By Leslie Byron Pitt If you have a quick glance at the IMDB page of Futuro Beach director Karim Aïnouz, you would find a substantial amount of award nominations. This includes Futuro Beach being selected for the Golden Bear prize at The Berlin Film Festival. However, after sitting through the beautiful yet vacuous 106 minutes of abstract visuals and bland melodrama, it’s difficult to see why. Opening with a vigorous opening sequence of vast areas of empty beach, overseen by...

Photo credit: Ben Fisher/ Photoshelter By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Striving to completely take over the summer’s social calendar this year, luxury Champagne brand Lanson will be beginning their “Perfect Start Campaign”. Most recently the brand has teamed up with Chestertons Polo In The Park as the event’s exclusive Champagne sponsor, taking place at Hurlingham Park between June 5th-7th, for which they’ll bring their largest ever Champagne Garden which will overlook the field of play. And, what’s more, Lanson...

By David Ferrabee, Director of change management specialists Able and How General elections are notorious for the turmoil as well as the sense of renewal they generate. Despite all the grievances that get aired and the abuse that gets hurled, there is real excitement and hope that things are changing. This is a time for big visions and promises, and that is something which business leaders, who often have to transform their businesses, can relate to.  The all-important issue of...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Bargain hunters bagged hundreds of cheap deals this week in a bizarre auction at Edinburgh Airport. Security scanners, a fire engine and two planes were just some of the items which went under the hammer for “scrap value” as airport chiefs flogged off their old equipment. The auction of redundant equipment included arrival and departure signs, airport vehicles, terminal seating and two old Fokker 27 aircraft used for fire training. A 2004 Schmidt snowplough valued at over £10,000...

By James Mackney  @JimMackney  @TLE_Sport Ronald Koeman’s appointment after a summer of upheaval was met with approving nods from Southampton fans.  Koeman had steadied the ship at Feyenoord and taken them to new heights in his tenure there.  He had won everything as player and been a part of Louis Van Gaal’s management team at Barcelona.  The future seemed bright and in truth, more often than not this season, it has been. 1: Southampton 8-0 Sunderland Koeman’s side had started...

Sport News 24/7 By Milly Cooper  @MillyCooper  @TLE_Sport One of the final events of the 2014/15 British Alpine snow sporting calendar was the Delancey British Alpine Children’s Championships, an annual race that brings together young athletes from all over the UK as well as international entrants, in order to compete for the top prizes in their age groups.  This year’s event, which took place in the popular French resort of Tignes, saw each junior compete in Slalom, Giant Slalom and...

Sport News 24/7 By James Mackney  @JimMackney  @TLE_Sport When José Fonte arrived from Crystal Palace in January 2010 for a sum in the region of £1.2 million it was with an air of bemusement; after all Fonte had decided to step down from the Championship with Crystal Palace to join Southampton in League 1 midway through the 2009/10 season. He scored his first goal for the club the following season in an emphatic 4-0 over Bristol Rovers, when he opened...

By Amy Sharpe Over the last eight years I have veered between two hairstyles: overly-straightened, and a Russell Brand bird nest. Despite many a woman telling me they ‘would kill for curly hair’ all my life, I’ve yet to embrace my curls. Mainly because I haven’t got a clue what to do with them. But, sitting in Lee Stafford’s apartment as he flexed his fingers through my spirals, I sensed I was about to be made to embrace them. “Do...