'Travel tales with...' is a new regular slot that aims to inspire those TLE readers who dream to travel more. Each month we will encourage interviewees (ranging from explorers, actors and photographers, scientists and politicians) to open up about everything from their fondest childhood holiday memories, to intimate personal encounters with strangers around the world. And, ultimately, share with us their untold travel stories. Our first interviewee is 36-year-old explorer and journalist, Levison Wood, best known for his Channel 4...

With the majority of property sales in London being flats, you would think that the public’s understanding of the ownership of a leasehold interest would be thorough, when in fact it is far from that. If the Taylor Wimpey leasehold housing scandal has taught us anything it is that the public are woefully uninformed as to the realities and obligations. This is also not helped by an estate agency culture that tends to shy away from informing clients afraid that...

Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, try to claim he was "brainwashed" by his ISIS fighter uncle he "hero worshipped"

“It happened as quickly as it began,” says Mbira, percussionist, vocalist and marimba Zimbabwean musician John Falsetto.  He’s commenting on a musical journey that has so far lasted two years for himself and his fellow artists who have helped create the album Sounds of Refuge. Mohamed Sarrar, a Sudanese musician, actor and poet smiles in agreement, perhaps quietly ruminating on meeting John for the first time in workshops for The Jungle, a show currently running in London’s West End.He might...

While high income households gain financially by switching to metering, a study suggests that less well off families are, on average, around £10 worse off

During 1898, diamond magnate Woolf Joel hosted a dinner for fourteen guests at The Savoy – one of London’s most iconic hotels. Just before dinner commenced, one of Joel’s guests cancelled, reducing the party size to thirteen. Against the behest of more superstitious guests, the host decided the dinner should go ahead, already warned that death would befall the first person to leave the table, according to an old wives’ tale regarding dinner parties of thirteen. Woolf Joel defiantly decided...

Janbaz Tarin, 21, was being hunted by police after Raneem Oudeh, 22, and her mother Khaola Saleem, 49, died from stab wounds in the early hours of Monday (27/8)

For my money, one of the major new cinematic talents discovered in recent years was not an actor, a director or a screenwriter but 37-year-old cinematographer Lukasz Zal, who was camera operator on Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida. Zal stepped in as DP just after just a few days when Ryszard Lenczewski left the film. It could have been said that Lenczewski laid the foundation for that gorgeous film but with this, his second collaboration with Pawlikowski, I think a solid argument...

Tripe, eel and tongue have been added to a “critically endangered foods” list after new research revealed some of our most traditional culinary treats may be on the way out. With popular cuts of meat now widely available at affordable prices the days of nose-to-tail cooking seem to be drifting by the wayside - and it’s all down to those pesty Millennials. According to Ubamarket a quarter of millennials find it hard to locate the more diverse ingredients on their...