A young woman who battled cancer was able to pass her test first time, after taking driving lessons on the way back from chemotherapy treatment sessions. Brave Katie Rickett, 17 passed the tough driving test a mere two weeks after the end of her treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Katie was sadly diagnosed back in May with the cancer, which develops in the lymphatic system, and like all cancers can be fatal. She was givien treatment by the teenage cancer ward...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent - the estate agent comparison site On 4 October 2016, The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme released its latest annual report revealing an increase in the number of consumers contacting the scheme for help. In the Ombudsman’s first annual report following her appointment last year, Katrine Sporle provides an overview of 2015, which confirms the scheme: Received 16,265 enquiries from consumers seeking advice. Resolved 3,304 formal complaints (a...

A luxury cat food for the “insanely rich” goes on sale this week costing an eye-watering £9,000 a year and including ingredients such as Arenkha caviar, line-caught Scottish salmon, hand-caught Norfolk lobster and locally-sourced Devon crab! The yearly cost of the fodder is more than twice the average food and drink spend of a typical British family, according to Office of National Statistics figures. It works out at a pricey £10 for an 85g tin compared to an average Sheba tin which...

A student who is paid to party on yachts all summer by a British clothing giant says her job is "hard work". Ella Crockett, who’s in her third year at Newcastle University, got a job as an ambassador for fashion brand Jack Wills. She was shipped out to Nantucket Island on the east coast of the USA and told to promote the label. beach days with just a few union jacks ??☀️ A photo posted by Ella Crockett (@ellacrockett) on Jul 28,...

Peckham commuters were treated to a celebrity train conductor when Star Wars actor John Boyega took over the train tannoy. The 24-year-old actor told stories and attempted to make the train “go at lightspeed” when joined his sister Blessing from the control room of the Southeastern service to Orpington on Friday. Unsuspecting passengers sitting onboard the train listened to around 15 “informative announcements” including a joke about how John’s uncle pronounces ‘Penge’. The international star’s video soon went viral on social...

With the 19th annual National Curry Week taking place this week (10th-16th October), we’ve compiled a selection of curry recipes from a number of chefs and London restaurants. In addition to the many events taking place across the country, these home kitchen-friendly dishes are the ideal way to celebrate National Curry Week at home. Prawn Malai Curry from Shrimoyee Chakraborty, Founder of Calcutta Street Ingredients Makes one portion King prawns, 200g Onion, 1, blended Garlic, 1 large clove, coarsely chopped...

Worrying television footage of Trump discussing politics has emerged overnight in the latest setback to his controversial Presidential campaign. In the footage Trump can be heard at one point attempting to address political ideas and policies, in a recording likely to upset most people in the world. Linguistic experts have examined the poor quality footage in which Trump can be heard mumbling incoherently and flitting between subjects, and worked tirelessly overnight to piece together fragments of his sentences into one...

The powerful documentary Still Loved is set to be shown in London at the end of the month to coincide with Baby Loss Awareness Month which runs throughout October. The film has been released in an effort to break the stigma that surrounds the death of a baby, which remains hidden from society and shamefully un-discussed. Each year in the UK over 5,000 parents leave hospital without their baby. One in four pregnancies end in a loss. Still Loved overcomes this silence by showing parents’ stories...

By RB Work in an office? Here’s a handy list of the top five people you’re bound to run into. The suck up Adept at instantaneously assessing whether or not your approval is valuable to their career progression, the suck up knows exactly who they, well, need to suck up to. With a nose browner than an SAS camouflage task force, they follow management around like a disabled Labrador desperately searching for its owner. Beware. They’re as slippery as a...