Young people in London are facing a growing affordability crisis, new research has shown, with the commuter belt expanding to the east. Findings from the study show many Londoners are moving further afield to reduce their rent burden, possibly while they save for a house of their own. Less affordable areas in London’s commuter belt, those with higher average rents and particularly those in the South East, have seen less demand and therefore slower rental growth. Conversely eight out of ten counties...

GQ once described Son Little as 'Soul music for the hip-hop generation", but never has the description made more sense than on his new track, 'Demon To The Dark' a simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking soul ballad. The song is from Son Little’s forthcoming album New Magic which arrives 15h September on ANTI-. “Sometimes when things get hectic or I'm feeling low I listen to Washington Phillips, an old gospel/blues musician who played an autoharp-like instrument he made called a ‘Manzarene,’ Son Little says. "I tried...

Empiric buys Hahnemann building in Liverpool - The Board of Empiric Student Property has announced that the Group has exchanged contracts to acquire the freehold of the Hahnemann Building (the "Property") in Liverpool for GBP10.8 million (excluding costs). The acquisition is expected to complete in October 2017. The Hahnemann Building is a Grade II listed building within an established student area in Liverpool. The Property was originally Liverpool Hahnemann Hospital and has been converted into a high specification student accommodation scheme...

Live flight data of a Boeing 797 shows it is drawing a huge Dreamliner across the United States of America. Flight BOE004 set off from Seattle over ten hours ago according to AirNav data. It has since travelled east to Michigan before turning back on itself and heading into the central states of America, carving out a picture of a Dreamliner on its route. The flight path, which can be seen unfurling now, seems to be a publicity stunt for Boeing...

In a week of incredible soap opera antics at the White House, you may have missed the barely reported testimony of a businessman named William Browder to the US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Russian meddling in the US election. Whether Donald Trump’s weird tweets, weirder attack on transexuals in the armed forces and Anthony Scaramucci’s spectacularly bizarre ill-fated eight days as White House Communications Director can be put down to stupidity or conspiracy to deflect from some of the most...

Figures released by High Pay Centre are a ‘scandal’, says GMB union It would take a worker on a normal salary more than 150 years to earn the average yearly pay packet trousered by top chief executives FTSE100 companies, says GMB. Figures released by the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development today show the average pay received by CEOs of FTSE100 listed companies in 2016 was £4.5million. The average median full time wage in the...

The early Greeks - creators of Europe's first advanced civilisations - descended from migrants from modern day Turkey, reveals new research. An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar - with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. Researchers say they likely migrated from Anatolia to Greece and Crete thousands of years before the Bronze Age. Modern Greeks, in turn, are largely descendants of the Mycenaeans, the study found. The researchers analysed tooth...

By Wyndham Hacket Pain  Maud Lewis remains one of Canada’s best known folk artists. Despite suffering from rheumatoid arthritis that restricted her movement she still managed to produce her much loved paintings. At one point her fame grew to the extent that she was featured in magazines and on television, and even sold a painting to the then Vice-President Richard Nixon. Maudie opens in provincial Nova Scotia during the 1930s, where Maud Dowley (Sally Hawkins) is frustrated at the lack of...

A recent court case in Bristol saw a group of property guardians granted legal recognition as tenants for the first time, thus phasing out property guardianship in the city. Bristol’s property guardians have been told they will need to leave their accommodation “as and when the buildings are needed” by the council, but this is expected to take at least twelve months to come into effect. Property guardianship is and has been a source of controversy ever since it came...