An unemployed man with severe learning difficulties who relies on foodbanks and spends days without electricity because of cuts to his benefits has been revealed as the real-life Daniel Blake following the film's release at cinemas. Sean Green, 49, says he has to rely on hot meals cooked by his neighbour in order to survive after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) cut his Jobseeker's Allowance. Friends have said he is being treated unfairly by the DWP because his learning difficulties...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent - the estate agent comparison site. More than four hundred-thousand landlords who pay the basic rate of tax will be forced into a higher tax bracket from April 2017, as planned changes to landlord taxation come in to force. The news comes as the National Landlord Association (NLA) met with Housing and Planning Minister, Gavin Barwell. Landlords can currently deduct mortgage interest payments, letting agent fees, insurance...

A plane carrying EU officials has crashed at Malta International Airport, leaving at least five people dead. According to early reports those on board were EU border officials travelling to Libya. The crash happened at around 05:30 this morning. The Times of Malta said the plane had been leased from Luxembourg for use by officials working with Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, however Frontext has tweeted to say the plane involved in the indecent was not deployed by them....

Aside from the daily snubs and the repeated bouts of condescension thrown by urbanites, one of the biggest tragedies about the public's perception of the Big Issue is how misunderstood it is. Did you know, for example, that one of the most offensive things you can say to a vendor is, "here's the money, but keep the paper"? As honourable as you may think that is, by doing so you are demoting that person from being a street vendor into a beggar, which is...

There’s a saying in the media industry that if you’re going to screw over one PR, you might as well screw over them all. Actually there’s not, but there really should be. Late last week I let rip on a Meantime Brewery campaign after receiving their latest gimmick that is a blatant attempt to pull the wool over the consumer’s eyes, a move not too dissimilar to the big players in the craft industry per se. Today, it’s whisky and the...

TLE asked our littlest gamers Woody, 9 and Rocky, 14  to give their verdicts on one of this year’s most wanted stocking-fillers: EA Sports FIFA 17. Woody: There's no football game franchise I like more than FIFA. In fact, at the moment FIFA 17 is is one of my favourite games. Rocky: Well to be honest we were never really that mad about football games, until that is we played FIFA 16 when it was first out. So we couldn't...

Created in collaboration between The Botanist (the first and only Islay Dry Gin) and Blixen bar in Spitalfields, 'The Vermillion Botanist' is this week’s cocktail recipe. Following an immersive foraging expedition with an expert forager and The Botanist’s Brand Ambassador – Abigail Clephane, Blixen’s bartenders were challenged to produce an innovative cocktail that would ‘reflect their wild side’, as well as challenging other bartenders from across the country to create their own foraged cocktails. Each participating bartender foraged their own...

The banks of the Thames are awash with good restaurants in central London, but if you want something special it lies around 35 nautical miles down-river. Bray on Thames is a village a set on the banks of the river a stone's throw from Maidenhead and five miles north-west of Windsor. Other than being home to renowned film studios and a glorious ecclesiastical parish, it is contains two of the four three-Michelin-starred restaurants in the United Kingdom. The Fat Duck, run by Heston...

Islington Councillor Flora Williamson received a death threat from a drug dealer following the closure of Fabric nightclub. Sebastian Clark-Darby sent a message stating "please note you have received official death threat" after Islington Council revoked the London venue's licence following the drug-related deaths of two teenagers. He was one of 150,000 to sign a petition opposing Fabric's closure before sending the 'stupid' email from his work computer. Clark-Darby has been jailed for eight months at Blackfriars Crown Court after previously admitting...