Humans are allocated less space on flights than that given by law to cattle on their way to slaughter, shocking new research has revealed. Based on a medium sized calf weighing 75kg (the average weight of a human) the legal entitlement for cattle in transportation is 0.5m2  . On a flight, the average space per passenger is 0.35m2. Kate Andrews, Loco2’s co-founder and COO behind the research comments on the findings: "As a train travel evangelist, I’m always looking for...

It’s official: on Wednesday 4 April, travellers can travel direct from London to Amsterdam by train, doing away with the need for airport rigmarole. The extension of the Eurostar comes after a number of delays to the launch. But track improvements mean that the London-Brussels journey has also benefitted, with 17 minutes being shaved off its journey. The inaugural journey takes place on 23 March but on 4 April, the new service will begin in earnest, luring away some of...

There's something special about seeing someone in cabin crew uniform. Like when you see a flight attendant striding through the airport and you stop and stare. But how have cabin crew uniforms changed over the years? With London Fashion Week starting tomorrow, TLE decided to take a look at how style above the clouds has evolved since WW2. Take a look at these incredible pictures by Air New Zealand, which show cabin crew uniforms dating back to 1946. Notice how the...

By Sammy Russell A number of pro-Brexit figures have criticised the transition period for leaving the UK a ‘vassal state’. Granted, the conditions of the transition period are a world away from the ‘take back control’ mantra of the Brexiteers - it leaves the UK a neutered state. But for the Brexiteers, championing a transition has always been their best bet. The UK leaves the EU at the end of the Article 50 period in March 2019 (the point of no...

This is the heartbreaking moment a little girl with a rare syndrome - often called childhood Alzheimer's - told her mom and dad she loved them for the last time.

Well hi there, and how's tricks? My apologies, and they are reasonably sincere, for having been absent from these (web) pages for two months. Since summarizing 2017 as the year that was I've taken a well-needed break from iPhone journalism to do some generally tedious yet altogether better paying work. Besides that, writing twice weekly about Donald J. Trump aka The Ingrate pumpkin, or the great march of the lemmings that is Brexit had become an infinitely depressing exercise, akin...

A new study has found that a third of UK office workers only tidy their desks if their boss is coming into the office. The reason?  Almost half (45%) of those questioned think they are more likely to get a promotion if they have a tidy desk. The research, conducted by office supply specialists Fellowes, also hints that there could be an organisational crisis in UK offices, with the average employee spending seven working days per year looking for misplaced paperwork....

An Islamic fanatic who used Twitter and Instagram to spread "poisonous" propaganda to promote ISIS has been jailed. Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, used more than 20 Twitter and Instagram accounts to share his pro-Daesh messages between 2016 and 2017. Detectives from the Met arrested at him home address in East London in April 2017 after investigating his online activities. One of Saleem's tweets included an image of two 'zombie knives', with just the word "itching". Another showed a second man...

A cannabis law reform lobbying group has hit out at a Tory drugs minister for what they call “hypocrisy” for opposing drugs reforms while her husband’s company has a lucrative contract growing cannabis. Victoria Atkins husband's company is in partnership with GW Pharmaceuticals, a UK biotech firm, which is developing Epidiolex, a synthetic drug made from cannabis plants and used to treat childhood epilepsy. Families with children with epilepsy around the world have been medicating the condition with natural cannabis...