It’s hard to understand what it must be like to have a high pitched screech ringing in your ears, every minute of every day. But that is exactly what life is like for 22-year old Clara Lilley, a fundraising campaign manager from London, who has tinnitus, the often debilitating hearing condition. Here, as part of Tinnitus Awareness Week (6-12 February), Clara explains how she has finally learnt to live with her diagnosis. “At about 14-years old I started going to...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent - the estate agent comparison website Figures released last week (30 January 2017) from Centre for Cities highlights the shape of the UK's 63 biggest cities in the run-up to the triggering of Article 51. The 2017 data reveals a clear divide between the North and South, with goods being exported mainly from the North and services from the South. Centre for Cities emphasise the relevance of...

20th Century Women sees the return of Beginners (2010) director Mike Mills in one of the most ambitiously stylish and quirky pieces of filmmaking of recent years. Being no stranger to technical wizardry from his years in the music video industry, Mills offers his audience an exhilarating mishmash of authentic 1970s nostalgia mixed with dream-like sequences and real-life footage, with a killer soundtrack to boot. Set in California during the summer of 1979, 20th Century Women charters some era-defining moments...

Most marketers out there understand how valuable Facebook advertising can be for a business. It can increase sales and can deliver a really good return on the investment made. The problem is that Facebook advertising is not at all easy. You can easily end up spending hundreds of dollars and not making much in return. Most people that start using such ads in marketing will make huge mistakes and will not manage to reap the benefits that professionals are used...

The dream of Thatcher’s government was a nation where everybody owned their own home. Council houses would not be needed, or at least only for the tiny minority who couldn’t afford it. Her huge sell-off of council houses in the 80s was supposed to eliminate the need for public housing, and create a new society, or indeed no society at all. This way of thinking has been the policy of every Conservative Government since Thatcher, and also under Tony Blair’s...

Another day, another NHS crisis, this new problem has been uncovered by the BBC. The amount of people who are “long waiters,” those who have exceeded an 18-week target, has increased hugely. There are now 350,000 people in this dire situation, which is a huge rise of 163% in just four years. Almost a tenth of people on the list have had to wait over the 18-week threshold before they receive their treatment. The number of people waiting for operations fell under...

This is the moment a ‘locked in’ lad who learned to write using his EYES met his hero Michael Morpurgo – and the author agreed to champion the schoolboy’s own book. Jonathan Bryan, ten, was born with severe cerebral palsy after his mum Chantal was in a car crash while pregnant, leaving him unable to walk and speak. His family were told he had ‘profound and multiple learning disabilities’ and teachers did not teach him to read and write. But...

A grandmother has praised the quick-thinking efforts of her grandson after she fell down a flight of stairs in the early hours of the morning. Paula Robbins was at her daughter’s home when she plunged from the top to bottom and was unable to move. As she lay in agony on the hallway floor, Oscar, aged eight, heard her screams and leaped out of bed to help her. He grabbed his 61-year-old gran’s phone, dialled 999 and calmly answered the...

By Richard Harries, Director of Research at the independent trust Power to Change The NHS may be our national religion, but libraries—which are marking National Library Day (4th Feb) ahead of a whole week of celebration in October—enjoy their own vaunted status in the fabric of British society. The success of our library service may not get many headlines, but once it is under threat then the great and the good speak up. ‘Libraries save lives’, announced Stephen Fry last...