Stand-up Comedian Billy Stephens performs his show 'Down The Rabbit Hole' this August as part of The Camden Fringe and Deputy Editor Joe Mellor caught up with him to discuss the show, his influences and being called "offensive". JM What can we expect from your show? BS Social commentary, anecdotes, qualms, rants and strange musings covering topics like sexual health, drugs, politics and the music industry. All the preparation has been really positive so hopefully everyone will have a great...

Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith appears to have dropped himself in hot water with comments he made during a TV interview. Smith declared himself “normal” as he has three children and a wife. However, he has come under criticism, and been compared to Andrea Leadsom who believed she had the edge over rival Theresa May, as she is a mother and May isn’t. This lead to Leadsom having to leave the leadership race, it is yet to been seen if...

A garage in Clapton, East London was being rented out as a flat at over £1,000 a month, reports the Hackney Citizen. Council officials discovered two people living in the property, which had been advertised as a studio flat, but was not a habitable dwelling. It has now been closed as a residential property after Hackney Council found the inhabitants living in inadequate conditions. Until the deceit was spotted the rental income was over a grand a month, a huge...

Greenland has lost a trillion tons of ice in four years, according to a new paper published by scientists in Geophysical Research Letters. Tests using the Cryosat-2 satellite revealed that the North Atlantic island loses ice at a rate of about 287 billion tons per year, which is the equivalent of loosing a six mile square cube of ice over four years. The melted ice has caused the sea level to rise about 2.5 mm over those four years. That rate of sea...

The UK is set to endure another recession at the turn of the year with growth forecasts cut from 2.6 and 2.4 per cent three months ago respectively, to 0.4 per cent and 1.4 per cent today. "Severe confidence effects on spending and business” have been projected by the EY Item Club, with unemployment rising from 5 per cent currently to 7.1 per cent by the end of 2019. This will have a knock-on impact on household real disposable income, which is...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food When opening a new restaurant, there are many important factors to take in to consideration. However, no restaurant is able to open and survive without a name. Some withhold interesting stories based around heritage, history or the food itself, others are less adventurous and named after addresses, while others are often eponymous – named after the chef or owner. On the other hand, some restaurants are even named after passions of the restaurateur, combining...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Nigel Farage was caught out by a clever question as he appeared on an LBC radio show. The caller said he thought that speaking English was necessary for new people entering the UK to live. “I don’t see how you can integrate when you don’t speak the language of the country,” said the caller, to Nigel Farage. “I couldn’t agree with you more. I think you’re right and I think the language is absolutely fundamental,”...

The House of Lords will discuss the possibility of having a central bank digital currency called "Britcoin" tomorrow. Its Economic Affairs Committee will take evidence from the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on blockchain technology, the distributed ledger that allows Bitcoin to function as an online currency. In the session with Dr Ben Broadbent the Committee will explore the prospect of a central bank digital currency and the effect it could have on commercial banks, predictions that blockchain...

London Gatwick Airport is the new favourite to get an additional runway after pro-Gatwick Sadiq Khan won the London mayoral election and a number of anti-Heathrow MPs were appointed to Theresa May’s cabinet. Betway has cut odds on Gatwick to 4/7 while Heathrow Airport’s odds of being awarded the right to develop a new runway have lengthened to 5/4. Justine Greening, MP for Putney and newly appointed education minister is vehemently against Heathrow expansion, as is the MP for Uxbridge and Ruislip and...