The pressures on NHS have been highlighted again in a new study. The research found that forty per cent of doctors have admitted to falling asleep while driving their vehicles home after a night shift. This has even led to some NHS staff cashing into other cars with fatal consequences. Other staff mentioned close calls with other road users, that could have ended in disaster. The study polled 1,100 NHS workers to gauge how serious this issue was. These worrying...

IT engineer and extreme swimmer Michael Ventre is hoping to swim 3,800 miles from New York to London alongside a support vessel – a feat which has never been attempted before, which aims to raise money for Oxfam. Michael, who successfully swam the English Channel in 2011, plans to make his world-first attempt at swimming the Atlantic in April this year. The unprecedented open water challenge will take him between four and seven months and will present an incredible test...

The Beslan School Massacre in Russia began on September 1st 2004 and lasted for three days before special forces brought it to an end. Of the 1,100 hostages held by the Chechen rebels, around 385 were killed, 186 of them children. Us/Them is a physical theatre response by playwright Carly Wijs and features two protagonists, a boy and girl, who interweave around the audience a web of their very different imaginary accounts of what it was and may have been...

In celebration of Scottish poet and writer Robert Burns’s Birthday (25th January), Burns Night takes place this week. Falling on Wednesday, a great number of Burns Night events are taking place across the week to celebrate. From Scottish-inspired set menus to whisky tastings and the occasional deep-fried Mars bar, here’s our pick of the best food and drink events to celebrate Burns Night in London. Mac & Wild One of London’s best Scottish restaurants, Mac & Wild will host a whole...

Today Google has announced a new initiative to rid the internet of fake news. Fifty thousand pounds of seed capital has been offered to the group that can find claims online and determine whether or not they are true. But for such a pitiful amount of start-up cash you’d be better throwing the money down the drain. The problem is that it’s near impossible to fit fake news into an algorithmic solution. It is often more a manipulation of facts...

With Burns Night fast approaching, this week’s recipe is quintessentially Scottish, yet it’s a million miles away from traditional haggis, neeps and tatties. Graced with such an astonishing natural larder, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Scotland has direct access to some of the globe’s finest sea food. So what better restaurant to provide a recipe than Edinburgh’s Ondine? These scallops from Chef Patron Roy Brett are relatively simple to prepare at home and make for an impressive starter or light...

There's a healthy mix of material for our first playlist of the year. We're still reeling from Run The Jewels' surprise Christmas Day release of their third LP. With the Presidential Inauguration and the civil unrest in Washington that accompanied it fresh in our minds, Killer Mike and El P's stylised sermonising feels like vital listening. Elsewhere we have the first hints of new material in ages from Arcade Fire and Japandroids and atmospheric loveliness from Bonobo and SOHN. If...

By Leslie Byron Pitt @afrofilmviewer The first question which left my lips after viewing The Wailing was a simple one? Why so Long? Na Hong-jin’s (The Chaser, The Yellow Sea) third feature is by no means a bad movie. Far from it. Like many of the more successful Korean exports the West have managed to experience, The Wailing is an often-successful tonal mix of styles which happily shifts and contorts itself around whatever the expression the scene thinks would suit...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent With property prices increasing rapidly, many are priced out of the market. Cash based savings are underperforming making it harder to save money. A new online Property ISA lets you invest in property from £100. Launched in the latter part of 2016, it has been awarded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) status for its first fund, bringing greater tax benefits to anyone who chooses to invest through...