#11: Steve McNeil - LOL Addict  Uh oh. It’s happened again. About once a year I stumble across a game that just devours my time. Civilisation Revolution had me studying strategy guides at 3am. Minecraft has stolen literally thousands of hours of my life. But now there’s a new game in town. They’ve not even made me give them any money. It’s completely free, every game’s different, and it’s so deep that you can spend the rest of your life...

By Sharon Jones, Senior Tutor at Bolton Sixth Form College and Club Poet at Bacup Borough Fc.  Sharon runs a Football Poetry Workshops in schools, libraries, community centres, and you can find me @BBFCClubPoet and www.barbfc.co.uk Arsenal The Professor Resplendent in FA Cup glory Yet Gunners salivate for the source Of Premier Silverware To crown new princes of the park Create new artists Bergkamp Henry and Brady The Wright Wright Wright stuff of dreams Where football paves its pathway From the summits of...

Sport News 24/7 By Simon White  @SimonWhite14  @TLE_Sport Crystal Palace: A club perennially facing the drop until the ever reliable Tony Pulis turned them into a solid unit, Alan Pardew promises to take his old club on to the next level.  A manager who has shown how astute he is in the transfer market by adding Yoann Cabaye, bringing in young talent in the form of Jordan Mutch and providing a home for old favourites like Wilfried Zaha, the ex-Newcastle...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport As England’s cricketers gloriously maul their Australian counterparts and head towards regaining the Ashes urn, the nation’s footballers are busying themselves for a new season.  I know what you’re thinking: ‘What?  So soon?  But we’re only just into August!’  In fact the season is starting so early that even this wonderfully well-researched journalist was caught out.  Whether you think the season should start two weeks later (I do)...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent The Barclays Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world. Starting on 8th August, things are heating up for the 20 clubs. But is it the same story for house prices surrounding the stadium of this year’s 20 premier league teams? Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk looks at the Premiership property table ahead of the start of the season. FA Cup winners Arsenal will take on...

We've moved on from the ol' point-and-clicks these days. Unless you've a photographer's eye, holiday pics of buildings can turn out as dull as they sound. But with some expert tips, the detail and wonder of the world's best structures can be captured on camera. Thanks to SmugMug, the world’s largest independent photo-sharing platform, we spoke to fine art photographer Julia Anna Gospodarou to find out her tips on top photography. 1/ Think about composition first Composition is the first thing one will notice in your image. It is the skeleton of your imageand it is what can make or break a photograph. Composition is what can give you an award winning image or a so-so one. There are a few things that, if you do them, they can help your image becomes more interesting.  First, stay out of the centre of the image with yyour image more power. Going off centre will give more dynamism to your photo, while creating a story. Have in mind the rule of thirds and know that the best spot to place your subject is the lower right third of the image. Remember that disposing your subjects on a diagonal in the frame is a very good way of drawing the attention to them. Use leading lines, play with patterns, break the patterns, play with shadows and light as main subject, think of the relation you create between positive and negative space in your image (positive space is your buildings, negative space is, for instance, the sky). 2/ Look at the volumes when you shoot architecture In architecture, volumes is what it is all about. Volumes and light, or rather seeing how light falls on the volumes and showing it in your images. The light falling on the volumes will emphasise their shape, colour, texture and materials. This will give you ideas and help you compose your shot. Look for interesting intersections of lines and surfaces, look for overlapping volumes, for volumes that complete one another or that contrast with one another. Try to see your subjects as being composed of simple volumes and search for the angle from which the dominant lines of their structure can create a harmonious composition. It's all about how to translate the three-dimensional world you see into a two-dimensional image while still showing the depth; seeing the volumes is what will help you with that. 3/ Learn to understand how the light helps your architectural photograph Light is not always the same, there are different types of light that will create different looks in your images, showing different aspects of a building. Pic courtesy of Julia...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches, cold baked beans in a salad and tuna with salt & vinegar crisps form part of the top ten weird food combinations Brits actually enjoy eating. A new poll of 2,000 UK adults found more than one in ten Brits like to dip their toast into their tea and dip apples in peanut butter! Mayonnaise on toast and celery with a scoop of Nutella were also found to be unusual, yet...

Beach Slang look set to return in October with their first full-length release The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us. To when your appetite Beach Slang have also released lead single 'Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas', sounding like a serrated Title Fight enjoying a beach beer on a twilight summer evening. Not sure what that sounds like? Take a listen below. The album drops on 30th October through Big Scary Monsters and promises more of the husky...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food In celebration of Jamaican Independence Day, Cottons Rhum Shack in Camden will be celebrating in style this evening (August 6th). Using their recently renovated original restaurant in Camden, opened back in 1985, the event will feature a Reggae Festival with live music and a BBQ that will serve Jerk Chicken. What’s more, if you take a Pineapple along to the event with you, it can be exchanged for a free Pina Colada Cocktail. If...