Manager of the season? Southampton’s Ronald Koeman

Sport News 24/7 By Joe Heywood  @Joe_Heywood  @TLE_Sport If you look back to the end of the 2013-14 season, you would be forgiven for thinking Southampton were in disarray. Mauricio Pochettino had just left the south coast in favour of north London and Southampton was facing an exodus of its star players: Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Rickie Lambert, Calum Chambers and Luke Shaw all made big-money moves to rival Premier League clubs, after establishing key roles in the club’s eighth-place...

Considering a buy-to-let property abroad? It’s not only for wealthy and expert investors.

By Rob Jarrett, CEO at The Resort Group PLC The main advantage of a buy-to-let investment is that you are purchasing an asset, which has the potential to grow in value as well as deliver a regular level of return. Property investment has always been popular for this reason, and is a main advantage over savings accounts. The buy-to-let model is a good idea because it is accessible to the new and experienced, especially when the property is managed for...

Taking The Biscuit: The Business Sense

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent If you want to strike success in a business meeting- offer a plate of shortbread, new research has revealed. A study of 2,000 business workers found one in four say they’re more inclined to close a deal in a meeting because of the biscuits provided, with shortbread, chocolate bourbons and flapjacks all likely to win a favourable reaction. In fact, having the right selection of snacks was deemed more crucial to meeting success than making...

A sleep expert gives us 8 ways to beat jetlag

Jetlag. Bleagh. We’ve all been there – whether it was that time when you felt it entirely plausible to go straight into work after a stopover flight (it wasn't), or when your company booked you on a red-eye before a meeting across the Atlantic (meanies). Having to be sparky and, well, awake at 4am-body-clock-time is pure torture. Jetlag is highly un-conducive to modern living – and made all the worse by new research which shows that 25 per cent of...

Krug Champagne Team Up With Chef Tom Sellers for Krug & Chips Pop-Up

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food As if the traditionally British cheap Friday night treat hadn’t already become expensive enough, over the past few years: a brand new pop-up Chip Shop is set to open at London’s Covent Garden in the Summer, for four nights only. For Krug & Chips, the high-end Champagne company has teamed up with Michelin starred chef Tom Sellers, in order for the chef to provide his own take on Fish & Chips. However, instead of...

Live Review – Leon Bridges

By Will Bateman (WillBateman6611) 22.5.2015, Village Underground, London Leon Bridges takes to the stage with effortless cool, dressed 50s smart with a shirt and bow tie, guitar in hand, launching into his set with one of his lesser-known songs, the swinging and jiving “What Can I Do?” His on-stage-banter is short but appropriately slick. Three songs in he pauses to alter his capo. Beginning again he's stopped by a band member who re-fixes it for him- "Do you still love...

The plight of Argentinian football

Sport News 24/7 By Max Bluer  @maxbluer  @TLE_Sport Football will resume across Argentina this weekend.  Reason to rejoice for the millions across the vast South American country who watch, listen to and above all discuss the beautiful game every weekend.  Argentina is a nation of football-philosophers; bars and cafes the fora for heated debate and rhetorical flourish that is rarely seen elsewhere. These most knowledgeable and impassioned of football fans will have been delighted, then, by the resumption of professional...

Healthy Holiday Essentials

I've just come back from two weeks in Brazil (I know, I know, it's a tough life) and gave little to no thought about what to take with me to keep me healthy. This resulted in weight gain and terrible, terrible mosquito bites. With my multiple faux pas in mind, I bring you three easy tips for staying happy and healthy on holiday. You're welcome. Vitamin B1 to ward off mosquitoes Did you even know about this?! It could be revolutionary. Apparently...

Advice Women Shouldn’t Take in the Workplace

By Sarah Pinch, Managing Director of Pinch Point Communications I have encountered some fantastic advice during my years in business. From working in the BBC to the NHS and all of my ventures in between, especially now running my own agency, I’ve been lucky to accumulate fantastic mentors and advisors. Most of the advice you receive as you move through your career is invaluable. As many of us will find, however, there will also be times when you’ll be given...

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