Int Sport round-up: Brazilian ‘holiday’, Palestinian relief and a Canadian comeback
Sport News 24/7 The London Economic’s Noy Shani brings you a selection of the week’s oddest, most promising and uplifting sports stories from around the globe. @TLE_sport @NoyShani A new Brazilian Holiday Remember Brazil's highly embarrassing loss to Germany in the Semi Final of the World Cup just over a year ago? Of course you do. This week a Brazilian council official has proposed a new kind of ‘holiday’, called ‘A Goal To Germany Day’ intending to remembering that dreadful...
This can’t be right…I’m looking forward to Newcastle’s season
Sport News 24/7 By Ian Carroll On May 24th 2015, Newcastle United limped, some would say un-deservedly past one of the least bothered Premier League (Best League in the World, AND IT’S LIVE etc etc) sides ever, to stay in the English First Division and avoid oblivion. Their owner (the NUFC owner, not the dildo seller from the Olympic Stadium), a man that appears to be the only overweight man that can find a way to sell crap sportswear to...
Interview: Luis Troyano
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Tying in with the brand new series of The Great British Bake Off and 2014 finalist Luis Troyano’s first cookbook – ‘Bake It Great’ - out later this month, we had a chat with the man himself. Discussing his new book, life after the Bake Off, and Beekeeping. Here’s what the Great British Baker had to say. Hi Luis, what are you up to today? Today so far I've made 144 portions of dark...
The Great British ‘Where’s Wally?’ Hunt
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Virgin Trains has launched a nationwide “Where’s Wally? Hunt” and is challenging families to find the much-loved character while they are out and about during the school summer holidays. One hundred of the ‘Where’s Wally?’ replicas have been scattered across the country. Wally, who is known to appear in train stations in the famous books created by Martin Hanford, is following suit in the real world with life size cut-outs and smaller transfers blending into real...
Blacklisters Release New Single ‘I Knock Myself Out’
Leeds brawlers Blacklisters have released another track in the lead-up to second album Adult, due to drop on 18th September. In June 'Cash Cow' thrashed its way down our earholes with gleeful abandon. Now 'I Knock Myself Out' is here to finish the job in a hail of fuzzy bass and dark, unrelenting punk. Check it out below. Blacklisters will be heading out on a UK tour this autumn in support of Adult. Blacklisters Tour Dates 18th September - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 25th September - The...
Interesting jobs you didn’t know existed, but almost anyone can do
'Story Broker? How did you get into that?' First in a series of interesting jobs you didn't know existed but almost anyone can do. What is a 'Story Broker' and how do you become one? I was 16 years old. I queued up patiently for my appointment with the school career adviser. They had a new-fangled fancy computer programme that consisted of a multiple-choice questionnaire: Do you prefer a) hard manual labour, or b) soft clerical/administration work. The results were...
Average First Time Buyer Takes Four Years to Save for First Home
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The average first time buyer takes four years to buy their first home, new research has revealed. The study, conducted by Aviva, found most first-time buyers are £6,481 under budget when buying their property. Researchers discovered that almost three-quarters underestimate the cost of buying their first house by failing to take into account legal fees, stamp duty and other costs. Buyers typically take nearly four years saving for a first home – banking an average £12,143 during...
Beer of the Week – CRATE Pale
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 4.5% ABV Brewed: Hackney Wick, London CRATE’s 'Golden' has already been featured as our ‘Beer of the Week’, however, having recently partaken in a bottle of the brewery’s Pale, we have a new favourite. For those unfamiliar with the brewery, Crate was set up in 2012 and operates from an old print factory in the heart of London’s Hackney Wick. Using only the finest British Malts and internationally sourced Hops, the brand now...
Five Ways to Stay Happy and Healthy in the City
By Milly Kelly, Health/Beauty Editor Recently the Royal Town Planning Institute issued an article outlining the extensive impact that our environment has on our physical and mental health. Turns out that urban areas can and do cause some serious problems for us city dwellers, meaning we are literally surrounded by things that could adversely effect our health in many ways, not least obesity, heart disease, stress and depression - which sucks. So what can one do to rectify this? Obviously as much...