It is a story that will melt your hearts, like the sun melts his ice-pops, after over £150,000 was raised on-line for an old Chicago ice-pop vendor, who had been snapped pushing his cart in some difficulty. Fidencio Sanchez, 89, from Chicago, had to come out of retirement after his ...
The author Lionel Shriver gave a speech at the Brisbane Writers' Festival recently outlining how the culture of hypersensitivity was a threat to fiction writing. How, she asked, could authors create fictional worlds and characters if every word they wrote was policed and every plot scrutinised for bias and – ...
Brexit and what it means to the UK is something that is yet to be resolved. One of the only issues that seemed to have been put in place was that PM May would trigger Article 50 without a vote in Parliament. However, now that has been questioned by the ...
By Courtney Greatrex Enterprising young men and women are right to ditch conventional jobs to carve careers online says Natasha Courtenay-Smith, the author of a new book, The Million Dollar Blog. This week new research revealed the top five 'dream' jobs include writing, blogging and vlogging but few are actually successful ...
Cannabis is widely used across the UK, in the treatment of illnesses and simply for recreational use. It remains an illegal drug, but an influential group of MPs want it to be made legal for medical use. Cannabis is already used as a medicine in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Israel, ...
A huge change to constituencies across the UK may cost the Labour party a huge number of seats, possibly wiping out their chances of forming a Government again. Having lost Scotland to the SNP further cuts in their MP numbers would leave them a huge task to win a majority ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter @davidjdewinter The TLE Sports Podcast returns after a summer break. In this episode Richard & David de Winter discuss the start of the football season, Sam Allardyce's first match as England manager, the conclusion ...
Nearly five years since the last note launched, the Bank of England will today release its first ever polymer fiver. The so-called 'plastic fiver' is longer lasting, harder to destroy and smaller than other bank notes, with the first notes leaving distribution centres shortly after midnight tonight. From there they will be ...
Trips to mainland Europe have become very simple and cheap since the UK joined the EU and the cost of airfares plummeted. However, now we have decided to leave the EU, UK citizens may need to apply and pay for visas to travel into Europe. Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, admitted ...