Celebrating great London food and the culinary philosophy of London’s leading airline to the USA - Delta -the airline’s lead chef Linton Hopkins has collaborated with James Lowe of Lyle's in Shoreditch. Showcasing the sort of meals available in business class on-board international flights, both chefs have worked on a number of dishes initially designed for club box guests attending Chelsea matches at Stamford Bridge this season. The duo’s Gamekeeper’s Pie, for instance, features venison shoulder, pheasant legs and rabbit with a...

Theresa May has claimed that the government’s approach to Brexit “isn’t very muddling at all” in a TV interview today. The claim comes after the government’s former ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, criticised the government’s approach in a strongly worded resignation email last week. May said “Look, we know exactly what we want. There is absolutely no confusion at all. Come March we are gong to invoke article 15 and that will be that.” “Yes we have been...

Remain is down in Scotland, Leave is up in every English region and is unchanged in London. By all accounts, the notion of Brexit buyers' remorse following a rocky and calamitous start to negotiations could be misguided. That's according to a new poll conducted by Saga which shows Brexit support is up two per cent overall among over-50s, as well as being up in every English region. Meanwhile Remain support in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is down. The poll, leaked on political blogsite...

Managing money stress: 8 top tips to help manage your finances Almost half of people in the UK are said to be suffering from stress in some form and the most common cause of this stress is money. Yet, if you are feeling that money is an issue for you then you don’t need to suffer in silence. There are things you can do to wrest back control. Here are eight top tips for you to try… Have a spending...

I'm not a pretentious man, but I do hate it when restaurants chains try to imitate independents. You may think rows of Bill's, Comptoir Libanais and Las Iguanas have improved the culinary outlook of Britain's high street, but in reality they have done little more than create a beige blueprint for our civic identity. We once had these places confined to out of city locations in shopping centres or retail parks, but as we upgraded our Victorian arcades for modern eyesores - Leeds...

Over the past eighteen months, I’ve visited Mayfair’s 8 Mount Street on three different occasions – eating at a different restaurant each time. In June 2015, Le Chabanais opened on the site (named after a French brothel) and closed soon after. A few months later, the restaurant re-opened with a new name (8 Mount Street) and under new management. Though the menu of Modern-European food was fine, everything was completely let down by dining room; a narrow dining space embellished...

This year people in the UK will suffer more than 300,000 fractures because of the bone disease osteoporosis. That’s one fracture every two minutes. The good news is, there’s plenty you can do to keep your bones strong. Here’s some tips from the National Osteoporosis Society to help you stay fracture free in 2017. It’s easy to assume that osteoporosis only affects older people and is an inevitable part of the ageing process, but – according to the National Osteoporosis...

A road in South London has already reached, and breached, the annual pollution limit for the entirety of 2017 just five days into the new year.  Brixton Road, the busy main road that cuts through Brixton, nitrogen dioxide levels have already exceeded EU limits set for an entire year. The road is often full of buses passing through Brixton into Central London, often leaving a large number sitting in traffic jams as the road bottlenecks, as it goes through the...

A report has revealed the shocking level of loneliness of the elderly people in the UK. Figures from Age UK found that for half a million people aged over 60 for up to 6 days a week without speaking or even seeing anyone. There is a hidden army of people who are totally isolated from society and are suffering in silence. In response Age UK has launched a report titled “'No one should have no one: working to end loneliness...