Packing for a long weekend away can be a highly stressful experience but packing for a festival where you need to include all necessities for the unpredictable English weather means you need to step up your packing game. This handy infographic from Ready Steady Store provides this summer’s ultimate festival packing guide. Featured image by Stinkie Pinkie from Ocean Grove . CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Two students from Brixton have launched a bizarre dating app with the aim of matching British passport holders with EU citizens living in the UK. Katy Edelsten, 25, and Chloe Cordon, 23, a student creative team from the School of Communication Arts in Brixton, created the dating site when they saw the increase in hate crimes after the Brexit vote. They’re hoping that some of the matches will lead to marriages so that the EU citizens can stay in the UK, even...
Ex-shadow cabinet minister Owen Smith is favourite to become the next Labour leader, with odds slashed from 3/1 to 11/10 while Angela Eagle drops from 3/1 to 5/1. The Pontypridd MP, who quite Jeremy Corbyn's cabinet last month, said he could "heal" the party and "turn the page" on its internal strife, adding that Labour needs a "radical and credible" leader. An election timetable will be launched on Thursday with the contest expected to take two months, ready for the Labour Party conference on...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @rgdewinter @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter TLE Sports Editor David de Winter and TLE Columnist Richard de Winter review Euro 2016, analyse Andy Murray's fabulous victory in the Wimbledon Final, discuss the opening week of the Tour de France and preview both England's Test Series against Pakistan and the Open Golf Championship at Royal Troon.
Have you ever heard the expression 'buy cheap, buy twice'? Well, when it comes to car hire rip-off, this couldn't be more accurate. There are the usual car hire rip-off tactics; charging you for your fuel before you take the car and then refunding you a fraction of the cost when you bring it back full, or virtually nothing if you've used a drop of juice; Or charging you for one car, but sending you off in one with an engine half...
Today Theresa May will officially become leader of The Conservative party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is by far the worse candidate for the job, except for all the others. After all, what's a pro-war, pro-bedroom tax, pro-trident, pro-welfare spending cuts politician who repeatedly uses immigrants as scapegoats and wants to scrap the Human Rights Act compared to a bunch of Leave dweebs who couldn't find their arse with both hands? Leadsom was given the unfortunate job of being the...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Argentinian wine brand Graffigna, renowned for its premium Malbec, has announced the winners of their second annual London Steak Awards. Narrowed down to four restaurants by a public vote, a panel of judges have crowned the steak at Soho steakhouse MASH as the winner of this year’s competition. Judges for the competition included Chef Neil Rankin, Foodism Editor Jon Hawkins, Wine Blogger Matt Walls and Group Editor of Casual Dining Magazine Tristan O’Hana. Throughout...
Like many Brits, a large proportion of your income will be spent on your home. In London, the average monthly rent is £1,301, while elsewhere in England and Wales we’re paying a staggering £816 in rent each month. But what if you could change all this? In their latest graphic, used commercial vehicle retailer Van Monster has shed some light on the growing culture of people ditching their homes in favour of living in a van. As well as discussing...
Suttons Seeds examines the importance of bee-friendly gardening Leading garden retailer Suttons Seeds has examined the importance of bee-friendly gardening in their latest visual. From pollenating flowers to creating honey, bees play a vital yet often overlooked role. Despite providing around 1/3 of our available food, the population of bees is in decline as a result of factors like disease, urbanisation, intensive farming and Colony Collapse Disorder. The visual looks at the importance of bees, the risks they face and...
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