By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent The Beacon, due to complete in 2018 has launched as the world’s most sustainable residential tower. It will save residents up to £11,000 a year in living expenses. Located 24 minutes from London Euston, bordered by over 400 acres of protected Boxmoor Trust Green Belt land at the heart of Hemel Hempstead’s regeneration district, the 17-storey tower will generate sufficient heat and power from on-site renewable energy...

Cosmetics and beauty products are a multi-billion dollar business, and nothing is more valuable for a cosmetics brand than a celebrity endorsement. But many of today’s most famous stars are turning to a much cheaper option for their beauty routine: essential oils. Essential oils such as argan oil have earned the praise of A-list stars and international models, who claim they play a major role in keeping their hair, skin and nails healthy. Earlier this year, the Mail Online reported...

TheLondonEconomic.com Sport brings you Flats and Shanks Rugby Review. This week, the lads chat about life with Brian O’Driscoll and he ends up feeling weird about Shanks’ invite to meet up in Dubai.  So awks... http://rss.acast.com/flatsandshanks/episode13-brianodriscollandhislife/media.mp3 David Flatman and Tom Shanklin are two former professional rugby players. Having been flatmates while playing at Saracens, their friendship endured, and now they’d like to share with you bunches of views and thoughts and jokes. Flats and Shanks David Luke Flatman or 'Flats' is a...

New figures show that there are currently 65 million across the globe displaced from their homes due to unprecedented levels of conflict, the highest since World War II. It is not just Syrians and Iraqis who have been forced to flee; ongoing violence and instability in South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Nigeria – among others – have resulted in the huge scale movement of desperate people. Most stay within their own country or are hosted in neighbouring countries...

A charity has raised serious concerns about the neglect that teenagers are suffering. The Children’s Society Troubled Teens report found that over one in seven year ten pupils suffer neglect at the hands of their parents or guardians. These shocking statistics are “deeply worrying’ according to the report. The researched consisted of two thousand 12-15-year-olds who completed an online questionnaire and the research was conducted by York University. The survey was spread across the country and involved over seventy different...

Professional darts player Eric Bristow could find himself in hot water over a homophobic rant over football’s sexual abuse scandal. The five time World Champion, who is also an MBE, tweeted that he would have "sorted that poof out" if he was a child in that position, adding that "footballer's are wimps". He later corrected his tweet saying he meant to say "paedo" rather than "poof", after posting a string of tweets about how people are scared to speak the truth. Twitter...

Ditching Dubai for Ras-al-Khaimah: Why Dubai’s Quiet Neighbour is Proving a Holidaymakers’ Hit You’ve almost certainly heard of Dubai and there’s a good chance that “Dubai,” conjures up images of that iconic skyline. Dubai is a popular destination for a break amongst British tourists. But there’s a new kid on the block pulling tourists into the United Arab Emirates and you might never have heard of it. Ras-al-Khaimah is less than an hour by road from Dubai International Airport, boasts...

The mercury is plummeting and daylight is limited to say the least. Winter can really get some of us down here in the UK. So it’s little wonder that the idea of a sunshine escape in the British wintertime holds so much appeal. And with more competitively priced flights, escaping the winter freeze can be really affordable. We spoke to the experts at Holiday Gems to find out the best and cheapest winter sun destinations.   Egypt While flights to...

By Linda Marric @linda_marric Spike Lee's adaptation of of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes manages to avoid the usual pitfalls of play to screen adaptations. Chi-Raq is a play on words coined by Chicagoans, based on a statistic showing that more Americans have died from gun violence in the last decade than soldiers in the Iraq war. In Chi-Raq Lee cleverly addresses not only black-on-black gun violence, but also delves into the misogyny of gang culture; it is a...