Shared ownership viable option for first-time buyers
By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent - the estate agent comparison website First-time buyers purchasing a home hit a record high according to the National Association of Estate Agents. 32 per cent of total property sales in October 2016 was made to first timers. The average age of a first-time buyer in London is now 33 - some at a stage of life when they want more than a one-bedroom starter home. With...
London’s Best New Restaurant Openings – February 2017
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. Aster – Victoria The latest restaurant from D&D London, Aster has opened at Nova Food next to Victoria station. Set across two floors, the space comprises a 161-cover café and deli, plus an upstairs 122-cover restaurant and cocktail bar. As for the food, the kitchen will be overseen by Executive Chef Helena Puolakka, having previously held the...
Trump Voters Take To Twitter With Woeful Trump Regrets
It's just over a week since The Don was inaugurated 45th President of the United States and that constant clatter you can hear are the pennies dropping for disappointed Donald Trump voters. Already. Yes with historic unfavourable polling for a newly inaugurated President, most voters in a recent poll believed Donald Trump would prove to be even more unpopular than Richard Nixon. And the speed with which Trump voters have realised that maybe they should not have voted for the reality...
Article 50 Vote: Watch Brexit Rebels Lay Into ‘Government Full Of Bastards’
MPs last night backed the government's European Union Bill by a massive majority of 384 allowing the Bill to pass through to the next stages in parliament and further towards Prime Minister Theresa May Brexit starting negotiations, as the Labour leadership supported the progress of Prime Minister Theresa May's Bill for now. Despite losing the vote by 498 votes to 114 the rebels objected, citing facts, experts and their own consciences. Former frontbencher Labour Wakefield MP Mary Creagh gave this impassioned speech yesterday...
After Texan mosque is burnt down local Jews offer synagogue to Muslims
When you think the world has gone mad and hate seems to have overcome reason, this news should warm your heart. People from opposing faiths have come together to offer assistance to those in need. After a Texan mosque was hit by an arson attack, after Trump banned people from seven predominately Muslim countries entering the US, local Jewish people came to their aid. Jewish people in a small Texas city handed Muslim worshippers the keys to their synagogue after the...
Well over half a million British people could die suddenly, research finds
Worrying new information has been released which will panic many people regarding their heart health. The British Heart Foundation believe that over 600,000 carry a faulty gene, which acts to increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. If this inherited heart condition can be deadly, currently twelve people a day tragically die from a sudden cardiac attack. Even more worryingly most people who have this faulty gene do not know that are at risk. The British Heart Foundation have released...
Disguising: Industrial fly-tippers dump 50 huge blocks of waste in beauty spot
Police are hunting "industrial fly-tippers" who dumped 50 huge blocks of compressed recyclable rubbish at a beauty spot popular with mountain bikers and walkers. Tens of thousands of discarded plastic bottles, bags and cardboard boxes which had been compacted into 10ft-high cubes were left strewn across the path. Cyclists and walkers were forced to squeeze past the stinking piles of trash after they were discovered on the route between Biddulph and Brindley Ford, Staffs., on Saturday (28/1). Staffordshire Police and...
PMQs 1st Feb – When I say that somethin’ I want to hold your hand
There was only really one topic, which would dominate today’s session: should Theresa May have catapulted herself across the Atlantic to meet Donald Trump, and beg him to come for a state visit to meet our Liz. Corbyn demanded to know why May had taken so long to condemn Trump’s travel ban on seven mainly Muslin states. Also he wondered if May will sell off the NHS to keep Trump happy. Should we really roll out the red carpet to...
TLE Meets…Sophie Willan
Introducing comedy star Sophie Willan, who brings her exceptional Edinburgh 2016 show, “On Record” to the UK with of 21 dates dotted all over the UK along with a very special stretch of 9 London dates at the Soho Theatre. We caught up with her for a quick chat... 1) What can people expect from your show? You can expect an anarchic and energetic show that explores my social services records from my childhood growing up in and out of...