An Amtrak train has derailed in Kansas en route from Los Angeles to Chicago with 128 passengers and 14 crew on board. According to early reports, approximately 11 passengers have been taken to a nearby hospital with injuries, although non of them were life-threatening. Amtrak said the derailment of the ...
More than two million elderly Brits feel trapped in their homes, according to research. A study of 1,000 people with parents over the age of 70 shows 38 per cent have reached a stage where they are not fully using their entire house. One in five elderly people are unable ...
By Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afrofilmviewer This writer remembers trying awkwardly to impress an ex with Waking Life. Much like what one hears about David Forster Wallace’s Infinite Jest or Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue (1986), Waking Life does feel like one of those features that certain inelegant young (male) students would use ...
By Michael McNulty Extraction could not have been more appropriately titled. Like having all four of your molars pulled at once it requires a general anesthetic to get you through it. As unimaginative as that was, it’s on a level with the quality of this film. Former CIA operative Leonard ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food At some point during our lives, many of us have spent at least one evening (still one too many) within the confines of an overly ostentatious themed pub or restaurant. Those that inspire us to lie, even to ourselves, in the hope of forgetting ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Born from a competition between five of London’s top bartenders – Druid’s Botanist Cup uses Islay’s first and only dry gin – The Botanist – and is currently available from the award-winning Nightjar in Shoreditch until the end of this month. Created by Nightjar’s ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Bizarrely, Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary claimed people liked being sanctioned and having their benefits stopped. It is not known if he asked the thousands of people with disabilities, who are to have their ESA cut, if they liked their lowered income. ...
Rafa Benitez, the only manager in history to have won the UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup has signalled an alien invasion that will end humanity, after signing for Newcastle United. The part-time football manager and full-time lizard king from Zakiza C in ...
A prominent pop group were left red faced after a full-to-capacity arena retaliated to commands to ‘sing it’ with deadly silence. The group, who had only been on stage for ten minutes, faced a fierce backlash from the crowd after crescendoing into a power chorus only to be met with ...