Shaveril Charity Campaign To Launch Next Month
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food During the summer of 2014, a fundraising challenge – The Ice Bucket Challenge – became a global success. Partially due to our innate desire to terrorise our friends, but mostly thanks to social media – the campaign went viral with over one million videos posted to Facebook, and raised approximately $100 million (approximately £70 million) in donations to the ALS Association: a charity that raises awareness and funds towards research for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,...
UK Team Heads To Quidditch World Cup in Frankfurt
Competitive Quidditch has transitioned from the fictional grounds of Hogwarts into a fully fledged competitive sport as teams from around the World prepare for the Quidditch World Cup in Germany. UK teams including Bangor Broken Broomsticks, the Cambridge University Quidditch Club, Durham Direwolves, Holyrood Hippogriffs, St Andrews Snidgets and Keele Krakens now compete in the British Quidditch Cup, the country’s main tournament where all thirty-two teams compete for the title of champions. The best players of these teams are then selected for the Team UK squad, who then fly...
Manhattan’s Horizontal Skyscraper That Would Excavate Central Park
A horizontal skyscraper that submerges Central Park to make room for a multi-functional mega structure has won eVolo's 2016 Skyscraper Competition. The design was picked from 489 entries, which included skyscrapers that purify air, buildings conceived to create rain for the driest regions and skyscrapers that prevent cities sinking. Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu's project New York Horizon proposes a continuous horizontal skyscraper around the full perimeter of a sunken Central Park. The project would create seven square miles (80...
Review: Madeiradig 2015
By Daniel Mackenzie (@EkcaLiena) There's a unique joy in spending hours in a dark underground bunker with nothing but bass heavy drones and noise for company, the brief shuffles and breaths of other audience members reminding you that you're not alone, or dreaming; then soon afterwards standing atop a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, letting the first vibrations of a party segue, via an elaborate and extensive buffet, into early hours hedonism. This nightly sequence is simple, refined and addictive. Such...
NUT boss wants teachers to unite against Tory plans
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Speaking at the NUT’s annual conference; Christine Blower the general secretary of the union has called on its members to build a coalition against the Conservative Party. She said teachers should create a grouping of “horror and dismay” at the government’s plans to make every school in England an academy. Blower called the Tories plans unacceptable and more than likely to hurt the employment prospects of teachers. She said: “We know that total academisation represents...
Restaurant Review – Kurobuta, Harvey Nichols
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Originally opened as a pop-up in Chelsea, Kurobuta is the brainchild of Australian chef Scott Hallsworth, showcasing his obsession with Japanese food. And since the initial setup, the pop-up has become permanent and is joined by another restaurant near Marble Arch, followed by another which opened at the end of last year – joining the likes of Yo! Sushi, Burger & Lobster, and Polpo - taking over a sizeable portion of the fifth floor...
British forces training Bahraini army to fire sniper rifles
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor British armed forces are training the Bahrain military to use sniper rifles. This news will worry human rights groups who have already accused the regime of targeting protestors during the Arab Spring. Elite Royal Navy commandos are running a training course for Bahraini army personnel, who were accused of using snipers to target protesters during protests back in 2011. Labour’s shadow Defence Secretary, Emily Thornberry said: “People will be rightly concerned to discover that our...
VIDEO – Person jumps from hijacked plane’s Cockpit
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Footage from the BBC news channel has shown someone jump out of the plane's cockpit window, then jump to the floor, before running as fast as possible away from the hijacked plane in Cyprus. See video below
Map of companies worth entire countries stock markets
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The global stock markets have had a tough time of late and the largest corporations in the world dwarf some countries stock market valuation. For example Google and Amazon have a combined worth of $747bn, Netflix is $40bn and McDonald’s is around $109bn. These figures are pretty hard to get your head around, so Bank of America Merrill Lynch has created a map to help illustrate the size of these companies compared to stock markets...