Conservative Party receive over half of all political donations
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Political donations are always a controversial topic and don’t sit well with most voters. Who is giving these gifts and why, are the questions most people wonder, when parties end up with huge sums of money. Well of all the political parties the Conservative Party receives more in donations than the rest of the parties put together this year, it has just been revealed. Over £6.7 million of the nearly £12 million in donations that...
PMQs 25th May – The cries, moans and fears of the Brexiteers
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was stand in day, so our esteemed chancellor and Angela Eagle stepped in to take the reins, but both became whipping boys for the same issues that effect Cameron and Corbyn at every PMQs, who I’ve labelled “Camcor’, and I hate myself for it. Eagle argued that the Conservative are split down the middle over the EU, Osborne quite rightly pointed out that the Labour Party is hardly a picture of unity. Osborne referred...
London’s Newest Tech Hub ‘TMRW’ Opens Its Doors In Croydon
A £2 million tech hub has opened its doors in South London as part of the government’s significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration of Croydon. ‘TMRW’ opened today with financial backing from Croydon Council and the Greater London Authority. The new hub will provide state of the art facilities and a rich ecosystem for the capital’s most progressive technology businesses looking to scale up and grow fast. This is part of the government’s (and industry’s) significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration...
Move over Tinder, new website helps men find two or more wives
Muslim Polygamy website is now attracting British men An on-line service to help Muslim men find second wives is attracting a substantial number of sign-ups. The site boasts of being the first site of its kind and aims to help men find more wives, whether their current partners know about this, we don’t know. The site SecondWife.com has reached its 25,000 new member. The site is actually the most popular polygamy website in the UK and then the US in terms...
Beer of the Week – Einstök Icelandic Arctic Pale Ale
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 5.6% Brewed: Akureyi, Iceland Named after the Icelandic word for “unique” – Einstök Brewery is located within the fishing port of Akureyi, 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Boasting some of the Earth’s purest water, which flows from rain and prehistoric glaciers through the Hlíðarfjall Mountain and ancient lava fields, thus allowing the brewery to craft some truly brilliant beers. Three beers currently make up their core range, including a truly remarkable white ale, an...
Ashford On Track To Get £4 Million Model Railway Centre
Ashford in Kent is on track to get a £4 million model railway centre which is expected to attract up to 500,000 visitors a year to South East England. The local council has agreed to provide a secured loan to purchase land for its new home which will allow Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre (AIMREC) to buy land at the former Klondyke railway works. This will assist AIMREC to raise funds to press ahead with their ambitious plans to build a model railway...
Richest pay less income tax than the worst off in Britain
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly the worst ten per cent of households actually paid back 47 per cent of their earnings back in taxes in 2014/15 compared to only 34 per cent for the richest ten per cent, reports the Mirror. The news will come as no shock to the households who struggle to feed themselves and regularly use food banks even though one or both members of the family will have paid employment. In the UK having a...
Spendaholic? Can’t save? In debt? Read this…
A beginner's guide to budgeting Budgeting can feel like a daunting prospect for some, if you haven’t paid attention to your bank account each month actually looking at how much you have left midway through could have you spiraling into a pit of despair – but it doesn’t have to be this way! If you’re new to budgeting, here’s how to get started instead of burying your head in the sand and watching the numbers tick over into the minus moments...
Low Interest Rates Fuel Widespread Investment Fraud
A sustained period of low interest rates is fuelling widespread investment fraud, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), with over 55s most at risk. With interest rates set to remain at 0.5 per cent well into 2020, savers are adopting riskier investment behaviour to get more bang for their buck. Four in ten people aged over 55 have moved money out of savings and into investments in a bid to get a better rate of return, with 23 per cent saying they are considering investing...