Converted Great Northern Railway Station Goes on the Market
A converted Great Northern Railways station in Rippingale, Lincolnshire has come on to the market for £600,000. The property comes with a detached engine shed, barn and even a steam train can be thrown in. According to the description on property website Zoopla, the property is set on approximately 1.2 acres (sts) and has various development opportunities within the main house, a detached engine shed and barn which could be converted into further dwellings, subject to planning permissions. Here's what you'll get for...
Sunshine highlights security concerns
The weather is warming up, the outdoors is beckoning and the nights are getting lighter. It all sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? It most respects it is but for all the feel-good factor that the onset of summer brings, it comes with its own cautionary note for home owners: crime rates go up in the summer. From a homeowner’s point of view, the key concern is not so much the overall crime rate as the number of...
‘Believe in Yourself’ and More Meaningless Advice
One surefire way to win the approval of the social media masses is to appeal to their sense of vanity. Better still is providing easy solutions to complicated problems, and problems that exist entirely in a person's mind. Enter 'Positive Thinking' – a movement that combines common sense advice with barefaced appeals to human narcissism and packages it as mental health or 'self care'. Positive Thinking has gone through many mutations, from the new age hippie mantras of the 1960s,...
Spirit of the Month – R&B Distillers Borders
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Heavily inspired by family tradition, R&B Distillers launched two brand new whiskies at the end of last year, setting the blueprint for what’s to expect from an ongoing project to build not one, but two new distilleries. Co-founder Alasdair Day’s great-Grandfather was a master blender in the Scottish Borders during the 19th century, and his other great-Grandfather hailed from the Hebrides, thus prompting the decision to build distilleries at these twin roots in the...
The Superinjunction: How Privacy Laws Created a New Generation of Celebrity
The ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold a gagging order preventing the naming of so-called ‘PJS’ at the centre of a threesome injunction has been met by a media outcry this morning, but that won’t prevent “kiss and tell stories” or “criticisms of private sexual conduct” been published. Free speech was “drowned in a paddling pool of olive oil” on Thursday proclaimed The Sun after five Supreme Court judges ruled by a majority of four to one that there...
Government caves in now NHS will be protected from TTIP
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the Government was facing a defeat in the lead up to the hotly debated EU referendum, they have accepted that the NHS will now be protected by the highly controversial TTIP. The amendment was backed by an unlikely alliance of SNP, Green, Tory and Labour MPs. Now there is a guarantee that the NHS will now be protected by the deal. The cross-party alliance of Eurosceptic MPs demanded the NHS is protected from controversial...
£2.45bn record deficit for England’s NHS
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Official figures released by NHS Improvement have shown that NHS trust in England, closed 2015-16 financial year, £461m worse off than had been forecasted. This means that we now have a record deficit in England of £2.45bn, the largest in its history. The health service is trying to cope with a large rise in demand and budget constraints, leaving it with this dire financial black hole. NHS financial experts claim the full scale of the...
VIDEO – Cameron fails to recreate Abbey Road pic
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As embarrassing things your dad would do, this must rate near the top. Today David Cameron attempted to recreate the Beatles' Abbey Road picture, but with only one other person, pop legend...Tessa Jowell. There is no way around it, it simply didn't work, Cameron strode across the zebra crossing, like an army major, with the ex-culture secretary leading the march across the road. The PM was at the world famous studios to meet 300 famous people...
VIDEO – Hunt mauled in The Thick of It
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Jeremy Hunt was taken apart by veteran broadcaster Jon Snow on Channel 4 News over the Junior Doctors fiasco, and millions tuned in to see the event. Expert video editor Chris Presswell noticed how well the interview fitted with a classic scene from BBC comedy series, ‘The Thick Of It’, and put this gem together, well worth a watch, even if you don't know the show, which you should, it's one of the best tv shows ever...