UK offers best quality accommodation, says students
By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent Student pads have come a long way and we’ve continued to see growth in the student accommodation market in the UK. Overseas students coming to the UK is growing year on year, and the UK university experience has huge appeal. While it’s easy to look at figures of those choosing a UK study set-up, once here, does the experience meet their expectations? A new study by the...
Posh Actor Wins Prize for Acting Posh
A wide range (Eton or Harrow – Oxford or Cambridge) of posh actors have won acting prizes for acting really posh. Thespian Hugo Fittleworth Jackson-Kew, 27 said: “I had to play an 19th century aristocrat in a costume drama recently, and had to actually act a bit less posh than I really am. It was the closest to method acting I have ever been, it took me weeks to detoxify my mind in Mustique. “I am sick and tired of...
Fur fashion, a trend at the rear of society
By Florence Sarlat www.veganfashionventure.com For ages, fur and silk have embodied worth and luxury in fashion. They are beautiful and expensive materials that not everyone can afford. The rarer their origins are, the more sought-after they are considered to be. A wool coat is nothing compared to a mink coat. The kind of fur one’s wears shows their position on the social ladder! However, beliefs are changing. In the 90’s, a growing number of people, especially in Western European countries,...
Trainspotting Heralded As The Perfect Practise For Mindfulness Meditation
Forget adult-colouring and yoga, trainspotting has now been heralded as a mindfulness technique to promote wellbeing. With the trend for health and wellness on the rise, many people are on the lookout for activities and hobbies to enrich their lives and positively affect their wellbeing. And surprisingly enough, the once geeky pastime of trainspotting has been heralded as the perfect way of practising mindfulness meditation. Clinical Psychologist Dr Saima Latif, who is trained in mindfulness techniques, has found that trainspotting is...
Dispelling The Myths Of Short-Term Loans
The 'short term loan' is amongst the most slandered terms in the financial world, but there is no doubting that responsible lenders have an important role to play in the credit market. New research has revealed the importance of borrowing from an accredited lender when it comes to short-term credit, with a third of people saying that government regulation will make the industry more trustworthy. More than a quarter of the respondents said they are more likely to borrow money if the lender is...
Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse has failed, figures show
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It looks like the Chancellor’s much heralded “Northern Powerhouse,” is not quite going according to plan, which may come as not much of a surprise to people living there. Osborne will be saddened to hear that more start-ups were launched in a single London postcode than in every city and town in Yorkshire. The capital’s Silicon Roundabout, the UK’s tech hub, created 10,280 start-ups in 2014-15. Conversely, last year Yorkshire and Humberside saw 9,562 start-ups,...
The NHS at “real and serious risk” from TTIP deal, according to leading QC
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Leading barrister Michael Bowsher says the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) does allow for private US firms to snap up NHS contracts. The legal analysis has also revealed that the controversial TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) deal would mean NHS privatisation maybe irreversible for future governments. The controversial trade deal would give investors new legal rights, which extend beyond both UK and EU law as well as NHS contracts. The US-EU deal is...
VIDEO – UKIP Brexit Campaign Song…WOW
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Mandy Boycott a UKIP campaigner, and one-time prospective parliamentary MP, has made a pretty special parody version of Baddiel and Skinner's Three Lions. It has to be seen to be believed. The singing is terrible, the lyrics are terrible, you guessed it...it is TERRIBLE. Our best line "They've taken all our fish." Watch here
Philosophy and Boxing – a match made in heaven?
By Mathew Shaw The sport of boxing is known as the ‘noble art’ and has long seduced some of modern time’s greatest writers and philosophical thinkers - Ernest Hemingway, TS Eliot and Norman Mailer, to name but a few. The sport’s ethos and pathos seemingly providing the perfect metaphors for life – overcoming adversity, fulfilling one’s potential and rising to the top. It seems fitting then that on the creaking boards of an old church hall in Leytonstone the charity...