By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Escaping a really dire Christmas party - This was the premise under which Conor (guitar), Steve (guitar) and Jonathan (drums) first went into a rehearsal space and made simultaneous loud noises. With material Conor had been writing since his previous band ended the trio began creating fledgling pieces of music that would eventually become the songs that comprise debut EP "LTKLTL”. The addition of bassist Ali happened several months later after Steve had asked him if...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was an awful PMQs, but luckily for the members of Parliament, every journalist was outside Jeremy Clarkson’s house. This session might have gone unnoticed, like a Russian submarine slipping past the Farne Islands. Well I did watch PMQs, and it reminded me of splitting-up with your partner. When all hope is lost, but you need to wait a few weeks before the removal van arrives, to pass the time you throw insults at each...

By Rosie Wilson of CCF Media Mothers’ Day is just around the corner, and so it’s time for the confused masses to wrack their brains once again. Chocolates? Flowers? You might know her better than anyone, but buying your Mum a non-contrived, thoughtful present that she actually wants can be a bit of a challenge. If you ask most women what’s on their wish-list, anti-ageing and looking their best will appear pretty high up. Even when we look after ourselves,...

 By Stephen Mayne @finalreel  finalreel.co.uk Come on people, by now it must be clear that threatening Liam Neeson’s fictional family cannot end well. For Neeson - part-time actor, full-time avenger - does not take kindly to guns pointed in the general direction of his children. Or knives, blunt instruments, mean words and angry looks. Teaming up with director Jaume Collet-Serra for the third time (Unknown & Non-Stop) on Run All Night, his decrepit hitman cleaves dogmatically to cliché in a...

Quintain Keystone Developments Limited and Network Housing Group have agreed a new deal to provide affordable housing in Wembley Park. The sale of one of its new Emerald Gardens residential blocks to Network Housing Group means 307 affordable units, including 285 in the completed Forum and Quadrant Houses, will be added to the Wembley Park site by August 2016. Construction of Emerald Gardens commenced in April 2014 and the scheme will comprise of seven blocks surrounding an elevated, landscaped garden of almost...

By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle Who knew a film about maths could be so entertaining? Inspired by his 2007 documentary Beautiful Young Minds director Morgan Matthews and writer James Graham’s X + Y is a very funny, sweet yet unsentimental drama centred on the surprisingly fascinating, (and hardcore), world of a Mathematics Olympiad. As “geek-cool” continues to spread X + Y is a bracingly realistic portrait of what it’s genuinely like to be on the outside. Asa Butterfiled is spot on...

By Dan Gleabals If you haven’t at some point in your life waved your hands about making Light Saber noises imagining you’re defeating Darth Vader then this isn’t the video for you. Star Wars VII is fast approaching, but not fast enough, so for the second time this year legendary VJ Eclectic Method (aka Jonny Wilson) revisits the first six movies, this time taking on the trusty Jedi’s Light Saber. The original lightsaber sound effect was developed by legendary sound...

By Ruby Zajac ‘¡Fuera Peña!’(Peña Out!) and ‘¡Fue el estado!’(It was the state) are two of the most common slogans in the revolutionary movement currently gripping Mexico. Five months ago, the president lost his already tenuous mandate to run the country, and most people I’ve spoken to don’t think there’s even any point in voting in the upcoming local elections - all the parties are in bed together, they tell me. The state’s involvement in the Ayotzinapa forced disappearances is...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter  @rgdewinter  @TLE_Sport Test cricket is all that really matters.  ODIs are just a Disneyfied version of the real thing, designed for people who want things now, people who measure excitement in terms of boundaries and cartwheeling stumps, people who don’t appreciate the beauty of a game that can last for five days without anyone winning. That, at least, is what I’ve been telling myself over the last few weeks as England’s ODI team...