By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In a move that is beyond parody, a call centre for the Brexit campaign has hired four non-British phone bank works, according to the Guardian. The call centre, overseen by party donor Arron Banks, has taken on EU migrants, while at the same time telling the public that low-skilled foreign workers “deprive British citizens of jobs.” Leave.EU has recruited four phone bank workers from EU countries, including Slovakia. The call centre was established to raise...

West Virginia is the latest US state to introduce drug testing for welfare claimants. As one lawmaker  put it, no-one living off his tax dollars should be 'laying around on welfare and drugs'. Florida recently required all welfare claimants to submit to drug testing, though the courts later ruled the law unconstitutional. Forcing the poor and needy to prove they aren't drug abusers is so popular with right-wing voters politicians are willing to risk legal backlash by enforcing invasive and...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) New research conducted by audio, video and lighting specialists AVonics has shown that live music venues may be becoming less appealing to the British public The survey discovered that 63% of people in the UK hadn’t visited a live music venue in the past 12 months. People in the 25 to 34-year-old category were more likely to have attended a live music show, with 46% saying that they had been to a concert in the past year. But...

Sport News 24/7 By Billy Stephens  @BillyLaughs  @TLE_Sport With Sunderland and Newcastle sat 18th and 19th respectively in the league table before kick-off, the Tyne-Wear derby was a massive relegation six-pointer and the 1-1 draw was a huge disappointment for both teams. Norwich’s 0-1 away win at West Brom the day before put pressure on the north-east rivals and the stalemate ensured both remain in the relegation zone going into the international break.  There were positives for both sides however,...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Coldplay. Coldplay, Coldplay, Coldplay, with their tepid ear porridge and the reappropriated worldliness of the proudest gap year knobhead. We aren't big fans of Coldplay at TLE, and as it turns out, neither are you, really. Following the announcement of the band’s fourth time headlining at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, people across the UK took to Twitter to express their anger. This prompted international ticket reselling platform, Ticketbis, to invite 1,000 Brits to play a simple game...

As the Indian Property Show returns to Olympia London, we tell you why it's the ideal time to invest in India. By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent The steady growth of the Indian economy is having a huge influence on the real estate sector of India. Major cities like Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata are being influenced by this growth and have given rise to the development of smart...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Forget cheap Easter eggs and overcooked lamb, here’s our roundup of the only things you need to be eating and drinking across the Bank Holiday weekend. Bar 8’s Easter Cocktail Ingredients For the glass Hay Easter egg Gold drinking straw For the Easter mix Dark chocolate (90%), 2kg Grand Marnier, 1 bottle Cointreau, 2 bottles Per cocktail Grand Marnier, 20ml Cointreau, 40ml Chocolate, 40ml Method Fill an Old Fashioned glass with hay. Place foil wrapped Easter...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport Let’s be honest, it has been a far from vintage Six Nations.  There have been sporadic moments of skill but, on the whole, it has been a forgettable tournament for most concerned, save England obviously.  However, even England didn’t necessarily win the Grand Slam by playing ground-breaking rugby.  They were the most streetwise and most consistent, no more than that.  Nevertheless, here are the 15 chaps who have...

By Jordan Seward Every boxer who steps into the ring be it a professional or amateur one wants to reach the pinnacle of the sport by becoming the champion of the world. That’s the dream that every boxer shares. Boxing can be such a cruel, unforgiving and unrewarding sport for so many. It can shatter people’s dreams in a matter of seconds, no matter how much you give to the sport and fight for the cause, if it’s not your not...