Review: Spotlight

Review by Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afrofilmviewer Carl Bernstein: All these neat, little houses and all these nice, little streets... It's hard to believe that something's wrong with some of those little houses. Bob Woodward: No, it isn't.    - All The President Men, 1976, Alan J. Pakula. Like so many recent Oscar ...

Epic Sana hotel

Hotel review: Epic Sana, Algarve

For a reason unbeknownst to us, Portugal is a hotbed for spa hotels. Probably more than any country in Europe per capita, there are swathes of luxury retreats with promises of R'n'R, coming away a new person, and stepping away from the hustle and bustle of the world. We want ...

Converted Great Northern Railway Station Goes on the Market

A converted Great Northern Railways station in Rippingale, Lincolnshire has come on to the market for £600,000. The property comes with a detached engine shed, barn and even a steam train can be thrown in. According to the description on property website Zoopla, the property is set on approximately 1.2 acres (sts) and ...

Sunshine highlights security concerns

The weather is warming up, the outdoors is beckoning and the nights are getting lighter. It all sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? It most respects it is but for all the feel-good factor that the onset of summer brings, it comes with its own cautionary note for ...

‘Believe in Yourself’ and More Meaningless Advice

One surefire way to win the approval of the social media masses is to appeal to their sense of vanity. Better still is providing easy solutions to complicated problems, and problems that exist entirely in a person's mind. Enter 'Positive Thinking' – a movement that combines common sense advice with ...

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Spirit of the Month – R&B Distillers Borders

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Heavily inspired by family tradition, R&B Distillers launched two brand new whiskies at the end of last year, setting the blueprint for what’s to expect from an ongoing project to build not one, but two new distilleries. Co-founder Alasdair Day’s great-Grandfather was a master ...

Government caves in now NHS will be protected from TTIP

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the Government was facing a defeat in the lead up to the hotly debated EU referendum, they have accepted that the NHS will now be protected by the highly controversial TTIP. The amendment was backed by an unlikely alliance of SNP, Green, Tory and ...

£2.45bn record deficit for England’s NHS

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Official figures released by NHS Improvement have shown that NHS trust in England, closed 2015-16 financial year, £461m worse off than had been forecasted. This means that we now have a record deficit in England of £2.45bn, the largest in its history. The health service ...

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