By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  An innovative luggage concept that charges your phone when you’re on the go has reached its Kickstarter goal of $125,000 in just six hours and earned over $1,000,000 in pledges since. G-RO provides an attractive and ergonomic solution to the needs of today’s mobile people in areas of mobility, convenience, comfort, ergonomics, durability, and aesthetics based on innovative engineering and design concepts. The ‘intelligent luggage’ boasts a number of breakthrough features, including a reinvented wheel...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic  Take Interstate 5 through Seattle and you will find yourself traversing one of the most iconic coffee trails in the World. Heading downtown you pass Elm and Slate Coffee Roasters on 2nd Av before hitting the behemoth Starbucks Reserve Roastery on Pike Street. You skirt Vitrola and Stumptown Roasters and the renowned Ugly Mug café heading north, accounting for a huge swathe of the coffee supply chain in America and world-wide. Seattle’s rise...

By Rob Foster @futuresinfinite There’s no doubting that when it comes to political fashion, devolution is one of this Parliament’s essential items.  Following the Scottish referendum, the much-vaunted “Northern Powerhouse” schemes & the introduction of the Cities &Local Government Devolution Bill, the recent deadline for local proposals to be submitted to DCLG saw over thirty detailed bids put forward.  Cities, regions, counties & as yet unnamed combinations of local areas in England are bidding to assume greater powers & responsibilities from...

Rob Foster @FuturesInfinite interviews Simon Parker author of Taking Power Back Published by Policy Press Local Devolution in England is at the forefront of political thinking at the moment, although like all seemingly overnight sensations it’s taken a long time to arrive. Do you think its time has finally come, that genuine devolution really is going to happen? What would you say are the biggest obstacles? Well devolution is happening & it is real, & we’re seeing substantial powers going...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  New research has revealed the top 50 signs that you're a competitive mum. Queueing up to get the front seats for the school play, always winning the ‘mums race’ on sports day and producing ‘Bake Off’ standard cakes for the fair are just some of the ways competitive mums try to impress, the study found. Other ways mums try to ‘get-one-up’ on the opposition include making sure the children have all the latest technology and...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic If there was ever a meat in need of a bit of PR TLC it’s pork, and it’s right now. A week after a report by the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer was revealed and the meat, a staple part of the British diet, is still reeling after researchers placed processed meats such as sausages and bacon in the same category of cancer risk as tobacco and asbestos....

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Just seconds from Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square, sandwiched between Oxford Street and Berkely Square, Avista holds one of the most prestigious dining destinations in central London. Opened as a rustic yet contemporary Italian restaurant a few years ago, the a la carte menu is now particularly contemporary, matched with an impressive wine list of mainly Italian fine wines. Many of the area’s higher-end Italian restaurants are remarkably pretentious, but thankfully this is not the case...

Sport News 24/7 By Noy Shani  @NoyShani  @TLE_Sport For ten young British athletes this November 5th will be more than just Bonfire night after they were shortlisted for the prestigious SportsAid One-to-Watch award. Previous winners of the award that was launched in 2006 include diver Tom Daley and skeet shooter Amber Hill, who was also crowned BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. The Duchess of Cambridge, a SportsAid’s Patron has presented the award for the last two years. View...

Home-owners in Britain face a startling post-code lottery when it comes to the cost of repairing household gadgets and appliances. Do you repair your old appliances, or just go out and buy new ones? It's widely known that costs of living in the capital have continued to soar compared to regional counterparts.  However, new research shows that those living in London also face the highest hourly labour charges in the UK for repairing and mending old appliances, with those living...