The legalities of travelling with families
Between checking everybody’s passport is in date, stocking up on suncream, arranging airport transfers and washing and ironing countless pairs of shorts and t-shirts, there is little time when planning a family holiday to consider what may happen should something go wrong, either before the trip or during. What happens if your youngest falls ill the morning of the flight and no-one can travel? If you arrive at your hotel and it is totally different to the one in the...
Bussey Building rooftop re-opens for summer season
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Frank's Bar on top of the NCP car park, in Peckham is known throughout the UK and beyond, but what most people don't know, is there's another rooftop bar, with an even better view circa two mins away. The Bussey Rooftop Bar is now open for summer 2015 with panoramic views, fantastic cocktails, delicious pizza (provided by indie pizzeria, Pizza Pilgrims) and a huge rooftop cinema across the hallway. It is worth the slog up the flights...
Top gadgets for Father’s Day
By Steve Taggart If you are stuck for something to get dad for Father's Day and your old man fancies himself as a bit of a tech legend, then take a look at these cool gadgets. From all weather headphones to compact binoculars, there is sure to be a gift here to suit. Bose Soundlink Colour Bluetooth Speaker priced £119.88 at QVC The first primitive loudspeakers were invented in the late 1800s. Now Bose has bought them bang up to...
Top ten women’s sunglasses for festivals
By Hannah Ross When it comes to festivals, sunglasses are probably at the bottom of your to-do list. However you never tend to go without a pair so they are definitely an essential. There are no rules on trends for festival sunglasses; everyone wears what they believe their faces suit; from cateye to classic clubmasters, anything goes. We have teamed up with Red Hot Sunglasses to produce the ten must have shades for the discerning festival goer. MIU MIU Metal...
Beer of the Week – Meantime London Lager
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 4.5% ABV Brewed: Greenwich, London Founded at the turn of the millennium in a small flat in Greenwich by Brew Master Alastair Hook and some like minded friends, Meantime has since become one of the leading breweries in the British Craft Beer revolution. Having set up their state-of-the-art brewery in 2010, just a stones throw from the Prime Meridian, as well as recently opening The Tasting Rooms, a venue that offers the chance...
How data science will change the way banks relate to people
By Tatiana Vorontsova, Group Account Director at data science consultancy Profusion There’s an idealised image of town life, perhaps 40 or 50 years ago, where high streets were full of independent shops, bread was delivered by a boy on a bike, everyone said hello to each other and you could leave your front door unlocked at night. In this Werther’s Original vision of Britain, the bank manager was a person of high esteem who knew every member of the community...
Parliamentary sketch 17th June – Hi-vis Osborne leaves Labour opaque
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Today’s PMQs were considered, respectful and...boring. This might be what the public claim they want, but would they actually watch that every week? I mean who doesn’t tune in for live environmental, food and rural affairs questions with Liz Truss on BBC Parliament (Thurs 9.30am, as if you didn’t know). Hilary Benn stood in for, well, an empty space and Gideon took up the reins for the Tories. Perhaps they could have given the Labour...
Juliette Burton: changing the world one joke at a time
From bulimia to trolling, being labelled a “feminazi” to being sectioned, with comedian Juliette Burton, nothing is off the table. Seriously, nothing. As her show, Look At Me, hits London, she told us about the process of creating it, about breaking down barriers with comedy, and about that Protein World ad. Firstly, tell us a bit about the show? ‘Look At Me’ is a docu-comedy - a documentary mixed with comedy - all about whether what we appear to be...
How Digital Games Become Educational
By Robert Sun In speaking before many groups of educators, in cities across the nation, I often hear that one of the biggest challenges facing schools today is how to consistently engage and motivate children to learn. Children, as we all know, are natural learners. But much of that instinctive curiosity is dampened by the formality and regimentation of the classroom. Albert Einstein once wrote: “It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not...