By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent Landlords are being warned to look out for tenants who go away over the Christmas holidays and sublet their rental properties without consent. Total Landlord Insurance has revealed a 14 per cent increase in the number of malicious and accidental damage claims received this year, as a direct result of illegal subletting, through holiday rental sites such as Airbnb. Airbnb, synonymous with the ‘sharing economy’ has seen...

Part of the excitement of following football is the rivalries between clubs. When your team meets a side with which it has a score to settle, then tensions are high, and victory, if it comes, is all the sweeter. Of course, club rivalries can also spill over into ugly scenes of violence between supporters, as was the case during the heyday of football hooliganism in the 1970s and 1980s. This regrettable tendency has not entirely disappeared, but today, many of...

What is Christmas time for if not spending it off eating copious amounts of food and binge watching some of your favourite festive movies? The team at Childrens Bed Shop have put their creative heads together, argued long into the night, and drawn up a list of their ten favourite Christmas films that both you and the kids can enjoy together! The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992) As good as any adaptation as you’re ever likely to get, The Muppets retelling...

A few weeks back I joked about David Davis learning of an interesting alliance called the European Union following revelations that the Brexit MP was considering paying a fee for access to the single market as well as backtracking on several other mis-truths laid out on the campaign trail which would effectively leave us in a similar position to the one we voted to leave - just a few billion pounds lighter. It's a joke that seems to be becoming less funny...

People who leave school with no qualifications are more than twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as those with a university degree, according to new research. The findings come from a groundbreaking new Australian study of healthy ageing in the Southern Hemisphere. Researchers investigated the links between education and cardiovascular disease events - such as a heart attack or stroke - by following 267,153 men and women in the state of New South Wales aged over 45 for...

A strange case of “Schrodinger’s Chanting” has been spotted at football grounds amongst fans who simultaneously want to go home and not go home. Like the hypothesised cat, who is both dead and alive, new cases of football fans who are both heading home and not heading home have emerged disguised in chants that appear to indicate their disdain of a town as well as their eagerness to stay around and drink all its beer. The discovery came after Doncaster...

Pictures of surfers attempting to ride Britain's biggest wave have emerged as swells in excess of 15ft hit the Cornish coast. The meteorological phenomenon known as the giant 'Cribbar'  occurs just a handful of times a year and is officially the biggest wave breaking anywhere in the world today. Among the brave souls taking up the challenge was Henry Neill, who made the journey all the way from Australia to attempt it. Before his failed attempt, Henry said: "I've been waiting for a swell...

A bungled burglar blamed the Tories after he stole seven bottles of whisky, vodka, brandy and Drambuie from Waitrose, saying "they're the real criminals". The 57-year-old launched into a 15-minute tirade whilst representing himself in court, blaming "the looting Tories". During the rant, he also blamed a chief constable, who he claimed to have shamed, the high suicide rate, power prices, Tony Blair, David Cameron's broken election promises and his lack of an education. He appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday and...

Three unsuspecting families were reunited for Christmas in a tear-jerking festive video that's sure to warm your cockles. The families got the surprise of a lifetime when they turned up to a hotel to film a special video message they thought they had won in a competition, only to find that the family members had been flown in for Christmas. The families were then treated to a festive weekend in London enjoying everything from Christmas shopping in Oxford Circus, to seeing...