Ryan Sidebottom – a new cricket academy to inspire a new generation
Sport News 24/7 Ryan Sidebottom's passion for cricket never disappeared after his retirement from the international scene. In an interview to Noy Shani, he speaks about his new coaching endeavours and England's chances in the upcoming Cricket World Cup. I caught former England cricketer Ryan Sidebottom, for a phone chat shortly after he finished a training session at his own cricket academy. As we spoke, I couldn’t stay indifferent to the excitement in his voice; it felt like I was...
6 ways to get a clean desk
By Andrea Osborne, from cushion the impact If your desk needs a fast and furious makeover her are six successful tips to help you clean up your act. EMAIL SURGERY – Did you know we only use 20% of our emails correctly? Using emails inefficiently can drain our productivity. So organise them, create different folders for emails to keep all relevant messages together. This will enable you to find what you need a lot more quickly. Use filters so that...
2:30pm the Busiest Time of the Year for Job-Hunters
2:30pm today (Friday 23rd) is the busiest time of year for job-hunters, research suggests. Restless workers will be polishing their CVs later today after the third Friday in January was found to be the peak period for workers to complete job applications, search for new posts and tweak resumes. The combination of post-Christmas debt, January blues and New Year resolutions combine today to create a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions where half of Brits in full time employment will scramble...
The Event Making a Splash at this Year’s Berlin Fashion Week: the STYLIGHT Fashion Influencer Awards
By Charlotte Stringer, Style Editor at STYLIGHT.co.uk This Tuesday saw the return of the most exciting awards show around, the STYLIGHT Fashion Influencer Awards (SFIAs), honouring online fashion influencers, IT girls and boys, and tastemakers from around the globe at a secret location in Berlin. With the likes of supermodel Bar Refaeli, London It girls Zara Martin and Laura Whitmore, and the Made in Chelsea boys in attendance, the most fashionable kids around took their seats for awards. Dutch blogger...
Do the Conservatives Have a Long Term Plan for the 7-way Leaders’ Debates
By Bill Lytton What is Cameron's plan now there is a seven-way leaders' debate? “It is pretty disreputable that David Cameron went in to the 2010 election saying these debates were the most important thing that we could possibly have, people shouldn’t make feeble excuses to get out of them and he is doing precisely that. He is running scared from these debates.” That’s Ed Miliband’s analysis of the situation, given on the Andrew Marr Show some weeks back. And,...
Brits’ Top 20 Worries Revealed
A new study has revealed the top 20 things Brits worry about, with money, dead-end relationships and unfulfilling jobs among the main reason people in the UK say they're unhappy. A meagre three in ten Brits are ‘happy with their lives', the survey 2,000 people found, with 69 per cent feeling trapped in the same old routine and 40 per cent of people actively unhappy with the way they look. Lifestyle niggles, worrying about their image and even the British weather...
Setting our cities free to grow
By Cllr Jon Collins, Leader of Nottingham City Council and Vice Chair of Core Cities UK with responsibility for growth Barely a week goes by, it seems, without a new report making the case for devolution of powers and funding to city regions to drive economic growth and re-balance the economy. The Scottish Independence referendum ignited the debate about devolution and pushed it into the mainstream. Big cities are the powerhouses of the economy. The ten biggest UK cities outside...
Chamberlain’s of London: Review
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Oh how I miss spontaneous, local, seasonal food. For nights on end I bellow “where art thou market-based cuisine” across the rooftops of London, my desperate whimpers reverberating against the constant stream of wagons bringing food from afar. A city founded on the bustling markets of Camden, Portobello, Borough and Smithfield is crumbling under the weight of mass-produced foods marketed as being artisan, organic, ethically sourced and the rest (when will 'local'...
From swamp to swank: The evolution of the Mayfair property market
By Steve Taggart Mayfair has long been the playground of the rich, the royal and the renowned. So, it’s no wonder that it is the most expensive square on the Monopoly board. But, Mayfair hasn’t always been the capital’s most desirable place to live. In fact, had Monopoly been around three centuries earlier than its introduction to the world in the 20th century, the priciest piece of the board would definitely not have been Mayfair. The May Fair The area...