By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Footage has come to light which appears to show Greek coast guards attempting to sink a migrant boat. It is assumed they did this to ensure the Turkish authorities were forced to pick them up, meaning they wouldn't be able to enter Europe. Instead the passengers would be taken to the port of Didim in Turkey, the place where numerous refugees make their dangerous voyages towards Europe. The clip was allegedly taken on November 12th....

By Callum Towler  How different things could have been? If Ukraine had joined Nato in 2008, 2014 may have been the year an Obama-led coalition - acting under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty - began gearing up for all out war against Russia following the illegal annexation of Crimea. Fast forward just a year later (a year of economic sanctions and frozen assets placed on Russia) and Putin is the new diplomatic darling; the prized jigsaw piece of Obama’s...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Taking residence within the newly opened Hilton Hotel within London’s Bankside, The Distillery was designed as a bar and meeting point for the local area’s residents with a chic, casual environment. Built on the former site of Stevenson & Howell’s Standard Works essence factory, The Distillery pays homage to its heritage by serving a range of signature cocktails that incorporate a number of homemade aromatics, infusions and bitters. Also available, the bar stocks 50...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Historians have created a timeline of the history of sweets in Britain dating back as early as 8000BC. Confectionery historian Tim Richardson created the timeline to show how our love of sweets has developed over the centuries, with Stone Age cave paintings showing our early ancestors raiding bee hives for honeycomb to get their sweet fix. And as the years went on, the first lollipops are thought to have been enjoyed way back in 1550AD, gums and pastilles...

By Rose Taylor Krishna Bahadur does not complain about his tin shack, quite the contrary. He says, compared to the tarpaulin cover under which he and his two sons spent two months it is like ‘a palace’. His sons Kamal, 12 and Ashok, 18, have said little to anyone since losing their mum Kusum. The 42 year old was killed instantly when the roof of their two-storey, mud house collapsed when an earthquake struck Nepal at 11.59am on 25 April...

By Rachel Jackson thegivingmachine.co.uk is a website that allows it’s users to generate free funds for schools, charities and good causes of their choice, simply by shopping on-line. It harnesses the sales commissions generated for website referrals and converts them into free donations for the causes the users (called Givers) have selected. It was an idea between four friends, who over pizza and beer, decided they wanted to make this free un-capped reoccurring income-stream accessible to thousands of good causes....

Steve Taggart  During Daily Politics this week a rude banner appeared behind presenter Andrew Neil's head while talking about the juniors doctors' strike. He was interviewing an MP and a doctor in front of a photograph of the recent protests against Jeremy Hunt's recent plans for the health service. Unfortunately for the TV producers the picture featured an image of a woman's genitals. The poster, which was carried in London last month during a march was captioned "an anatomy lesson...

By Lee Carnihan  Who creates 97 per cent of the money in our economy?  If you said the government or the Bank of England you're wrong. It's not a trick question but there’s more to it than meets the eye. The answer depends on which money you're talking about. If you mean the coins and notes you take out the cash machine, then yes, the Bank of England creates that "real" stuff. But that only accounts for three per cent...

Dawn O’Donnell was a convent girl who became a professional ice skater, travelled the world and then landed up in 1950s Australia, a penniless lesbian. By the time of her death in 2007, she had stormed through Sydney’s gay underworld and built herself an empire of bars, clubs, steam rooms, sex shops and drag shows, inspiring The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. This fascinating documentary explores the mythology (was she a mobster? an arsonist? a murderer?) and life...