TLE…meets SketchFest

London SketchFest returns for its fourth annual festival on 5th & 6th November 2016 at Hackney House in Shoreditch. The festival showcases the best up-and-coming comedy talent and is becoming the biggest alternative comedy festival for launching new and emerging comedians. We caught up with the organisers for a chat. ...

Adopting Maisie – One family’s journey

Tom and Caroline’s little boy had just turned four when the couple first started thinking about extending their family. Dominic had brought untold joy to their lives and both had embraced parenthood with gusto. As they considered their new addition, their thoughts increasingly turned to the possibility of welcoming their ...

Catalonia: Cycling the Terres de l’Ebre

It's a cool evening as our taxi driver meanders through narrow dusty roads elevated above the fertile lands of the delta de l’Ebre. Flamingos and Heron rise above the wetlands, their frail legs mimicking the stalks of the rice plants they tower over. Home to enough wildlife to fill a ...

In Numbers: NFL Night at the Hippodrome Casino

It’s Sunday evening, and as Leicester Square drains of tourists and locals head home to prepare for the working week, one London hotspot is just getting warmed up. London has embraced the NFL with open arms since the first live game was played in 2007, boasting an international community of ...

820 Pound Pumpkin to Feed 1,000 Homeless and Vulnerable

A giant pumpkin that weighs the same as four baby elephants has been donated to charity to feed almost 1,000 homeless and vulnerable people. Ray and Sarah Armstrong are donating their humble veg to the homeless after the veg tipped the scales at a whopping 372kg (820lbs). Indeed, it’s so big it had ...

Date Set for Joshua v Klitshcko

A date has been set for the much-anticipated bout between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitshcko. The two heavyweights have been given the green light after WBO and WBA heavyweight champion Tyson Fury vacated his belts after being ruled medically unfit to compete. According to The Telegraph, the Joshua Klitshcko fight has ...

Snowden Review – London Film Festival

No stranger to controversy, Oliver Stone continues his exploration of personal conflict enmeshed with the political, in his latest film Snowden. Bringing fresh perspective on Edward Snowden - the man, and his whistleblowing on covert civilian data monitoring by the NSA (National Security Agency), the film casts a paranoiac shadow ...

RIP Jean Alexander…A true northern star

I was stood waiting for a train on platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly station about 10 years ago. I was going to see my Mum who was in hospital in Chester, she was not very well at all, I was very worried about her. Whilst on the platform, I noticed ...

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