Curious about the investment potential of real estate or wondering if advetorials promising millions of pounds in returns through real estate investment are real? The first thing to do here is to learn how wealth is created through real estate. This article won't focus on the strategies to profit from real estate. Instead, it will focus on the basic ways that money can be generated through real estate. What’s clear is that this hasn’t changed in centuries. Appreciation This is the most common...

By Linda Marric Shot over a three year period, All This Panic is perhaps one of the most comprehensive looks at female youth ever achieved by a documentary film-maker. Director Jenny Page and her cinematographer husband Tom Betterton took on the mammoth task of following a group of girls from New York through some of the most difficult years of their lives. Hormones, mood swings and   tantrums are captured by the director as the girls learn how to navigate around...

TEAM. BUILDING. Two fateful words guaranteed to cause everyone in the office to break into a cold sweat and start nervously eyeballing the fire exits. Forget unsociable hours, forget employee benefit packages, and forget office politics. Nothing instils fear in the minds of business leaders, HR departments and employees alike quite like walking the team-building tightrope. From blood chilling revelations spilt forth in the horror of the ‘confidence circle’, to trust-falling straight to the floor as your colleague is distracted...

Millions of over 50s have suffered age ​discrimination at work, in shops and even in ​their local GP's surgery, the UK’s biggest-ever study into life after 50 has found. ​Since turning 50, almost four in ten people said they experienced some kind of age discrimination with 62 per cent of those believing they have lost out on a job because of it. One respondent, polled by over 50s insurance experts SunLife, was told by a recruitment agency it would be ‘difficult to place her’ due to her age, while another asked to be put​ on...

You wish to hear a tale that’s as old as time itself? How about the saga of a film studio desperate to recapture the magic? We’ve seen Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the antagonist; had Mowgli’s adventures in the jungle painstakingly retold to us with photo-real clarity; and found ourselves faced with Tim Burton’s warped vision of Wonderland… Never mind finding out if an angelic heroine will be strong enough to break the evil spell placed on a conceited...

Just beneath Sosharu restaurant in Clerkenwell, 7 Tales bar is part of Jason Atherton’s Social Company, which offers a constantly changing cocktail menu of drinks created by bartender Robyn Wilkie. Typically simplistic and influenced by Japanese culture, using Japanese ingredients, the bar’s drinks list generally features a selection of 10-12 cocktails. 7 Tales’ homage to St Patrick’s Day, for instance, combines Irish Jameson whiskey with Japanese Midori liqueur, Asahi lager, yuzu juice and coconut water. The drink is available at...

Modern life really does kill after a remote tribe living deep in the Amazon were found to have the healthiest arteries ever studied. A new study estimates that an 80-year-old from the Tsimane has the same vascular age as an American in their mid-fifties. Heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose were also much lower, probably as a result of the tribe's lifestyle, according to the researchers. The indigenous Tsimane people, who live in the Bolivian Amazon, have the...

The Gold Cup is always a special day in the racing calendar, and this year has been no different. Coinciding with St Patrick's day people have turned out in their droves to watch a day of racing that features one of the most prestigious races of the year. And on a day of the Irish, the luck of the nation has delivered several wins for native horses, jockeys and trainers. Sizing John took the Gold Cup for trainer Jessica Harrington,...

A huge lorry took 14 hours to travel 35 miles as it transported one of the heaviest loads ever to be taken on a British road - weighing a whopping 560 tonnes. The giant coils of steel cabling were transported on a truck which measured 6m (20ft) wide and 82m (269ft) long - which together weighed more than a space shuttle. The enormous vehicle brought traffic to a standstill as it crawled along roads at a maximum speed of just...