth only a handful of magazines, newspapers and websites that are actually worth one's time on a consistent basis. Naturally I consider The London Economic to be one of them (Flattery will get you everywhere – Ed.) for its over-all consistency of writing, broad range of subjects ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter Despite losing the final Test, England’s cricketers still acquitted themselves admirably by beating (former) world number one side South Africa 2-1 on their home patch. They dominated the admittedly mediocre Proteas in Durban and Johannesburg and were resilient ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, here’s our pick of the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. Four Hundred Rabbits - Crystal Palace Coming soon to Crystal Palace, the team behind The Lido Café’s new opening will have ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter Hands up who saw that coming. Anyone who says they predicted the Edgbaston whitewash is either clairvoyant, an incurable optimist, or a liar. This Ashes series is predictable in its unpredictability; the teams are consistent in their inconsistency; cue many other paradoxes. What will ...